"The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision."

"The last person to call me 'Master' was a hobbit, and he was quite wrong."

"Where there's a will there's a way, or where there's a whip there's a way, as we say in the Shire."

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

"The world is not in your books and maps. It's out there."