Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.

If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.

Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament … There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth.

Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!