The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
Chapter Fourteen - Feast Of Starlight
In a great hall with pillars hewn out of the living stone sat the Elvenking on a chair of carven wood. On his head was a crown of berries and red leaves, for the autumn was come again. In the spring he wore a crown of woodland flowers. In his hand he held a carven staff of oak.
Such is the nature of evil. Out there in the vast ignorance of the world, it festers and spreads. A shadow that grows in the dark. A sleepless malice as black as the oncoming wall of night. So it ever was, so it always be. In time all foul things come forth.
you were born to the rolling hills and little rivers of the shire,
but home is now behind you; the w o r l d is ahead .