“False hopes are more dangerous than fears.”

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.

Not all those who wander are lost.

Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.

Being a celebrity can be dangerous. Nobody says ‘no.’

I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.

Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.

Great things are won by great dangers.

The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.