Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually - their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. “We shouldn't be here at all, if we'd known more about it before we started. Frodo,' said Sam, 'you shouldn't make fun. And Frodo wouldn't have got far without Sam, would he, dad?"' Why didn't they put in more of his talk, dad? That's what I like, it makes me laugh. But you've left out one of the chief characters: Samwise the stouthearted. 'Why, Sam,' he said, 'to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the story was already written. But Frodo did not heed them he laughed again. To Sam suddenly it seemed as if all the stones were listening and the tall rocks leaning over them.
Such a sound had not been heard in those places since Sauron came to Middle-earth.
'It's saying a lot too much,' said Frodo, and he laughed, a long clear laugh from his heart. Frodo was very brave, wasn't he, dad?" "Yes, my boy, the famousest of the hobbits, and that's saying a lot." And people will say: "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring!" And they will say: "Yes, that's one of my favourite stories. We're in one, of course, but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. “Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales.
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