• I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

    J. R. R. Tolkien: I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt