Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along. To look ahead,' said he. And what brought you back in the nick of time?' Looking behind,' said he.
J. R. R. TolkienAnd sometimes you didn't want to know the endโฆ because how could the end be happy?
J. R. R. TolkienFarewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!
J. R. R. TolkienIn that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him.
J. R. R. Tolkien