A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

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

And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.

The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.

please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.

I'm going on an adventure!

I would have things as they were in all the days of my life, and in the days of my longfathers before me: to be the Lord of this City in peace, and leave my chair to a son after me, who would be his own master and no wizard's pupil.