Re-reading the Lord of the Rings, Chapter 10
The common theme in this chapter is irrationality. What good are the best laid plans, if people behave erratically?
The messenger, who forgets the message, the guard, who leaves his post, the servant, who insists to advise his master.
By pain of corporal punishment alone reason rules in hysterical times.
Sam's case is the most interesting of the three. His antipathy towards Strider is rooted in some kind of a promise, namely, as the servant of a noble master, only to deal with other noble people. He feels swindled out of his additional compensations. And the only way Strider can shut this status-conscious brat up, is by threatening to draw his sword on him.
Wealth is, in fact, an accepted claim to power, and must often enough be countered by deadly force, to keep it in its bounds, not only to check its actions, but also to stop the people from throwing their weight behind it, for that is the sure end of justice.
That is of course Aragorn's fate, to re-establish justice out of poverty. It falls into his lap, because the poison of corruption hasn't reached him. And that's the world Tolkien has created, a world sick with that poison, as we'll learn later on.
The messenger, who forgets the message, the guard, who leaves his post, the servant, who insists to advise his master.
By pain of corporal punishment alone reason rules in hysterical times.
Sam's case is the most interesting of the three. His antipathy towards Strider is rooted in some kind of a promise, namely, as the servant of a noble master, only to deal with other noble people. He feels swindled out of his additional compensations. And the only way Strider can shut this status-conscious brat up, is by threatening to draw his sword on him.
Wealth is, in fact, an accepted claim to power, and must often enough be countered by deadly force, to keep it in its bounds, not only to check its actions, but also to stop the people from throwing their weight behind it, for that is the sure end of justice.
That is of course Aragorn's fate, to re-establish justice out of poverty. It falls into his lap, because the poison of corruption hasn't reached him. And that's the world Tolkien has created, a world sick with that poison, as we'll learn later on.
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