But fairest of all was the great white gem, which the dwarves had found beneath the roots of the Mountain, the Heart of the Mountain, the Arkenstone of Thrain.
But do you remember Gandalf’s words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let...
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.
But Olwë answered: ‘We renounce no friendship. But it may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.
But I have so little of any of these things! You are wise and powerful. Will you not take the Ring?No! cried Gandalf, springing to his feet. With that power I should have power too great and terrible....
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.
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 suddenly she began to sing. Keen, heart-piercing was her song as the song of the lark that rises from the gates of night and pours its voice among the dying stars, seeing the sun behind the walls...
You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in his eyrie at night!
You call a tree a tree, he said, and you think nothing more of the word. But it was not a 'tree' until someone gave it that name. You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on...
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...
And I would not have it said of me in song only that I was always left behind!
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 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...