It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.

There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.

The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

Death is their fate, the gift of IlÑŠvatar, which as Time wears even the Powers shall envy.

There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be.