Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you. May the stars shine upon your faces!

Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.

Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions.

I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.