The Lord Of The Rings: One Volume

by J.R.R. Tolkien

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.

‘It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish, as my old gaffer used to say.

‘Strange powers have our enemies, and strange weaknesses!’ said Théoden. ‘But it has long been said: oft evil will shall evil mar.’