Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.

If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.

Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.

Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork and put back on the shelf!" "No you don't!" he heard Dori answering, "because the bacon knows that it will get back in the pan sooner or later; and it is to be hoped we shan't. Also eagles aren't forks!

And what do you wish?' he said at last. 'That what should be shall be,' she answered.

A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.

He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.