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

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; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth.

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

This foe is beyond any of you...RUN!

Yes, I will — two eyes, as often as I can spare them.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.

I am not coming to the Shire. You must settle its affairs yourselves; that is what you have been trained for. Do you not yet understand? My time is over: it is no longer my task to set things to rights, nor to help folk to do so. And as for you, my dear friends, you will need no help. You are grown up now. Grown indeed very high; among the great you are, and I have no longer any fear at all for any of you.