A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

I dislike allegory wherever I smell it.

What punishments of God are not gifts?

You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.

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

I do not believe this darkness will endure.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.