"Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was thei…"

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, and in the shadow…"

"The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision."

"The last person to call me 'Master' was a hobbit, and he was quite wrong."

"I am a hobbit. I like my food, my comfort, and my peace, and I don't like adventures. Not that I'm against adventures, mind you. I just prefer them to be in books."