The road goes ever on ...

“For some years he was quite happy and did not worry much about the future. But half unknown to himself the regret that he had not gone with Bilbo was steadily growing.
He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams. He began to say to himself : “Perhaps I shall cross the River myself one day.” To which the other half of his mind always replied : “Not yet.”