Det här är nog första gången jag sett Tolkien kallas för lakonisk...
Några exempel:
"For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
"Evil often mars itself"
“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”
“You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”
“Short cuts make long delays.”
“If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.”
“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
“And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.”
“In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.”
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.”
“Where did you go to, if I may ask?" said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.
"To look ahead," said he.
"And what brought you back in the nick of time?"
"Looking behind," said he.
