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.

Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill

But where shall I find courage?’ asked Frodo. ‘That is what I chiefly need.’

‘Courage is found in unlikely places,

steep slopes buried in deep brakes of thorn and sloe, tangled with brambles and creepers

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,’ said Gimli.

‘Maybe,’ said Elrond, ‘but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.’

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.