It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.

He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.

It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.

He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler.

Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright all that I have heard,' he said, 'I think that this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will.

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

No Victory Without Suffering