"Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it..." - Quote by J R R Tolkien

“Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.”

“A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.”

“Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork and put back on the shelf!" "No you don't!" he heard Dori answering, "because the bacon knows that it will get back in the pan sooner or later; and it is to be hoped we shan't. Also eagles aren't forks!”

“So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.”

“The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.”

“History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.”

“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”

“We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.”

“Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.”