“Wise men speak only of what they know”

“The wise speak only of what they know”

“Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.”

“On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.”

“For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows.”

“Oft it may be chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were heedful for the wise to know.”

“What then was this hope, if you know?’ Finrod asked.‘They say,’ answered Andreth: ‘they say that the One will himself enter into Arda, and heal Men and all the Marring from the beginning to the end.”