Top 100 Lord Of The Rings Tolkien Quotes
#1. But in the end it is only a passing thing ... this shadow. Even darkness must pass. - Samwise Gamgee, The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
#3. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#4. However it may prove, one must tread the path that need chooses!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#7. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#9. And what do you wish?' he said at last.
'That what should be shall be,' she answered.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#10. Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#11. I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler.
-Frodo Baggins
J.R.R. Tolkien
#12. Did you know, ji,' Zulu offered, 'that the map of Tolkien's Middle earth fits quite well over central England and Wales? Maybe all fairylands are right here, in our midst.
Salman Rushdie
#14. I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#15. Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#16. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#17. The Beatles once approached Stanley Kubrick to do 'The Lord Of The Rings.' This was before Tolkien sold the rights. They approached him, and he said, 'No.'
Peter Jackson
#18. I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into it. I know no other book that is so much like going on a journey. When I put it down to this, I feel as if I am also waiting with Pippin for the echoes of that stone down the well.
Jo Walton
#19. Farewell!' he said to Gandalf. 'I go to find the Sun!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#20. I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White
J.R.R. Tolkien
#21. For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#22. Not all those who wander are lost. - Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
#23. Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the air upon theirheads and eyes.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#26. Legolas was standing, gazing northwards into the darkness, thoughtful and silent as a young tree in a windless night.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#27. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#28. A light like the glint of water on dewy grass flashed from under her feet as she danced.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#29. Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#30. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#31. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#32. 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
#33. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#34. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#35. The Tolkien estate owns the writings of Professor Tolkien. 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' were sold by Professor Tolkien in the late '60s, the film rights.
Peter Jackson
#36. 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.
Adrian McKinty
#37. 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
J.R.R. Tolkien
#38. 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 ...
J.R.R. Tolkien
#39. I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'
Sean Astin
#41. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#42. Evidently we look so much alike that your desire to make an incurable dent in my hat must be excused.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#43. There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#45. 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
J.R.R. Tolkien
#46. I gave you the chance of aiding me willingly, but you have elected the way of pain. -Saruman
J.R.R. Tolkien
#47. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#48. Strength is not created by adversity; it is merely awakened by it.
Mark Eddy Smith
#49. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#50. The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.
Philip Pullman
#51. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#52. 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
J.R.R. Tolkien
#53. A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell
J.R.R. Tolkien
#54. It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#55. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#56. 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.
Paul Di Filippo
#57. The forest is queer. Everything in it is very much more alive, more aware of what is going on.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#58. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#59. And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#60. Dagorath was a word in Sindarin, the Elvish language J. R. R. Tolkien had created for The Lord of the Rings.
Ernest Cline
#61. 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.
Mary Pope Osborne
#62. I see that you are an elf-friend; the light in your eyes and the ring in your voice tells it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#64. I am commanded to go to the land of Mordor, and therefore I shall go,' said Frodo. 'If there is only one way, then I must take it. What comes after must come.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#65. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#67. Wonderful folk, Elves, sir! Wonderful!' 'They are,' said Frodo. 'Do you like them still, now you have had a closer view?
J.R.R. Tolkien
#68. All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#69. 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
J.R.R. Tolkien
#70. I thought that there might be something unsatisfying about directing two Tolkien movies after 'Lord of the Rings.' I'd be trying to compete with myself and deliberately doing things differently.
Peter Jackson
#71. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#72. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#73. The ring! exclaimed Frodo. 'Has he left me that? I wonder why. Still, it may be useful.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#74. The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.
Jo Walton
#76. 'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination.
Peter Jackson
#77. His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#78. Tolkien is eminently filmable, I think. 'The Lord of the Rings' is intensely ... landscaped. But 'Discworld' is about dialogue, which is one reason why it might be hard to film.
Terry Pratchett
#79. I wonder,' said Frodo. 'It's my doom, I think, to go to that Shadow yonder, so that a way will be found. But will good or evil show it to me?
J.R.R. Tolkien
#80. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#81. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#82. We plunged into the deep water and all was dark. Cold it was as the tide of death: almost it froze my heart.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#83. Speak, or I will put a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find hard to deal with!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#84. Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#85. Frodo: If you ask it of me, I will give you the One Ring.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#86. 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
#87. I read everything that Tolkien wrote, and also read biographies of him. I was fascinated by his experiences in World War I, which includes the loss of life of some of his very, very close friends. I think he writes about that a lot in 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.'
Richard C. Armitage
#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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#90. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#91. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#92. my experience, people who are very keen on The Lord of the Rings can be a bit odd. On the other hand, I was quite a Tolkien fan myself.
Sharon Bolton
#93. The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#94. 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
#95. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#96. The trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each ro themselves.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#97. I hear nothing but the night-speech of plant and stone.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#98. 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!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#99. Lilly-flowers nodded their half-opened heads in the grass.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#100. And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think, yes, the world would be better off without it.
Jo Walton
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