The Children of the HúrinĮven the smallest person can change the course of the future. May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. The Return of the Kingĭeep roots are not reached by the frost. It is useless to meet revenge with revenge it will heal nothing. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. The Lord of the RingsĪnd he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many. Still round the corner there may wait / A new road or a secret gate / And though I oft have passed them by / A day will come at last when I / Shall take the hidden paths that run / West of the Moon, East of the Sun. The Lord of the RingsĪ man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, / Away shall fade! Away shall fade! - The Lord of the Rings Then world behind and home ahead, / We’ll wander back and home to bed. Home is behind, the world ahead, / And there are many paths to tread / Through shadows to the edge of night, / Until the stars are all alight. No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, / A light from the shadows shall spring / Renewed shall be blade that was broken, / The crownless again shall be king. The Fellowship of the RingĪll that is gold does not glitter, / Not all those who wander are lost / The old that is strong does not wither, / Deep roots are not reached by the frost. 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 - The Fellowship of the Ring If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge. The Fellowship of the RingĪll we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. Now far ahead the Road has gone, / And I must follow, if I can. The Road goes ever on and on / Down from the door where it began. I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil. Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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