But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near..

Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king..

Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with wo….

For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it..

Great heart will not be denied..

Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs! Knock….

The way is shut. Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not look at them. The way is shut, his voice said again. ….

Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your rescue and sake-keepin….

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam).

I don't know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long roa….

And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done..

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . ..

He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think. He may become like a glass filled….

Gandalf: Confound it all, Samwise Gamgee. Have you been eavesdropping? Sam: I ain't been droppin' no eaves sir, honest. I was just cutting the grass ….

I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do w….

I invented that little rhyme about 'One Ring to rule them all', I remember, in the bath one day..

And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begu….

The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy..

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff..

Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven-light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days; yet from that hour he loved Arwen Undómiel daughter of ….

All shall love me and despair..