All's well that ends better..

If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable..

Hush! Take no notice!" - Gandalf.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve..

Often does hatred hurt itself..

Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along. To look ahead,' said he. And what brought you back in the nick of time….

And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world..

You will notice already that Mr. Baggins was not quite so prosy as he liked to believe, also that he was very fond of flowers..

Not everyone who wanders is lost..

And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world..

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.

There is no ship now that can bear me hence.

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them..

And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he t….

There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movem….

At last, Lady Evenstar, fairest in this world, and most beloved, my world is fading. Lo! we have gathered, and we have spent, and now the time of pay….

You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long tim….

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the founda….

After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and th….

That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. You have come ….

I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story - the large….