Top 33 Tolkien Elves Quotes
#1. Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
Orlando Bloom
#2. More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look ... as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely.
John Howe
#3. Ever will some new evil be hatched in Angband beyond the guess of Elves and Men,
J.R.R. Tolkien
#4. Since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#5. The 'Elves' are 'immortal', at least as far as this world goes: and hence are concerned rather with the griefs and burdens of deathlessness in time and change, than with death.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#6. Yes, they are elves," Legolas said. "and they say that you breathe so loud they could shoot you in the dark." Sam hastily covered his mouth.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#7. the Sindar they were named, the Grey-elves, the Elves of the Twilight, and King Greymantle was he, Elu Thingol in the tongue of that land. And Melian was his Queen, wiser than any child of Middle-earth;
J.R.R. Tolkien
#8. 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
#9. Elves and Dragons! I says to him. Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#10. Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#11. When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new.
Patrick Rothfuss
#12. 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
#13. For the valour of the Edain the Elves shall ever remember as the ages lengthen, marvelling that they gave life so freely of which they had on earth so little.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#14. Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#15. Do not go to the elves for council for they will say both yes and no.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#16. Elves and Dragons! Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
~Hamfast Gamgee (the Gaffer)
J.R.R. Tolkien
#19. They spoke no more of the small news of
the Shire far away, nor of the dark shadows and perils that
encompassed them, but of the fair things they had seen in
the world together, of the Elves, of the stars, of trees, and the
gentle fall of the bright year in the woods.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#20. Ho, hm, well, we could, you know! You do not know, perhaps, how strong we are. Maybe you have heard of Trolls? They are mighty strong. But Trolls are only counterfeits, made by the Enemy in the Great Darkness, in mockery of Ents, as Orcs were of Elves.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#21. Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you.
May the stars shine upon your faces!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#22. The Great among these spirits the Elves name the Valar, the Powers of Arda, and Men have often called them gods.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#23. Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all goes back to Tolkien.
John Orloff
#24. In those days the Great Enemy, of whom Sauron of Mordor was but a servant, dwelt in Angband in the North, and the Elves of the West coming back to Middle-earth made war upon him to regain the Silmarils which he had stolen; and the fathers of Men aided the Elves.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#25. Then the elves put thongs on him, and shut him in one of the inmost caves with strong wooden doors, and left him. They gave him food and drink, plenty of both, if not very fine; for Wood-elves were not goblins,
J.R.R. Tolkien
#26. O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell
J.R.R. Tolkien
#27. I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was ... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my favorite characters in the book.
Evangeline Lilly
#28. Ask not the elves for advice, because they will tell you both 'yes' and 'no'.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#29. Go not to the Elves for counsel,
for they will say both no and yes.
Elves seldom give unguarded advice,
for advice is a dangerous gift,
even from the wise to the wise,
and all courses may run ill.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#30. These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#32. 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
#33. Elves know a lot and are wondrous folk for news and know what is going on among the peoples of the land as quick as water flows, or quicker.
J.R.R. Tolkien
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