[Corin Stormhands]

we want to hope we could...

Yes, and I think that's why the story is so inspiring. We want to be like these people. We want to have their characteristics.

Well, except for some of them...

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

We want to be the good actors on this stage of life, the ones who by faithful persistence in doing good, come to the end knowing we did our best... Just like Sam and Frodo, and Merry and Pippin, and all the rest for that matter... Everyone had their part to play....