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

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

It never does to leave a live Dragon out of the equation.

There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be.

All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.

Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.