I don't feel any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings.

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

Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?

No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

That was Thorin's style. He was an important dwarf. If he had been allowed, he would probably have gone on like this until he was out of breath, without telling anyone there anything that was not known already. But he was rudely interrupted.

It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.