‘It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that...

‘It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered, full of darkness and danger they were. Sometimes you didn’t want to know the end, because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when there’s so much bad that had happened? But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.’ 

–Samwise Gamgee

 

The Lord of the Rings was first published, July 29, 1954. Happy anniversary, LoTR !