Most favorite one-liners

mostly these are from or about elves

'Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo
a star shines on the hour of our meeting

Here is Nimrodel! Of this stream the Silvian Elves made many songs long ago, and still we sing them in the North, remembering the rainbow on its falls, and the golden flowers that floated in its foam

Evil has been seen and heard there, sorrow had been known; the Elves feared and disturbed the world outside: wolves were hawling on the wood's borders: but on the land of Lorien no shadow lay.

I think this task is appointed for you, Frodo, and that if you do not find a way no one will. This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arrive from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great.

...wow... they still feel as beautiful as the first time