He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.
He smelt cake.
He paused and looked at Frodo doubtfully. ‘Have you got it here?’ he asked in a whisper. ‘I can’t help feeling curious, you know, after all I’ve heard. I should very much like just to peep at it again...
He hated it and loved it, as he hated and loved himself. He could not get rid of it. He had no will left in the matter. A Ring of Power looks after itself, Frodo.
He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.
Good morning! said Bilbo, and he meant it.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be blade that was broken,The crownless again shall be king.
Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.Gandalf: 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 wit...
Farmer Giles went home feeling very uncomfortable. He was finding that a local reputation may require keeping up, and that may prove awkward.
Far over misty mountains coldTo dungeons deep and caverns oldWe must away, ere break of day,To find our long-forgotten gold.
Faithful heart may have froward tongue.
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves! he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.
Entonces Éowyn miró a Aragorn a los ojos y dijo: -¡Deséame ventura, mi señor y curador!Y él respondió: -Siempre te deseé ventura desde el día en que te conocí. Y verte ahora feliz cura una herida en m...
Elven Hymn to ElberethSnow-white! Snow-white! O Lady clear!O Queen beyond the Western Seas!O Light to us that wander hereAmid the world of woven trees!Gilthoniel! O Elbereth!Clear are thy eyes and bri...
Eldest, that's what I am. Mark my words, my friends: Tom was here before the river and the trees; Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn. He made paths before the Big People, and saw the...
Don't tell us about dreams – dream dinners aren't any good and we can't share them.
Do not trouble your hearts overmuch with thought of the road tonight. Maybe the paths that you shall each tread are already laid before your feet, though you do not see them.
Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equil...
Courage is found in unlikely places,’ said Gildor. ‘Be of good hope!