You will notice already that Mr. Baggins was not quite so prosy as he liked to believe, also that he was very fond of flowers.

And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don't know. And you don't want them to.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.

And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?

Very potent influence on myself has been Finnish.

For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road.