The Fellowship Of The Ring Quotes
"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."
"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."
"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
"A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities."
"It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life."
"Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need."
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them?"
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
"The Road goes ever on and on, Down from the door where it began."
"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door."
"I wish it need not have happened in my time."
"So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide."
"Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn."
"He made paths before the Big People, and saw the little People arriving."
"Goldberry is waiting. Time enough for questions around the supper table."
"Keep to the green grass. Don't you go a-meddling with old stone or cold Wights or prying in their houses, unless you be strong folk with hearts that never falter!"
"Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow; Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow."
"The drink in their drinking-bowls seemed to be clear cold water, yet it went to their hearts like wine and set free their voices."
"Tom was here before the river and the trees; Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn."
"He knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless – before the Dark Lord came from Outside."
"Speed now, fair guests! And hold to your purpose! North with the wind in the left eye and a blessing on your footsteps!"
"There is a seed of courage hidden (often deeply, it is true) in the heart of the fattest and most timid hobbit, waiting for some final and desperate danger to make it grow."
"He thought there were two eyes, very cold though lit with a pale light that seemed to come from some remote distance."
"The night was railing against the morning of which it was bereaved, and the cold was cursing the warmth for which it hungered."
"He remembered the rhyme that Tom had taught them. In a small desperate voice he began: Ho! Tom Bombadil!"
"The Man in the Moon was drinking deep, and the cat began to wail."
"The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
"He was an honest man, and well-off as things were reckoned in Bree; but thirty silver pennies was a sore blow to him."
"They tramped off, anxious and downhearted, under the eyes of the crowd."
"It is no small feat to have come so far, and through such dangers, still bearing the Ring."
"There is power, too, of another kind in the Shire."
"The race of the Kings from over the Sea is nearly at an end."
"By Elbereth and Lúthien the Fair, you shall have neither the Ring nor me!"
"The river of this valley is under his power, and it will rise in anger when he has great need to bar the Ford."
"Your heart was not touched, and only your shoulder was pierced; and that was because you resisted to the last."
"But all such places will soon become islands under siege, if things go on as they are going."
"There is great vigour in the waters that come down from the snows of the Misty Mountains."
"Yes, you are all safe for the present. Soon there will be feasting and merrymaking to celebrate the victory at the Ford of Bruinen, and you will all be there in places of honour."
"The Ring is another: you are the Ring-bearer. And you are the heir of Bilbo, the Ring-finder."
"That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported, ‘a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all’. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear, and sadness."
"Yes, you have seen a thing or two since you last peeped out of a looking-glass."
"It’s fine to see you up and yourself again, sir!"
"And Elves, sir! Elves here, and Elves there! Some like kings, terrible and splendid; and some as merry as children."
"It is precious to me, though I buy it with great pain."
"They pay a tribute of horses," he answered, "and send many yearly to Mordor, or so it is said; but they are not yet under the yoke."
"But fat men who sell ale have many calls to answer; and the power of Sauron is still less than fear makes it."
"Butterbur they call him," thought I. "If this delay was his fault, I will melt all the butter in him. I will roast the old fool over a slow fire."
"It is long since I heard them, and I thought deeply before I could recall them to my mind."
"The words are in the elven-tongue of the West of Middle-earth in the Elder Days."
"If you are a friend, speak the password, and the doors will open, and you can enter."
"Some dwarf-gates will open only at special times, or for particular persons."
"I do not know, answered Gandalf; 'but the arms were all guided by one purpose.'"
"The world was young, the mountains green, No stain yet on the Moon was seen."
"He named the nameless hills and dells; He drank from yet untasted wells."
"The world was fair, the mountains tall, In Elder Days before the fall."
"The world is grey, the mountains old, The forge’s fire is ashen-cold."
"He will not go astray – if there is any path to find."
"I do not like the feel of the middle way; and I do not like the smell of the left-hand way."
"I cannot sing any more, he said. That is but a part, for I have forgotten much."
"I have looked the last upon that which was fairest."
"For now the Kindler, Varda, the Queen of the Stars, from Mount Everwhite has uplifted her hands like clouds, and all paths are drowned deep in shadow."
"The years have passed like swift draughts of the sweet mead in lofty halls beyond the West, beneath the blue vaults of Varda wherein the stars tremble in the song of her voice, holy and queenly."
"Yet I hope very much that before we leave we shall see the Lady of the Elves again."
"It is not my part to choose for you; but I will help you as I may."
"Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zâram."
"But if hope should not fail, then I say to you, Gimli son of Glóin, that your hands shall flow with gold, and yet over you gold shall have no dominion."
"It would be folly to throw away: what? The Ring of Power?"
"For such is the way of it: to find and lose, as it seems to those whose boat is on the running stream."
"All together, paddle! Or we shall be driven on the shoals."
"The River seems set on taking us right into their arms!"
"Yrch! said Legolas, falling into his own tongue."
"Fierce voices rose up to greet it from across the water."
"Time does not tarry ever, but change and growth is not in all things and places alike."
"The passing seasons are but ripples ever repeated in the long long stream."
"I do not say destroy it. That might be well, if reason could show any hope of doing so. It does not."
"You need rest before your venture, if go you must."
"The world is changing, you say. Minas Tirith will fall, if the Ring lasts. But why?"
"Of all the confounded nuisances you are the worst, Sam!"
"It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam."