The Lord of the Rings is a film series of three epic fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson, based on the novel written by J. R. R. Tolkien. Profoundly inspirational Lord of the Rings quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
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Famous Lord of the Rings Quotes
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge it will heal nothing. Frodo
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
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. Celeborn
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish. 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
Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars. J.R.R. Tolkien
Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. Gandalf
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
Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror. Gimli
I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren. 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
All’s well that ends better. J.R.R. Tolkien
Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man’s heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned. Aragorn
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
May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. Galadriel
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
I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. Arwen
Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles. J.R.R. Tolkien
In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure. Faramir
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
For behold! the storm comes, and now all friends should gather together, lest each singly be destroyed. Gandalf
But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass. J.R.R. Tolkien
There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo and it’s worth fighting for. Sam Gangee
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. J. R. R. Tolkien
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. Gandalf
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 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.” Haldir
The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. J.R.R. Tolkien
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. Gimli
Someone else always has to carry on the story. J.R.R. Tolkien
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom. Gandalf
Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn! J.R.R. Tolkien
The wide world is all about you you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. Gildor
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future. J.R.R. Tolkien
The Ring has awoken, it’s heard its master’s call. Gandalf
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
Who knows? Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope! Gandalf
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
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn. Legolas
Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised. J.R.R. Tolkien
Do not trouble your hearts overmuch with thought of the road tonight. Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet, though you do not see them. Galadriel
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
Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story. Bilbo Baggins
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
May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years! Gandalf
Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises! J.R.R. Tolkien
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them. Warden
Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story. 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
Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard’s face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth. J.R.R. Tolkien
For the time will soon come when Hobbits will shape the fortunes of all. Galadriel
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
You are the luckiest, the canniest, and the most reckless man I ever knew. Gimli
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
You may learn something, and whether what you see be fair or evil, that may be profitable, and yet it may not. Seeing is both good and perilous. Galadriel
I’ll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind. J.R.R. Tolkien
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. Elrond
Well, I am going back into the open air, to see what the wind and sky are doing! J.R.R. Tolkien
Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars. J.R.R. Tolkien
He drew a deep breath. Well, I’m back, he said. J.R.R. Tolkien
The wise speak only of what they know. Gandalf
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
I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you. Sam Gamgee
And still Meriadoc the hobbit stood there blinking through his tears, and no one spoke to him, indeed none seemed to heed him. He brushed away the tears, and stooped to pick up the green shield that Eowyn had given him, and he slung it at his back. Then he looked for his sword that he had let fall; for even as he struck his blow his arm was numbed, and now he could only use his left hand. J.R.R. Tolkien
Courage is found in unlikely places. Gildor
Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of Tinúviel. But she chose mortality, and to die from the world, so that she might follow him; and it is sung that they met again beyond the Sundering Seas, and after a brief time walking alive once more in the green woods, together they passed, long ago, beyond the confines of this world. So it is that Lúthien Tinúviel alone of the Elf-kindred has died indeed and left the world, and they have lost her whom they most loved. J.R.R. Tolkien
It is not the strength of the body, but the strength of the spirit. J.R.R. Tolkien
Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to. J.R.R. Tolkien
You shall not pass! Gandalf
Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. J.R.R. Tolkien
You can not hide, I see you! There is no life after me. Only death! Sauron
Over the field rang his clear voice calling Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending! J.R.R. Tolkien
No, thank you! We don’t want any more visitors, well wishers or distant relations! Bilbo Baggins
There, peeping among the Cloud wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing there was a light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. His song in the Tower had been defiance rather than hope; for then he was thinking of himself. Now, for a moment, his own fate, and even his master’s, ceased to trouble him. He crawled back into the brambles and laid himself by Frodo’s side, and putting away all fear he cast himself into a deep untroubled sleep. J.R.R. Tolkien
All shall love me and despair! Galadriel
I wished to be loved by another, but I desire no man’s pity. J.R.R. Tolkien
I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way. Frodo
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 of 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. We hear about those as just went on and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end. You know, coming home, and finding things all right, though not quite the same like old Mr. Bilbo. But those aren’t always the best tales to hear, though they may be the best tales to get landed in! J.R.R. Tolkien
I can avoid being seen, if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift. Aragorn
That’s the only place in all the lands we’ve ever heard of that we don’t want to see any closer; and that’s the one place we’re trying to get to! And that’s just where we can’t get, nohow. J.R.R. Tolkien
A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early; he arrives precisely when he means to. Gandalf
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
Fly, you fools! Gandalf
We are truth speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. Not if I found it on the highway would I take it. I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them. 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 Baggins
I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will. J.R.R. Tolkien
It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing. Such a little thing. Boromir
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
Potatoes! Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew. Samwise Gamgee
Yet dawn is ever the hope of men, said Aragorn. J.R.R. Tolkien
You’ll find more cheer in a graveyard. Gimli
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
War will make corpses of us all. Faramir
Be bold, but wary! Keep up your merry hearts, and ride to meet your fortune! J.R.R. Tolkien
Do not be so quick to deal out death and judgment. Even the very wise do not see all ends. Gandalf
Tell me, Legolas, why did I come on this Quest? Little did I know where the chief peril lay! Truly Elrond spoke, saying that we could not foresee what we might meet upon our road. Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would have never come, had I known the danger of light and joy. J.R.R. Tolkien
The old world will burn in the fires of industry. The forests will fall. A new order will rise. Saruman
This is the hour of the Shire folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great. J.R.R. Tolkien
You have no authority here! Your orders mean nothing! Éomer
Yet it is 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. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule. J.R.R. Tolkien
Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. Samwise Gamgee
Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror. J.R.R. Tolkien
I wonder if we’ll ever be put into songs or tales. Samwise Gamgee
I am frightened; and I do not feel any pity for Gollum. You have not seen him, Gandalf broke in. No, and I don’t want to, said Frodo. I can’t understand you. Do you mean to say that you, and the Elves, have let him live on after all those horrible deeds? Now at any rate he is as bad as an Orc, and just an enemy. He deserves death. Deserves it! I daresay he does. 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
It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life. Bilbo Baggins
One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don’t know, but I t felt as if something that grew in the ground asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between roof tip and leaf tip, between deep earth and sky had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years. J.R.R. Tolkien
I thought up an ending for my book And he lived happily ever after, unto the end of his days. Bilbo Baggins
