“Bilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something.”

“The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.”

“No matter that they had been together for years, always a feeling of formality when they first saw each other again, even if the separation had been only hours. It had something to do with the attention [he] paid to her – the fact that he never took anyone’s return for granted.”

“But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she saw it- and everything would change.”

“There had to have been a moment where they made a conscious decision to turn away before they saw something they didn't want to.”

“When he had gone home, he had been frightened, he had refused to face what he saw. But he had not really wanted to come home to a land, only to a pas; and not finding the past there, he had run away, fearing the reality, preferring the dream.”