![]() ![]() ![]() The slogans ‘Frodo Lives’ and ‘Gandalf for President’ festooned subway stations worldwide as graffiti. They write: during the 1960s, a time of accelerating social change driven in part by 42 million Baby Boomers coming of age, Tolkien’s The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings became required reading for the nascent counterculture, devoured simultaneously by students, artists, writers, rock bands and other agents of cultural change. On November 19th, 2014, the BBC published the article "Hobbits and hippies: Tolkien and the counterculture," which notes the series' impact on the hippie counterculture. Their sojourn was a 'purgatory', but one of peace and healing and they would eventually pass away (die at their own desire and of free will) to destinations of which the Elves knew nothing. The Valar had neither the power nor the right to confer 'immortality' upon them. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.' wish need not ed time said frodo dol gandalf do live times decide given. 'So dol,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. On January 31st, 2002, Tolkein Forum user Cian quoted the book's author J.R.R Tolkien: As for Frodo or other mortals, they could only dwell in Aman for a limited time - whether brief or long. ''L wish it need not have ed in in my time,' said Frodo. Some fans contest that the phrase is a reference to the book's ending, in which Frodo takes the last ship to the Gray Havens with the elves, and in essences live on. The band later released the song under the name The Magic Room (shown below, right). In 1967, the psychedelic rock group The Hobbits released the single for the song "Frodo Lives" (shown below, left).
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