We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

For nothing is evil in the beginning.

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed.

And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

Courage is found in unlikely places.