Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch

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.

I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril.

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)

Green are the leaves I leave in Mirkwood.