True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

'Nonetheless day will bring hope to me,' said Aragorn. 'Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?' 'So the minstrels say,' said Éomer. 'Then let us defend it, and hope!' said Aragorn.

Green are the leaves I leave in Mirkwood.

The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said.

The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.