"I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales...And people will say, "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring!"  And they'll say, "Yes, that's one of my favorite stories."  "Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?"  "Yes, my boy, the most famousest of all hobbits and that's saying a lot."

"But you've left out of the chief characters:   Samwise the stouthearted. ... I want to hear more about Sam. ... Frodo wouldn't have got far without Sam..."

"Now, Mr. Frodo, you shouldn't make fun.  I was serious."

"So was I."

(The Two Towers, "The Stairs of Cirith Ungol", pg 697)

"When you write the first word on a blank page, there is no telling where it will take you.  Like the first steps of a journey on an unknown Road."

Frodo - Disc 1 of the BBC Radio Adaptation of The Two Towers