Bradley J. Birzer Quote

The incarnate angel of Tolkien’s mythology, Gandalf the Grey, said it well in a conversation with Frodo. I wish it need not have happened in my time, laments the young Hobbit. So do I, Gandalf replies, 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.

Bradley J. Birzer

The incarnate angel of Tolkien’s mythology, Gandalf the Grey, said it well in a conversation with Frodo. I wish it need not have happened in my time, laments the young Hobbit. So do I, Gandalf replies, 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.

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About Bradley J. Birzer

Bradley J. Birzer (born September 6, 1967) is an American historian. He is a history professor and the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies at Hillsdale College, the author of five books and the co-founder of The Imaginative Conservative. He is known also as a Tolkien scholar.