The treacherous are ever distrustful.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,'said Gimli.'Maybe,'said Elrond,'but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face

The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.

On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.