There’s just something about the beach.
Visiting the beach always gives me a feeling of being home or better yet, coming home. Somewhere across the horizon, is journey’s end. It’s like I am waiting for my ship to arrive to take me there.
I guess that’s why, in The Lord of the Rings, when Frodo sets sail to Valinor it really resonates with me. Valinor is also called the Undying Lands. I believe that’s why it resonates so much.
Where is home?
Heaven.
Paradise.
I leave you with an excerpt from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
“Then Frodo kissed Merry and Pippin, and last of all Sam, and went aboard; and the sails were drawn up, and the wind blew, and slowly the ship slipped away down the long grey firth; and the light of the glass of Galadriel that Frodo bore glimmered and was lost. 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.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien