A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
AragornA time may come soon, said he, when none will return. Then there will be need of valour without renown, for none shall remember the deeds that are done in the last defense of your homes. Yet the deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.
AragornA Wizard Is Never Late, Nor Is He Early. He Arrives Precisely When He Means To
GandalfAll 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.
PoemAll we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
GandalfAnd now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the
Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and
terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the
Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger
than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!
GaladrielAnd some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
GaladrielAnd to that I hold. I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
ArwenBut in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
SamwiseBut that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten.
SamwiseCourage will now be your best defense against the storm that is at hand, that and such hope as I bring.
Gandalf
Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.
GandalfDeep is the abyss that is spanned by Durins Bridge, and none has measured it, said Gimli. Yet it has a bottom, beyond light and knowledge, said Gandalf.
Gandalf GimliDeserves 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 judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
GandalfDo you remember when we first met? I thought I had wandered into a dream.
AragornDo you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
GandalfEnd? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.
GandalfEven the smallest person can change the course of the future.
GandalfFaithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
GimliFly you fools!
GandalfFOR FRODO.
AragornGo back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master. Go!
GandalfGo back? he thought. No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!
BilboGo in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
GandalfHe is in great fear, not knowing what mighty one may suddenly appear, wielding the Ring, and assailing him with war, seeking to cast him down and take his place. That we should wish to cast him down and have no one in his place is not a thought that occurs to his mind. That we should try to destroy the Ring itself has not yet entered into his darkest dream.
GandalfHe that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
GandalfI am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.
GandalfI am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.
AragornI am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! he snorted. 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 cant be right. I need a change, or something.
BilboI am with you at present, said Gandalf, but soon I shall not be. I am not coming to the Shire. You must settle its affairs yourselves; that is what you have been trained for. Do you not yet understand? My time is over: it is no longer my task to set things to rights, nor to help folk to do so. And as for you, my dear friends, you will need no help. You are grown up now. Grown indeed very high; among the great you are, and I have no longer any fear at all for any of you.
GandalfI do not fear death.
AragornI do not know what strength is in my blood, but I swear to you I will not let the White City fall, nor our people fail.
AragornI don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
BilboI don't know, and I would rather not guess.
FrodoI feel I need a holiday, a very long holiday, as I have told you before. Probably a permanent holiday: I don't expect I shall return. in fact, I don't mean to, and I have made all arrangements
BilboI must rest here a moment, even if all the orcs ever spawned are after us.
GandalfI was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to.
GandalfI will give you a name, he said to it, and I shall call you Sting.
BilboI will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.
FrodoI 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.
Frodo GandalfI would have followed you. My brother. My captain. My king.
BoromirI would have gone with you to the end, into the very fires of Mordor.
AragornI'm glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee. here at the end of all things.
FrodoI'm The Faster Rider. I'll Take Him.
ArwenIf any of the Wise should with this Ring overthrow the Lord of Mordor, using his own arts, he would then set himself on Sauron's throne, and yet another Dark Lord would appear.
ElrondIf You Want Him, Come And Claim Him!
ArwenIt is a comfort not to be mistaken at all points. Do I not know it only too well!
GandalfIt is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing, such a little thing.
BoromirIt Is Mine To Give To Whom I Will, Like My Heart.
ArwenIt is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.
GandalfIt is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one.
GandalfIt is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till, he said. What weather they shall have [is not ours to rule].
GandalfIt is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.
GandalfIt is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. Well, let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy! For he is very wise, and weighs all things to a nicety in the scales of this malice. But the only measure that he knows is desire, desire for power; and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it.
GandalfIt may be your task to find the Cracks of Doom; but that quest may be for others: I do not know. At any rate you are not ready for that long road yet.
GandalfIt'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.
BilboIt's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
SamwiseLet folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy! For he is very wise, and weighs all things to a nicety in the scales of his malice. But the only measure that he knows is desire, desire for power; and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it, that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this, we shall put him out of reckoning.
GandalfLet us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes.
GandalfMany are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the wise falter.
GandalfMay the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
GandalfMaybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet, though you do not see them.
GaladrielMemory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror.
GimliMine Is The Choice Of Luthien, And As She Has Chosen, Both The Sweet And The Bitter.
ArwenMoonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
GandalfMy Friends, you bow to no one.
AragornNaked I was sent back - for a brief time, until my task is done.
GandalfNo! cried Gandalf, springing to his feet. With that power I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the Ring would gain a power still greater and more deadly. His eyes flashed and his face was lit as by a fire within. Do not tempt me! For I do not wish to become like the Dark Lord himself. Yet the way of the Ring to my heart is by pity, pity for weakness and the desire of strength to do good. Do not tempt me! I dare not take it, not even to keep it safe, unused. The wish to wield it would be too great for my strength. I shall have such need of it. Great perils lie before me.
GandalfNo, 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.
Pippin Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall
AragornNot if we hold true to each other. We will not abandon Merry and Pippin to torment and death. Not while we have strength left.
AragornOne does not simply walk into Mordor.
Boromir | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 
