J.R.R. Tolkien

"There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world."

--Gandalf the Grey, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (J.R.R. Tolkien)


"Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things."

--Gandalf the White, THE TWO TOWERS (J.R.R. Tolkien)


In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

--THE HOBBIT (J.R.R. Tolkien)


For over the misty mountains old
To dungeons deep and caverns cold
We must away, ere break of day,
To find our long-forgotten gold.

--Song of Thorin and the dwarves, from THE HOBBIT (J.R.R. Tolkien)