I would not want to strike a man like you by sneaking up and taking you by surprise. I want to try to hit you in fair fight, openly, face to face.”
Faramir in Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings":
"‘I would not snare even an orc with a falsehood."
From a letter by JRR Tolkien to his publisher:
"Thus, as the Second Age draws on .... The better and nobler sort of Men are in fact the kin of those that had departed to Númenor, but remain in a simple ‘Homeric’ state of patriarchal and tribal life."
