![]() ![]() Keep up your hobbitry in heart, and think that all stories feel like that when you are in them. He then added, “Well, there you are: a hobbit amongst the Urukhai. Not that in real life things are as clear cut as in a story, and we started out with a great many Orcs on our side.” “But the penalty is, as you will know, to breed new Saurons, and slowly turn Men and Elves into Orcs. And we shall (it seems) succeed,” Tolkien elaborated. “For we are attempting to conquer Sauron with the Ring. But all Big Things planned in a big way feel like that to the toad under the harrow, though on a general view they do function and do their job. Your service is, of course, as anybody with any intelligence and ears and eyes knows, a very bad one, living on the repute of a few gallant men, and you are probably in a particularly bad corner of it. He wrote, “However it is, humans being what they are, quite inevitable, and the only cure (short of universal Conversion) is not to have wars – nor planning, nor organization, nor regimentation. In another letter to Christopher Tolkien, letter 66, Tolkien did specifically discuss this idea of going into the darkness in order to the do the right thing by comparing his literary work to World War II. RELATED: Latest The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Rumor Claims Significant Character Is Already Dead During The Show Orcs, as depicted in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power ![]()
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