Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!

I don't feel any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings.

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

Then Morgoth stretching out his long arm towards Dor-lomin cursed Hurin and Morwen and their offspring, saying: 'Behold! The shadow of my thought shall lie upon them wherever they go, and my hate shall pursue them to the ends of the world.

There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.

I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.