The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.
J. R. R. TolkienTo think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!
J. R. R. TolkienOf course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later. That thought has long been growing in our hearts; and that is why we are marching now. It was not a hasty resolve. Now at least the last march of the Ents may be worth a song.
J. R. R. TolkienDead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)
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