"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

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

"I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

"Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either beguile Children or delude them by its pleasantness into taking non-existent things for…"

"It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons."