I will not walk backward in life..

Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we!.

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..

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out..

And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag ….

Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his lit….

Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them..

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high bea….

One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caugh….

One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling….

All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded..

Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There you will fi….

I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament..

It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about norma….

My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to….

We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the highway would I take it,….

Why was I chosen?' 'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But ….

Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?.

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue..

Bilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something..

I'm going on an adventure!.