Dwarves
1. “Dwarves can make a fire almost anywhere out of almost anything, wind or no wind.” (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit)
2. “There it is: dwarves are not heroes, but calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots, some are not.” (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit)
Eggs
3. “A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.”
(J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit)
Elves
4. “Elves know a lot and are wondrous folk for news, and know what is going on among the peoples of the land, as quick as water flows, or quicker.” (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit)
5. “Keen are the eyes of the Elves.” (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers)
6. “They always wished to talk to everything, the old Elves did.” (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers)
7. “Elves of any kind are strange folk.” (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers)
Emotions
8. “I have learned that neither kindness nor cruelty by themselves, independent of each other, creates any effect beyond themselves; and I have learned that the two combined, together, at the same time, are the teaching emotion.” (Edward Albee, The Zoo Story)
9. “Feelings! I have no time for them, no chance of them.” (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities)
10. “There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, these are matters of which no jest can be made.” (Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death)
