The Fellowship of the Ring

but I expect you know best, as usual.’
‘I do – when I know anything.

But all’s well as ends well;

I’ve never heard of a better land than this. It’s like being at home and on a holiday at the same time

The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears

I don’t suppose I have the strength or luck left to deal with the Ring. It has grown, and I have not.

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,

Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,

Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,

One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne

In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,

One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

Sam slept through the night in deep content, if logs are contented

He ate any living thing, even orc, if he could catch it and strangle it without a struggle

But even the Dunedain of Gondor allow us this credit: Hobbits first put it into pipes. Not even the Wizards first thought of that before we did

But I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations