[Gandalf said],"'Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.' 'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo. 'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. And already, Frodo, our time is beginning to look black. The enemy is fast becoming very strong.'" -- J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) "The Fellowship of the Ring"
"There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil." -- From the LOTR film trilogy "The Fellowship of the Ring"
John McCain, Maureen Dowd, "The Wall Street Journal" (WSJ), and others, have taken to referring to the Tea Party, and conservative members of Congress, as "hobbits" -- the wee folk from the "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy (LOTR). As
Brian Wesbury notes, "This is not a term of endearment. What the WSJ editors [et al.] mean is that Tea Partiers live in a 'fantasy world.'"
- Wednesday, August 3, 2011