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

by J.R.R. Tolkien

We live now upon an island amid many

perils, and our hands are more often upon the bowstring than upon the harp.

‘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.