Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.

Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord. Alas for Gimli son of Glóin!

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism.

You will notice already that Mr. Baggins was not quite so prosy as he liked to believe, also that he was very fond of flowers.