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"Farewell, Master Burglar. Go back to your books... and your armchair... Plant your trees, watch them grow..."
sshhh he's giving his sword a bath
The elves always seem to blame man for evil and darkness. Always saying they’re weak and gullible. But it’s not the elves who continue to fight even after the walls breached, It’s not elves who charge into scores of orcs, who attack the black gate with no hope that they can win for the slight chance that it will help Frodo and Sam. I’m not saying the elves are not brave or did not help destroy the ring, they did. I’m just saying they have no right to call mortals weak.
The elves lost hope and most sailed to Valar, the humans lost hope and charged to war.
I just read the Silmarillion. I am confused.
“No we cannot. But we will meet them in battle nonetheless.”
“There was never much hope… Only a fool's hope.”
Out of all of the great lines in lord of the rings, both the book and movies, this two have stuck with me the most. Why? Because the entire series is based on hope, never much, but enough. All the characters don’t have hope that they will win, they know it’s next to impossible, but they aren't going down without a fight, and nether should you. It shows that you don’t have to have total faith in yourself, you can be certain you are going to fail, but you still have to try, you have to hold on to what ever hope you have, even if it’s only a fool’s hope.