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“A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.” (The Lord of the Rings Quotes)
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The Lord of the Rings
“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.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“As he fell slowly into sleep, Pippin had a strange feeling: he and Gandalf were still as stone, seated upon the statue of a running horse, while the world rolled away beneath his feet with a great noise of wind.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green. I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and people who will see a world that I shall never know.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Eldar Race. He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“Home is behind, the world ahead,
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and there are many paths to tread
through shadows to the edge of night,
until the stars are all alight.”
The Lord of the Rings
“I am old, Gandalf. I don’t look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! 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 can’t be right. I need a change, or something.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“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.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“I have passed through fire and deep water, since we parted. I have forgotten much that I thought I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“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.” (The Lord of the Rings Quotes)
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“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 rather have stayed there in peace.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“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.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“Say rather that the Ring has no power over him. He is his own master. But he cannot alter the Ring itself, nor break its power over others. And now he is withdrawn into a little land, within bounds that he has set, though none can see them, waiting perhaps for a change of days, and he will not step beyond them.” (The Lord of the Rings Quotes)
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“The Company of the Ring shall be Nine; and the Nine Walkers shall be set against the Nine Riders that are evil.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“Yet 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. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
