It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing. Such a little thing.

More from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

• If by my life or death, I can protect you, I will.
• What Grace is given me, let it pass to him. Let him be spared. Save him.
• What’s this? A Ranger, caught off his guard?
• I am sorry that I have brought this upon you, my boy. And I'm sorry that you must bear this burden. I'm sorry for everything.
• I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
• I've thought of an ending for my book - "And he lived happily ever after... to the end of his days."