
And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. 'What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!'.All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.' 'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. 'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo.He said that it was "growing on his mind", and he was always worrying about it but he did not suspect that the ring itself was to blame. He thought the ring was very beautiful, and very useful at need and if anything was wrong or queer, it was himself.Sooner or later the Dark Power will devour him.' 'Sooner or later, if he is strong or well-meaning to begin with, but neither strength nor good purpose will last.'It is far more powerful than I ever dared to think at first, so powerful that in the end it would utterly overcome anyone of mortal race who possessed it. 'You say the ring is dangerous, far more dangerous than I guess.In the story this is a translation of a verse in the Black Speech.One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,.One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, 'It was a compliment,' said Merry Brandybuck, 'and so, of course, not true.'.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.Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.
