I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.

There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.

A man who won't listen can't hear.

his snores sounded like ducks mating.

None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you.

Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?