I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.

He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler.

Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.

And you, Ringbearer' she said, turning to Frodo. 'I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared this.' She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it and rays of white light sprang from her hand. 'In this phial,' she said,' is caught the light of Earendil's star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. Frodo took the phial, and for a moment as it shone between them, he saw her again standing like a queen, great and beautiful.

And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.