Reposted from 8/20/2010
“It’s dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door. You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
Tolkien has influenced me in many ways, and not least of these is his view on travel. In Lord of the Rings, the Road is a character of its own: it calls people away from comfort in search of adventure, binds willing prisoners to lives of wandering, and bears the characters toward the destination that will bring victory or death. Although Tolkien emphasizes the joy and importance of travel, he never forgets the hobbit-hole at the end of the adventure— whether the journey is a foray to Mount Doom or just life on this earth. Every traveler’s final desire is, and should be, to return Home.
~Lisa Shafter
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