It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

They must understand that – Elrond and the Council, and the great Lords and Ladies with all their wisdom. Their plans have gone wrong. I can't be their Ring-bearer. Not without Mr. Frodo.

And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.

We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.

People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. "You aren't nearly through this adventure yet," he added, and that was pretty true as well.