“Don’t the
great tales never end?”
“No, they
never end as tales,” said Frodo. “But the people in them come, and go when
their part’s ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.”
- The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien
I was
only nine years old when my father read The
Two Towers to me, but even then I remember being touched by Frodo and Sam’s
oddly meta conversation about stories – “the great tales” – and whether they
ever end. It was a strange conversation to appear in Tolkien; tweak the
language a bit and you can imagine it appearing on the Internet today.
To idealistic
Tolkien, stories are just another form of truth. It makes me wonder if we can
consider our own circumstances to be a story, and how our lives would change if
we saw them that way.
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