All that is gold does not glitter.

It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.

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

For it is easier to shout 'Stop', than to do it

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.

Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.