"I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again."

carrying the world around his neck

"I see no hope of it now. But I've got to do the best I can."

arthurus:

     [ whispers to you all!!

     just letting you know that when your characters lose memories, it does not mean that they will completely lose all their memories. you as a player get to decide what memories they lose, be it forgetting a person, forgetting a big event in their lives, etc, etc. so it is not necessarily a complete blank slate! ]