"My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion..." - Quote by J R R Tolkien

“Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out onto the floor when he caught a sudden thin ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug's left eye. He was only pretending to sleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance!”

“Often does hatred hurt itself.”

“There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.”

“It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.”

“Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.”

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

“I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.”

“We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.”

“None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.”