“This is it. If I take one more step…”
… it will be the farthest away from home I’ve ever been.”
I’ve been rewatching one of my favourite movies, Lord of the Rings.
How Peter Jackson managed to create these movies, to walk the finest of lines between honouring the Tolkein’s original work and yet to bring it to life in a completely new and different way, I’ll never know. It’s extraordinary.
It’s full of moments of peril, of crossing the threshold and moving from safety towards … risk and danger, reward and
The quote above comes from early on in the first movie, when our hero Frodo’s companion Sam stops in a nondescript field.
It’s a moment anyone doing Great Work will recognize.
And here’s Frodo’s response:
“It’s a dangerous business going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
And there it is: the glory and the risk of Great Work.
