It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow.
All good stories deserve embellishment.
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
Courage is found in unlikely places.
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?
A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.
Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I have found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay.
