The Mathom-house it was called; for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom.
via The Fellowship of the Ring
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“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”
Gildor via The Fellowship of the Ring
“Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt.”
Gandalf via The Fellowship of the Ring
“Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We’re in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out loud of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. And people will say: ‘Let’s hear about Frodo and the Ring’ and they’ll say ‘Oh yes, that’s one of my favorite stories.”
Samwise Gamgee via The Two Towers
“May the wind under your wings bear you to where the sun sails and the moon walks.”
Gandalf via The Hobbit
“The lesson in caution has been learned. But caution is one thing and wavering is another.”
Strider/Aragorn via The Fellowship of the Ring
“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
Faramir via The Two Towers
“There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.”
Aragorn via The Two Towers
“Thus is it spoken: Oft hope is born, when all is forlorn.”
Legolas via The Return of the King
