We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat and prefer 'speech' and 'discourse'; well-bred, brilliant, or polite noblemen (visions of snobbery columns in the Press, and fat men on the Riviera) and prefer the 'worthy, brave and courteous men' of long ago.
J. R. R. TolkienWith hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!
J. R. R. TolkienFarewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!
J. R. R. Tolkien