To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!

Mind your P's and Q's.

Above all shadows rides the sun.

I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.

My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!

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

The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.