A few words from Tolkien and a call to resistance at a critical moment for Spain
ESSpain is going through a difficult time, once again, with a left that believes it has the right to enjoy impunity before the law.
In these last few hours I am reading messages of discouragement, sadness and hopelessness because of this situation. I understand them, but I don't share them. If it helps you, I'm very calm. This may surprise you, but it is not an attitude that can be explained by disinterest in the problems that affect us. On the contrary.
Spain and other countries around us have lived through much worse times than this and have overcome them. Overcoming hard times has cost many sacrifices, but it has been possible because the people who lived through those times did not give up.
One of the people who lived through those hard times was my favorite writer, J.R.R. Tolkien, whose works often inspire me to make all kinds of reflections on this blog. He fought in the First World War and was wounded in the horrendous Battle of the Somme. He also lived through World War II, when his country was the target of the brutal German bombing campaign known as the "Blitz." Tolkien saw horrors that many of us cannot even imagine.
Despite this, his work is a constant call to hope. He even invented a word, "Estel", whose shape evokes the stars and which symbolizes hope beyond all hope. Although he never liked allegory, he clearly projected its principles into his books. Tolkien was Catholic and his work is a call to fight evil, even when victory seems impossible and all resistance seems futile. He knew that despite all the suffering, in the end Good will prevail.
Tolkien captured some of his best personal reflections in the words of the wizard Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings." In "The Return of the King", the third volume of that work, he wrote the following (Book V. Chapter 9):
“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
In short: we must assume that we will lose some battles and win others, but we must never give up and we must never let hopelessness overcome us. We must never lose hope, even when it is most difficult for us to find it.
Spain is a great Nation, and for it and for the cause of Freedom it is always worth fighting and making great sacrifices, even if we do not see the results. So, let us not allow ourselves to be overcome by discouragement or sadness: it is the hour of resistance.
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