Handsome is as handsome does

I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size

The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.

For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

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

O! Where are you going With beards all a-wagging? No knowing, no knowing What brings Mister Baggins, And Balin and Dwalin down into the valley in June ha! ha!