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Originally Posted by davem
If the Fellowship are ‘passively’ carried along by the ‘Great River’ of Time, well, aren’t we all?
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Precisely. But, like the Fellowship, there is a danger in letting ourselves be carried through space and time for too long. There comes a time when we must take positive action to "go against the flow", lest we become swept up in events which we cannot control or ambushed by unforseen dangers. The Fellowship had to battle (hard) against the stream, and found themselves very near to being on the end of an orcish arrowhead, when they found that they had let it take them too far (farther than Aragorn had realised).