Looking in a mirror he was startled to see a much thinner reflection of himself than he remembered: it looked remarkably like the young nephew of Bilbo who used to go trampling with his uncle in the Shire; but the eyes looked out at him thoughtfully. ‘Yes, you have seen a thing or two since you last peeped out of a looking-glass,’ he said to his reflection. ‘But now for a merry meeting!’ He stretched out his arms and whistled a tune.

- J.R.R Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourself in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

- The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R Tolkien

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

- The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien