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Just so you know, this compilation is a mix of LOTR quotes from the movie, as well as from the trilogy. There are many nuggets of wisdom in both!
So, without further ado, let’s dig into these wonderful thoughts!
15 Best Lord Of The Rings Quotes
1. “Not all those who wander are lost.” — Bilbo Baggins
2. “Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror.” — Gimli
3. “Short cuts make long delays.” ― Pippin, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
4. “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.” ― Frodo, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
5. “Courage is found in unlikely places.” — Gildor, J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
6. “I am at home among trees.” ― Legolas, J.R.R. Tolkien
7. “It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.” ― Bilbo, J.R.R Tolkien
8. “There is still hope.” ― Aragorn, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
9. “The women of this country learned long ago, those without swords can still die upon them.” ― Eowyn, The Two Towers
10. “It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.” — Frodo Baggins, J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
11. “It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
12. “There is darkness there that never sleeps.” ― Boromir, J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
13. “The rule of no realm is mine, neither of Gondor nor any other, great or small. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care.” ― Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
14. “The Dark Tower has fallen, and there is a King in Gondor.”― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
15. “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.” ― Legolas, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
10 Powerful Lord Of The Rings Quotes
1. “I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.” ― Eowyn, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
2. “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 very wise cannot see all ends.” — Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
3. “And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.” ― Eowyn, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
4. “But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?” ― Eowyn, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
5. “How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand…there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.”― Frodo, JRR Tolkien
6. “Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Eldar Race. He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
7. “Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing! And I have seen it only for an instant in the house of Elrond! Could I not have a sight of it again?”
Frodo looked up. His heart went suddenly cold. He caught the strange gleam in Boromir’s eyes, yet his face was still kind and friendly. “It is best that it should lie hidden,” he answered.
“As you wish. I care not.” said Boromir.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
8. “A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.” — Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
9. “In his time the City was made more fair than it had ever been, even in the days of its first glory;
and it was filled with trees and with fountains,
and its gates were wrought of mithril and steel,
and its streets were paved with white marble;
and the Folk of the Mountain laboured in it,
and the Folk of the Wood rejoiced to come there;
and all was healed and made good, and the houses were filled with men and women and the
laughter of children,
and no window was blind nor any courtyard empty; and after the ending of the Third Age of the world into the new age it preserved the memory and the glory of the years that were gone.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
10. “There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo … and it’s worth fighting for.” ― Samwise Gamgee, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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20 Lord Of The Rings Inspirational Quotes
1. “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
2. “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.” — Galadriel, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
3. “PIPPIN: I didn’t think it would end this way.
GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.
PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?
GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.
PIPPIN: Well, that isn’t so bad.
GANDALF: No. No, it isn’t.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
4. “Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: 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 to us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
5. “If all the seven stones were laid out before me now, I should shut my eyes and put my hands in my pockets.” ― Pippin, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
6. “Sam: I wonder if we’ll ever be put into songs or tales. Frodo: [turns around] What? Sam: I wonder if people will ever say, ‘Let’s hear about Frodo and the Ring.’ And they’ll say ‘Yes, that’s one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn’t he, Dad?’ ‘Yes, my boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that’s saying a lot.’ Frodo: [continue walking] You’ve left out one of the chief characters – Samwise the Brave. I want to hear more about Sam. [stops and turns to Sam] Frodo: Frodo wouldn’t have got far without Sam. Sam: Now Mr. Frodo, you shouldn’t make fun; I was being serious. Frodo: So was I. [they continue to walk] Sam: Samwise the Brave…” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
7. “Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.” ― Elrond, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings
8. “Become who you were born to be.” ― Elrond, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
9. “Aragorn threw back his cloak. The elven-sheath glittered as he grasped it, and the bright blade of Andúril shone like a sudden flame as he swept it out. ‘Elendil!’ he cried. ‘I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and am called Elessar, the Elfstone, Dúnadan, the heir of Isildur Elendil’s son of Gondor. Here is the Sword that was Broken and is forged again! Will you aid me or thwart me? Choose swiftly!” ― Aragorn, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
10. “The realm of Suaron is ended!’ said Gandalf. ‘The Ring-bearer has fulfilled his Quest” ― Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
11. “Suddenly Bilbo looked up. ‘Ah, there you are at last, Dunadan!’ he cried… ‘Where have you been, my friend? Why weren’t you at the feast? The Lady Arwen was there.’
Strider looked down at Bilbo gravely. ‘I know,’ he said. ‘But often I must put mirth aside…” ― Aragorn, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
12. “Then, whether Aragorn had indeed some forgotten power of Westernesse, or whether it was but his words of the Lady Éowyn that wrought on them, as the sweet influence of the herb stole about the chamber it seemed to those who stood by that a keen wind blew through the window, and it bore no scent, but was an air wholly fresh and clean and young, as if it had not before been breathed by any living thing and came new-made from snowy mountains high beneath a dome of stars, or from shores of silver far away washed by seas of foam. ‘Awake, Éowyn, Lady of Rohan!’ said Aragorn again, and he took her right hand in his and felt it warm with life returning.” ― Aragorn, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
13. “The road goes ever on and on, down from the door were it began, now far ahead the road has gone and I must follow if I can…” ― Bilbo Baggins, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
14. “After some while Bilbo became impatient. “Well, what is it?” he said. “The answer’s not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
15. “There is always hope.” ― Aragorn, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
16. “He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
17. “It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
18. “Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man’s heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
19. “The trees do not like strangers. They watch you. They are usually content merely to watch you, as long as daylight lasts, and don’t do much. Occasionally the most unfriendly ones may drop a branch, or stick a root out, or grasp at you with a long trailer. But at night things can be most alarming, or so i am told.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
20. “I would rather see him than all the towers and palaces in the world.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
20 Famous Lord Of The Rings Quotes
1. “There goes a lord who tamed a wild shieldmaiden of the North!” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
2. “A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early; he arrives precisely when he means to.” — Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings
3. “Home is behind, the world ahead,
and there are many paths to tread
through shadows to the edge of night,
until the stars are all alight.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
4. “Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
5. “It’s the deep breath before the plunge.” ― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
6. “Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness, and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it’ll shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo…and it’s worth fighting for.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
7. “Frodo: I can’t recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. I’m naked in the dark. There’s nothing–no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I can see him with my waking eyes.
Sam: Then let us be rid of it, once and for all. I can’t carry the ring for you, but I can carry you! Comeon!” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
8. “Are you in pain, Frodo?’ said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo’s side.
‘Well, yes I am,’ said Frodo. ‘It is my shoulder. The wound aches, and the memory of darkness is heavy on me. It was a year ago today.’
‘Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured,’ said Gandalf.
‘I fear it may be so with mine,’ said Frodo. ‘There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?’
Gandalf did not answer.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
9. “It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills,
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.” ― Gollum, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
10. “I will take the Ring”, he said, “though I do not know the way.” ― Frodo, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
11. “We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!” ― Gollum, The Lord Of The Rings
12. “Yes, perhaps, yes’ said Gollum. ‘Sméagol always helps, if they asks – if they asks nicely.’
”Right!’ says Sam. ‘I does ask. And if that isn’t nice enough, I begs.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
13. “To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying,
The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.
West, west away, the round sun is falling,
Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling,
The voices of my people that have gone before me?
I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me;
For our days are ending and our years failing.
I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing.
Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling,
Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling,
In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover,
Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever!” ― Legolas, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
14. “You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,’ said Frodo. ‘I will give you the One Ring, if you ask for it. It is too great a matter for me” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
15. “Green are the leaves I leave in Mirkwood.” ― Legolas, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
16. “What did I tell you? Something’s happening!’ cried Sam. ‘”The war’s going well,” said Shagrat; but Gorbag he wasn’t so sure. And he was right there too. Things are looking up, Mr. Frodo. haven’t you got some hope now?’
‘Well, no, not much, Sam,’ Frodo sighed. ‘That’s away beyond the mountains. We’re going east not west. And I’m so tired. And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. And I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
17. “There is something strange at work in this land. I distrust the silence. I distrust even the pale Moon. The stars are faint; and I am weary as I have seldom been before, weary as no Ranger should be with at clear trail to follow. There is some will that lends speed to our foes and sets an unseen barrier before us: a weariness that is in the heart more than in the limb.” ― Aragorn, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
18. “The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began, now far ahead the road has gone and I must follow if I can…” ― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
19. “It is also reflected in the commitment to the belief that everything, even Morgoth himself, was as created good, But that due to the free will possessed by every creature with a rational mind, they could fall: as one Vala and various Maiar, and Men corporately, did; and even Manwë, had he asserted his own will and judgement over Eru’s, would likewise have fallen.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Nature Of Middle-Earth
20. “Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!” ― Gollum, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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20 Lord Of The Rings Quotes About Hope And Love
1. “I wished to be loved by another, but I desire no man’s pity.” ― Eowyn, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
2. “For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily, and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. Or was it, maybe, a frost that had turned its sap to ice, and so it stood, bitter-sweet, still fair to see, but stricken, soon to fall and die? ― Aragorn about Éowyn” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
3. “It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. (Aragorn talking of Eowyn, in the Houses of Healing)” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
4. “As she stood before Aragorn she paused suddenly and looked upon him, and her eyes were shining. And he looked down upon her fair face and smiled; but as he took the cup, his hand met hers, and he knew that she trembled at the touch.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
5. “If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. ” ― Aragorn, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
6. “Then she fell on her knees, saying: ‘I beg thee!’
‘Nay, lady,’ he said, and taking her by the hand he raised her. The he kissed her hand, and sprang into the saddle, and rode away, and did not look back; and only those who knew him well and were near to him saw the pain that he bore.” ― Eowyn, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
7. “And Eowyn looked at Faramir long and steadily; and Faramir said: ‘Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Eowyn! But I do not offer you my pity. For you are a lady high and valiant and have yourself won renown that shall not be forgotten; and you are a lady beautiful, I deem, beyond even the words of the Elven-tongue to tell. And I love you. Once I pitied your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, were you the blissful Queen of Gondor, still I would love you. Eowyn, do you not love me?” ― J. R. R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
8. “I wish Merry was here,” he heard himself saying, and quick thoughts raced through his mind, even as he watched the enemy come charging to the assault. “Well, well, now at any rate I understand poor Denethor a little better. We might die together, Merry and I, and since die we must, why not? Well, as he is not here, I hope he’ll find an easier end. But now I must do my best.” ― Pippin, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
9. “But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?” ― Aragorn, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
10. “What does your heart tell you? ” ― Aragorn, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
11. “Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as graven stone. But he bent and kissed her on the brow, and called her softly, saying: ‘Éowyn Éomund’s daughter, awake! For your enemy has passed away!” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
12. “And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
13. “It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. Well, let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy! For he is very wise, and weighs all things to a nicety in the scales of this malice. But the only measure that he knows is desire, desire for power; and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it.” ― Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
14. “It is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one.” ― Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
15. “Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the Sun.” ― Legolas, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
16. “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” ” ― Haldir , J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
17. “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.” ― Faramir, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
18. “My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours. Yet she was doomed to wait upon an old man, whom she loved as a father, and watch him falling into a mean dishonoured dotage; and her part seemed to her more ignoble than that of the staff he leaned on. -Gandalf to Eomer, of Eowyn” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
19. “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
20. “Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.” ― Sam Gamgee, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
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15 Lord Of The Rings Funny Quotes
1. “It comes in pints?” ― Peter Jackson, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
2. “Your talk of sniffling riders with invisible noses has unsettled me.” ― Pippin, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
3. “Oh! That was poetry!” said Pippin. “Do you really mean to start before the break of day?” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
4. “Did he say:”Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!”?No,indeed!He said:”Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick” ― Pippin Took, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
5. “I pity snails, and all that carry their homes on their backs.” ― Frodo, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
6. “I don’t keep water in my pockets.” ― Frodo Baggins, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
7. “Yes, they are elves,” Legolas said. “and they say that you breathe so loud they could shoot you in the dark.” Sam hastily covered his mouth.” ― Legolas, J.R.R. Tolkien
8. “Trolls do not build.” ― Aragorn, J.R.R. Tolkien
9. “Gimli: [out of breath] I’m wasted on cross-country! We dwarves are natural sprinters, very dangerous over short distances.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
10. “I’ve more need of thoughts than of sleep.” ― Aragorn, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
11. “Gollum: [to Sam] Stupid, fat hobbit.” ― Gollum, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
12. “Gandalf: [to Pippin] Now, listen carefully. Lord Denethor is Boromir’s father. To give him news of his beloved son’s death would be most unwise. And do not mention Frodo, or the Ring. And say nothing of Aragorn either. In fact, it’s better if you don’t speak at all, Peregrin Took.” ― Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
13. “[after Legolas single-handedly takes out an Oliphant and its drivers] Gimli: That still only counts as one!” ― Gimli, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
14. “I shall have to go. But-” and here Frodo looked hard at Sam- “if you really care about me, you will have to keep that DEAD secret. See? If you don’t, if you even breathe a word of what you’ve heard here, then I hope Gandalf will turn you into a spotted toad and fill the garden full of grass snakes.” ― Frodo, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
15. “Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for?” ― Gimli, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
25 Philosophical And Wise Lord Of The Rings Quotes
1. “End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take.” — Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
2. “Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise.” — Gildor, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
3. “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
4. “But of all the women, Éowyn is the strongest, quite frankly, because of her weakness: she’s only human. She has no special powers, no immortality, only her innate grit and drive to be something more than just a shield-maiden. And nothing whatsoever will stay her on her course. In the end, she, and her faithful companion Merry, take down the Witch King HIMSELF! She kills the one servant of Sauron that no man can kill; she kills Fear itself in what is arguably the most dramatic moment in the books. I think it is significant that the embodiment of Fear in The Lord of the Rings is slain by a woman. In fact, only a woman is capable of doing so.” ― Steve Bivans, Be a Hobbit, Save the Earth: the Guide to Sustainable Shire Living
5. “But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.” — Celeborn, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
6. “And again she looked at Faramir. ‘No longer do I desire to be a queen,’ she said.
Then Faramir laughed merrily. ‘That is well,’ he said; ‘for I am not a king. Yet I will wed with the White Lady of Rohan, if it be her will. And if she will, then let us cross the River and in happier days let us dwell in fair Ithilien and there make a garden. All things will grow with joy there, if the White Lady comes.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
7. “All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
8. “All’s well that ends better.” — Hamfast Gamgee, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings
9. “Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.” — Aragorn, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings
10. “The wise speak only of what they know.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings
11. “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.” ― Galadriel, J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.266, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
12. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – Thorin Oakenshield, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings
13. “A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.” – Aragorn, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings
14. “But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.” – Celeborn, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings
15. “Your time will come. You will face the same Evil, and you will defeat it.” – Arwen, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings
16. “His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.” – Aragorn, J.R.R. Tolkienᐧ, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
17. “He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.” – Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkein, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
18. “Gandalf was shorter in stature than the other two; but his long white hair, his sweeping beard, and his broad shoulders, made him look like some wise king of ancient legend. In his aged face under great snowy brows his eyes were set like coals that could suddenly burst into fire.” – J.R.R. Tolkein, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
19. “It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.” – Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
ᐧ20. “And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.” – Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
21. “Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
22. “From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
23. “My dear Frodo!’ exclaimed Gandalf. ‘Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
24. “What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
25. “Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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The Lord Of The Rings: The Return of the King Quotes
1.“What do you fear, lady?’ he asked.
‘A cage,’ she said.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
2. “Alas, not me, lord!” she said. “Shadow lies on me still. Look not to me for healing! I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle.” ― Eowyn, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
3. “And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Return of the King
4. “We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.” ― Pippin, J. R. R. Tollkien, The Return of the King
5. “Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!” “But no living man am I!” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
6. “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
7. “For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
8. “But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
9. “In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
10. “We cannot achieve victory by arms, but by arms we can give the Ring-bearer his only chance, frail though it be.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
11. “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
12. “There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
13. “Out of doubt, out of dark to the day’s rising
I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope’s end I rode and to heart’s breaking:
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall! ” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
14. “Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
15. “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
16. “End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
17. “The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.” ― J R R Tolkien, The Return of the King
18. “His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
19. “Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!”
Then Merry heard in all sounds of the hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel.
“But no living man am I! You are looking upon a woman. Eowyn am I, Eomund’s daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.”
The winged creature screamed at her, but then the Ringwraith was silent, as if in sudden doubt. Very amazement for a moment conquered Merry’s fear. He opened his eyes and the blackness was lifted from them. There some paces from him sat the great beast, and all seemed dark about it, and above it loomed the Nazgul Lord like a shadow of despair. A little to the left facing them stood whom he had called Dernhelm. But the helm of her secrecy had fallen from her, and and her bright hair, released from its bonds, gleamed with pale gold upon her shoulders. Her eyes grey as the sea were hard and fell, and yet tears gleamed in them. A sword was in her hand, and she raised her shield against the horror of her enemy’s eyes.” ― Eowyn, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
20. “The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
21. “The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
22. “Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What’s happened to the world?”
A great Shadow has departed,” said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
23. “Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter!
spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,
a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
24. “And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
25. “Courage will now be your best defense against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers Quotes
1. “Look, Sam!’ he cried, started into speech. ‘Look! The king has got a crown again!” ― Frodo, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
2. “The woman turned and went slowly into the house. As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. Grave and thoughtful was her glance, as she looked on the king with cool pity in here eyes. Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
3. “I don’t know how long we shall take to – to finish,’ said Frodo. ‘We were miserably delayed in the hills. But Samwise Gamgee, my dear hobbit – indeed, Sam my dearest hobbit, friend of friends – I do not think we need give thought to what comes after that. To do the job as you put it – what hope is there that we ever shall? And if we do, who knows what will come of that? If the One goes into the Fire, and we are at hand? I ask you, Sam, are we ever likely to need bread again? I think not. If we can nurse our limbs to bring us to Mount Doom, that is all we can do. More than I can, I begin to feel.” ― Frodo, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
4. “Don’t go where I can’t follow!” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
5. “He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.” ― Legolas, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
6. “In one thing you have not changed, dear friend,” said Aragorn: “you still speak in riddles.”
“What? In riddles?” said Gandalf. “No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
7. “We shouldn’t be here at all, if we’d known more about it before we started. But I suppose it’s often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. But that’s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually — their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. And if they had, we shouldn’t know, because they’d have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on — and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end. You know, coming home, and finding things all right, though not quite the same — like old Mr Bilbo. But those aren’t always the best tales to hear, though they may be the best tales to get landed in! I wonder what sort of a tale we’ve fallen into?” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
8. “There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
9. “The treacherous are ever distrustful.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
10. “Fair speech may hide a foul heart.” ― Sam, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
11. “Don’t leave me here alone! It’s your Sam calling. Don’t go where I can’t follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo!” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
12. “You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.” ― Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
13. “And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
14.“For it is easier to shout ‘Stop’, than to do it” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
15. “A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.” ― Legolas, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
16. “He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
17. “Then as he had kept watch Sam had noticed that at times a light seemed to be shining faintly within; but now the light was even clearer and stronger. Frodo’s face was peaceful, the marks of fear and care had left it; but it looked old, old and beautiful, as if the chiseling of the shaping years was now revealed in many fine lines that had before been hidden, though the identity of the face was not changed. Not that Sam Gamgee put it that way to himself. He shook his head, as if finding words useless, and murmured: “I love him. He’s like that, and sometimes it shines through, somehow. But I love him, whether or no.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
18. “But you comfort me, Gimli, I’m glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe. I wish there were more of your kin among us. But even more would I give for a hundred good archers of Mirkwood.” ― Legolas, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
19. “If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others’ asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to keep it hid and not to use it. You are a new people and a new world to me. Are all your kin of like sort? Your land must be a realm of peace and content, and there must gardners be in high hounour.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
20. “Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Quotes
1. “That’s what I meant,’ said Pippin. ‘We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party.” ― Pippin, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
2. “There was a lot more to that song,’ said Sam, ‘all about Mordor. I didn’t learn that part, it gave me the shivers. I never thought I should be going that was myself!’
‘Going to Mordor!” Cried Pippin. ‘I hope it won’t come to that!’
‘Do not speak that name so loudly!’ said Strider” ― Pippin, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
3. “For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many – yours not least.” ― Frodo, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
4. “Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you.
May the stars shine upon your faces!” ― Elrond, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
5. “…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.” ― Frodo, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
6. “Still that must be expected,’ said Gandalf to himself. ‘He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think. He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
7. “But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.” ― Aragorn, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
8. “All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
9. “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and 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.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
10. “I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” ―Bilbo Baggins, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
11. “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
12. “Deserves it! I daresay he 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 very wise cannot see all ends.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
13. “Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
14. “The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
15. “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” ― Gimli, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
16. “Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We’ll wander back and home to bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
17. “I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
18. “But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,’ said Frodo.
Sam looked at him unhappily. ‘It all depends on what you want,’ put in Merry. ‘You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin–to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours–closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
19. “You cannot pass,” he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. “I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
20. “Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Final Word
I hope that you have enjoyed my collection of the best Lord of the rings quotes! I enjoyed writing this article, as well as I will enjoy re-watching the trilogy again.
It would be my pleasure if you have found your nugget of wisdom for everyday things that happen in our lives while reading these quotes.
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