Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit—may the hair on his toes never fall out!

Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

Then Morgoth stretching out his long arm towards Dor-lomin cursed Hurin and Morwen and their offspring, saying: 'Behold! The shadow of my thought shall lie upon them wherever they go, and my hate shall pursue them to the ends of the world.

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself).

I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.