Tolkien Quotes for 9/11

Lynn Sislo
“I wish it need not have happened in my lifetime,” 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.”

Glenn Reynolds
“It takes but one to make a war, not two, and those who do not take up swords can still die upon them.”

And one from me, for those who take up arms in this age against the West.

“All were slain save those who fled to die, or to drown in the red foam of the River. Few ever came eastward to Morgul or to Mordor; and to the land of the Haradrim came only a tale from far off: a rumour of the wrath and terror of Gondor.”