In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, a young
hobbit named, Frodo, is given the burden of bearing the one ring of power. It's
a ring that has the potential to put Middle Earth under the suffering and pain
of a deep darkness that is already exerting its influence. With a cadre of
friends, Frodo determines to make the journey to Mount
Doom, to destroy the ring by throwing it into the volcano
from which it was constructed.
It would be a fearful journey through enemy territory, and imagining
the road ahead of him, Frodo shares with Gandalf the Wise that the burden of
the ring should not have been placed with him. In the conversation between
Frodo and Gandalf we read,
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf “and so do all who live to see such times. But
that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the
time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
(New York:
Houghton Mifflin, 1994), 51.
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