But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

There cannot be any 'story' without a fall - all stories are ultimately about the fall - at least not for human minds as we know them and have them.

There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be.

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.