# Quote — J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

> This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great. Who of all the Wise could have foreseen it? Or, if they are wise, why should they expect to know it, until the hour has struck?

- Author: [J. R. R. Tolkien](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien.md)
- Book: [The Fellowship of the Ring](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring.md)
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> We must take a hard road, a road unforeseen. There lies our hope, if hope it be. To walk into peril – to Mordor. We must send the Ring to the Fire.

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> It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. But such falls and betrayals, alas, have happened before.

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> 'Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,' said Gimli.
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> 'Maybe,' said Elrond, 'but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.'
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> 'Yet sworn word may strengthen quaking heart,' said Gimli.
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> 'Or break it,' said Elrond.

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