My Precious, my Precious.

Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.

Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.

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

it was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts

Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.