Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.

Farewell! wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end!

He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.

Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes.

You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face

Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!