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

> 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.

- Author: [J.R.R. Tolkien](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien.md)
- Book: [The Fellowship of the Ring](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring.md)
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- Topics: [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md), [hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope.md)
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## More from this book

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/it-is-perilous.md)

Topics: [evil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/faithless-is-he-that.md)

Topics: [promises](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/promises.md), [fidelity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fidelity.md)

> As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/as-frodo-prepared.md)

Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md), [trees](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trees.md)