If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

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

Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back.

There cannot be any 'story' without a fall - all stories are ultimately about the fall - at least not for human minds as we know them and have them.

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