Galadriel: Why the Halfling?
Gandalf: I do not know. 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. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps it is because I am afraid… and he gives me courage.
‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ 2012
What good are our small acts of love and kindness in the face of such oppression within the systems we work in? Be encouraged today. They are the very things that bring empires to their knees and transform the world.
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keep going Bilbo!
And the travelling hobbits retained their humility and ‘smallness’ throughout their exploits.
The succession of adventures made them grow and equip them for whatever was coming next.
Every empire has its propaganda that puffs up to delude that ‘it is, and there is no other’ and yet each is very porous.
We come in the opposite spirit, not attempting to match a power with an equivalent might.