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"[to Gollum] Begone and trouble me no moreǃ If you touch me ever again, you will be cast yourself into the Fire of Doomǃ"
"Oh, Sam, what have I said, what have I done?"
"Hear you now a story of good against evil. An epic that has its beginning and an ending and ends at a beginning. Listen as we speak of the fall of a lord of darkness, and the return of a king of light. Concern yourselves with armies and wizards, phantoms and emperors, cloud-capped towers and bloody fields of horrendous carnage. Consider no less than the cataclysmic transformation of that world of wonder and magic to the world we know now, of Man. What hero, you might ask, is mighty enough to be worthy of such cosmic metamophosis?"
"[to the Witch-king] You cannot enter hereǃ Go back to the abyss prepared for youǃ Go backǃ Fall to the nothingness that awaits you and your masterǃ"
"If you keep the book of the Hobbits as Frodo asked, ages from now when your stories are still told, there will be those humans who might well wonder, "Is there Hobbit in me?""
"Wicked masterǃ Wicked master cheats us, gollumǃ He musn't go that way. He musn't hurt the Preciousǃ Give it to Gollumǃ Yesǃ Give it, give it, give it to usǃ"
"Don't kill usǃ Don't hurt usǃ Let us live. Please, let us live just a little longer. Lostǃ Lostǃ We're lost. And when Precious goes, we'll die. Yes, all of us, die into the dust. Die into the dustǃ"
"I could claim you, Ringǃ I would be Samwise the Strongǃ All could be mine if I but claim thee, Ringǃ"
"Will there be no room for Hobbits in this new age of Man?"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.