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

“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.”

“Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”

“And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning an...”

“Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; thoug...”

“Hullo! said Merry. So thats what is bothering you? Now, Pippin my lad, dont forget Gildors sayingthe one Sam used to quote: Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to...”

“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.”