Don't dip your beard in the foam, Father!" They cried to Thorin. "It is long enough without watering it!

Green are the leaves I leave in Mirkwood.

The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened.

I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind," said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up myself, if it breaks my back and heart.

Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

Gandalf thought of most things; and though he could not do everything, he could do a great deal for friends in a tight corner.