I am a huge Tolkien fan. I first read LOTR as a young teenager and my sister and I learned runes and made maps. I wanted to live there. Maybe I should read them another time. I can’t stand news.
I was recently thinking of the statment in LOTR and I think it was Galadriel (I am not a scholar like you or Bob Ireland) which said “we are on a knife edge”.
And apparently sliding down it!
Galadriel:
The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true. {Addressing the Fellowship in Lothlórien}
This ring and no other was made by the elves
Who'd pawn their own mother to grab it themselves.
Ruler of creeper, mortal, and scallop
This is a sleeper that packs quite a whallop.
If busted or broken, it cannot be remade.
If found, send to Sorehead, (The postage is prepaid).
WWG1WGA
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)