![]() What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.” ![]() “Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. Frodo Baggins and Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. “I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. Bilbo Baggins, The Fellowship of the Ring Someone else always has to carry on the story.” “Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. “Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.” But those aren’t always the best tales to hear, though they may be the best tales to get landed in! I wonder what sort of a tale we’ve fallen into?” You know, coming home, and finding things all right, though not quite the same like old Mr Bilbo. We hear about those as just went on, and not all to a good end, mind you at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end. And if they had, we shouldn’t know, because they’d have been forgotten. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But that’s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. Frodo, adventures, as I used to call them. “The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. “Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.” “It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.” “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” If our Earth feels dark to you right now, let these words of wisdom and hope from Tolkien’s Middle-Earth brighten your day a little. While we can’t get our hands on anything like that, words can provide their own kind of light. In The Fellowship of the Ring, Lady Galadriel gives Frodo a phial of starlight, “a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out”.
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