{"id":16209,"date":"2017-08-13T12:19:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T16:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=16209"},"modified":"2017-08-13T12:19:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T16:19:43","slug":"words-from-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=16209","title":{"rendered":"Words from Tolkien"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where will wants not, a way opens. \u2014 J.R.R. Tolkien<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and this perenniel beacon:<\/p>\n

It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour 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. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule. \u2013 J.R.R. Tolkien<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and my oft-quoted: <\/p>\n

\u2026the night-sky was still dim and pale. There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. 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. His song in the Tower had been defiance rather than hope; for then he was thinking of himself. Now, for a moment, his own fate, and even his master\u2019s, ceased to trouble him. He crawled back into the brambles and laid himself by Frodo\u2019s side, and putting away all fear he cast himself into a deep untroubled sleep. \u2013 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, Book II, The Land of Shadow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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