That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so. Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world.

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

When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.

Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

The wise speak only of what they know

Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.

He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.