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What Tolkien can teach us about mercy. by always excellent The Wonder of Tolkien, discusses the following message from Gandalf ‘Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his...