We Must Decide What To Do With The Time Given To Us (Tolkien)
Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.
‘I wish it need not have 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 to us.’
J.R.R Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring (1999, 50)
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This is a winderful quote. This shows some of the wisdom that Tolkien had. “James 4:14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”
My life is so short as a vapor, here today gone tomorrow, am I going to wast my life or us it for God’s glory.
At what point in the book does Gandalf say this? In the movie he says it in the Mines of Moria.
Jonathan Groves wrote on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 8:22am.