"I wish it need not have happened in my time,"said Frodo."So do I,"said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
"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."
"I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way."
"Have you thought of an ending?""Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant.""Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?""It will do well, if it ever came to that.""Ah! And where will they live? That's what I often wonder."
"The world was fair, the mountains tallIn Elder Days before the fall..."
"May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out."