"The day will bring hope for me,"said Aragorn. "Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?""So the minstrels say,"said Éomer."Then let us defend it, and hope!"
"I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to"
"There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark."
"I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory."
"Fair speech may hide a foul heart."
"Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed."