Tolkien's

From the LOTR's Return of the King


Samwise to Frodo:


It's all wrong. By right we shouldn't even be here but we are.

It's like in the great stories, the ones that really mattered.

Full of darkness and danger they were and sometimes you didn't want to know the end

because how can the end be happy?

How can the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened?


But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow, even darkness must pass.

A new day will come, and when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.

Those are the stories that stayed with you, that meant something even if you are

too small to understand why. And I think... I do understand, I know now.

Folk on those stories had lots of chances of going back only they didn't, they kept going

because they were holding on to something...


That there is some good in this world...

and it's worth fighting for.

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Frodo's Memoir


How do you pick up the threads of an old life?

How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back?

There are some things that (even) time cannot mend,

some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold...