I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and... - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

"The world was fair, the mountains tallIn Elder Days before the fall..."

"It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope."

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

"I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way."