My dear Frodo!’ exclaimed Gandalf. ‘Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch.

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

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

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

How could such a large door be kept secret from everybody outside, apart from the dragon?" [Bilbo] asked. He was only a little hobbit you must remember.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said.