I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.

Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!

At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely there could never be in seventy years so much change.

For the rest, they shall represent the other Free Peoples of the World: Elves, Dwarves, and Men, Legolas shall be for the Elves; and Gimli son of Gloin for the Dwarves. They are willing to go at least to the passes of the Mountains, and maybe beyond. For Men you shall have Aragorn son of Arathorn, for the Ring of Isildur concerns him closely.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

Great heart will not be denied.

He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.