![]() ![]() The clumsiness in fidelity of Sam was what finally pushed Gollum over the brink, when about to repent) betray him, and could rob him in the end. At any point any prudent person would have told Frodo that Gollum would certainly* (*Not quite 'certainly'. have been executed as a traitor, not honoured.īut at this point the 'salvation' of the world and Frodo's own 'salvation' is achieved by his previous pity and forgiveness of injury. He 'apostatized' - and I have had one savage letter, crying out that he shd. ![]() Fail it would and did as far as Frodo considered alone was concerned. was bound to fail as a piece of world-plan, and also was bound to end in disaster as the sotry of humble Frodo's development to the 'noble', his sanctification. (Already Frodo had been unwilling to hard the Ring before he set out, and was incapable of surrendering it to Sam.) ![]() The view, in the terms of my story, is that though every event or situation has (at least) two aspects: the history and development of the individual (it is something out of which he can get good, ultimate good, for himself, or fail to do so), and the history of the world (which depends on the behavior of an individual in circumstances which demand of him suffering and endurance far beyond the normal - even, it may happen (or seem, humanly speaking), demand a strength of body and mind which he does not possess: he is in a sensed doomed to failure, doomed to fall to temptation or be broken by pressure against his 'will': that is against any choice he could make or would make unfettered, not under duress.įrodo was in such a position: an apparently complete trap: a person of greater native power could probably never have resisted the Ring's lure to power so long a person of less power could not hope to resist it in the final decision. 'Lead us not into temptation &c' is the harder and the less often considered petition. ![]()
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