You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? 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!

To me! To me! Elves and Men! To me! O my kinsfolk! he cried, and his voice shook like a horn in the valley.

It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking;

Don't pinch!" said his eagle. "You need not be frightened like a rabbit, even if you look rather like one. It is a fair morning with little wind. What is finer than flying?" Bilbo would have liked to say: "A warm bath and late breakfast on the lawn afterwards;" but he thought it better to say nothing at all, and let go his clutch just a tiny bit.

Love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I’m coming, Mr. Frodo!

Well, no need to brood on what tomorrow may bring. For one thing, tomorrow will be certain to bring worse than today, for many days to come. And there is nothing more that I can do to help it. The board is set, and the pieces are moving.

Till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning-point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly, it did not seem of any use at the moment.

Bilbo was sadly reflecting that adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine...

Worst is a bad word, I said to him, and I hope you do not live to see it.

Yet dawn is ever the hope of men,’ said Aragorn.