It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

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!

This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?