Sandra Gompf

“Then Frodo came forward and took the crown from Faramir and bore it to Gandalf; and Aragorn knelt, and Gandalf set the White Crown upon his head and said:
Now come the days of the King, and may they be blessed while the thrones of the Valar endure!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“The treacherous are ever distrustful.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Denial is the heartbeat of racism, beating across ideologies, races, and nations. It is beating within us.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings