“To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face”

“He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.”

“Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you.May the stars shine upon your faces!”

“There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground and eye to eye with a young hobbit, legs well apart, bristling with wrath, was one beyond their experience.”

“I don’t hold with wearing ironmongery.”

“He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think. He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.”

“And the Dwarf, hearing the names given in his own ancient tongue, looked up and met her eyes; and it seemed to him that he looked suddenly into the heart of an enemy and saw there love and understanding. Wonder came into his face, and then he smiled in answer.”