The Lord Of The Rings: One Volume

by J.R.R. Tolkien

‘It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. Well,

But all the while I sit and think of times there were before, I listen for returning feet and voices at the door.

‘The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.