But after that we must guess the riddles, if we are to choose our course rightly,’ answered Aragorn. ‘Maybe there is no right choice,’ said Gimli.
Actually in Hobbiton and Bywater every day in the year was somebody’s birthday, so that every hobbit in those parts had a fair chance of at least one present at least once a week. But they never got tired of them.
When winter first begins to bite and stones crack in the frosty night, when pools are black and trees are bare, ’tis evil in the Wild to fare.
And what more can hobbits do? They can be comic, but their comedy is suburban unless it is set against things more elemental.
This foe is beyond any of you... RUN!
The sea calls us home.
The dragon was dead, and the goblins overthrown, and their hearts looked forward after winter to a spring of joy.
With their whips of flames they smote asunder the webs of Ungoliant.” – The Silmarillion.
But even as hope died in Sam, or seemed to die, it was turned to new strength. Sam’s plain hobbit-face grew stern, almost grim, as the will hardened in him, and he felt though all his limbs a thrill, as if he was turning into some creature of stone and steel that neither despair nor weariness nor endless barren miles could subdue.
To me it would not seem that a steward who faithfully surrenders his charge is diminished in love or honor.
While there’s life there’s hope!’ as my father used to say, and ‘Third time pays for all.
They were come to the Desolation of the Dragon, and they were come at the waning of the year. They.
The dark night has passed, and day has come again. But the day has brought strange tidings.
At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.
Three Rings for the Elven-Kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the shadows lie.
Ours is but a small matter in the great deeds of this time. A vain pursuit from its beginning, maybe, which no choice of mine can mar or mend.
Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.
In black anger he turned back to battle; and bearing as a banner Celebrimbor’s body hung upon a pole, shot through with Orc-arrows, he turned upon the forces of Elrond.
Authority is not given to you, Steward of Gondor, to order the hour of your death,’ answered Gandalf. ‘And only the heathen kings, under the domination of the Dark Power, did thus, slaying themselves in pride and despair, murdering their kin to ease their own death.
Maybe,′ said Sam; ’but where there’s life there’s hope, as my gaffer used to say; and need of of vittles, as he mostways used to add. You have a bite, Mr. Frodo, and then a bit of sleep.