“I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.”
― The Two Towers
― The Two Towers
“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“Put your trust in God, and pray for guidance. And when in doubt, eat.”
― Drums of Autumn
― Drums of Autumn
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