I've read this before, but it's one that's always worth rereading.
I
love so many things about this book. I love Bilbo. I puzzle and chuckle
over Gandalf. It's a shortish novel but it gives one the feeling of
reading something deeply rooted in lore and all things ancient. I love
that.
There's also this wonderful sense that like Bilbo, none
of us really knows what we are capable of until we set out to live up to
the high expectations of someone who knows more than we do. But we
don't have to let fear get the best of us and we don't have to let the
doubts of others drag us down. We may be able to accomplish a whole lot
more than we ever thought we could. That's a happy thought. And it's a
happy thought that no matter how strange the adventure turns, our little
armchair in our little hobbit hole is waiting for us back home.
I'm so glad Tolkien wrote!
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