“When heads are at a loss bodies must serve.”

“Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.”

“Clothes are of but little loss, if you escape from drowning.”

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

“All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Éorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.”

“It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”

“Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!”