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You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.

You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Fate, Evil, Waiting
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Fate, Simple, Evil
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.440, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Grief, Fate, Loss
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Wise, Heart, Fate
"The Fellowship of the Ring". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1954.

Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwë and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Beautiful, Fate, Darkness

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