A salvação do mundo tem origem no perdão

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"At this point the ‘salvation’ of the world and Frodo’s own ‘salvation’ is achieved by his previous pity and forgiveness of injury. At any point any prudent person would have told Frodo that Gollum would certainly betray him, and could rob him in the end. To ‘pity’ him, to forbear to kill him, was a piece of folly, or a mystical belief in the ultimate value-in-itself of pity and generosity even if disastrous in the world of time. He did rob him and injure him in the end – but by a ‘grace’, that last betrayal was at a precise juncture when the final evil deed was the most beneficial thing that anyone cd. have done for Frodo! By a situation created by his ‘forgiveness’, he was saved himself, and relieved of his burden." (The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 234).