Lord Rings Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Maya, having recently made her way through The Lord of the Rings trilogy, names it Bag End. "Because it looks as if a hobbit might live here." A.J. kisses his daughter on the forehead. He is delighted to have produced such a fantastic nerd.

Gabrielle Zevin

#3. I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it.

Sean Bean

#4. Rally to me! To me!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.

Ian McKellen

#6. 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

#7. The ring! exclaimed Frodo. 'Has he left me that? I wonder why. Still, it may be useful.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

Ralph Bakshi

#11. Exactly why I don't have a boyfriend," I whisper, turning to the window. Because you've referenced The Lord of the Rings twice before lunch, or because you're talking to yourself? I have to admit, I've got me there.

David Arnold

#12. The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained.

Robbie Coltrane

#13. 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

#14. Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.

Orlando Bloom

#15. In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

Viggo Mortensen

#16. Science words," I warned. "When you say 'hemoglobin' I just think of little Irish tricksters who live in caves, or Lord of the Rings."
"You mean 'goblin'?"
"Yes.

Temple West

#17. Motherfuckers will read a book that's one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we're taking over.

Junot Diaz

#18. 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

#19. All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#20. I've done a fair amount of that stuff ... when we did Lord of the Rings the transformation sequence from Smeagol to Gollum was a 19-hour make-up job. You have to have a kind of zen button that you press and allow the mind to be focused in a certain way.

Andy Serkis

#21. 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

#22. I'm a really big 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I have all the extended editions.

Nathan Kress

#23. (One does not simply walk into Mordor--except that was exactly what everyone in the story did anyway.)

Jim Butcher

#24. He is always Mr. Calm, Cool, and Collected. The only time he was remotely this excitable was when they announced they were making the Lord of the Rings movie.

Alice Clayton

#25. As soon as I got off the plane in L.A., I heard they'd cast the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy and that it was all being shot in New Zealand! That was pretty ironic.

Martin Henderson

#26. One of my biggest disappointments is watching the trailer for the second 'Lord of the Rings' film and having Gandalf in it. Why? You know, he died in the first one, why give it away in the trailer just to try and sell a thousand more seats? It's daft.

Nick Frost

#27. Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#31. 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

#32. Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.

Len Wein

#33. I'm a very promiscuous reader. My dad's a big science fiction fan, so I'd read 'Dune,' and 'Watership Down' and 'The Lord Of The Rings.'

Margo Lanagan

#34. 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

#35. So now books were her only friends. She'd read Lord of the Rings so often she could recite whole scenes by memory.
It was not a skill that aided one in becoming popular.

Kristin Hannah

#36. Did you happen to catch the film I did between 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Kong?' It was a nice little Jennifer Garner comedy, '13 Going on 30,' and I play her boss. In my big scene, I get to moonwalk - pretty well, I thought - to Michael Jackson.

Andy Serkis

#37. Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book which will break your heart. [on Lord of the Rings]

C.S. Lewis

#38. I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.

Andy Serkis

#39. Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.

Diane Kruger

#40. Dagorath was a word in Sindarin, the Elvish language J. R. R. Tolkien had created for The Lord of the Rings.

Ernest Cline

#41. Honey, you [Michael Jackson] gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana Ross, now you're Audrey Hepburn. Then he's got the little beard going on. He's like Lord of the Rings, the entire cast. Michael's about to jump species.

Robin Williams

#42. I actually watched 'Lord of the Rings' right when it came out, so maybe 2001 or 2002 or whenever that was. But I watched those movies, and I ended up loving them so much that I found every behind-the-scenes feature and every sort of 'making-of' clip they had.

David Lambert

#43. And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#44. 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

#45. The forest is queer. Everything in it is very much more alive, more aware of what is going on.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#46. 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

#47. I loved 'Star Wars' as a kid, but I missed out on the experiences of seeing them for the first time. It was before my time, and 'Lord of the Rings,' that trilogy felt like something similar to what 'Star Wars' was for previous generations.

Evan Daugherty

#48. I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.

Chris Hemsworth

#49. 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

#50. It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#51. 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

#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. The landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.

Jasper Fforde

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. Underneath their human guises, they looked like the typical faery - that is, no wings, scantily clad and kind of man-pretty like Orlando Bloom's Legolas ...

Kevin Hearne

#57. Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

Ian McKellen

#58. Lilly-flowers nodded their half-opened heads in the grass.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#59. Welcome to The Daily Show, I'm John Oliver. Jon Stewart is still not here. He is currently living out a live-action Lord of the Rings role-playing experience deep in the New Zealand wilderness.

John Oliver

#60. I was fascinated by 'The Lord of the Rings' from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.

Philip Reeve

#61. 'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#62. 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

#63. It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

Ian McKellen

#64. I happen to be a huge 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I do an annual marathon of the extended editions.

Anna Kendrick

#65. There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One was 'Lord of the Rings' and one was 'The Matrix.' But I was actively involved at that time raising my family, and I couldn't really take that time out.

Nicolas Cage

#66. I would definitely line up for 'The Lord of the Rings.' I'm a huge 'Lord of the Rings' geek.

Kunal Nayyar

#67. My very, very first moment on set on 'Lord of the Rings' in 2000 was me in a lycra suit, six and a half thousand feet up on a mountain in New Zealand, standing in front of 250 crew who were all wondering what I was doing - myself included.

Andy Serkis

#68. The spirit of the four hobbits in 'Lord of the Rings,' I suppose I miss that.

Ian McKellen

#69. He is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. I have watched Lord of the Rings and films with strange looking people, but for a human being to look like he does is pretty shocking.

David Haye

#70. I hear nothing but the night-speech of plant and stone.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#71. The trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each ro themselves.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#72. Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold.

Lynne Truss

#73. I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.'

Tom Perrotta

#74. I'm reminded of a book my father used to read me," she said. "A bunch of elves and things get into a huge war over a piece of jewelry that everybody wants but nobody can wear.

Lemony Snicket

#75. 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

#76. If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book.

Peter Jackson

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. That changes your whole perception of the film, your perception of the ending ... The challenge for us, especially with the Lord of the Rings is how do we deliver that one piece of information that makes you look at the films differently?

Henry Jenkins

#80. My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

Orson Scott Card

#81. Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.

Kevin J. Anderson

#82. I hadn't grown up with 'The Hobbit;' I hadn't grown up with 'Lord of The Rings,' anything like that.

Martin Freeman

#83. 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

#84. Elijah Wood from Lord Of The Rings can't get married with a girl named Holly beacause it would make Holly Wood get it HOLLYWOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joel Madden

#85. 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

#86. Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

Orlando Bloom

#87. 'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.

Victoria Aveyard

#88. 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

#89. '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

#90. War will make corpses of us all.

Faramir

#91. His hair was dark as the shadows of twilight.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#92. Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.

Richard Paul Evans

#93. If you read 'Lord of the Rings' and dismiss it as a lie because it has orcs and elves, you're missing the whole point of the story. If children don't have to be concerned about strangers because there's no such thing as a Big Bad Wolf dressed like Granny, you're missing the point.

Doug TenNapel

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. I think the amount of production value that was put into 'Game of Thrones' was incredible, and it's unlike anything I've seen on any other production, including 'The Lord of the Rings.'

Sean Bean

#97. Frodo: If you ask it of me, I will give you the One Ring.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#98. Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#99. I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading.

Rick Riordan

#100. Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news.

Sean Bean