Friendship

“It is going to be very dangerous, Sam. ‘It is already dangerous. Most likely neither of us will come back.’
‘If you don’t come back, sir, then I shan’t, that’s certain,’ said Sam.

‘Don’t you leave him! they said to me.
Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon, and if any of those Black Rulers try to stop him, they’ll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said.

They laughed.’ “

J. R. R. Tolkien, from The Fellowship of the Ring

Value to Survival

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

C. S. Lewis

Birth of a Friendship

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one!’”

C. S. Lewis

Self-Sacrifice

“It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings

Intimacy

“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.”

C. S. Lewis

The Treacherous

“The treacherous are ever distrustful.”

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973), Gandalf on Saruman, The Two Towers

Solitude and Friendship

“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”

C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory