The Lord of the Rings

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

Fancy that ring of mine causing such a disturbance!

From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

I think that many confuse ‘applicability’ with ‘allegory’; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.

Háma knelt and presented to Théoden a long sword in a scabbard clasped with gold and set with green gems.

especially since it was primarily linguistic in inspiration and was begun in order to provide the necessary background of ‘history’ for Elvish tongues.

To do the deed at hand.

To cast aside regret and fear.