J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings)

For the world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.

Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder.

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

The clatter of his precious pans as they fell down into the dark was like a death-knell to his heart.

No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire.

When there's a whip, there's a will, my slugs.

If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

To move an inch further was a pain and weariness to will and limb.

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.