I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.

The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.

That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so. Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world.

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.