[ Gollum speaking of the Ring :] Where iss it? Where iss it? . . . Losst it is, my precious, lost, lost! Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!

[ Sam Gamgee speaking :] “Well, I’m back,” he said.

“I will take the Ring,” he said, “though I do not know the way.”

“The realm of Sauron is ended!” said Gandalf.

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. J. R. R.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. J. R. R.

Do not laugh! But once upon a time (my crest has long since fallen) I had a mind to make abody of more or less connected legend, rangingfrom the large and cosmogonic, to the level ofromantic fairy-story—the larger founded onthe lesser in contact with the earth, the lesserdrawing splendor from the vast backcloths—which I could dedicate simply to: to England; tomy country.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.