Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it.

All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.

great gandalfs ghost!
if he had a ghost. i doubt it. he was such a snob...

my dragon? save anybody?
you must have have him confused with someone else- Smaug perhaps?...

You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.

Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don