Help out the Barrow Downs with your knowldedge!

[Childlike Empress]

What is that to you, Master Cook?" he answered. "And why should I do so? Isn't it mine? It came to me, and may a man not keep things that come to him so, at the least as a remembrance?"
"Some things. Those that are free gifts and given for remembrance. But others are not so given. They cannot belong to a man for ever, nor be treasured as heirlooms. They are lent. You have not thought, perhaps, that someone else may need this thing. But it is so. Time is pressing."


conversation between King of Faery and Smith of Wotton Major

This sounds very like Bilbo and Gandalf's conversation at the beginning of FotR.

[ October 10, 2002: Message edited by: Childlike Empress ]