Frodo: I can't.
Sam: I know. It's not fair. We shouldn't have come, but here we are.
It's like the wonderful stories we've heard, celebrating great deeds, full of darkness and danger. Sometimes you don't want to know the ending, because how can there be a happy ending? With so many terrible things happening, how can the world go back to the way it was?
But in the end the terrible shadow will disappear, even the darkness will disappear, a new day will come, and the sun will shine brighter. It's the kind of coming-of-age story you'll never forget and make a lot of sense, even if you're too young to understand why.
But I think I get it, I get it now. The protagonists in these stories have many opportunities to give up halfway, but they don't, they decide to go ahead. Because they hold a belief.
Frodo: What beliefs do we hold?
Sam: There must be goodness in this world worth fighting to the end.
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