I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads.

Bilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something.

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.

And if Sam considered himself lucky, Frodo knew he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care.