There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!

My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith.

Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.

And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters.

Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!

Alas, not me, lord!" she said. "Shadow lies on me still. Look not to me for healing! I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle.