I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the wa... - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."

"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 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..."