Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?

When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.