The ending doesn't make sense? Spoilers Farseer & Tawny Man

[Narya]

I amazed that the ending can be seen in so many different ways - none of them the way I did. I was relieved that it ended the way it did, and that Fitz finally got what he wanted - Molly, a home life filled with kids and perhaps grand kids, and the ability to be in a safe place where he could be himself - his whole self with no secret parts. I was dismayed to hear, in this thread, that RH may yet again tie the marienette strings on Fitz, and dangle him several more times over the maw of death and distruction. Part of me would love to have new material to read, but part of me would like him to just have the peace and love he deserves.

The one thing I would like to have seen is Hap learning who his foster father really was. With his minstrel's thirst for a good story, that would have taken many evenings by the fire, before Hap went back to his own life on the road. It's interesting that Fitz was given the same offer (to be a minstrel) at about the same age, but chose not to have that safe life with no questions asked about previous history and family. I have no problem with Hap choosing it.



With regards to the Fool's parting, it echoed Fitz's decision to step out of Molly and Burrich's life so that they could be together without guilt. And the unfinished feel of it is no worse than we have in real life - people die, or move away, or get divorced, or have irreconcilable arguments and never speak to one another again. Life is untidy that way.