Hobbit Virtues by Christopher A. Snyder

Author:Christopher A. Snyder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2020-08-04T00:00:00+00:00

With the Ring and Gollum both gone, Frodo is saved from becoming Gollum. And as Sam picks up the bleeding Frodo and carries him away from the flames, Frodo recalls Gandalf’s words about Gollum and thinks about the necessity for mercy. Let us forgive him, he tells Sam, knowing that Gollum did play an important role in bringing their quest to an end, bringing about the eucatastrophe. Mercy gives a person who does not deserve love, love, proclaims Sister Joan Chittester, because God knows of what we all are made:

… clay, the dust of the earth, the frail, fragile, shapeless thing from which we come and to which we will all return someday. We are all capable of the same things. Our only hope is that when we are all sitting somewhere bereft, exposed, outcast, humiliated and rejected by the rest of society, someone, somewhere will “reach out a hand and lift us up.”38

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