“I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.” - The Fellowship of the Ring
“As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.” - The Hobbit: or There and Back Again
“He says that we have learned nearly all that we know from them, and have been made a nobler people and he says that the Men that have lately come over the Mountains are hardly better than Orcs.'
That is true', answered Sador 'true at least of some of us. But the up-climbing is painful, and from high places it is easy to fall low.” - The Children of Húrin
“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.'
I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!” - The Hobbit
“I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy are come to me that no reason can deny. [...] I do not believe that darkness will endure!” - The Return of the King
