It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack..

My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they ….

I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of l….

Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains. ….

Things will go as they will, and there is no need to hurry to meet them..

Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!.

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..

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to.

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards..

Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it..

Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can..

You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You canno….

My dear Frodo!’ exclaimed Gandalf. ‘Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ….

But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo. Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can tru….

If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over th….

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to kn….

Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting..

It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when ….

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it..

It never does to leave a live Dragon out of the equation..

To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!.