I dislike allegory wherever I smell it.

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

My Precious, my Precious.

And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?

The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.

Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.

I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.