quotations from The Lord of the Rings
In the language of Orthanc help means ruin and saving means slaying, that is plain.
GIMLI
The Two Towers
The mightiest man may be slain by one arrow.
PIPPIN
The Return of the King
I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales ... I wonder if people will ever say, "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring." And they'll say "Yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?" "Yes, my boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that's saying a lot."
SAM
The Two Towers
Come on, Sam. Remember what Bilbo used to say: "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."
FRODO
The Fellowship of the Ring
I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
SAM
The Return of the King
If anyone was to ask for my opinion, which I note they're not, I'd say we were taking the long way around.
GIMLI
The Fellowship of the Ring
What we need is a few good taters.
SAM
The Two Towers
You are far too eager and curious for a hobbit. Most unnatural.
GANDALF
The Fellowship of the Ring
There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.
TREEBEARD
The Two Towers
One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its black gates are guarded by more than just orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume. Not with ten thousand men could you do this. It is folly.
BOROMIR
The Fellowship of the Ring
Before you came along, we Bagginses were very well thought of.
FRODO
The Fellowship of the Ring
I'm glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee, here at the end of all things.
FRODO
The Return of the King
A time may come soon ... 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 defence of your homes. Yet the deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.
ARAGORN
The Return of the King
What is the house of Rohan but a thatched barn where brigands drink in the reek and rats roll on the floor with the dogs?
SARUMAN
The Return of the King
It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end ... because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing ... this shadow. Even darkness must pass.
SAM
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Fool of a Took. Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity.
GANDALF
The Fellowship of the Ring
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
GILDOR
The Fellowship of the Ring
I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
FRODO
The Fellowship of the Ring
Talking trees. What do trees have to talk about, hmmm ... except the consistency of squirrel droppings?
GIMLI
The Two Towers
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.
HALDIR
The Fellowship of the Ring