“I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White”

“The treacherous are ever distrustful.”

“I know. Its all wrong. By rights we shouldnt even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes...”

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

“Fair speech may hide a foul heart.”

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

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

“A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remai...”

“And you, Ring-bearer, she said, turning to Frodo. I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared this. She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it, ...”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”

“No parent should have to bury their child.”

“And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think, yes, the world would be better off without it.”

“...With a religious book it is less what we see in it than what we see through it that matters. J. R. R. Tolkien's fairy-tale epic the Lord of the Rings helps draw the distinction perhaps. Some of ...”