Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold.

To be a cult figure in one's own lifetime is most unpleasant.

A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return.

My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.

Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

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

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