Late for Dinner

"'I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' (says Gandalf)

'I should think so- in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing things! Make you late for dinner!'" (The Hobbit, Chapter 1: An Unexpected Party, pg.7.)

Little did Bilbo know that he would be very late for dinner indeed.

The Leaning Tree

"Do not be hasty, that is my motto. But if I had seen you, before I heard your voices - I liked them: nice little voices; they reminded me of something I cannot remember - if I had seen you before I heard you, I should have just trodden on you, taking you for little Orcs, and found out my mistake afterwards. Very odd you are, indeed. Root and twig, very odd!" (The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Chapter 4: Treebeard, pg. 604.)

Depicted here is Fangorn, who somberly inspects an uprooted flower, holding it close to his hooked nose. He carefully keeps it between two gentle gnarled fingers, and watches as it's petals slowly fall to the forest floor.