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. TolkienOh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?
J. R. R. TolkienWhen he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and weptโฆ โWhy did I ever wake up!โ he cried.
J. R. R. TolkienGandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?" A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.
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