May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other ligh... - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way."

"Deserves it! I daresay he does. 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."

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

"It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope."

"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."