"I can't do this Sam.";
I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had 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 were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.";
What are we holding on to Sam?";
That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for."
- Sam to Frodo, at Osgiliath
(I think this is from the movie the conversation in the book happens in the chapter the stairs of cirith ungol...the words here are a bit twisted but mean more or less the same...)
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too much optimism .... not used to it !! [:D]
Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate;
And though I oft have passed them by,
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.
also from Lord of the Rings
much luck saving the world.
Hey... West of the moon and east of the sun returns...
I just realised that this phrase is used often in fairy/fantasy tales...
just curous. If anyone sees anymore refernces to this please let me know
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