Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at least, Pippin, we can now see them, and honour them. It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not.

If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.

Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?

For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.

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.

The road goes ever on and on