William Etty The Duet painting

William Etty The Duet paintingWilliam Etty Penitent Magdalen paintingWilliam Etty Female Nude in a Landscape paintingBenjamin Williams Leader The Incoming Tide Porth Newquay painting
Yet that strength has long protected you far away in your little country, though you knew it not.''I do not doubt the valour of your people. But the world is changing. The walls of Minas Tirith may be strong, but they are not strong enough. If they fail, what then? ''We shall fall in battle valiantly. Yet there is still hope that they will not fail.''No hope while the Ring lasts,only of its power in the hands of the Enemy: of its evil uses not of its good. The world is changing, you say. Minas Tirith will fall, if the Ring lasts. But why? Certainly, if the Ring were with the Enemy. But why, if it were with us? ''Were you not at the Council? ' answered Frodo. `Because we cannot use it, and what is done with it turns to evil.'Boromir got up and walked about impatiently. 'So you go on,' he cried. 'Gandalf, Elrond – all these folk ' said Frodo.'Ah! The Ring! ' said Boromir, his eyes lighting. 'The Ring! Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing! And I have seen it only for an instant in the House of Elrond. Could I not have a sight of it again? 'Frodo looked up. His heart went suddenly cold. He caught the strange gleam in Boromir's eyes, yet his face was still kind and friendly. 'It is best that it should lie hidden,' he answered.'As you wish. I care not,' said Boromir. 'Yet may I not even speak of it? For you seem ever to think