I think you're on to something here.  Well, not actually, I just really wish I had thought of that first.  As Tolkien was a philologist, I doubt he had much of a mathmatics background, and isn't the name Boromir some form of Welsh? I like the idea though.

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By endurance, we shall conquer.
-Shackleton

'Right, so, where are we going?'
-Pippin

'Deserves death! I daresay [Gollum] does.  Many that live deserve death.  And some that die deserve life.  Can you give it to them?  Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.  For even the the very wise cannot see all ends.'
-Gandalf the Grey

'I wish the Ring had never come to me.  I wish none of this had ever happened!'
'So do all who live to see such times.  But that is not for them to decide.  All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'
-Gandalf the Grey to Frodo

suddenly Merry awoke, and he said:
'I am hungry.  What is the time?'