quotations from The Lord of the Rings
I'm old, Gandalf. I know I don't look it, but I'm beginning to feel it in my heart. I feel ... thin. Sort of stretched, like ... butter scraped over too much bread. I need a holiday. A very long holiday. And I don't expect I shall return.
BILBO
The Fellowship of the Ring
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
GILDOR
The Fellowship of the Ring
Do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands.
EOMER
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Sworn word may strengthen quaking heart.
GIMLI
The Fellowship of the Ring
From the ashes, a fire shall be woken. A light from the shadow shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken. The crownless again shall be king.
ARWEN
The Return of the King
This is no mine. It's a tomb.
BOROMIR
The Fellowship of the Ring
I always like going South; somehow, it feels like going downhill.
TREEBEARD
The Two Towers
Hroom, hm, come, my friends. The Ents are going to war. It is likely that we go to our doom. The last march of the Ents.
TREEBEARD
The Two Towers
Men are weak. The Blood of Numenor is all but spent, its pride and dignity forgotten. It is because of Men the Ring survives.
ELROND
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Short cuts make long delays.
PIPPIN
The Fellowship of the Ring
It came to me, my own, my love... my... preciousssss.
GOLLUM
The Fellowship of the Ring
I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.
PIPPIN
The Return of the King
All our hopes now lie with two little hobbits, somewhere in the wilderness.
GANDALF
The Two Towers
I miss the Shire. I spent all my life pretending I was off somewhere else. Off with you, on one of your adventures. But my own adventure turned out to be quite different. I'm not like you, Bilbo.
FRODO
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Fellowship is breaking, it has already begun. He will try to take the Ring, you know of whom I speak. One by one, it will destroy them.
GALADRIEL
The Fellowship of the Ring
Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.
GANDALF
The Two Towers
They cursed us. Murderer they called us. They cursed us, and drove us away. And we wept, Precious, we wept to be so alone. And we only wish to catch fish so juicy sweet. And we forgot the taste of bread ... the sound of trees ... the softness of the wind. We even forgot our own name. My Precious.
GOLLUM
The Return of the King
It's the Dwarves that go swimming with little, hairy woman.
GIMLI
The Return of the King
Are all these children yours? Gracious, you have been productive.
BILBO
The Fellowship of the Ring
Generous deeds should not be checked by cold council.
FARAMIR
The Return of the King