March 25 is Tolkien Reading Day every year, when afficionados of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien are called on to pause and read aloud their favorite passages.
One of mine that also seems appropriate on this Good Friday is the brief passage from The Lord of the Rings when Frodo departs MiddleEarth from the Grey Havens and then finds himself on the very edge of bliss following his long suffering and sacrifice.
"And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed on into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.