So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back.

Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.

My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.

When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.

It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.

please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

The richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence.

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.