Strange, but this is the first time that I notice this thread at all!
"
Despair is for those who see the end beyond all doubt." Gandalf at the council of Elrond.
btw
Tinwelen's answer to
Lady Brooke's riddle was correct! (said by Galadriel to Celebrimbor in "The history of Galadriel and Celeborn" which I have just been rereading
)