What a pity Bilbo did not stab the vile creature, when he had a chance! Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. I do not feel any pity for Gollum. He deser...
For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green. I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and people who will see a world...
Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast 'em alive, or stew them...
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
But, but, lord, Merry stammered, I offered you my sword. I do not want to be parted from you like this, Theoden King. And as all my friends have gone to battle, I should be ashamed to stay behind.But...
But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.
Blunt the knives.Bend the forks.Smash the bottles and burn the corks.
Always after a defeat and a respite, says Gandalf, the shadow takes another shape and grows again.I wish it need not have happened in my time, says Frodo.So do I, says Gandalf, and so do all who live...
Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.
Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages.
All the same, I should like it all plain and clear, said he obstinately, putting on his business manner (usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him), and doing his best to appear wi...
Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured, said Gandalf.I fear it may be so with mine, said Frodo. There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same;...
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.Aragorn, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
And I would not have it said of me in song only that I was always left behind!
A perfect house, whether you like food or sleep or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.' Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear, a...