“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’”

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

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 come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.

There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

Never laugh at live dragons.

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

To live would be an awfully big adventure.

I used to think, ‘How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

I’m shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I’m fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.

Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life’s greatest reward and life’s greatest adventure.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.