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All the big important plans are not for my sort. Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We’re in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out of great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards.
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Samwise to Frodo. I was sorely tempted to quote the entire passage because it is so lovely but I will refrain. 
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
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