Re-reading the Lord of the Rings, Chapter 20

In all the beauty and loss of the parting, I think the message is a simple one:

An Elv might have a feeling for all the time that his endeavours span, a mortal can't help but think about the next swash of water that threatens to wet his feet in a boat that lies too low in the river.

Two more points. Sam was the only one, who openly spoke about that what Galadriel had tempted him with, and he is the only one, who gets it from her, in a way, that is; such is the excellence of the plain mind.

And as for Aragorn, it means a lot to him to be equippped with formal signs of honour, he's the type of person, who suffers from the lack of it yet knows he doesn't dare say so, for it is a sign of meanness. But finally, he is coming into his own. Gandalf has passed as a mentor and laid the burden on him and when they'll next meet, both of them will have assumed another role.