It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.

Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!

If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.

What course am I to take?" "Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight.

But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only a shadow in the waters that was soon lost in the West. There he stood far into the night, hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-Earth, and the sound of them sank deep into his heart.

And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.