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Not all who wander are lost. - [Lost] When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton. - The Fellowship of the Ring, (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) [Books (First Lines)] In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. - The Hobbit [Books (First Lines)] Not all those who wander are lost. - The Lord of the Rings [Traveling] Pippin looked out from the shelter of Gandalf's cloak. He wondered if he was awake or still sleeping, still in the swift-moving dream in which he had been wrapped so long since the great ride began. The dark world was rushing by and the wind sang loudly in his ears. He could see nothing but the wheeling stars, and away to his right vast shadows against the sky where the mountains of the South marched past. Sleepily he tried to reckon the time and stages of their journey, but his memory was drowsy and uncertain. - The Return of the King, (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) [Books (First Lines)] There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made. - The Silmarillion [Books (First Lines)] Aragorn sped on up the hill. Every now and again he bent to the ground. Hobbits go light, and their footprints are not easy even for a Ranger to read, but not far from the top a spring crossed the path, and in the wet earth he saw what he was seeking. - The Two Towers, (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) [Books (First Lines)]
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