quotations from The Lord of the Rings
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
Nine companions. So be it. You shall be the fellowship of the ring.
ELROND
The Fellowship of the Ring
Always remember, Frodo, the Ring is trying to get back to its master. It wants to be found.
GANDALF
The Fellowship of the Ring
I think there's more to this hobbit than meets the eye.
GANDALF
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
From the ashes, a fire shall be woken. A light from the shadow shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken. The crownless again shall be king.
ARWEN
The Return of the King
I always like going South; somehow, it feels like going downhill.
TREEBEARD
The Two Towers
Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for?
GIMLI
The Return of the King
The Age of Men is over. The Time of the Orc has come.
GOTHMOG
The Return of the King
Well, this is a thing unheard of. An Elf would go underground, where a Dwarf dare not. Oh, I'd never hear the end of it.
GIMLI
The Return of the King
Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.
ELROND
The Fellowship of the Ring
We swears to serve the master of the precious. We will swear on ... on ... the precious!
GOLLUM
The Two Towers
Sworn word may strengthen quaking heart.
GIMLI
The Fellowship of the Ring
I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
ARWEN
The Fellowship of the Ring
Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder.
GANDALF
The Return of the King
Those without swords can still die upon them.
EOWYN
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
It came to me, my own, my love... my... preciousssss.
GOLLUM
The Fellowship of the Ring
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
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
ELROND
The Fellowship of the Ring
Generous deeds should not be checked by cold council.
FARAMIR
The Return of the King