<< Light and darkness

 There is a great deal of knowledge and symbolism in the stories that we like. These apparently child-like inventions speak to the deeper part of the self and rekindle the struggles of old.

Unspoken fights that reveal every day on the soul of every man, where the forces of entropy, chaos and destruction wage a relentless war against all that’s good, holy and virtues inside of us.

The hobbit, one of JRR Tolkien’s most renowned stories has so much symbols and figures that even decades after we can continuously discuss the deep topics that lie under the veil of something so simple on appearance.

The dragon, the adversary that guards the treasure; the thief the resourceful hobbit and its transformation through the story; the magician, the arbiter of divine intervention, guide and mentor for the incomplete man on the search for treasure.

These incomplete men, all possible victims of their passion and desire, their unmeasured greed only matched by their apparent ingratitude in the face of success. And their redemption in the face of death.

“I go now to the halls of wating to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would takeback my words and deeds at the Gate”- (Ch. XVIII)

In one beautiful phrase Tolkien redeems Thorin Oakenshield, fulfils his destiny seeing the banality of his search, his long-sought treasure taken by forces which he cannot control.

Perhaps it’s this which society has lost in this day and age; higher values and virtues under attack by dragons and the madness of orcs trampling through the fields pursuing anything that’s left of sanity.

A time of shadows were the roads of the high cities of man have been abandoned to their luck and are filled with robbers and assassins. A time of despair and poverty, misery and uncertainty.

And yet a time of bravery and valour, giving those who are willing a shot at slaying the beasts and restoring the kingdom of men to the glory of ancestral times; for no dragon is unbeatable, no army unstoppable, and though our eyes might not see it, our descendants might as well share in Bilbos words:

“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!”  (Ch. XVIII)

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