All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.

The world was fair, the mountains tall In Elder Days before the fall.

Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.

For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.

The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.

The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.