The responsible treatment of this particular Ring of Power is not necessarily to toss it into the Cracks of Doom. But we have to come up with something rather quickly, or what we'll get is the Land of Mordor.

...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.

Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.

He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't have been told about their own humanity. It's only made them uncomfortable. It's only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read.

Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.

it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.