quotations from The Lord of the Rings
Hobbits really are amazing creatures. You can learn all that there is to know about them in a month, and yet after a hundred years, they can still surprise you.
GANDALF
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Don't ... tempt me Frodo! I dare not take it. Not even to keep it safe. Understand, Frodo. I would use this ring from a desire to do good ... But through me, it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine.
GANDALF
The Fellowship of the Ring
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
FRODO
The Return of the King
This new Gandalf is more grumpy than the old one.
GIMLI
The Two Towers
Master betrayed us. Wicked. Tricksy, False. We ought to wring his filthy little neck. Kill him! Kill him! Kill them both! And then we take the precious ... and we be the master!
GOLLUM
The Two Towers
Your fingers would remember their old strength better ... if they grasped your sword.
GANDALF
The Two Towers
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