The world was fair, the mountains tallIn Elder Days before t... - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"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."

"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."

"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."

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