Alli

“Just keeping you on your toes, Firecracker. I’m like the wind, ever changing.” I roll my eyes. More like a dick, always rising and falling.”
― Lucy Smoke, Shadow of Deception

“If you wanted to go on from the end of The Hobbit I think the ring would be your inevitable choice as the link. If then you wanted a large tale, the Ring would at once acquire a capital letter; and the Dark Lord would immediately appear. As he did, unasked, on the hearth at Bag End as soon as I came to that point. So the essential Quest started at once. But I met a lot of things along the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never been to Bree. Strider sitting in the corner of the inn was a shock, and I had no more idea who he was than Frodo did. The Mines of Moria had been a mere name; and of Lothlorien no word had reached my mortal ears till I came there.

-- (J.R.R. Tolkien to W.H. Auden, June 7, 1955.)”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar