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    1. RoyalChris on

      Written by JRR Tolkien, a man who served under WW I and WW II.

    2. Hironymus on

      Very wise and true words from a person who had been given every reason to write them down. These lines and Gandalf’s (or rather Tolkien’s) words on wishing death on someone are exemplary for what places Lord of the Rings above many other works of comparable fiction.

    3. schlunzloewe on

      That’s the stuff that makes the Lord of the Rings so great.

    5. Howitdobiglyboo on

      >There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was a light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

      More Tolkien

    6. bbcakesss919 on

      Don’t forget many countries in Eastern Europe only had 30 years of being free. Now it’s “needing times” again apparently because some people are obsessed with being fascists

    8. Black-Circle on

      Ever since the invasion I’ve been rereading and appreciating LOTR far more, there are so many little things that’s easy to omiss unless you’re living through the hard times yourself, what a great work.

    9. Effective-Split-3576 on

      As a huge Dune fan:

      **”Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”** 

      *Duke Leto Atreides* in Frank Herbert’s *Dune*

    10. JeSuisDecuEnBien on

      This is Gandalf’s way of saying, “Quit whining, we’ve got a trilogy to finish”.

    11. Old_Harry7 on

      It’s so sad Lord of the Rings got hijacked by the neofascists in Italy.

    12. cabanesnacho on

      A world with a variety of free yet dwindling and declining peoples, threatened by the rise of almighty, unopposed evil, who no one dares to stop. I wonder how this story might resonate with our current times

    13. Top_Sherbet_8524 on

      Wise words from a man who just happened to be the perfect age to be sent off to the calamitous Great War and made the most of the time he was given.

    14. Entire_Classroom_263 on

      Yeah, I love that quote. Life becomes dark if one focuses on the things that cannot be done, instead of the things that can be done.

    15. Xepeyon on

      A literary genius with masterful eloquence when it came to relating the principles of the human experience that anyone could identify with. I wish we had more people like him, not just today, but in every generation. Every generation needs a Tolkien (and no, that lazy fuck GRRM is not a Tolkien).

    16. cabanesnacho on

      If only we could throw the Putins and the Trumps of the world into a volcano

    17. ikus013 on

      What needing times? He wrote that inspired on WWI, are you comparing us to that?

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