"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…"

"Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!"

"The elves are not good or evil. They are simply elves."

"I am a Christian, and of course what I write is, of course, Christian. I mean, I don't mean that I've tried to make it Christian at all, it's not Christian in that sense. It's not propaganda. It is a …"

"The only thing that ultimately matters is to have done what you were meant to do."