(..) ...about how they were going to cook us. Whether it be turned on a spit,or to sit on us one by one,squash us into jelly. They spent so much time arguing the whithertos and the whyfors... ...that the sun's first light crept over the top of the trees... ...and turned them all to stone! Quickly. (..)

(..) My precious. The Ring brought to Gollum unnatural long life. For years it poisoned his mind. And in the gloom of Gollum's cave,it waited. Darkness crept back into the forests of the world. Rumor grew of a shadow in the East... ... whispers of a nameless fear. And the Ring of Power perceived... (..)