I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations.

Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright all that I have heard,' he said, 'I think that this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered.

There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.