I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work.

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)

Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!

You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shores fainthearted loiterers and well-nigh emptyhanded. In huts on the beaches would you be dwelling still had not the Noldor carved out your haven and toiled upon your walls.

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.