What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.

The wise speak only of what they know

Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed.

When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.