Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he s….

It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evi….

Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead. In t….

I have in this War a burning private grudge — which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoram….

It's a dangerous business, going out your door..

And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy ….

Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him..

Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasan….

Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then he'll not leave you again. ….

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing gr….

You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil p….

The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck n….

Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kin….

No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly..

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first a….

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some ….

I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil..

Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there..

Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.

Memory is not what the heart desires..