Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

The realm of Suaron is ended!' said Gandalf. 'The Ring-bearer has fulfilled his Quest

But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.

My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.