"Far, far below the deepest delvings of..." - Quote by J R R Tolkien

“Ultimately we've only got humanity to work with. It's only clay we've got.”

“It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.”

“Then, Éowyn of Rohan, I say to you that you are beautiful. In the valleys of our hills there are flowers fair and bright, and maidens fairer still; but neither flower nor lady have I seen till now in Gondor so lovely, and so sorrowful. It may be that only a few days are left ere darkness falls upon our world, and when it comes I hope to face it steadily; but it would ease my heart, if while the Sun yet shines, I could see you still. For you and I have both passed under the wings of the Shadow, and the same hand drew us back.”

“The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet.”

“What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?”

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”

“Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.”

“It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.”

“Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.”