The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.’

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost;

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the Darkness bind them.

‘Knock on the doors with your head, Peregrin Took,’ said Gandalf. ‘But if that does not shatter them, and I am allowed a little peace from foolish questions, I will seek for the opening words.