Favorite Tolkien-esque line

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Obviously, there are many, including the prose poetry
of the charge of the Rohirrim at the Pelennor Fields, but perhaps most striking, and universal in "applicability" is one that PJ and friends did not botch:

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment.