You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.

Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think! Would you commit your promise to that, Smeagol? It will hold you. But it is more treacherous than you are. It may twist your words. Beware!

For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.

Gandalf! 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.

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