Favorite Lotr Book Quotes!

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"Well!" said Frodo at last, sitting up and straitening his back, as if he had made a decision. "I can't keep it in the dark any longer. I've got somethng to tell you all, but I don't know quite how to begin."
"I think I could help you," said Merry quietly, "by telling you some of it myself."
"What do you mean?" said Frodo, looking at him anxiously.
"Just this, my dear old Frodo: you are miserable, because you don't know how to say goodbye. You meant to leave the Shire, of course. But danger has come on you sooner than you expected and now you are making up your mind to go at once. And you don't want to. We are very sorry for you."
Frodo opened his mouth and shut it again. His look of surprise was so comical that they laughed. "Dear old Frodo!" said Pippin. "Did you really think you had thrown dust in our eyes? You have not been nearly carefull or clever enough for that! You have obviously been planning to go and saying farewell to all your haunts all this year since April. We have constantly heard you muttering: "Shall I ever look down into that valley again, I wonder", and things like that. And pretending that you had come to the end of your money, and actually selling your beloved Bag End to those Sackville-Bagginses! And all those close talks with Gandalf."
"Good heavens!" said Frodo. "I thought I had been both carefull and clever. I don't know what Gandlaf would say. Is all the Shire disscussing my disparture then?"
 
"Oh no!" said Merry. "Don't worry about that! The secret won't keep for long, ofcourse; but at the present it is, I think, only known to us conspirators. After all, you must remember that we know you well, and are often with you. We can usually guess what you are thinking. I knew Bilbo, too. To tell you the truth, I have been watching you rather closely ever since he left. I though you would go after him sooner or later; indeed I expected you to go sooner, and lately we have been very anxious. We have been terrified that you might give us the slip, and go off suddenly, all on your own like he did. Ever since the spring we have kept our eyes open, and done a good deal of planning on our own account. You are not going to escape so easily!"

"But I must go," said Frodo. "It cannot be helped, dear friends. It is wretched for us all, but it is no use your trying to keep me. Since you have guessed so much, please help me and do not hinder me!"

"You do not understand!" said Pippin. "You must go - and therefore we must, too.
Merry and I are coming with you. Sam is an excellent fellow, and would jump down a dragon's throat to save you, if he did not trip over his own feet; but you will need more than one companion in your dangerous adventure."
 
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken.
A light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken.
The crownless again shall be king.

FotR
 
I love the way Tolkien makes each race of free people have their own style of poetry. You can't even tell that it's really all one man who writes all of the songs and lore things. He's one awesome poet. :D
 
Hey, here's a great Gimli quote! In happy hour you have returned to us, Gandalf, cried the Dwarf, capering as he sang loudly in the strange dwarf-tongue. Come on! he shouted, swinging his axe. Since Gandalf's head is now sacred, let us find one that is right to cleave! :lol: :D
 
Oh I love that part! How Gimli is all happy at the message from Galadriel while the other two are all down trodden with the gloomy words she's sent to them. It's kind of funny. :lol: :rolleyes:
 
The part where Aragorn says "we must read the riddles if we are to choose our course aright" and then Gimli says "but what if there is no right choice?" it was beautiful 'cause it kind of made me think about life now...it's so hard to know what's right and what's wrong in some situations and to know what IS the right choice...
 
I've always liked the little poems that Galadriel sent to the three hunters through Gandalf.

"Where now are the Dunedain, Elessar, Elessar?
Why do thy kinsfolk wander afar?
Near is the hour when the Lost should come forth,
And the Grey Company ride from the North.
But dark is the path appointed for thee:
The Dead watch the road that leads to the Sea."

"Legolas Greenleaf, long under tree
In joy thou hast lived, beware of the sea!
If thou hearest the cry of the gull on the shore,
Thy heart shall then rest in the forest no more."

"To Gimli son of Gloin, give his Lady's greeting.
Lockbearer, wherever thou goest my though goes with thee.
But have a care to lay thine axe to the right tree!"
 
My favorite, favorite quote


'Halflings!' laughed the rider that stood beside Eomer. '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. The green earth, say you? That is a mightly matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!'
 
I just love it for the part about the earth being a legend - the creation story of earth is so powerful, and then to think that you're a part of its' story unfolding... that legends may be told about our time someday... incredible.
 
It is very incredible!! Just like the part in Bilbo's song in Rivendell when he sings...

"I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people who shall see a world
That I will never know."

That always made me cry. :) It's so awesome to think that we are living history. Someday people will talk about us and think about us which is cool!
 
Oh, that poem would make me cry because of all the things we will never get a chance to see:

In every wood in every spring
There is a different green.

The same is for 'Upon the Hearth'. It's so beautiful but also somehow sad. I love and hate that style of Tolkien's poetry.
 
Gil-galad was an elven king
Of him the harpers sadly sing,
The last whose realm was fair and free,
Between the mountains and the sea

His Sword was long, his lance was keen,
His shining healm afar was seen
The countless stars of Heaven's field,
Are mirrored in his silver shield

But long ago he rode away,
And where he dwelleth none can say...

And for some reason I can never quite remember the rest of it... I know it's about his going to Mordor, but I can't quite get it.:mad:
 
...But long ago he rode away,
And where he dwelleth none can say...
...For into darkness fell his star,
in Mordor where the shadows are.

:) I love that song, I used to sing it to my youngest brother. My favorites always been;

In western land beneath the sun the flowers may rise in spring,
the trees may bud the waters run, the merry finches sing,
or there maybe 'tis cloudless night and swaying beaches bare,
the elven stars as jewels white, amid their branching hair,
though here at journey’s end I lye in darkness buried deep,
beyond all towers strong and high, beyond all mountians steep,
above all shadows rides the sun, and stars forever dwell,
I will not say the day is done, nor bid the stars farwell.
 
"Let us not be overthrown at the final test, who of old renouced the Shadow and the Ring. In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound to the circles of the world and beyond them is more than memory. Farewell!"

"Turn your face from the green world, and look where all seems barren and cold."

"I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy are come to me that no reason can deny... in this hour I do not believe any darkness will endure."

This almost brought me to tears today:

Lay of the Children of Húrin
"But the tears were dried in his tortured eyes
by the flames of anguish that filled his soul
...
light lay the earth on the lonely dead
Heavy lay the woe on the heart that lived.
that grief was graven with grim token
on his face and form, nor faded ever:
and this was the third of the throes of Túrin"
(I know its not from LotR, but I was reading it today)
-DoLW
 
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew;
Of wind I sang, a wind there came, and in the branches blew...
...But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me?
What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a sea?

I've always loved that one; it's so sad...
 
"At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice.
'I will take the ring,' he said, 'though I do not know the way.'" -Frodo

I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are an evil." -Gandalf
 
A band of talanted and highly spiritual folk never claimed to write Elven music...yet that's exactly what they did. LISTEN TO YES!!! The albums "Fragile", "Close to the Edge" and "Going for the One" are all loaded with music with an Elvish air. In my humble opinion, the song that introduces the Yes attitude best (and most briefly) is on the "Fragile" album. Its the type of lead-follow song called a round (example, Row, row, row your boat) and is titled, "We Have Heaven".
"Tell the Moon Dog, tell the March Hare; Tell them all, tell them, man- It's here! (Here, it is, Here!) Don't look around (Here, it is, Here!) We have heaven!" (Yes! Here it is, Here) We have heaven! Please please hear these guys, and good luck with your songwriting, in the Lion's name.
 
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