"I never hoped at all, Sam." "Not until that very day, and then suddenly I did. About noon it was, and I felt so glad that I began singing."
Frodo to Sam, I guess. Sometime after the destruction of the ring? I wonder what 'that very day' refers to.
Btw, I thought you forgot an 'e' in di-d, and was wondering why the person was so happy to have died.