Daughter of the King

This is so poetic. No I didn't write it.

Today I was reading through some quotes, and I came across one of my favorites. A quote from Samwise Gamgee. Sam is pointing out that he and Frodo wouldn't be doing what they were doing (taking the ring to mount Doom,) if they had know what it was going to be like.
"And we shouldn't be here at all, if we'd know more about it before we started. But I suppose it's often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out looking for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life seemed a bit dull, a kind of sport, as you might say. But that's not they way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that story in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually-their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on-and not all to a good end, mind you, at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end. You know, coming home, and finding things all right, though not quite the same-like old Mr. Bilbo. But those aren't always the best tales to hear, though they may be the best tales to get landed in! I wonder what sort of tale we've fallen into?"
The Two Towers page 363.

posted by Becca @ 11:31 AM