After that advice about fire goes to the heart.įaithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the wise falter. It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. Can you give it to them? Then do not be eager to deal out death in judgement. He that breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.Īll we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing… such a little thing.

Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for.Ī hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. Even the smallest person can change the course of history.