The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

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

I love being in the house alone.

Pardon me while I make my own ridiculous, overexaggerated Adele music videos while singing the lyrics at the top of my lungs.

Pardon me again while I play Just Dance 3 like a total fool.

And one more time while I pretend to be Bilbo Baggins.

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‘Strider’ I am to one fat man who lives within a day’s march of foes that would freeze his heart, or lay his little town in ruin, if he were not kept guarded ceaselessly. Yet we would not have it otherwise. If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be kept secret to keep them so. This has been the task of my kindred, while the years have lengthened and the grass has grown.

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

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

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