We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.

Third time pays for all

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.

Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness. ... Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.

Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!

I dislike allegory wherever I smell it.