But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually – their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind.
I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. `And we shouldn't be here at all, if we'd known more about it before we started. Regarding that quote, it was written by Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh. I wonder if he thinks he's the hero or the villain? And he used to like tales himself once, by his own account. Why, even Gollum might be good in a tale, better than he is to have by you, anyway. Things done and over and made into part of the great tales are different. `Maybe,' said Sam, 'but I wouldn't be one to say that. You and I, Sam, are still stuck in the worst places of the story, and it is all too likely that some will say at this point: "Shut the book now, dad we don't want to read any more." ' Frodo,' said Sam, 'you shouldn't make fun. And Frodo wouldn't have got far without Sam, would he, dad? " ' Why didn't they put in more of his talk, dad? That's what I like, it makes me laugh. But you've left out one of the chief characters: Samwise the stouthearted. 'Why, Sam,' he said, 'to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the story was already written. But Frodo did not heed them he laughed again. To Sam suddenly it seemed as if all the stones were listening and the tall rocks leaning over them. Such a sound had not been heard in those places since Sauron came to Middle-earth. `It's saying a lot too much,' said Frodo, and he laughed, a long clear laugh from his heart. wasn't he, dad?" "Yes, my boy, the famousest of the hobbits, and that's saying a lot."' And people will say: "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring! " And they'll say: "Yes, that's one of my favourite stories. We're in one, or course but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. All the big important plans are not for my sort. I'm afraid that's all I'm hoping for all the time. I mean plain ordinary rest, and sleep, and waking up to a morning's work in the garden. 'And then we can have some rest and some sleep,' said Sam. `But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. 'No, they never end as tales,' said Frodo. And why, sir, I never thought of that before! We've got – you've got some of the light of it in that star-glass that the Lady gave you! Why, to think of it, we're in the same tale still! It's going on. But that's a long tale, of course, and goes on past the happiness and into grief and beyond it – and the Silmaril went on and came to Eärendil. Beren now, he never thought he was going to get that Silmaril from the Iron Crown in Thangorodrim, and yet he did, and that was a worse place and a blacker danger than ours. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don't know. 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 a tale we've fallen into? ' You know, coming home, and finding things all right, though not quite the same – like old Mr Bilbo. 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. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. Click to shrink.Regarding that quote, it was written by Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh.
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