This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.

The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.

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.

If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer,” he said crossly, “say so at once and have done!

I don't know, and I would rather not guess.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.