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Vorondavý ar linalmiý,
Rhyselle
Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative
mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and
likeness of a Maker. -- J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories, 1939
By chance, I have just had another letter regarding the failure of Frodo.
Very few seem even to have observed it. But following the logic of the plot,
it was clearly inevitable, as an event. And surely it is a more significant
and real event than a mere ýfairy-storyý ending in which the hero is
indomitable? It is possible for the good, even the saintly, to be subjected
to a power of evil which is too great for them to overcome ý in themselves.
In this case the cause (not the ýheroý) was triumphant because by the
exercise of pity, mercy and forgiveness of injury, a situation was produced
in which all was redressed and disaster averted. Gandalf certainly foresaw
this. See Vol. I p.68-69. Of course, he did not mean t o say that one must
be merciful, for it may prove useful later ý it would not then be mercy or
pity, which are only truly present when contrary to prudence. Not ours to
plan! But we are assured that we must be ourselves extravagantly generous,
if we are to hope for the extravagant generosity which the slightest easing
of, or escape from, the consequences of our own follies and errors
represents. And that mercy does sometimes occur in this life.
Letter 192, The Letters of JRR Tolkien
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