The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.

‘Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,’

‘But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.’