”You should be glad， Theoden King，' said Gandalf。 "For not only the little life of Men is now endangered， but the life also of those things which you have deemed the matter
endangered， but the life also of those things which you have deemed the matter of legend。 You are not without allies， even if you know them not。'
'Yet also I should be sad，' said Theoden。 'For however the fortune of war shall go， may it not so end that much that was fair and wonderful shall pass for ever out of Middle-earth？'
'It may，' said Gandalf。 'The evil of Sauron cannot be wholly cured， nor made as if it had not been。 But to such days we are doomed。 Let us now go on with the journey we have begun！'