Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
Para aquel que no conoce la piedad, los hechos piadosos son extraños e incomprensibles.
One ring to rule them all.
May the hair on his toes never fall out! all praise to his wine and ale!
Just a plain hobbit you look,’ said Bilbo. ‘But there is more about you now than appears on the surface. Good luck to you!
It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.
It is usually assumed that children are the natural or the specially appropriate audience for fairy-stories. In describing a fairy-story which they think adults might possibly read for their own enter...
It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who liv...
If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.
I wish it need not have happened in my time, said Frodo.So do I, said Gandalf, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with th...
I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actuall...
He led the way in under the huge branches of the trees. Old beyond guessing, they seemed. Great trailing beards of lichen hung from them, blowing and swaying in the breeze. Out of the shadows, the hob...
Gandalf looked at him. My dear Bilbo! he said. Something is the matter with you! You are not the hobbit that you were.
For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows.
Don't leave me here alone! It's your Sam calling. Don't go where I can't follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo!
Do not then stumble at the end of the road.
But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes.
But her beauty was more than their beauty, and her sorrow deeper than their sorrows; and she knelt before Mandos and sang to him.
All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no mo...