"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Book I.
The Shadow of the Past.

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if I see one more post about how being a Hobbit is all about sitting around barefoot and eating potatoes I’m going to snap. it’s about toppling authoritarian regimes through self-sacrifice and love in action!!! get off your butt!!!!

(you can bring the potatoes with you though)

There should be some dread weighing heavily on you if you are upholding injustice, oppressing the poor and marginalized, abusing power, or disregarding the dignity of all people. The ‘Shadow’ is but a small and passing thing — where will you be standing when it’s gone?

Tolkien writing of light and high beauty being “for ever beyond” the reach of the Shadow should strike fear into the heart of evil and kindle hope in anyone who strives for goodness.

Sauron feared hope, a point underscored by his fear of Aragorn whose elvish name literally meant ‘Hope’.