What is your favourite passage/extract from a fantasy novel?

My favourite has always been the opening of the Mistborn series (below). What's yours? And why??

"The philosophers assure me that this is the time, that the signs have been met.

But I still wonder if they have the wrong man. So many people depend on me. They say I hold the future of the entire world on my arms. What would they think if they knew their champion - the Hero of the Ages, their savior - doubted himself? Perhaps they wouldn''t be shocked at all. In a way, that is what worries me most. Maybe, in their hearts, they wonder - just as I do.

When they see me, do they see a liar?"