“I saw the traveller make his way toward the monolith, that thin gash amidst the clouds; an open seam between heaven and earth that eluded the eye of God.”
-Journal of an unknown traveller
Flash
“Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways – food and cheer above hoarded gold – it would be a merrier world.”
-Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit (1977)