A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.

There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.

But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe. I wish there were more of your kin among us. But even more would I give for a hundred good archers of Mirkwood." - Legolas

Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.

Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

It's a dangerous business, going out your door.