LOTR: “It’s worth fighting for.”
Frodo: What are we holding on to Sam?
Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for.
Sam: [The good folk] had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Good advice for times when evil men possess destructive power in a dark and dangerous world.
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October 30th, 2009 at 5:19 am
Can you atleast put in the right order… it should be: “I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mister 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. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mister Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.” “What are we holding on to, Sam?” “That there’s some good in this world, Mister Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.”
That is what it should be like.