I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and... - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not."

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."

"The world was fair, the mountains tallIn Elder Days before the fall..."

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."