Never Confuse Honor With Stupidity!

There Is A Difference Between Finding Trouble In Your Path And Going Out Of Your Way Searching For It.” -jacen Solo

As I Became A Creature Of The Empty Tunnels, Survival Became Easier And More Difficult All At Once. I Gained In The Physical Skills And Experience Necessary To Live On. I Could Defeat Almost Anything That Wandered Into My Chosen Domain. It Did Not Take Me Long, However, To Discover One Nemesis That I Could Neither Defeat Nor Flee. It Followed Me Wherever I Went - Indeed, The Farther I Ran, The More It Closed In Around Me. My Enemy Was Solitude, The Interminable, Incessant Silence Of Hushed Corridors.

Drizzt Do'urden Had Followed A Line Of Precepts Based Upon Discipline And Ultimate Optimism. He Fought For A Better World Because He Believed That A Better World Could And Would Be Made. He Had Never Held Any Illusions That He Would Change The World, Of Course, Or Even A Substantial Portion Of It, But He Always Held Strongly That Fighting To Better Just His Own Little Pocket Of The World Was A Worthwhile Cause.

There Is One Other Error In The Gondsman's Line Of Resoning, I Believe, On Ap Urely Emotional Level. If Machines Replace Achievement, Then To What Will People Aspire? And Who Are We, Truly, Without Such Goals? Beware The Engineers Of Society, I Say, Who Would Make Everyone In All The World Equal. Opportunity Should Be Equal, Must Be Equal, But Achievement Must Remain Individual.

No One Will Ever Write A Fantasy Novel Better Than The Hobbit.