& So Said Jenny 2 4...Rest?! 😲 ... 🌳🏃

I like how the Black Rook is pinned at the end and the mate is delivered on a rank/file that the pinned Rook is on.

Great sense of detection and eye for detail, coming from someone having refined taste for the aesthetics of the game.

Yes indeed, 2 rooks so close to each other yet so far. One has absolute power over a sovereign and the other must look with dismay and a sense of total resigning at the events taking place so close in it's vicinity. An amputated soul, well... kind of like lieutenant Dan in Forrest Gump movie.

Now that we speak about ending move of the puzzle another ending scenario could be like the one below if black plays e5 instead of c4, needless to say that it is less attractive as you eloquently described the desirable features of the main puzzle.

Btw, this thread also contains the figure 4 element:

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/more-puzzles/4-52

The funny part is: The rhyme on Gump and "camel's hump" well, this puzzle actually have a slight resemblance to a camel at move 1. At first it is limping camel until Rc1 is played and it finds balance.