Friendship
April 11, 2007
“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
The Treacherous
January 26, 2007
“The treacherous are ever distrustful.”
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973), Gandalf on Saruman, The Two Towers
Treasure Snatched Away
January 23, 2007
“Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue.”
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973), Mandos, The Silmarillion, Of the Flight of the Noldor
