It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel.

There is no ship now that can bear me hence

Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.

He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.

If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.