I was called a libta*d hobbit the other day, and it got me thinking about LOTR

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9. Sam & Frodo got the job done when armies could not. Yet the armies of Middle Earth distracted Sauron...

…and made sure his attention was kept on them and not on the small people heading for his center of power.

I read LOTR as a teen in 1965. The movies came out in the BushCheney admin as war loomed. There’s much I loved in the books, but my favorite bit from the movies took place in the dark mines of Moria, and I needed to hear it then.

“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.”