Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed.
Lazy Lob and crazy Cobare weaving webs to wind me.I am far more sweet than other meat,but still they cannot find me!Here am I, naughty little fly;you are fat and lazy.
Kili and Fili rushed for their bags and brought back little fiddles; Dori, Nori, and Ori brought out flutes from somewhere inside their coats; Bombur produced a drum
I’ll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind,
It's more comfortable standing still thinking of nothing.
It's a dangerous business, going out your door.
It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.
It is grim reading’, he said. ‘I fear their end was cruel. Listen! . Then there are four lines smeared so that I can only read The last lines run: , and then . I wonder what that means. The last thin...
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?
Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men.~ Gandalf to Pippin
Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.
In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that h...
In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl. A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl, under the archway that no enemy ever yet h...
In one thing you have not changed, dear friend, said Aragorn: you still speak in riddles.What? In riddles? said Gandalf. No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wise...
I wrote The Lord of the Rings because I wished ‘to try my hand at a really long story that would hold the attention of readers, amuse them, delight them, and at times maybe excite them or deeply move...
I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.
I wished to be loved by another, but I desire no man’s pity.
I will vouch for him before the seat of Denethor,' said Gandalf. 'And as for valour, that cannot be computed by stature. He has passed through more battles and perils than you have, Ingold, though you...
I will not walk backward in life.