A traitor may betray himself and do good he does not intend.
Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.
And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire.
Don’t put a lump of rock under my elbow again!
For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.
Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.
Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?
Let him go, you filth! Let him go! You will not touch him again!
What punishments of God are not gifts?
Much evil must befall a country before it ever really forgets the Elves, if once they lived there.
True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.
It is mine to give to whom I will, like my heart.
But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.
I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!
Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!
Over hill and under hill.
He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
Who cannot understand your silence, cannot understand your words.
I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.
In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.