In a certain sense I choose to be born and choose an attitude toward my facticity. Thus facticity is everywhere but inapprehensible; I never encounter anything except my responsibility. That is why I can not ask, why was I born?' or curse the day of my birth or declare that I did not ask to be born, for these various attitudes toward my birth "i.e., toward the fact that I realize a presence in the world "are absolutely nothing else but ways of assuming this birth in full responsibility and of making it mine."" (Sartre, Solomon and Green, 420) The quote means that man must take it upon himself to realize that he is thrown into the world, into conflicts, and experiences, not wanting to be there in the first place but knowing however that he is in control of his destiny. By facticity Sartre means the conditional circumstances of facts of life. Throwness is what all authentic people feel when they suddenly appear on the scene of life. Man first exists then looks at the world and tries to define himself in it. Sartre's beliefs indicate that even if there is no meaning or purpose in life other than what the individual's freedom creates, the individual by "living, thinking, and acting- can still define his nature and form what he is and will be (his essence). The view of throwness (absurdity as Sartre likes to call it sometimes) is simply the view that each individual is simply here, thrown into time and space with no apparent reason or purpose. .
In the film Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Sartre's idea of throwness is reflected in the conversation between Gandalf and Frodo while they are in the Mines of Moria. Leading the group of travelers through the mines is none other than the wizard Gandalf who seems to have lost his way. While contemplating which direction to head in Frodo approaches the wizard stating that he wished the ring had never come to him and that none of "this- would have ever happened.
