lostwithoutmyconsultingdetective:

an-otter-and-a-hedgehog:

“happy new year!” i say. “excuse me,” someone replies. it is gandalf. “but what do you mean? do you wish me a happy new year, or mean that it is a happy new year whether I want it or not; or that you feel happy this new year; or that it is a new year to be happy in?”