Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!
I do not believe this darkness will endure.
They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.
it was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts
There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.
I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other people, I feel diffident, reluctant as it were to expose my world of imagination to possibly contemptuous eyes and ears.