Lord of the Rings is an English novel written by (British) author J. R. R. Tolkien. The novel is a three-book series, a sequel to Tolkien’s earlier fantasy. These novels were adopted and a series of three Hollywood films were made in 2001, 2002 and 2003, directed by Peter Jackson. All three films were massive hits in Hollywood and won several Oscar awards. The story is set in middle-earth (fictional world) and follows the hobbit Frodo Baggins and fellows trying to destroy the one ring to ensure the destruction of Dark Lord Sauron. Here you will find the best Lord of the Ring quotes from Gandalf, Frodo, Aragon, J.R. R. Tolkien and others about love, darkness, ring and friendship.
Lord of the Rings Quotes
- “I am Gandalf the White. And I come back to you now… at the turn of the tide.”- Gandalf
- “Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
- “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
- “Frodo: Go Back, Sam. I’m going to mordor alone.”
- Sam: “Of Course You Are. And I’m Coming With You.”- ‘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.”- Bilbo
- “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”- Thorin Oakenshield
- “It’s the job that s never started as takes longest to finish.”- Sam
- “Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”- Gandalf
- “Merry: Are you going to leave me?”Pippin: “No, merry. I’m going to look after You.”- Gandalf
- “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.”- ‘The Lord Of The Rings
“Your time will come. You will face the same Evil, and you will defeat it.”- Arwen
- “You are the luckiest, the canniest, and the most reckless man I ever knew. Bless you, laddie.”- Gimli
- “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”- J.R. R. Tolkien
- “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the Ages of this world alone.”- Arwen
- “He that breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.”- Gandalf,
- “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”- Gandalf
- “It is not the strength of the body, but the strength of the spirit.”- J.R. R. Tolkien
- “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”- Frodo
- “I would have followed you to the end, my brother…my Captain…my King.”- Boromir
- “But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.”- Sam Gamgee
- “For the time will soon come when Hobbits will shape the fortunes of all.”- Galadriel
“Not all those who wander are lost.”- Bilbo
- “Anyways, you need people of intelligence on this sort of… mission… quest… thing.”- Pippin,
- “Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror.”- Gimli
- “It is a comfort not to be mistaken at all points. Do I not know it only too well!”- Gandalf
- “The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”- Gildor
- “Don’t leave me here alone. Don’t go where I can’t follow.”- Sam
- “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”- Gimli
- “Songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely.”- J.R.R. Tolkien
- “This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great.”- Council of Elrond
- “Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart.”- Faramir
- “I am not trying to rob you!… I’m trying to help you.”- Gandalf
- “Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.”- Sam
- “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
- “I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.”- Eowyn
- “The time of the Elves… is over. Do we leave Middle-Earth to its fate? Do we let them stand alone?”- Galadriel
- “One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters.”- J.R.R. Tolkien
- “It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing.”- Frodo Baggins
- “We swears, to serve the master of the Precious. We will swear on… on the Precious!”- Gollum
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- “I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry You!”- Sam
- Gimli: “Deep is the abyss that is spanned by Durin’s Bridge, and none has measured it.”Gandalf
- “Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet, though you do not see them.”- Lady Galadriel
- The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time.” – Gandalf
- “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”- Galadriel
- “Oh, it’s quite simple. If you are a friend, you speak the password, and the doors will open.”- Gandalf
- “Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to…”- J.R.R. Tolkien
- “It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.”- Elrond
- “A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.”- Aragorn
- “We will not abandon merry and pippin to torment and death. Not while we have strength left.”- Aragorn
- “I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.”- Frodo
- “In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.” – Faramir
“The treacherous are ever distrustful.”- Gandalf
- “Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.”- Bilbo Baggins
- “A day may come when the courage of men fails… but it is not this day.”- Aragorn
- “There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power.”- Gandalf
- “For behold! the storm comes, and now all friends should gather together, lest each singly be destroyed.”- Gandalf
- “Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”- Aragorn
- “The Ring has awoken, it’s heard its master’s call.”- Gandalf
- “Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror.”- Gimli
- “You have shown your usual cunning in getting up just in time for a meal.”- J.R.R. Tolkien
- “To me it would not seem that a Steward who faithfully surrenders his charge is diminished in love or in honour.”- Gandalf
- “The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.”- Haldir
- “I thought up an ending for my book. ‘And he lives happily ever after, till the end of his days.’”- Bilbo
- “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”- Legolas
- “Be Bold, but Wary! Keep up your merry hears, and ride to meet your fortune!”- Tom Bombadils
- “Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.”- Elrond
- “Well, you can go on looking forward. There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.”- Gandalf
- “The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”- Warden
- “Even the smallest person can change the course of history.”- Queen Galadriel
- Courage is found in unlikely places.”- Gildor
- “His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.”- Aragorn
