It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn.

Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing! And I have seen it only for an instant in the house of Elrond! Could I not have a sight of it again?" Frodo looked up. His heart went suddenly cold. He caught the strange gleam in Boromir's eyes, yet his face was still kind and friendly. "It is best that it should lie hidden," he answered. "As you wish. I care not." said Boromir.

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

Aragorn threw back his cloak. The elven-sheath glittered as he grasped it, and the bright blade of Andúril shone like a sudden flame as he swept it out. 'Elendil!' he cried. 'I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and am called Elessar, the Elfstone, Dúnadan, the heir of Isildur Elendil's son of Gondor. Here is the Sword that was Broken and is forged again! Will you aid me or thwart me? Choose swiftly!

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.