"...Well, I've made up my mind anyway. I want to see mountains again, Gandalf - mountains; and then find somewhere where I can rest..."

At this point of the book, I always sit back and try to imagine the scene: Gandalf, with his gray cape, smoking his pipe in a contemplative way, as he watches Bilbo’s old landrover climbing up the hills of Shire, in a crackling and gasping manner. A bit later, having organized the mission that is going to seal the future:

"...Look out for me, especially at unlikely times! Good-bye!"

The landcruiser vanishes with haste into the dark woods…and the great adventure begins!

In myth, fairytale and history, from the Middle Earth to medieval Japan, the guards of values used "tools" made out of the best steel in the world, and did not count obstacles, so as to fulfill the tasks they considered as noble.

Are these really the times for Wandering Sentinels?

Of course they are! Fortunately, some needs of the human soul do not change with time.