I've started a list of quotes as I've reread the trilogy:

"As for valour, that cannot be computed by stature. "- Gandalf [Return of the King]
"The hasty stroke goes oft astray."- Aragorn [Return of the King]
"Need brooks no delay, yet late is better than never."- Eomer [Return of the King]

This is an excellent thread, Arsarniel!

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Sorry in advance for the length.

"But I suppose it's often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk in the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. 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...But that's a long tale, of course, and goes on past the happiness and into grief and beyond it - and the Silmaril went on and came to Earendil. And why, sir, I never thought of that before! We've got - you've got some of the light of it in that star-glass that the Lady gave you! Why to think of it, we're in the same tale still! Don't the great tales never end?"
'No, they never end as tales,' said Frodo. 'But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later - or sooner.'
[Sam - The Two Towers, Stairs of Cirith Ungol]

"It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad that he could not see the dead face. He wondered what the man's name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies or threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would not really rather have stayed there in peace-"
[Tolkien - The Two Towers, Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit]

I love those quotes

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There are so many great quotes in Tolkien's work, great idea for a thread!



That is one of my all time favorite quotes. This is where me using LotR to support my political views comes into play

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Mine would be this one, my life motto:

The road goes ever on and on (sorry, forgot the chapter )

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I really like this section (it includes the quote in my sig):

'That Gandalf should be late, does not bode well. But it is said: Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. The choice is yours: to go or wait.'
'And it is also said,' answered Frodo: 'Go not to the elves for council, for they will say both no and yes.'
-Gildor and Frodo, FotR, chapter 3 (Three is Company)

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Wars would be more fun if we used swords again."
– one of my guyfriends

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"For myself, I would see the White Tree in flower again in the courts of kings, and the the Silver Crown return, and Minas Tirith in peace: Minas Arnor again as of old, full of light, high and fair, beautiful as a queen among other queens: not a mistress of many slaves, nay, not even a kind mistress of willing slaves. War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend: the city of the Men of Numenor; and I would have her loved for her memory, her ancestry, her beauty, and her present wisdom. Not feared, save as men may fear the dignity of a man, old and wise."

~ Faramir, TTT, Book 2, Chapter 5 (The Window on the West)


That's my all-time favorite quote from the books, I think, especially the part in bold.

Awesome quotes people. But I have to add my own quote. It is probably my favourite quote/exchange in the entire trilogy.

'"And it is also said" answered Frodo "Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes"
"Is it indeed?" laughed Gildor. "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses my run ill"'

the bit in italics is my favourite quote, but the bit in bold is a good bit of wisdom

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes

That one makes me laugh, Darrell!

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Here's an interesting one:
"But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed while others reap and sow in his stead."
(Silmarillion, Chapter 7 - Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor)

Treebeard on Old Entish:
"It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to."
(Treebeard, TTT, Book III, Chapter 4 - Treebeard)

"I am not altogether on anybody's side, because nobody is altogether on my side,"
(Treebeard again)

and one more:
"Do not be hasty, that is my motto."
(mine too! same source as above)

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"If I had a button that would cause all guns everywhere to disappear, I might push it.
Wars would be more fun if we used swords again."
– one of my guyfriends

i know no-one's posted in here in a while, but i thought i'd add to the list anyway.

"it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of the 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. what weather they shall have is not ours to rule" (gandalf, rotk)

"the realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords" (on fairy stories)

"it is said by the eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the music of the ainur more than in any substance else that is in this earth; and many of the children of iluvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the sea, and yet know not for what they listen" (silmarillion)

"[eru] willed that the hearts of men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein; but they should have a virtue to shape their life, amid the powers and chances of the world" (silmarillion)

'Praise from the praise worthy is a gift greater than all rewards' ~ Faramir TTT (don't know the chapter ).

I love that one about advice, really shows how wise elves are, being the wisest of all beings and still warning others not to trust their advice

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The quote I have in my siggy!!

"How do you pick up the threads of an old life?
How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to
understand there is no going back?
There are some things time cannot mend.
Some hurts that go too deep that have taken hold." ~ Frodo ROTK

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I love that quote. It's so... I don't know, pretty, maybe, and full of wisdom.
There's a quote from the movies (yes I know, sorry), possibly also from the books, I'm not sure, that I also love.

(Frodo: "What do we hold on to, Sam? (something like that...))
That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for!
Sam, TTT (in Osgiliath, right after the Nazgul has left)

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"Never go to the Elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes." (something like that.. I don't have the book in front of me right now)
~Gildor, FotR

"Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill."
~Gildor, FotR

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