Winter will never come for the likes of us. Should we die in battle, they will surely sing of us, and it’s always summer in the songs. In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.

But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy?

That man said he’d take your head too.” “Well, as to that,” Yoren said, “if he can get it off my shoulders, he’s welcome to it.

Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.

There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?

Faith is like porridge. Better with milk and honey.