If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.

We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.

Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful. Well then, in Welsh for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent.

Why was I chosen?' 'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.

You aren't nearly through this adventure yet.