and his best friend, Peregrin, died and were laid in Rath Dínen among the great of Gondor. It is said that the beds of Meriadoc and Peregrin were set beside the bed of the great king of
Gondor, King Elessar, Lord Aragon 247. There are eight members of the fellowship, but only Merry and Pippin who get the honor to lie besides The King. It is not a coincidence that
their graves are side by side with The King, but it is like a gift of honor that is given to them for following Aragorn’s heteronormative action.
4. Gandalf
Tolkien explains in appendix B that Gandalf is a wizard or Istari the wise who appears in Middle-earth during the Third Age 236. Ever since Aragorn remarks the
heteronormative construction with his marriage to Arwen, Gandalf remains unmarried and is unlikely to get married. After the last battle, he is concerning more to Saruman. In
page 160, he is wondering whether Saruman still alive or death, and he is informed by the Ent that Saruman has left Isengard and wandered somewhere. He meet Saruman
intuitively, Gandalf offers him a help and treats Saruman in a good way, “’Then once more you are going the wrong way, said Gandalf, and I see no hope
in your journey. But will you scorn our help? For we offer it to you. To me? said Saruman. Nay, pray do not smile at me I prefer your frowns…’”
162. Gandalf’s concern to Saruman was showed when others forgot Saruman already, he still
remember him, “You have forgotten Saruman…”. Yet he tells others to deal with Saruman because afterwards, he expresses his desire to rejoin with Tom Bombadil. “I am
going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time. He is a moss-gatherer, and I have been a stone doomed to rolling. But my rolling days are
ending, and now we shall have much to say to one another .
”
He spends his days in Tom Bombadil’s house and still unmarried. Yet, as the Istari,
he knows the consequences for not following the applied norm. “... The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your
task to order its beginning and to preserve what may be preserved. For though much has be
en saved, much must now pass away…” Tolkien 154. ‘to preserve what may be preserved’ means the heteronormativity that applied after
Aragorn’s marriage; ‘much must now pass away’ could be inferred that those who are not following the heteronormative norm must take the consequences by being punished. In a
conversation with Barliman, Gandalf says, “…Then the Greenway will be opened again, and his messengers will come north, and there will be comings and goings, and the evil
things will be driven out of the waste-lands ” 170. It is stated that the king will banish
the ‘evil’ in Middle-earth. According to plato.standford.edu ‘evil’ can be divided into two different concept, broad and narrow. Evil in the broad sense includes any bad state of
affairs, wrongful action, or character flaw. Hence, the meaning of ‘evil’ in the quotation
could be referred to the deviant category - doing wrongful action according to heteronormative norm applied in Middle-earth - includes Gandalf himself.
When others manage to have a happy life by following the heteronormativity order, Gandalf who remains unmarried leaves Middle-earth, heading to Valinor. In this
departure, Gandlaf said, “…Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace I will not say: do not
weep; for not all tears are an evil ” p.196. This lines ‘comes the ends of our fellowship’
means that the normative and non-normative should be separated because they cannot line up together in the society, where one achieve rewards and the others receive
punishment.
