And you, Ringbearer' she said, turning to Frodo. 'I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared this.' She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it and rays of white light sprang from her hand. 'In this phial,' she said,' is caught the light of Earendil's star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. Frodo took the phial, and for a moment as it shone between them, he saw her again standing like a queen, great and beautiful.
J. R. R. TolkienIf this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.
J. R. R. TolkienIt needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
J. R. R. TolkienAnd then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.
J. R. R. Tolkien