Quotes About The Fellowship Of The Ring

#1. 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

#2. I like ordinary. People only wish for adventure until they're stuck in the middle of one. Haven't you ever seen The Fellowship of the Ring?

Kendare Blake

#3. That the printer had quietly reset The Fellowship of the Ring, and that copies had been issued without proof having been read by the author, never became known to Tolkien; while his publisher, Rayner Unwin, learned of it only thirty-eight years after the fact.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. We formed the fellowship of the ring when we should've all just gone on medication

Nancy Werlin

#5. My first score for 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy, 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' was the beginning of my journey into the world of Tolkien, and I will always hold a special fondness for the music and the experience.

Howard Shore

#6. The first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring, was published in Great Britain by the London firm George Allen & Unwin on 29 July 1954; an American edition followed on 21 October of the same year, published

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don't bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year.

Joel Siegel

#8. THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

Anonymous

#9. 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

#10. Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. It's some kind of Elvish.I can't read it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. 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

#13. The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot.

Peter Jackson

#14. Legolas was standing, gazing northwards into the darkness, thoughtful and silent as a young tree in a windless night.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. A light like the glint of water on dewy grass flashed from under her feet as she danced.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#18. 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

#19. 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!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#20. Let him go, you filth! Let him go! You will not touch him again!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#21. Elrond was in his chair and the fire was on his face like summer-light upon the trees.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#22. Even in ancient days they were, as a rule, shy of 'the Big Folk', as they call us, and now they avoid us with dismay and are becoming hard to find.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#23. 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.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#24. 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!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#25. 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?

J.R.R. Tolkien

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

J.R.R. Tolkien

#27. 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

#28. Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

J.R.R. Tolkien

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

J.R.R. Tolkien

#33. Though thereafter we may walk in the shadows, I will not go forth as a thief in the night.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. There is darkness there that never sleeps.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#38. I pity snails, and all that carry their homes on their backs.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#39. 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

#40. And what do you wish?' he said at last.
'That what should be shall be,' she answered.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#41. It is mine to give to whom I will, like my heart.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#42. Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

J.R.R. Tolkien