“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 Fellowship of the Ring
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Of course, you might feel like this one is a bit more appropriate too: https://t.co/5cV3Q5Mxja
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”
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I sent this quote out yesterday morning to my email subscribers. if you would like to join the 10k people who get my weekly LOTR thoughts, you can sign up at https://t.co/qCv9yZmIW3:
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@joshcarlosjosh I thought I was keeping it together today, but your sincerity brought me to tears. Thank you for the reminder.
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@joshcarlosjosh I read your email with this last night to my love and friends while commiserating with wine and whiskey. We all bear One Ring now. @WeisAlison
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@ArtemisNoyz @WeisAlison Wow, honored that you shared it with them in that moment. Thank you for sharing!
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@joshcarlosjosh Im sure Tolkien would love the candidate and party that stands against all of his beliefs… He was so conservative it would make modern republicans call him radical.
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@FrancosGhost The author need not agree with any or all of his readers' political beliefs for his words to encourage and comfort them. And as a Brit his opinion on American elections and parties would be of limited relevance anyways.
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@joshcarlosjosh “...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."
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@joshcarlosjosh "It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?"
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@joshcarlosjosh Here's to making the most of the time we're given, no matter how tough the times may be. #TolkienWisdom
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@joshcarlosjosh See also: 'I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay… small acts of kindness and love.'
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@joshcarlosjosh "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.” “Yeah well, this is like the fifth flippin’ ‘such time’ in my time, G-man. Baggins needs a break, yo.”
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@joshcarlosjosh @alexandertyler "...All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”"... A beautiful fine example of how the written word can heal and inspire the heart and soul. With the time we have, we can choose kindness and to care as fiercely as possible, with strength and courage.
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@joshcarlosjosh “Faithless is he that says farewell, when the road darkens.” -Gimli JK Rep the set!!! MAGA-SNITCHESZZZZZZZZ
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@joshcarlosjosh "Monster, I do smell all horse piss, at which my nose is in great indignation" - Shakespeare, The Tempest
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@joshcarlosjosh “Such is the nature of evil. Out there in the vast ignorance of the world it festers and spreads. A shadow that grows in the dark. A sleepless malice as black as the oncoming wall of night. So it ever was. So will it always be. In time all foul things come forth”.
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