Цитаты из книги Властелин Колец

Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!

You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!

“There is always more about you than anyone expects!”

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.

Then there was a gorgeous row.

- If you can't come back, hoot twice like a barn-owl and once like a screech-owl, and we will do what we can. Off Bilbo had to go, before he could explain that he could not hoot even once like any kind of owl any more than fly like a bat.

The less inquisitive you are as you go along, the less trouble you are likely to find.

If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar he is, or will be when the time comes. There is a lot more in him then you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself.

The Took side had won. He suddenly felt he would go without bed and breakfast to be thought fierce.

Confusticate and bebother these dwarves!

“The Arkenstone! The Arkenstone!” murmured Thorin in the dark, half dreaming with his chin upon his knees. “It was like a globe with a thousand facets; it shone like silver in the firelight, like water in the sun, like snow under the stars, like rain upon the Moon!”

There it is: dwarves are not heroes, but calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not, but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don’t expect too much.

Мы, живущие ныне, можем стать сказкой для потомков.

- Придет день, придет и удача. - Ми уже трижды встречали новый день, а удачи что-то не видно.

Могу лишь сказать, что недругов ты встретишь без счета, возможно их трудно будет распознать; однако, можешь найти и друзей, причем там, где меньше всего ожидаешь.

Ненадежен говорящий «прощай» на темном пути.

Тяжела будет дорога, и ни сила, ни мудрость далеко по ней не уведут. Слабый выдержит ее ничуть не хуже самого грозного воителя или могущественного мага. Даже больше, ибо сильные не привыкли таиться. Такое случается, когда сдвигаются колеса времен. Их приводят в движение руки малых мира сего, в то время как очи великих устремлены вдаль.

На устах мед,а на сердце лед.

Совет, знаешь ли, опасный дар, даже если мудрец мудрецу советует. Всякий путь может обернуться бедой.