The treacherous are ever distrustful.

Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.

Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an end was come of the story and song of those times.

He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think. He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

Do not spoil the wonder with haste!

No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.