Quotations

• "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." – Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings

• "Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens" - Gimli, The Lord of the Rings

 

• "A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities." – J.R.R. Tolkien

• "True courage is knowing not how to take a life, but when to spare it." - Gandalf, The Hobbit  

• "Courage is found in unlikely places." – Gildor, The Lord of the Rings

• "I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are evil." – Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings

• "There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for." –Samwise Gamgee, The Lord of the Rings

• "It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit." – J.R.R. Tolkien

• "It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing." – Frodo Baggins, The Lord of the Rings 

•  "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." – Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit

• "But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass." – Samwise Gamgee, The Lord of the Rings

• "He often used to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep and every path was its tributary. 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." – Bilbo Baggins, The Lord of the Rings

• "Even the smallest person can change the course of history." – Lady Galadriel, The Lord of the Rings

• "A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it."– Sador, The Children of Hurin

• "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, The Lord of the Rings

• "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."– Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings

• "Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised."– Aragorn, The Lord of the Rings

• "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost." – Poem by Bilbo Baggins, The Lord of the Rings

• "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." – Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings

• "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill." – Gildor, The Lord of the Rings

• "Many are the strange chances of the world,’ said Mithrandir, ‘and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter." – Gandalf, The Silmarillion

• "The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light." -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

• "...for if joyful is the fountain that rises from the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomed at the foundations of the Earth." -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

• "Here ends the Silmarillion; and if it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and If any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwë and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos. " - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion 

• "The doom of the Elves is to be immortal, to love the beauty of the world, to bring it to full flower with their gifts of delicacy and perfection, to last while it lasts, never leaving it even when ‘slain’, but returning – and yet, when the Followers come, to teach them, and make way for them, to ‘fade’ as the Followers grow and absorb the life from which both proceed. The Doom (or the Gift) of Men is mortality, freedom from the circles of the world." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion