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61 " For even the very wise cannot see all ends. "
― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
62 " Fly you fools "
63 " My dear Frodo!’ exclaimed Gandalf. ‘Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch. "
64 " Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story. "
65 " He [Bilbo] used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. 'It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.' . . . "
66 " He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams. "
67 " It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. "
68 " Farewell! I go to find the Sun! "
69 " Even the smallest person can change the course of the future "
70 " 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. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least. "
71 " For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make. "
72 " Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance. "
73 " Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is. "
74 " I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way. "
75 " You cannot pass! "
76 " The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song. "
77 " Handsome is as handsome does "
78 " There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world. "
79 " And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair! "
80 " I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains, and then find somewhere where I can rest. In peace and quiet, without a lot of relatives prying around, and a string of confounded visitors hanging on the bell. I might find somewhere where I can finish my book. I have thought of a nice ending for it: and he lived happily ever after to the end of his days. "