Courage is found in unlikely places.

Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!

Tears unnumbered ye shall shed.

You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.

I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!" said Fili. "My tub was full of ut. To smell apples everlastingly when you can scarcely move and are cold and sick with hunger is maddening. I could eat anything in the wide world now for hours on end - but not an apple!

I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.