THE LORD OF THE RINGS QUOTES IV

quotations from The Lord of the Rings

I'm old, Gandalf. I know I don't look it, but I'm beginning to feel it in my heart. I feel ... thin. Sort of stretched, like ... butter scraped over too much bread. I need a holiday. A very long holiday. And I don't expect I shall return.

BILBO

The Fellowship of the Ring

Tags: old age


I miss the Shire. I spent all my life pretending I was off somewhere else. Off with you, on one of your adventures. But my own adventure turned out to be quite different. I'm not like you, Bilbo.

FRODO

The Fellowship of the Ring


Do not come between the Nazgul and his prey.

WITCH KING

The Return of the King


We will not abandon Merry and Pippin to torment and death. Not while we have strength left. Leave all that can be spared behind. We travel light. Let's hunt some Orc.

ARAGORN

The Fellowship of the Ring


Short cuts make long delays.

PIPPIN

The Fellowship of the Ring


I think we might have made a mistake leaving the Shire, Pippin.

MERRY

The Two Towers

Tags: mistakes


Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.

GANDALF

The Two Towers

Tags: time


I do not doubt his heart, only the reach of his arm.

EOMER

The Return of the King


The Fellowship is breaking, it has already begun. He will try to take the Ring, you know of whom I speak. One by one, it will destroy them.

GALADRIEL

The Fellowship of the Ring


Concealed within his fortress, the lord of Mordor sees all. His gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth, and flesh. You know of what I speak, Gandalf: a great Eye, lidless, wreathed in flame.

SARUMAN

The Fellowship of the Ring


Are all these children yours? Gracious, you have been productive.

BILBO

The Fellowship of the Ring

Tags: children


I cannot jump the distance, you'll have to toss me ... Don't tell the elf.

GIMLI

The Two Towers


You cannot think that this Ranger will ever sit upon the throne of Gondor. This exile, crept from the shadows, will never be crowned king. Gandalf does not hesitate to sacrifice those closest to him, those he professes to love. Tell me ... what words of comfort did you give the halfling before you sent him to his doom?

SARUMAN

The Return of the King


The wise speak only of what they know.

GANDALF

The Two Towers

Tags: knowledge


He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

GANDALF

The Fellowship of the Ring

Tags: wisdom


The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true.

GALADRIEL

The Fellowship of the Ring


Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.

GANDALF

The Two Towers


Do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands.

EOMER

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Tags: hope


I know what you would say, and it would seem like wisdom, but for the warning in my heart.

FRODO

The Fellowship of the Ring


In the place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair!

GALADRIEL

The Fellowship of the Ring