Top 100 Quotes About Gandalf
#1. Audie was the cleverest man Moss had ever met. He was Yoda. He was Gandalf. He was Morpheus. Now he'd become a walking suicide note.
Michael Robotham
#2. Instead of Debbie Does Dallas, we get Gandalf Guts Goblins.
Jim C. Hines
#4. A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.
Michael Gambon
#5. I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
Ian McKellen
#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
#7. But you come with tidings of grief and danger, as is your wont, they say.' 'Because I come seldom but when my help is needed,' answered Gandalf. 'And
J.R.R. Tolkien
#8. what he had to do, he had to do, if he could, and that whether Faramir or Aragorn or Elrond or Galadriel or Gandalf or anyone else ever knew about it was beside the purpose. He
J.R.R. Tolkien
#9. 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
#10. Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#11. Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
Ian McKellen
#13. Put on a few eggs, there's a good fellow!" Gandalf called after him, as the hobbit stumped off to the pantries. "And just bring out the cold chicken and
J.R.R. Tolkien
#14. The fourteenth of the New Year,' said Gandalf; 'or if you like, the eighth day of April in the Shire-reckoning. * But in Gondor the New Year will always now begin upon the twenty-fifth of March when Sauron fell, and when you were brought out of the fire to the King. He
J.R.R. Tolkien
#15. I am Gandalf," said the wizard. "Never heard of him," growled the man.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#16. At last reluctantly Gandalf himself took a hand. Picking up a faggot he held it aloft for a moment, and then with a word of command, naur an edraith ammen! he thrust the end of his staff into the midst of it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#17. I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." ~ Gandalf (J. R. R. Tolkein ~ The Hobbit)
J.R.R. Tolkien
#18. 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
#19. As they passed through the camp an old man, wrapped in a dark cloak, rose from a tent door where he was sitting and came towards them. "Well done! Mr. Baggins!" he said, clapping Bilbo on the back. "There is always more about you than anyone expects!" It was Gandalf.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#20. Gandalf put his hand on Pippin's head. "There never was much hope," he answered. "Just a fool's hope, as I have been told.
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#21. I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#22. Then the prophecies of the old songs have turned out to be true, after a fashion!" said Bilbo. "Of course!" said Gandalf. "And why should not they prove true? Surely you don't disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself?
J.R.R. Tolkien
#23. Gandalf looked at him. My dear Bilbo! he said. Something is the matter with you! You are not the hobbit that you were.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#24. I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
Ian McKellen
#25. 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
J.R.R. Tolkien
#26. I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'
Ian McKellen
#27. Journalists often ask me: "Aren't you sorry that after all the work you've done, you're best known as Magneto and Gandalf?" But that's what I've always wanted - not to be known as myself. I want to draw attention to the characters.
Ian McKellen
#29. Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.
Ian McKellen
#30. He's like our own personal Gandalf or Dumbledore or somebody cool like that ...
Cynthia Hand
#31. The realm of Suaron is ended!' said Gandalf. 'The Ring-bearer has fulfilled his Quest
J.R.R. Tolkien
#32. You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
Ian McKellen
#33. Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men.
~ Gandalf to Pippin
J.R.R. Tolkien
#34. 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
#35. Then Frodo came forward and took the crown from Faramir and bore it to Gandalf; and Aragorn knelt, and Gandalf set the White Crown upon his head and said:
Now come the days of the King, and may they be blessed while the thrones of the Valar endure!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#36. You will not pass! Roman thundered.
Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf.
Ilona Andrews
#37. Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit - may the hair on his toes never fall out!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#38. He will have guessed, surely?' said Merry. 'Were they likely to end any other way?' 'Not likely,' answered Gandalf, 'though they came to the balance of a hair. But
J.R.R. Tolkien
#39. That leaves you just ten minutes. You will have to run," said Gandalf. "But - ," said Bilbo. "No time for it," said the wizard. "But - ," said Bilbo again. "No time for that either! Off you go!" To
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#40. Great Elephants!" said Gandalf, "you are not at all yourself this morning - you have never dusted the mantelpiece!" "What's that got to do with it?
J.R.R. Tolkien
#41. But our back is to legends and we are coming home. I suppose this is the first taste of it.'
'There is a long road yet,' said Gandalf.
'But it is the last road,' said Bilbo.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#42. I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White
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#43. Farewell!' he said to Gandalf. 'I go to find the Sun!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#44. Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.)
Tom Angleberger
#45. Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.
Ian McKellen
#46. 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
#47. Without Merlin, there would be no Gandalf, so I see them as the same thing, one a continuation of the other.
Katie McGrath
#48. 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
#49. He felt wretched at this point, he'd just told off Gandalf essentially, and Dumbledore's kindness was only making him feel worse.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#50. You wouldn't happen to have a pipe and a bit of tobacco about, would-
i heard that!
gandalf enjoyed a good pipe!
why do you think he's called gandalf the gray? it wasn't for the color of his robes
Margaret Weis
#51. Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.
Ian McKellen
#52. Maybe Timlin was wrong about the nothing. It was possible. In a world where you could look up and see an eternal hallway of stars, he reckoned anything was. Maybe - Maybe. Gandalf
Stephen King
#53. Verily,' said Gandalf, now in a loud voice, keen and clear, 'that way lies our hope, where sits our greatest fear. Doom hangs still on a thread. Yet hope there is still, if we can but stand unconquered for a little while.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#54. Gandalf's a good guy, and it's a good part. He says the right things, he believes the right things. An actor can have fun with it.
Ian McKellen
#55. Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#56. There are people who've enjoyed my work in the theater, and they let me know that it was special for them. I'm not going to say, 'Well, you should have seen me as Gandalf!'
Ian McKellen
#57. Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him.
George R R Martin
#58. Knock on the doors with your head, Peregrin Took,' said Gandalf. 'But if that does not shatter them, and I am allowed a little peace from foolish questions, I will seek for the opening words.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#59. Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed) - Gandalf came by.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#60. 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
#61. He raised his staff. There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight was blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark as night. The fire faded to sullen embers. Only Gandalf could be seen, standing white and tall before the blackened hearth.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#62. I tried to slip past her again, but she blocked my path and then stomped her foot down in front of me again, pretending like she was Gandalf and I was the balrog.
Ernest Cline
#63. That's right ... I'm Gandalf with boobs.
(Valerie Stevens.)
Sean Cummings
#64. Hush, hush! Good People! and good night!" said Gandalf, who came last. "Valleys have ears, and some elves have over marry tongues. Good night!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#65. You will die a worse death if you do not leave my domain," a voice thundered down from the third story of the old tenement. "I am a servant of the Sacred Fire, the wielder of the flame of Arnor - " "So I should call you Gandalf?
Karen Chance
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Against his will, Magnus found a smile curving his lips as he rummaged around for his big blue coffee cup that said BETTER THAN GANDALF across the front in sparkly letters. He was besotted; he was officially revolted by himself.
Cassandra Clare
#70. Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles.
"May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#71. Gandalf thought of most things; and though he could not do everything, he could do a great deal for friends in a tight corner.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#72. My fear in life, I don't have any kind of specifics like snakes or spiders or anything but I think if I was covered in buttermilk naked running down the street being chased by Gandalf, I'd say, or I don't know, I'm just making it up!
Theo James
#73. true courage is not knowing when to take a life, but when to spare one"
~Gandalf
J.R.R. Tolkien
#74. Even the good plans of wise wizards like Gandalf and of good friends like Elrond go astray sometimes when you are off on dangerous adventures over the Edge of the Wild, and Gandalf was a wise enough wizard to know it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#75. But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.'
'Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly. 'The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#76. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket.
Jim Butcher
#77. Bilbo shut his mouth tight with a snap. "That's right," said Gandalf.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#78. If power is the only important thing, then Frodo loses against Sauron. Hell, if power's the only important thing then Gandalf loses against Sauron. If magic is the deciding factor of a fight, then four plucky kids from England get their asses turned to stone by the White Which.
Patrick Rothfuss
#79. His computer skills awed the office ladies. They treated him like Gandalf.
Rainbow Rowell
#80. Gandalf saves the world and saves the soul of the world, really.
Ian McKellen
#81. Oscar always opens up doors, especially the night of the Oscars. On that night, you hold that gold man, and it's like having Gandalf's staff. You can go anywhere and do anything. It's a talisman of such power.
Alex Gibney
#82. I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been an even stronger story if Tolkien had left him dead.
George R R Martin
#83. yes,' said Frodo. 'But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#84. I'd like to be Gandalf for a day - he's so wise, he's so powerful, and he's so caring. I love Gandalf. When they remake 'Lord of The Rings,' maybe I'll play it.
Ansel Elgort
#85. I don't think I know your name.'
'Yes, yes my dear sir and I do know your name Mr. Bilbo Baggins. And you do know my name, though you don't remember that I belong to it. I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#86. Why was I chosen?'
'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#87. Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.
To look ahead,' said he.
And what brought you back in the nick of time?'
Looking behind,' said he.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#88. What a lot of things you do use Good morning for! said Gandalf.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#89. Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#90. Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#91. When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.
Ian McKellen
#92. I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.
William P. Young
#93. I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
Ian McKellen
#94. Gandalf sat at the head of the party with the thirteen dwarves all round: and Bilbo sat on a stool at the fireside,
J.R.R. Tolkien
#95. When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.
Ian McKellen
#96. What did I tell you, Mr. Pippin?' said Sam, sheathing his sword. 'Wolves won't get him. That was an eye-opener, and no mistake! Nearly singed the hair off my head!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#97. Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#98. Great gandalfs ghost!
if he had a ghost. i doubt it. he was such a snob ...
Margaret Weis
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