I'd got hobbits on my hands hadn't I?

I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

Not everyone who wanders is lost.

Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.

You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy. Even so, I cannot help feeling happy; happier than I have felt for a long time.

And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.

The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.