A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.

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

And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire.

Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?

I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.