I wished to be loved by another. But I desire no man's pity.

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.

I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.

Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.

And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!" "Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?