The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

"Only a ranger ! cried Gandalf. My dear Frodo, that is just what the Rangers are : the last remnant in the North of the great people, the Men of the West. They have helped me before : and I shall need their help in the days to come ; for we have reached Rivendell, but he Ring is not yet at rest."

I-2-1

"Yes, we wait for the stroke of doom," said Faramir. And they said no more ; and it seemed to them as they stood upon the wall that the wind died, and the light failed, and the Sun was bleared, and all sounds in the City or in the lands about were hushed : neither wind, nor voice, nor bird-call, nor rustle of leaf, nor their own breath could be heard ; the very beating of their hearts was stilled. Time halted.

III-5

(Riddles in the dark)

Bilbo ... even felt in his pocket with his other hand. There he found the ring he had picked up in the passage and forgotten about.
"What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset.
"Not fair, not fair!" he hissed. It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses ?"