Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.

The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

There at last when the mallorn leaves were falling, but spring had not yet come, she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.

In life there can be no victor, for death comes to all and smites them.

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.

In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

Never laugh at live dragons.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

Little by little, one travels far

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!

Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!

Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.

I'm going on an adventure!

Adventures make one late for supper.

I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure.

We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. "You aren't nearly through this adventure yet," he added, and that was pretty true as well.

The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.

Adventures only make you late for dinner.

his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.

We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.

Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead

You aren't nearly through this adventure yet.

Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.

Not all those who wander are lost.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

He wondered what the mans name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil at heart, or what lies or threats had lead him on the long march from his home; and if he would not really have rather stayed there in peace