I love so many little things... many in TTT, which I don't have with me at the moment... This right here is probably my absolute favorite:
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"Where be you a-going?" says she.
"To Bag End," says they.
"What for?" says she.
"To put up some sheds for Sharkey." says they.
"Who said you could?" says she.
"Sharkey," says they. "So get out o' the road, ole hagling!"
"I'll give you Sharkey, you dirty thieving ruffians!" says she, and ups with her umbrella and goes for the leader, near twice her size.
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I also truly love descriptions, ones that many people miss, or under-appreciate.
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Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of wizardry or war, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn. And as if in answer there came from far away another note... Rohan had come at last.
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He seized the great horn from Guthlaf his banner-bearer, and he blew such a blast upon it that it burst asunder. And straightaway all the horns in the host were lifted up in music, and the blowing of the horns of Rohan in that hour was like a storm upon the plain and a thunder in the mountains.
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... He beheld his sister Eowyn as she lay, and he knew her. He stood a moment as a man who is pierced in the midst of a cry by an arrow through the heart; and then his face went deathly white, and a cold fury rose in him, so that all speech failed him for a while.
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And then, the best quote in the Trilogy (or at least most amusin):
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"You must send for the herbmaster of this House. And he will tell you that he did not know that the herb you desire had any virtues, but that it is called westmansweed by the vulgar, and galenas by the noble, and other names in other tongues more learned, and after adding a few half-forgotten rhymes that he does not understand, he will regretfully inform you that there is none in the House, and he will leave you to reflect on the history of tongues."
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And to finish it off:
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"Was there ever any one like him?" he said. "Except Gandalf, of course. I think they must be related."
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