Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That's what Bilbo Baggins hates.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.

Don't tell us about dreams – dream dinners aren't any good and we can't share them.

It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.

That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow.

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