There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground and eye to eye wit….

Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.... That there….

Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!.

They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybo….

Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for won….

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn..

There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford Road, I think. One day they cut it….

Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest..

'Celtic' is a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come. Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twili….

out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere..

Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things..

Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore t….

And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of t….

Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up!.

He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself fry….

That was Thorin's style. He was an important dwarf. If he had been allowed, he would probably have gone on like this until he was out of breath, with….

I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other peop….

Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or….

Above all shadows rides the sun..

Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Éowyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like a morning of pale spr….