I bought The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy a few years ago. I read The Hobbit right away and then started on the trilogy, but I had made the mistake of buying the 3-in-1 edition and couldn’t lift the silly thing long enough to read it. I tried a few more times and finally managed about 2 months ago by reading the entire trilogy laying on my stomach. I had a mission to understand every word of Elvish, but I didn’t quite manage it. It was more difficult than translating House of Leaves! I picked up a few phrases and had a lot of fun, anyway. (Though, admittedly, my favorite author is Stephen King. I hope that doesn’t make me generic; I’ve been reading his novels since I was 12.)

Still, here is an Elvish phrase for you that I think is fitting: “Elen síla lúmenn’ omentielvo”. (If you need to look it up, Frodo said it toward the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring.) Anyway, I think it fits you and I.