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And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed on into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.

Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Lord of the Rings: One Volume (p. 1030). HMH Books. Kindle Edition.

I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.’

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But when Aragorn arose all that beheld him gazed in silence, for it seemed to them that he was revealed to them now for the first time. Tall as the sea-kings of old, he stood above all that were near; ancient of days he seemed and yet in the flower of manhood; and wisdom sat upon his brow, and strength and healing were in his hands, and a light was about him. And then Faramir cried: ‘Behold the King!’

Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Lord of the Rings: One Volume (p. 968). HMH Books. Kindle Edition.

I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.’

Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Lord of the Rings: One Volume (p. 947). HMH Books. Kindle Edition.

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.

Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Lord of the Rings: One Volume (p. 922). HMH Books. Kindle Edition.

In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him. The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Lord of the Rings: One Volume (p. 901). HMH Books. Kindle Edition.

Yet 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.

Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Lord of the Rings: One Volume (p. 879). HMH Books. Kindle Edition.

For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and darkness was removed, and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled, and died, and the hoofs of wrath rode over them. And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.

Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Lord of the Rings: One Volume (p. 838). HMH Books. Kindle Edition.

Yet in the wizard’s face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth.

Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Lord of the Rings: One Volume (p. 759). HMH Books. Kindle Edition.

the Men of the Mark do not lie, and therefore they are not easily deceived.

Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Lord of the Rings: One Volume (p. 435). HMH Books. Kindle Edition.