Top 100 J.r.r. Tolkien Lord Of The Rings Quotes
#1. There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.
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#2. No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.
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#3. Have we ridden forth to victory, only to stand at last amazed by an old liar with honey on his forked tongue? So would the trapped wolf speak to the hounds, if he could.
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#4. 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
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#5. If room isn't found for them, they'll find it for themselves. They've a right to live, same as other folk,' he said loudly. The local inhabitants did not look pleased at the prospect.
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#6. No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.
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#7. Our daughter's name Arwynn comes from Arwen in 'Lord of the Rings' because my wife and I met for the first time in the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford where J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis used to go to read out their stories to one another.
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#8. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. - Gandalf the Grey, The Return of the King
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#9. Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,' said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam's gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a child at rest when night-fears are driven away by some loved voice or hand. Sam felt that he could sit like that in endless happiness ...
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#10. Legolas was standing, gazing northwards into the darkness, thoughtful and silent as a young tree in a windless night.
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#12. And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.
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#13. Evidently we look so much alike that your desire to make an incurable dent in my hat must be excused.
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#14. Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!
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#16. You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him long ago.' Frodo wondered if the remark meant more than it said
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#17. I gave you the chance of aiding me willingly, but you have elected the way of pain. -Saruman
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#18. Frodo: Sam! Wood-Elves! They're going to the harbour beyond the White Towers. To the Grey Havens
Sam: They're leaving Middle-earth.
Frodo: Never to return.
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#19. At that moment there was a knock on the door, and Sam came in. He ran to Frodo and took his left hand, awkwardly and shyly. He stroked it gently and then he blushed and turned hastily away.
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#20. I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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#22. 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.
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#23. However it may prove, one must tread the path that need chooses!
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#27. You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy. Even so, I cannot help feeling happy; happier than I have felt for a long time.
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#29. And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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#30. Your talk of sniffling riders with invisible noses has unsettled me.
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#32. I do really wish to destroy it!' cried Frodo. 'Or, well, to have it destroyed. I am not made for perilous quests. I wish I had never seen the Ring! Why did it come to me? Why was I chosen?
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#33. Suddenly Faramir stirred, and he opened his eyes, and he looked on Aragorn who bent over him; and a light of knowledge and love was kindled in his eyes, and he spoke softly. 'My lord, you called me. I come. What does the king command?
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#34. No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades.
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#35. No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we grow very strong, stronger than Wraiths. Lord Smeagol? Gollum the Great? The Gollum! Eat fish every day, three times a day, fresh forum the sea. Most precious Gollum! Must have it...
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#36. That's done it! Now I've rung the front-door bell!
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#38. There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground and eye to eye with a young hobbit, legs well apart, bristling with wrath, was one beyond their experience.
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#39. Aragon felt a shudder run through him at the sound, a strange cold thrill; and yet it was not fear or terror that he felt: rather it was like the sudden bite of a keen air, or the slap of a cold rain that wakes an uneasy sleeper.
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#40. Is there no escape then?' said Frodo, looking around wildly. 'If I move I shall be seen and hunted! If I stay, I shall draw them to me!
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#41. I know why you seek solitude. You suffer; I see it day by day. You sure you do not suffer needlessly? There are other ways, Frodo, other paths that we might take.
I know what you would say. And it would seem like wisdom but for the warning in my heart.
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#43. Elrond was in his chair and the fire was on his face like summer-light upon the trees.
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#44. Let him go, you filth! Let him go! You will not touch him again!
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#45. Frodo has been touched by the weapons of the Enemy,' said Strider, 'and there is some poison or evil at work that is beyond my skill to drive out. But do not give up hope, Sam!
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#46. I name you Elf-friend; and may the stars shine upon the end of your road!
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#47. Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.
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#49. Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it were known that hobbits had such hides, all the hunters of Middle Earth would be riding to the Shire.
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#50. A light like the glint of water on dewy grass flashed from under her feet as she danced.
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#51. I see that you are an elf-friend; the light in your eyes and the ring in your voice tells it.
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#52. I hear nothing but the night-speech of plant and stone.
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#53. Smeagol,' said Gollum suddenly and clearly, opening his eyes wide and staring at Frodo with a strange light. 'Smeagol will swear on the Precious.'
Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think!
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#54. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
- Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring
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#55. A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell
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#56. It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.
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#57. The light sprang up again, and there on the brink of the chasm, at the very Crack of Doom, stood Frodo, black against the glare, tense; erect, but still as if he had been turned to stone.
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#58. Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The 'Lord of the Rings' template or the 'Gormenghast' mold.
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#59. The forest is queer. Everything in it is very much more alive, more aware of what is going on.
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#60. Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.
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#61. And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.
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#62. Dagorath was a word in Sindarin, the Elvish language J. R. R. Tolkien had created for The Lord of the Rings.
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#63. I would love to live in 'The Lord of the Rings.' J. R. R. Tolkien's world is so vivid and rich and sensual. I love the country setting and the routine of the hobbits. Of course, I would like to be a hobbit who goes on small adventures - not huge, horrifying ones like Frodo's quest.
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#64. The trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each ro themselves.
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#66. In the spring when the wind is in the new leaves the echo of her voice may still be heard by the fall that bear her name.
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#67. Sam, clinging to Frodo's arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. 'Poor old Bill!' he said in a choking voice. 'Poor old Bill! Wolves and snakes! But the snakes were too much for him. I had to choose, Mr. Frodo. I had to come with you.
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#69. Wonderful folk, Elves, sir! Wonderful!' 'They are,' said Frodo. 'Do you like them still, now you have had a closer view?
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#70. All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.
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#71. Let go! Gollum,' he said. 'This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you'll feel it this time! I'll cut your throat
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#72. As I lay in prison, Sam, I tried to remember the Brandywine, and Woody End, and The Water running through the mill at Hobbiton. But I can't see them now.
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#73. 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.
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#74. The ring! exclaimed Frodo. 'Has he left me that? I wonder why. Still, it may be useful.
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#78. And what do you wish?' he said at last.
'That what should be shall be,' she answered.
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#79. Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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#80. I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler.
-Frodo Baggins
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#81. But in the end it is only a passing thing ... this shadow. Even darkness must pass. - Samwise Gamgee, The Two Towers
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#82. If there are any to see I at least am revealed to them. I have written Gandalf is here in signs that all can read from Rivendell to the mouths of Anduin.
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#83. Farewell!' he said to Gandalf. 'I go to find the Sun!
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#84. I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White
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#85. For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road.
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#86. Not all those who wander are lost. - Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
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#87. Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the air upon theirheads and eyes.
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#89. Glorfindel smiled. 'I doubt very much,' he said, 'if your friends would be in danger if you were not with them! The pursuit would follow you and leave us in peace, I think. It is you, Frodo, and that which you bear that brings us all in peril.
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#90. 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, m'boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that's saying a lot.
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#91. Frodo: Mordor. I hope the others find a safer route.
Sam: Strider will look after them.
Frodo: I don't suppose we'll ever see them again.
Sam: We may yet, Mr. Frodo. We may.
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#92. We plunged into the deep water and all was dark. Cold it was as the tide of death: almost it froze my heart.
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#93. Speak, or I will put a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find hard to deal with!
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#94. Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.
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#95. Frodo: If you ask it of me, I will give you the One Ring.
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#96. We cannot achieve victory by arms, but by arms we can give the Ring-bearer his only chance, frail though it be.
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#98. Frodo heard a sweet singing running in his mind: a song that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey rain-curtain, and growing stronger to turn the veil all to glass and silver, until at last it was rolled back, and a far green country opened before him under a swift sunrise.
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#99. How shall a man judge what to do in such times?'
'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear ... It is a man's part to discern them, as much in th Golden Wood as in his own house.
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#100. If only that dratted wizard would leave young Frodo alone, perhaps he'll settle down and grow some hobbit-sense,' they said. And to all appearance the wizard did leave Frodo alone, and he did settle down, but the growth of hobbit-sense was not very noticable.
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