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81 " deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone. "
― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Lord of the Rings
82 " Now at this last we must take a hard road, a road unforeseen. There lies our hope, if hope it be. To walk into peril – to Mordor. We must send the Ring to the Fire. "
83 " Elves and Dragons! I says to him. Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. "
84 " You have shown your usual cunning in getting up just in time for a meal. "
85 " But there, my friends, songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely. "
86 " Worst is a bad word,” I said to him, “and I hope you do not live to see it. "
87 " Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He even smiled grimly, feeling now as clearly as a moment before he had felt the opposite, that what he had to do, he had to do, if he could, and that whether Faramir or Aragorn or Elrond or Galadriel or Gandalf or anyone else ever knew about it was beside the purpose. "
88 " 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. "
89 " The great storm is coming, but the tide has turned. "
90 " It is said that the skill of the Dwarves is in their hands rather than in their tongues, yet that is not true of Gimli. For none have ever made to me a request so bold and yet so courteous...I do not foretell, for all foretelling is now vain: on the one hand lies darkness, and on the other only hope. But if hope should not fail, then I say to you, Gimli son of Glóin, that your hands shall flow with gold, and yet over you gold shall have no dominion. "
91 " Frodo began to feel restless, and the old paths seemed too well-trodden. He looked at maps, and wondered what lay beyond their edges: maps made in the Shire showed mostly white spaces beyond its borders. "
92 " You will soon be well, if I do not talk you to death. "
93 " It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not. I am glad that I know about them, a little. "
94 " If that's being queer, then we could do with a bit more queerness in these parts. "
95 " As he fell slowly into sleep, Pippin had a strange feeling: he and Gandalf were still as stone, seated upon the statue of a running horse, while the world rolled away beneath his feet with a great noise of wind. "
96 " Have you thought of an ending?’ ‘Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant, "
97 " But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know. "
98 " I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. "
99 " May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years! "
100 " 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, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. "