I will give you a name,” he said to it, “and I shall call you Sting.” After.
A chance for Faramir, Captain of Gondor, to show his quality!
The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began, now far ahead the road has gone and I must follow if I can...
He felt no longer either desire or need for sleep but rather watchfulness. He knew that all the hazards and perils were drawing together to a point. The next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster.
No!” said Thorin. “There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
She shone in beauty upon the shore; Long did my glance on her alight, and the longer I looked I knew her more.
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it.
He loved maps, and in his hall there hung a large one of the Country Round with all his favourite walks marked.
He had been away over The Hill and across The Water on businesses of his own since they were all small hobbit-boys and hobbit-girls.
You sit in these halls with a crown upon your head, and yet you are less of a man than you have ever been.
Well, let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy! For he is very wise, and weighs all things to a nicety in the scales of his malice. But the only measure that he knows is desire, desire for power; and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it, that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this, we shall put him out of reckoning.
No,’ said Gandalf. ‘That is not the road that you must take. I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory. War is upon us and all our friends, a war in which only the use of the Ring could give us surety of victory. It fills me with great sorrow and great fear: for much shall be destroyed and all may be lost. I am Gandalf, Gandalf the White, but Black is mightier still.
Torment in the dark was the danger that I geared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy.
If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place.
I am not coming to the Shire. You must settle its affairs yourselves; that is what you have been trained for. Do you not yet understand? My time is over: it is no longer my task to set things to rights, nor to help folk to do so. And as for you, my dear friends, you will need no help. You are grown up now. Grown indeed very high; among the great you are, and I have no longer any fear at all for any of you.
One has indeed personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.
Bilbo smiled and laughed happily.
I have passed through fire and deep water, since we parted. I have forgotten much that I thought I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten. I can see many things far off, but many things that are close at hand I cannot see. Tell me of yourselves!
Trolls do not build.
There long he sojourned alone and roamed about the shore or fared over the rocks at the ebb, marvelling at the pools and the great weeds, the dripping caverns and the strange sea-fowl that he saw and came to know; but the rise and fall of the water and the voice of the waves was ever to him the greatest wonder and ever did it seem a new and unimaginable thing.