The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

And the King will come there again one day; and then you’ll have some fair folk riding through.’ ‘Well, that sounds more hopeful, I’ll allow,’ said Butterbur. ‘And it will be good for business, no doubt. So long as he lets Bree alone.’ ‘He will,’ said Gandalf. ‘He knows it and loves it.’

‘Does he now?’ said Butterbur looking puzzled. ‘Though I’m sure I don’t know why he should, sitting in his big chair up in his great castle, hundreds of miles away. And drinking wine out of a golden cup, I shouldn’t wonder. What’s The Pony to him, or mugs o’ beer?

I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.’