For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road.

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.

Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

Arrow! Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and I have always recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true king under the Mountain, go now and speed well!

Aure entuluva! day shall come again!

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.