“Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight.”

“What course am I to take?""Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight.”

“Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.”

“Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord. Alas for Gimli son of Glóin!”

“But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”

“If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.”

“It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.”