10-08-2001, 06:03 PM | #1 |
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Relevance to real life
As an American still coming to grips with September 11th's tragedies, I found a surprisingly relevant passage in The Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter 3 (Tolkien's words follow):
_______________ (Gildor:) "[...] I think it is not for me to say more -- lest terror should keep you from your journey. For it seems to me that you have set out only just in time, if indeed you are in time. You must now make haste, and neither stay nor turn back; for the Shire is no longer any protection to you." "I cannot imagine what information could be more terrifying than your hints and warnings," exclaimed Frodo. "I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from the Water to the River in peace?" "But it is not your own Shire," said Gildor. "Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourself in, but you cannot for ever fence it out." "I know -- and yet it has always seemed so safe and familiar." Last edited by Churl : 10-08-2001 at 06:13 PM. |
10-08-2001, 06:52 PM | #2 |
Elven Warrior
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Thats really cool, it gives a lot of meaning to that passage when it is happening to our own little shire.
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10-08-2001, 07:04 PM | #3 |
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Welcome Churl, interesting name, where is it from?
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10-08-2001, 07:18 PM | #4 |
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Where did the nickname "Churl" come from? ...From too many churlish observations in younger days (I've mellowed a little since then). My churlishness is the result of being an idealist and a realist simultaneously: not an easy balancing act.
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10-08-2001, 11:43 PM | #5 |
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Very good insight. You're quite right of course, the passage seems to have been made for this sort of time. Welcome to Entmoot!
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10-09-2001, 12:41 AM | #6 |
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Aye, welcome to Entmoot, we could use some more intelligent posts like yours
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"When evil people come to destroy me, when my enemies and foes attack me, they will stumble and fall. Though a mighty army surrounds me, my heart will know no fear." -Psalms 27:2-3 -Dare you venture into Gollum's Lair? JESUS LIVES! |
10-09-2001, 08:43 PM | #8 |
Elf Lord
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Hello!
The passage speaks well to our times. |
10-09-2001, 10:06 PM | #9 |
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Wow...the things you miss when you aren't really looking...I never even thought of that passage before! Thanks so much for sharing it.
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10-10-2001, 08:53 PM | #10 |
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wonderful quote. it never ceases to amaze me how relevant Tolkien's work is.
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