Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along. To look ahead,' said he. And what brought you back in the nick of time?' Looking behind,' said he.

The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.

The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!

And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.

If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.