You sit in these halls with a crown upon your head, and yet you are less of a man than you have ever been.

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

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.

In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Never laugh at live dragons.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.