Whats some of your favorite quotes from LotR?

[Elenciryaquen]

Hello all, I'm new to the board, but not to Tolkien :D And thought I'd ask a question. Whats some of everyones favorites quotes from LotR, you can post as many or as little as you want! Heres some of mine ....



"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end
of our fellowship in Middle-earth.
Go in peace!
I will not say: do not weep;for not all tears are an evil." - Gandalf


"I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way." - Frodo


"What are you going to do then?" asked Pippin', undaunted by the wizards's bristling brows. "Knock on the doors with your head, Pergrin Took!" said Gandalf. "But if that does not shatter them, and I'm allowed a little piece from foolish questions, I will seek for the opening words." - Pippin/Gandalf


"Come, Mr. Frodo" he cried. "I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you as well as it. So up you get! Come on, Mr. Frodo dear! Sam will give you a ride. Just tell him wear to go and he'll go." - Sam


"The board is set and the pieces are moving" - Gandalf


"I fancy, that even if we had entered in, we could have found few treasures in Orthanc more precious than the thing which Wormtongue threw down at us." A shrill shriek, suddenly cut off, came from a open window high above. "It seems Saruman thinks so too!" - Gandalf


YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"- Gandalf


"Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?" "The names of all the stars, and all the living things, and the whole history of Middle-earth and Over-heaven, and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What else?" - Gandalf/Pippin


"Listen, Hound of Sauron! Gandalf is here. Fly, if you value your foul skin! I will shrivel you from tail to snout, if you come within this ring!" - Gandalf


"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." - Gimil


And I could go on, but I shall not! ;)

[Camille]

Hello How are you, well sorry to not post all the quotes, but I have read the LOTR in Spanish, and if I translate them it will be a mess :D but last night I was reading (again) the Fellowship and reading your post I remebered this part made me laugh:

What are you going to do then?" asked Pippin', undaunted by the wizards's bristling brows. "Knock on the doors with your head, Pergrin Took!" said Gandalf. "But if that does not shatter them, and I'm allowed a little piece from foolish questions, I will seek for the opening words." - Pippin/Gandalf

I thinks is the funiest part!!

[legendz28]

I don't really have a favorite quote, but my favorite scene (from the book anyway, I don't know if it'll make it entirely to the movie) are the scenes with the Ents. Treebeard is great, so is Quickbeam.

[Beleg Strongbow]

Gandalf 2 Frodo bout Gollum

Some that get death desreve life
Some that have life deserve death
Can you give it to em?
No well don't be to hasty to deal out death as a punishment.

and in the movie Pippen at the council of Elrond says
I'm comen too
So where are we going?

Tight's quotes!:D :D :o :p

[Diabless]

my quote below. agreat thing to say to someone and baffle them.

I also like Gollum's lines like (not exact)

"We wants fishessssssss"

"Nasty hobbitsss"

"Nice mastersss"

"Dont hurtss uss!"
and so on

[JanitorofAngmar]

Came from someone a while ago. It went like this:

Gollum: "Don't want fish"

Best one from the book...period.

:D :D :D
JoA

[Tyaronumen]

Goldberry (on Bombadil): "He is."

[Greenwood]

Beleg Strongbow has beaten me to it with his first quote above. If everyone adopted the philosophy behind that quote the world would be a far better and happier place.

[Harad]

"Ai! Ai! A Balrog. A Balrog is come!"

And thanks Elenciryaquen for the quote about "White"

[bunnywhippit]

Heh. I just mentioned this in another thread. One of my all time favourite quotes has to be from FotR : The Ring Goes South pg. 303. It's where Sam mutters to Frodo about thinking Redhorn was "that Fiery Mountain" :

"I thought at first that this here Redhorn, or whatever its name is, might be it, till Gimli spoke his piece. A fair jaw-cracker dwarf-language must be!"

That just kills me! It's so simple and somewhat ordinary/normal response to something you've never really come in contact with, yet it says so much about where the Hobbits where, how unwordly (at least Sam was) and how far they then come.

[SarumansTreason]

My fovourite Gollum quote is the sneak one.....
Sam starts telling him off about being a sneak....Gollum starts using the word Sneak.

I also like (not exact quote) "Taters, whats taters? ... eh? Whats taters?"

My favourite quote of Gandalf is "Fly you fools!" Thats the most hereoic line in the whole novel.

Favourite elf quote is "If you want him, come and claim him... Ouch I broke a nail!" (Thanks whosever signature I read that off of.!)

[Rian]

My favorite qoute? Hmm I have so many! Some have already been taken too. Here are few more, but not all, that I like.

Gandalf to Frodo; "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

Gildor to Frodo; "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill."

Theoden to Saruman; "we will have peace, when you and all your works have perished - and the works of your dark master to whom you would deliver us."

Gimli at the paths of the dead; ' "Here is a thing unheard of!" he said. "An Elf will go underground and a Dwarf dare not!" '

[Kit Baggins]

My favourite quote is when Sam offers to cook fish and chips for Gollum:
"Give me fish *now* and keep nassty chips!"

Kit :p

[Tyaronumen]

Y'know, I can't help but have the feeling that the folks around here whose favorite quotes are Gollum quotes would like to pinch li'l Smeagol's cheeks and cuddle him. :)

Edit: "He pinched me cheekses! Nassssty Kit Bagginses." :)

[Beorn]

MODS: Might you merge these Three!

http://www.thetolkienforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=709

http://www.thetolkienforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1773

http://www.thetolkienforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2245


And before they do, everyone should look at the first two!

[Gary Gamgee]

I've not got a copy with me so these may not be exact.

"it was the pity of Bilbo that may rule the fate of many."
Gandalf

"are you going to bury me?":(
Merry

"and I brought you here to test your heart?"
Galadriel

Frodo to Smeagol "where have you been?"
"sneaking!" Smeagol

"They are far"
Legolas

"i will take the ring" "but I do not know the way"
Frodo

"I know less than half of you half as much as I should like. And like less than half of you half as much as you desrevre"
Bilbo

I could on and on..........

[Lantarion]

JoA, I almost have to agree. Gollum is the single most hilarious, as well as tragic, character, and nearly every phrase he utters is humorous. Good ole Gollum. :)
But I still think this is one of the best quotes:

"What a pity that Bilbo didn't stab that vile creature, when he had the chance!"
"Pity? It was pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity."

Great quote, I say.

[JanitorofAngmar]

Pont,

Amen to that!!

That whole discussion between Gandalf & Frodo is by far IMHO the wisest and most valuable portion of the book (to mankind that is..) In fact I just about screamed "HOOO-RAYYY!" out loud in the theater when I saw the somewhat abridged version on screen (despite being WAY out of place in the story). One of my mental joys this year (and last).

As for another quote that gets to me.

It is the one when Eowyn awakes in the House of Healing and exclaims:

"The halfling, where is he? For he is Valiant! Eomer, you must make him a knight of the Riddermark.."

Or something to that effect. It gets me every time.

JoA

[Rosie Cotton]

Here are some of my favorites:

Far above the Ephel Duath in the West the night-sky was still dim and pale. There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thougt pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

'Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!' Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. 'But no living man a I! You look upon a woman. Eowyn I am, Eomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.' -Go Eowyn!!!

'You have grown, Halfling,' he said. 'Yes, you have grown very much. You are wise and cruel. You have robbed my revenge of sweetness, and now I must go hence in bitterness in debt to your mercy. I hate it and you! Well, I go and I will trouble you no more.' - That isn't the entire passage, but it would be a bit to long to type the whole thing

'I tried to save the shire, and it has been saved, but not or me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.' -that part is just so sad :(

[StriderX]

Mine is my signature!

[Thorin]

One of mine is the response of Aragorn to the Uruk-hai at Helm's Deep

"The king stays or comes at his own will." said Aragorn.
"Then what are you doing here?" they answered. "Why do you look out? Do you wish to see the greatness of our army? We are the fighting Uruk-hai!"
"I looked out to see the dawn." said Aragorn.

Doesn't that just crack you up? He could have challenged these fierce, arrogant orcs but instead he non-chalantly cracks a joke...You gotta love it!

My favorite is Gandalf's quote to Frodo to about Gollum.

"Death, I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be to eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the wise cannot see all ends."

[LadyEowyn]

'And it is aso said,' answered Frodo: 'Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.'

I really like this next quote, and I know it has been posted before, like 100 times, but, I'm going to type it out from the book, so, there won't be any mistakes.

'Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judegment. For even the wise cannot see all ends.-Gandalf.

'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. Now be quiet!'-Gandalf.

I love that quote.

[LadyEowyn]

Originally posted by StriderX
Mine is my signature!

Haha. I like that one too.

[Eonwe]

Well, everyone already picked mine...:(

I don't think anyone will pick this one, and I love it because it hints at what is possible in ME, what Gandalf would do if he had the power, and it points to the Silmarillion in order to really understand it.

Gandalf is explaining to Pippin his feeling about the Palantir that Pippin looked into (as they ride on Shadowfax together to Minas Tirith): "And how it draws one to itself! Have I not felt it? Even now my heart desires to test my will upon it, to see if I could not wrench it from him (Sauron) and turn it where I would -- to look across the wide seas of water and of time to Tirion the Fair, and perceive the unimaginable hand and mind of Feanor at their work, while both the White Tree and the Golden were in flower!"

OK I'm a Sil nerd...:)

[Shuruga]

"Though Isenguard be strong and hard, as cold as stone and bare as bone",

"We go, we go, we go to war, to hew the stone, to break the door"

[Firiel]

Many of my favorites have already been posted, but I'll add a few that have not:

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING:

"I will help you to bear this burden, as long as it is yours to bear"

"But in the meantime, what course am I to take?"
"Towards danger, but not to rashly, nor too strait".

"Elan sila lumenn omentilmo: a star shines on the hour of our meeting"

"Well, sir, if I could grow apples like that, I'd call myself a gardener. But it was the singing that went to my heart, if you know what I mean"

"Yes sir. I don't know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back. It isn't to see Elves now, nor dragons, nor mountains that I want-- I don't rightly know what I want: but I have something to do before the end, and it lies ahead, not in the SHire. I must see it through sir, if you uderstand me."

"Shortcuts make for long delays, but inns make for longer ones"

"There's earth under his old feet, and clay on his fingers; wisdom in his bones, and both his eyes are open."

"Well, I saw what I saw, and I saw what I didn't"

"I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and if by life or death I can save you, I will"

"Yet such is the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."

"Who of all the Wise could have forseen it? Or if they are wise, why should they expect to know it, until the hour has struck?"

"I think that in this matter it would be well to trust rather to their friendship than to great wisdom."

"Your hands shall flow with gold, yet over you gold shall have no dominion"

(Quotes from Two Towers in next post. :cool: )

[Anarchist]

The one I reeeeeeally enjoyed was when merry was at the houses of healing. Aragorn awakes him and he wants to smoke. Looking for his pack Aragorn says:
"Master Meriadoc, if you thing that I have passed through the mountains and the realm of Gondor with fire and sword to bring herbs to a careless soldier who throws away his gear you are mistaken." etc. etc.
Then Aragorn leaves and Pippin among others says this:
"...My dear ass, your pack is lying by your bed and you had it on your back when I met you. He saw it all the time of course...":D
That was a great one. The most epic part is where Gandalf says to the Balrog "Go back to the shadow! You cannot pass!" Then, falling in the abyss he says: "Fly you fools!". That point raised the hair all over my body!

[Mithril 2000]

"BEHOLD THE KING!" at the coronation of Aragorn in ROTK, before the gates of Minas Tirith, uttered by the new Steward, Faramir. Re- read this passage ( in context) and tell me it doesn't give you goose bumps!

[FrodetteBaggins]

Ok this is my favourite from the film...

PIPPIN: What about breakfast?
STRIDER: no time
PIPPIN: Second breakfast? Luncheon, Afternoon tea??
MERRY: I don't think he knows about afternoon tea pip.

I may be the only one but I LOVE THAT BIT!!

'Strider throws apple and it hits Pippin on the head'

[Faramir]

One of my favorites is when the fellowship is caught in the snow on Caradhras.

"It is no good going back while the storm holds.' said Aragorn. "We have passed no place on the way up that afforded more shelter than this cliff-wall we are under now."

"Shelter!' muttered Sam. 'If this is shelter, then one wall and no roof make a house.'

[pointy-eared]

mmmmh:( i'll have to rereread the trilogy with a pen and some sheets to parks the pages where my fav. quotes are...i think there are quite many throughout the book, so if you don't mind i'll distilled all this at every visit of the site.

yet, having just reread LOTR and its fabulous ending, one sentence sounded marvellous to me and quite attaching, it's frodo and sam rediscorvering a shattered and completely destroyed bag end, in hte third book, chapter 'the scouring of the shire', and standing in front of this ugly building of bricks that once was a lovley hobbit-hole covered with grass they say:

'It's mordor!' and one of them even adds 'Or worse, since we know what the place used to be' or smthg like that.

Anyway it's a nice way to express what i felt about ending the book: nothing can be worse than returning home after a period of adventure. You are in front of all teh changes that have occured to you, in you, and all around you. That nothing can ever be the same from one second to the other.

[Goldberry]

Bravo to all of you! You have captured the quotes I love, including the ones that bring me to tears.

Another quote I love is at the Prancing Pony, when Butterbur tells Frodo he would not take up with a Ranger, he gets this reaction from Strider:
'Then who would you take up with?' asked Strider. 'A fat innkeeper who only remembers his own name because people shout it at him all day?'

Then later when Frodo says to Strider:
'I think one of his spies would--well, seem fairer and feel fouler, if you understand.'
'I see,' laughed Strider. 'I look foul and feel fair. Is that it?'

Talk about putting one's foot in one's mouth!

[Quercus]

"Will you not put aside your doubt of me and let me go? I am weary, and full of grief, and afraid. But I have a deed to do, or to attempt, before I too am slain." Frodo to Faramir, in Ithilien.

"One for the Shire! The hobbit's bite is deep! You have a good blade, Frodo son of Drogo! Aragorn to Frodo, in Moria.

"Frodo, Mr. Frodo! Don't leave me here alone! It's your Sam calling. Don't go where I can't follow! Wake Up, Mr. Frodo! O wake up, Frodo, me dear, me dear. Wake up!" Sam to Frodo, at Cirith Ungol.

[Niniel]

I was wondering what you think is the best sentence (or sentences) from LOTR. There are already threads about best book, best chapter and best song, so I think this would be fun to discuss.
I have a few examples of sentences I really like:

(about Frodo when he's sitting on Amon Hen)

He heard himself crying out: Never, never! Or was it: Verily I come, I come to you? He could not tell. Then as a flash from some other point of power there came to his mind another thought: Take it off! Take it off! Fool, take it off! Take off the Ring! The two powers strove in him. For a moment, perfectly balanced between their piercing points, he writhed, tormented. Suddenly he was himself again. Frodo, neither the Voice nor the Eye: free to choose. He took the Ring from his finger.

And this one, when Merry meets Pippin after beating the Nazgûl:
'Are you going to bury me?'

And of course Frodo: I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others might keep them.

So, what do you like best?

[Legolam]

Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand.

I love that one, and this:

Do not be too quick to deal out death and judgement

or something like that!

[Aldanil]

Here are only a pair of favorite passages out of so very many possibilities, the second filled with sentence fragments which bother this English teacher not at all.



Only a few paces from the ashes of their fire the snow lay many feet deep, higher than the heads of the hobbits; in places it had been scooped and piled by the wind into great drifts against the cliff.

"If Gandalf would go before us with a bright flame, he might melt a path for you," said Legolas. The storm had troubled him little, and he alone of the Company remained still light of heart.

"If Elves could fly over mountains, they might fetch the Sun to save us," answered Gandalf. "But I must have something to work on. I cannot burn snow."




"Old fool!" he said "Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!" And with that he lifted high his sword and flames ran down the blade.

Gandalf did not move. And in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the City, a **** crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of wizardry or war, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn.

And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns. In dark Mindolluin's sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the North wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last.


(Added on the edit: see how the protection of our noble Forum's profanity-filters have removed the "rooster" lest his presence offend us!)

[Elanor2]

Now that I have the books in front of me, there are the two that have always been in my head since:

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the wiser cannot see all ends.
Gandalf to Frodo in The Shadow of the Past

And the second, again with the subject of pity where Tolkien seem to have clear ideas of its importance:

Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart!
Faramir to Eowyn in The Steward and the King

[zeuqirne]

my favorite qoute was when Mr. Bilbo talked about Aragorn in front of the council...... here it goes:
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither;
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken:
The crownless again shall be king.