And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!

A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.

Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.

I do not believe this darkness will endure.

We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water.

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

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.