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
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
Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.
GANDALF
The Two Towers
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
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
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
GANDALF
The Fellowship of the Ring
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
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