What the best Lord of the rings quotes can teach you

The Lord Of The Rings is an epic novel written by J. R. R. Tolkien.
From this novel, many quotes remains as part of the culture, including quotes about love, friendship, adventure,… So here are the best quotes from The Lord Of The Rings, taught by Gollum, Gandalf, Aragorn, Sam…

J.R.R Tolkien as a writter

I wished to be loved by another, but I desire no man’s pity. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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. — Elrond

Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars. — J. R. R. Tolkien

That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for. — Sam

Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised. — Aragorn

The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time. — Gandalf

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

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

I’m glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee…here at the end of all things. — Frodo

I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you. — Sam

Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep, for not all tears are an evil. — Gandalf

But in the ends it’s only a passing thing, this shadow, even darkness must pass. — Sam

I am very fond indeed of it, and of all the dear old Shire, but I think I need a holiday. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. — Gimli

All’s well that ends better. — J.R.R. Tolkien

You have had some very strange adventures, I hear,’ said Glóin. ‘I wonder greatly what brings four hobbits on so long a journey. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?. — J.R.R. Tolkien

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. — Gandalf

You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Not all those who wander are lost. — J R R Tolkien

Lord of the rings quotes

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not! — Gandalf

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. — Gildor

Not all those who wander are lost. — Bilbo

The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.Boromir. — J.R.R. Tolkien

But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow, even darkness must pass. — Sam Gamgee

But the fat Hobbit, he knows. Eyes always watching. — Gollum

Your time will come. You will face the same Evil, and you will defeat it. — Arwen

Death is just another path, one that we all must take. — J.R.R Tolkien

Well, I’ve made up my mind, anyway. I want to see mountains again, Gandalf mountains, and then find somewhere where I can rest. — J.R.R. Tolkien

They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water. I saw them: grim faces and evil, and noble faces and sad. Many faces proud and fair, and weeds in their silver hair. But all foul, all rotting, all dead. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror. — Gimli

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I’ll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind,. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. — Gandalf

Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread through shadows to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight. — J.R.R Tolkien

Seldom will Orcs journey in the open under the sun, yet these have done so,’ said Legolas. ‘Certainly they will not rest by night. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises! — J.R.R. Tolkien

It is not the strength of the body, but the strength of the spirit. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread through shadows to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I don’t feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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. — J.R.R. Tolkien

adventure, courage and values

Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I am Gandalf the White. And I come back to you now… at the turn of the tide. — Gandalf

Evil will be drawn to you from outside the fellowship. And, I fear, from within you must trust yourself. Trust your own strengths. — Gandalf

Soft as butter they can be, and yet sometimes as tough as old tree-roots. — J.R.R. Tolkien

His grief he will not forget, but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom. — Aragorn

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 a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing… such a little thing. — Boromir

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish…. — Sam

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them. — Warden

Who knows? Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Now at this last we must take a hard road, a road unforeseen. There lies our hope, if hope it be. To walk into peril to Mordor. We must send the Ring to the Fire. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The burned hand teaches best. After that advice about fire goes to the heart. — 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

Worst is a bad word, I said to him,and I hope you do not live to see it. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Often does hatred hurt itself! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Even the smallest person can change the course of history. — Lady Galadriel

It’s the job that’s never started, that takes longest to finish. — Sam Gamgee

The sky was clear and the stars were growing bright. ‘It’s going to be a fine night,’ he said aloud. ‘That’s good for a beginning. I feel like walking. — J.R.R. Tolkien

No me amáis, o no queréis amarme? -Quería el amor de otro hombre -respondió ella-. Mas no quiero la piedad de ninguno. — J.R.R. Tolkien

You have shown your usual cunning in getting up just in time for a meal. — J.R.R. Tolkien

journey and destiny

All our hopes now lie with two little hobbits, somewhere in the wilderness. — Gandalf

Well, what can I tell you? Life in the wide world goes on much as it has this past Age, full of its own comings and goings, scarcely aware of the existence of Hobbits, for which I am very thankful. — Gandalf

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. — Thorin Oakenshield

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future. — Galadriel

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. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn! — J.R.R. Tolkien

I fear that in my eagerness to persuade you, I lost patience. And indeed I regret it. — J.R.R. Tolkien

But in this at least thou shalt not defy my will: to rule my own end. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

It is but a shadow and a thought that you love. I cannot give you what you seek. — Aragorn

Frodo began to feel restless, and the old paths seemed too well-trodden. He looked at maps, and wondered what lay beyond their edges: maps made in the Shire showed mostly white spaces beyond its borders. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror,. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true. — Galadriel

Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles. — Sam

Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Sam was the only member of the party who had not been over the river before. He had a strange feeling as the slow gurgling stream slipped by: his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Just a plain hobbit you look,’ said Bilbo. ‘But there is more about you now than appears on the surface. Good luck to you! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story. — Bilbo

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. — Faramir

Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Who are you, Master?’ he asked. ‘Eh, what?’ said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. ‘Don’t you know my name yet? That’s the only answer. Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?. — J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

Go now, and die in what way seems best to you. — J.R.R. Tolkien

more quotes from lord of the rings

A day may come when the courage of men fails, but it’s not this day. — Aragorn

A day may come when the courage of men fails… but it’s not THIS day. — Aragorn

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish. — Sam Gamgee

Well, I am going back into the open air, to see what the wind and sky are doing! — J.R.R. Tolkien

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the Ages of this world alone. — Arwen

I look foul and feel fair. — J.R.R. Tolkien

He drew a deep breath. ‘Well, I’m back,’ he said. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The great storm is coming, but the tide has turned. — J.R.R. Tolkien

See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we grows very strong, stronger than Wraiths. Lord Sméagol? Gollum the Great? The Gollum! Eat fish every day, three times a day, fresh from the sea. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The wise speak only of what they know. — Gandalf

I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and people who will see a world that I shall never know. But all the while I sit and think of times there were before, I listen for returning feet and voices at the door. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Why couldn’t he stop talking and let them drink his health?. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Oh, it’s quite simple. If you are a friend, you speak the password, and the doors will open. — Gandalf

I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Elves and Dragons! I says to him. Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. — J.R.R. Tolkien

This day does not belong to one man but to all. Let us together rebuild this world that we may share in the days of peace. — Aragorn

You will soon be well, if I do not talk you to death. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I found not being able to use a pen or pencil as defeating as the loss of her beak would be to a hen. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

But there, my friends, songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall. — Elrond

Productivity and motivation

For the time will soon come when Hobbits will shape the fortunes of all. — 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 In 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

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren. — J.R.R. Tolkien

But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.’ ‘Yes, we do,’ said Pippin sadly. ‘The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it. — J. R. R. Tolkien

He that breaks a thing to find out what it’s, has left the path of wisdom. — Gandalf

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. — J. R. R. Tolkien

We swears, to serve the master of the Precious. We will swear on… on the Precious! — Gollum

Mordor. The one place in Middle-Earth we don’t want to see any closer. And it’s the one place we’re trying to get to. It’s just where we can’t get. Let’s face it, Mr. Frodo, we’re lost. — Sam

The counsel of Gandalf was not founded on foreknowledge of safety, for himself or for others,’ said Aragorn. ‘There are some things that it’s better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I am Aragorn son of Arathorn, and if by life or death I can save you, I will. — J.R.R. Tolkien

And to that I hold. I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. — Arwen

Who knows? Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope! — Gandalf

But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow, even darkness must pass. — Sam

It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing. — Frodo Baggins

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. ‘Some. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: 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 to us. — J.R.R. Tolkien

If that’s being queer, then we could do with a bit more queerness in these parts. — J. R. R. Tolkien

The Ring has awoken, it’s heard its masters call. — Gandalf

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. — J.R.R. Tolkien

But there, my friends, songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely.Treebeard. — J.R.R. Tolkien

It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two, Master Warden,’ answered Éowyn. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Yet dawn is ever the hope of men,’ said Aragorn. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Anyways, you need people of intelligence on this sort of… mission… quest… thing. — Pippin

Some who have read the book, or at any rate reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no reason to complain, since I have similar opinions of their work, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Though here at journey’s end I lie in darkness buried deep, beyond all towers strong and high, beyond all mountains steep, above all shadows rides the Sun and Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, nor bid the Stars farewell. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Yet it’s not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour 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. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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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 way is shut. Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still, but he did not look at them. The way is shut, his voice said again. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut. — J.R.R. Tolkien

He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away, but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire. — J R R Tolkien

He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Farewell!’ he said to Gandalf. ‘I go to find the Sun!’ Then swift as a runner over firm sand he shot away, and quickly overtaking the toiling men, with a wave of his hand he passed them, and sped into the distance, and vanished round the rocky turn. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.’ ‘What do you fear, lady?’ he asked. ‘A cage,’ she said. ‘To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity. — J.R.R. Tolkien

White! he sneered.It serves as a beginning. White cloth may dyed. The white page can be overwritten, and the white light can be broken.In which case it’s no longer white, said I.And he that breaks a thing to find out what it’s has left the path of wisdom. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Halflings! But they are only a little people in old songs and children’s tales out of the North. Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?’ ‘A man may do both,’ said Aragorn. ‘For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Sing, all ye children of the West, for your king shall come again, and he shall dwell among you, all the days of your life. And the Tree that was withered shall be renewed, and he shall plant it in the high places, and the City shall be blessed. Sing, all ye people! — J.R.R. Tolkien

You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo. — Merry

Then the enchantment became more and more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and silver was flowing over him, too multitudinous for its pattern to be comprehended, it became part of the throbbing air about him, and it drenched and drowned him. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Let us enter! For it’s only in the coming of Aragorn that any hope remains for the sick that lie in the House. Thus spake Ioreth, wise-woman of Gondor: The hands of the king are the hands of a healer, and so shall the rightful king be known. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Hobbits!’ he thought. ‘Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree. Three of them! There’s something mighty queer behind this.’ He was quite right, but he never found out any more about it. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord. Alas for Gimli son of Glóin! — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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