Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
And it had to be typed, and re-typed: by me; the cost of professional typing by the ten-fingered was beyond my means.
The hard work that goes into art without that guarantee of it even being a hit is amazing. In comparison my troubles are tiny.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
‘Hobbits!’ he thought. ‘Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree. Three of them! There’s something mighty queer behind this.’ He was quite right, but he never found out any more about it.
when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.’
You can say the whole world is yours, but you cannot deny anybody else from saying the same.
‘Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
O! Water Hot is a noble thing!
‘They do not like all that about ending and failing,’ said Merry.
‘Well, you do want looking after and no mistake: your party might be on a holiday!’ said Butterbur.
‘Never has such a thing happened in my time!’ he cried, raising his hands in horror. ‘Guests unable to sleep in their beds, and good bolsters ruined and all! What are we coming to?’