A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
Aragorn
A 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.
Aragorn
A Wizard Is Never Late, Nor Is He Early. He Arrives Precisely When He Means To
Gandalf
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.
Poem
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Gandalf
And 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!
Galadriel
And 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.
Galadriel
And to that I hold. I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
Arwen
But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
Samwise
But 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.
Samwise
Courage 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.
Gandalf
Deep 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 Gimli
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 judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
Gandalf
Do you remember when we first met? I thought I had wandered into a dream.
Aragorn
Do 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?
Gandalf
End? 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.
Gandalf
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
Gandalf
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
Gimli
Fly you fools!
Gandalf
FOR FRODO.
Aragorn
Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master. Go!
Gandalf
Go back? he thought. No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!
Bilbo
Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
Gandalf
He 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.
Gandalf
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
Gandalf
I 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.
Gandalf
I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.
Aragorn
I 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.
Bilbo
I 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.
Gandalf
I do not fear death.
Aragorn
I 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.
Aragorn
I 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.
Bilbo
I don't know, and I would rather not guess.
Frodo
I 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
Bilbo
I must rest here a moment, even if all the orcs ever spawned are after us.
Gandalf
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to.
Gandalf
I will give you a name, he said to it, and I shall call you Sting.
Bilbo
I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.
Frodo
I 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 Gandalf
I would have followed you. My brother. My captain. My king.
Boromir
I would have gone with you to the end, into the very fires of Mordor.
Aragorn
I'm glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee. here at the end of all things.
Frodo
I'm The Faster Rider. I'll Take Him.
Arwen
If 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.
Elrond
If You Want Him, Come And Claim Him!
Arwen
It is a comfort not to be mistaken at all points. Do I not know it only too well!
Gandalf
It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing, such a little thing.
Boromir
It Is Mine To Give To Whom I Will, Like My Heart.
Arwen
It 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.
Gandalf
It 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.
Gandalf
It 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].
Gandalf
It 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.
Gandalf
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. 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.
Gandalf
It 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.
Gandalf
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.
Bilbo
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
Samwise
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 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.
Gandalf
Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes.
Gandalf
Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the wise falter.
Gandalf
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
Gandalf
Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet, though you do not see them.
Galadriel
Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror.
Gimli
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