"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."

wisebyexperience said: he just needs 2 be hugged i am so mad poor fro

you know i really think at this rate through his whole journey he has just kind of been like….okay hideous monster – okay. lake with dead faces — got it. 

and he just kind of holds his hands up and just is like “ you know what i’m just gonna let this happen b/c it’s going to happen anyway because i have seen it before " 

and afterwards is just like

”….you know you should have seen this coming sam/smeagol/gandalf/ “