The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

But we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will.

Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.

No one has the right to live without being shocked.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.