That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow.

Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men. ~ Gandalf to Pippin

Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

It never does to leave a live Dragon out of the equation.

Bilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something.