Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin!

it was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?

No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.