That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so. Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world.

The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.

The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say

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

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.

O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell