You are not orcs

Here’s the dialogue and a clip from Two Towers:

Merry.
We have just agreed.
Yes?
I have told your names to the Entmoot and we have agreed you are not Orcs.
Well, that's good news.
And what about Saruman? Have you come to a decision about him?
Now, don't be hasty, Master Meriadoc.
Hasty?
Our friends are out there. They need our help. They cannot fight this war on their own.
War? Yes. It affects us all. Tree, root and twig.
But you must understand, young Hobbit it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish and we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.

I can see it. Eve wakes up after God has made her from Adam’s rib. God takes her to Adam. Adam inspects her. Hmm…. She’s a lot smaller than big ole me. Maybe she’s one of those little demonic creatures?

Then he finally says, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.”

John Paul II is not so snarky. His play The Jeweler’s Shop is described in Carl Anderson and Jose Granados’ book, Called To Love (pages 9-11). They describe one scene  in the play with the two main characters Teresa and Andrew (who eventually are married): “Although the two were together on that nighttime hike through the mountains, the immaturity of Andrew’s love for Teresa hindered their mutual understanding.” She  described her feelings, “Everything around seemed so very necessary and so in harmony with the world’s totality, only man was off balance and lost.” They continue, “Teresa’s recollection underscores that man’s unique ability to ask about the meaning of life is inseparable from his experience of love…When Andrew asks for Teresa’s hand, this harmony of mutual understanding restores the balance she lacked on that nighttime hike. It makes her receptive to the signal of love.”

Within the framework of love we recognize the other and finally begin to understand ourselves. The Called to Love authors point out: “Wonder can be born only in the matrix of love.” “The heart of experience, then, is the wonder awakened by the revelation of love. Love opens the very roots of the human person to the encounter with the other, to transcendence, and to newness of life.”

As we learn to understand, love and appreciate those around us in our lives, we begin to understand the God who is love and why He put us here.