‘Are you angry with me, Gandalf?’ he said, as their guide went out and closed th
‘Are you angry with me, Gandalf?’ he said, as their guide went out and closed the door. 'I did the best I could.’ 'You did indeed!’ said Gandalf, laughing suddenly; and he came and stood beside Pippin, putting his arm about the hobbit’s shoulders and gazing out of the window. Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard’s face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth. –J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, “Minas Tirith” -- source link
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