A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return.

The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)

Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.

But Sam turned to Bywater, and so came back up the Hill, as day was ending once more. And he went on, and there was yellow light, and fire within; and the evening meal was ready, and he was expected. And Rose drew him in, and set him in his chair, and put little Elanor upon his lap. He drew a deep breath. ‘Well, I’m back,’ he said

Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going.