“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
When life becomes difficult the first impulse is to run, and the second impulse is to destroy. Instead of facing your own demons and those of the others you love. True friendship isn’t about everything always being perfect, it’s about people willing to face the dark together. Even sometimes face the darkness of each other and overcome.I’ve always enjoyed Tolkien’s novels mainly because they are about different sorts of people being able to overcome the dark. The key in most of his stories is that they need each other to do so. Each individual must have faith in the others to continue. The sorts of sacrifices made in the name of friendship are both inspiring and sometimes unbelievable.
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