This poem parallells the similarities between Frodo's final journey up to the Cracks of Mount Doom and Christ's passion, carrying His cross to Golgotha:

The final path
It lay before
Already so much pain he bore
A mountain high
Invincible
What strength could suffer even more?

That burden great
Upon him lay
A heavy load, a tortuous way
It weighed him down,
That yoke accursed
His life it took, his soul it slay.

O road of torment!
Road of bane!
When comes your end?
When ends your pain?

That hill ahead
With anguish climbed
And at its peak, the world defined
The burden born
Is wickedness
The final path will conquer death.

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"The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity" ~ CS Lewis

That was great!!!

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Thanks Nurratiel, *Ennostiel*, PD, and Githoniel