J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

"I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory."

"Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed."

"The treacherous are ever distrustful."

"The treacherous are ever distrustful."

"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."

"There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."

"I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to"

"Mercy!"cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?""The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas,"laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?"

"Fair speech may hide a foul heart."

"There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark."

"The day will bring hope for me,"said Aragorn. "Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?""So the minstrels say,"said Éomer."Then let us defend it, and hope!"

"He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair could be postponed."