This is the council — not featured in the book — with Gandalf, Galadriel, and Saruman about the dwarves and their mission…
“Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”
Many are attributing this to Tolkien, but I cannot find the direct reference to it, unless it is buried in an appendix somewhere…
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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yeah.. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-oZ5HmlljV9c/UM4xkUDNskI/AAAAAAAAK48/yqELHo9knsI/w497-h373/gandalf.jpg
I cant see any actual reference to it from the books.