"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 path and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say..."
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
"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 wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out."
"Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story."
"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."
"Time does not tarry ever... Yet beneath the Sun all things must wear to an end at last."
" - Don't the great tales never end?
- No, they never end as tales.. But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later - or sooner. "
"I will not forget it, nor fail to reward that which is given: fealty with love, valour with honour, oath-breaking with vengeance."
"Where will wants not, a way opens."
"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."
"...in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
"The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them."
"...for mine is the choice of Lúthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter."
"You have chosen the Evening, but my love is given to the Morning. And my heart forebodes that soon it will pass away for ever."
"..the world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air. "
"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."
-- J. R. R. Tolkien
