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To try and encompass the whole entirety of Lord of the Rings in a mere 200 words would be nothing short of impossible, if not quite a blasphemy. So, that’s what we are not going to try to do. But, in our humble opinion, such a case usually speaks the best for itself, so we’ve decided to let these Lord of the Rings quotes do the job for us. Nothing better than the real thing, eh? And yup, here we are, with our LOTR quotes list that speaks volumes of the books’ ingenuity, the writer’s wisdom, and its undying glory.

J. R. R. Tolkien touches many interesting topics in these incredible books, and each of the Lord Of The Rings characters carry their own ideas with them throughout the story. It is truly wonderful to see their character arcs develop while their foundational beliefs remain the same. In some instances, they fade away; in others - they bloom to full glory, and these incremental changes give us, the readers, some truly wise words to read upon. You know, of all the book quotes articles we have done, these Lord Of The Rings ones might just be the most powerful and everlasting. Of course, you’re free to disagree, but we bet that you already know quite a few of these famous quotes, whether you’re a fan or not.

So, in true hobbit fashion, grab yourself a second breakfast to devour while reading these moving quotes - this way, the effect is bound to double up on you. Then, once the snacking is done and the phrases have been read through, give the best quotes your vote and share this article with your friends.

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Bilbo Baggins smiling “Not all those who wander are lost.” — Bilbo Baggins

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    Gandalf speaking “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

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    Gandalf at Bilbo's birthday party "A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early; he arrives precisely when he means to." — Gandalf

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    121 Lord Of The Rings Quotes Every Fan Should Know “Courage is found in unlikely places.” - Gildor

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    Frodo Baggins thinking “It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.” - Frodo Baggins

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

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

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    Gandalf thinking "End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take." - Gandalf

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    Bilbo Baggins speaking "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

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    Arwen speaking with Aragorn “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” – Arwen

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    Bilbo Baggins in his house "It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life." — Bilbo Baggins

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    Gollum in the cave "[referring to the Ring] We wants it. We needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little Hobbitses. Wicked. Tricksy. False!" - Gollum

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    mulk
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am sure I am not the only one who read this with Gollum voice! Am I?

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    Bilbo Baggins speaking “Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.” - Bilbo Baggins

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    Gandalf in the castle with a staff in his hand “The wise speak only of what they know." - Gandalf

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    Gandalf with a staff “It is not the strength of the body, but the strength of the spirit.” — Gandalf

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    Bilbo Baggins surprised “I thought up an ending for my book: ‘And he lived happily ever after, unto the end of his days.'” — Bilbo Baggins

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    dialogue between Sam Gamgee and Frodo Baggins “It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.”— Sam Gamgee

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    Gandalf speaking “It is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one.” – Gandalf

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    Elrond talking “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

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    Gandalf speaking with a staff in his hand "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks." - Gandalf

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    Gendalf talking “It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.” - Gendalf

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    Sam Gangee speaking “There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for.” — Sam Gangee

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    Frodo Baggins looking "How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on when in your heart you begin to understand there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend, some hurts that go too deep that have taken hold." - Frodo Baggins

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    #24

    Hamfast Gamgee smiling “All’s well that ends better.” - Hamfast Gamgee

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    Gandalf with a staff in his hand “Fly, you fools!” – Gandalf

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    Gandalf thinking “Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace!” – Gandalf

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    Galadriel in the castle “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

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    Éomer riding the horse “Oft the unbidden guest proves the best company.” - Éomer

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    Gandalf in the hat with the staff in his hand "Who knows? Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope!” - Gandalf

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    Gimli looking at Legolas Gimli: "[not being able to see over the wall] What’s happening out there?"

    Legolas: "Shall I describe it to you? Or would you like me to find you a box?"

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    Stephanie Did It
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Their friendship was so fun to see, even when they kept score in battles. Best of all: " Don't tell the Elf"

    #31

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

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    Sam Gamgee staying with a horse in the forest “Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.” – Sam Gamgee

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    Aragorn speaking “None knows what the new day shall bring him.” - Aragorn

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    Frodo Baggins speaking “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.” - Frodo Baggins

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    Frodo Baggins looking at Galadriel “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.” - Frodo Baggins

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    Pippin sitting on the stones “Short cuts make long delays.” - Pippin

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    Aragorn speaking “There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.” - Aragorn

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    Warden talking “The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.” – Warden

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    Aragorn on the mountains background "I can avoid being seen, if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift." — Aragorn

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    Samwise Gamgee smiling on the sunrise backgrounds "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

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    Samwise Gamgee speaking with Frodo in the mountains “Snow’s all right on a fine morning, but I like to be in bed when it’s falling.” - Samwise Gamgee

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    Gandalf with a staff in his hand “Only a small part is played in great deeds by any hero.” - Gandalf

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    #43

    Gimli speaking “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” - Gimli

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    #44

    Gandalf staring “I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to.” - Gandalf

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    #45

    Glorfindel thinking “Oft in lies truth is hidden.” - Glorfindel

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    Galadriel speaking “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

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    #47

    Aragorn explaining something “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

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    Gandalf speaking in the forest “Evil will be drawn to you from outside the fellowship. And, I fear, from within you must trust yourself. Trust your own strengths.” – Gandalf

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    Gandalf in the forest "When in doubt, follow your nose." — Gandalf

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    Bilbo Baggins looking into the distance "'I am old, Gandalf. I don’t look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed!' he snorted. '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.'" – Bilbo Baggins

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    #51

    “Short cuts make delays, but inns make longer ones.” – Frodo Baggins

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    #52

    “In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.” - Faramir

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    #53

    “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

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    #54

    “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

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

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    #56

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

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    #57

    "Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into Shadow. How did it come to this?" - Theoden

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Except in the book Aragorn says it, and for literally no reason. One of the ways the films improved matters.

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    #58

    "Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for?" - Gimli

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    Gimli: "Never thought I’d die fighting side by side with an Elf."
    Legolas: "What about side by side with a friend?"
    Gimli: "Aye. I could do that."

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    #60

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

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    #61

    “Smeagol promises to Precious, promises faithfully. Never come again, never speak, no never!” - Gollum

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    “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.” - Legolas

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    “And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.” - Éowyn

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    “His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.” - Aragorn

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    #65

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

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

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

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    “You cannot pass,” he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. “I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.” – Gandalf

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    #69

    “Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.” - Gildor

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    "A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it." - Sador

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    “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

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    #72

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

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    #73

    “Hill. Yes, that was it. But it is a hasty word for a thing that has stood here ever since this part of the world was shaped.” - Treebeard

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    “Valour needs first strength, and then a weapon.” - Boromir

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    “Let them march now and sing! We have a long way to go, and there is time ahead for thought. It is something to have started.” - Treebeard

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    "Do not be so quick to deal out death and judgment. Even the very wise do not see all ends." — Gandalf

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    #77

    "Far over the misty mountains cold
    To dungeons deep and caverns old
    We must away ere break of day
    To seek the pale enchanted gold." - J.R.R. Tolkien

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    #78

    "He is in great fear, not knowing what mighty one may suddenly appear, wielding the Ring, and assailing him with war, seeking to cast him down and take his place. That we should wish to cast him down and have no one in his place is not a thought that occurs to his mind. That we should try to destroy the Ring itself has not yet entered into his darkest dream." - Gandalf

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    “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

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    “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

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    “Then darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell. Naked I was sent back – for a brief time, until my task is done. ” – Gandalf

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    #82

    “To me it would not seem that a Steward who faithfully surrenders his charge is diminished in love or in honour.” – Gandalf

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    #83

    “The treacherous are ever distrustful.” – Gandalf

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    #84

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

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    #85

    “Many of the Ents are younger than I am, by many lives of trees. They are all roused now, and their mind is all on one thing: breaking Isengard. But they will start thinking again before long; they will cool down a little . . . But let them march now and sing! We have a long way to go, and there is time ahead for thought. It is something to have started.” - Treebeard

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    #86

    “News from afar is seldom sooth.” - Théoden

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    #87

    “Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unkown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the Sun.” - Legolas

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    “Indeed I have not seen them roused like this for many an age. We Ents do not like being roused; and we never are roused unless it is clear to us that our trees and our lives are in great danger.” - Treebeard

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    #89

    “The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.” - Faramir

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    “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.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

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    #91

    “To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.” - Gandalf

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    #92

    "Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" - Bilbo Baggins

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    #93

    "You can not hide, I see you! There is no life after me. Only death!" — Sauron

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    #94

    "The old world will burn in the fires of industry. The forests will fall. A new order will rise." — Saruman

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    #95

    Aragorn: “Gentlemen, we do not stop till nightfall.”

    Pippin: “What about breakfast?”

    Aragorn: “Haven’t you had that already?”

    Pippin: “We’ve had one, yes. What about second breakfast?”

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    #96

    “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 Brandybuck

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    #97

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

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    #98

    “He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.” — Gandalf

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    “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.” — Pippin

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    #100

    "Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes." - Frodo Baggins

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    #101

    "It is a comfort not to be mistaken at all points. Do I not know it only too well!" - Gandalf

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    #102

    “A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.”— Aragorn

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    “Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.” – Haldir

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    #104

    ″‘Not this way, master!’ he pleaded. ‘There is another way. O yes indeed there is. Another way, darker, more difficult to find, more secret. But Sméagol knows it. Let Sméagol show you!‘” – Gollum

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    #105

    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” - Gandalf

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    #106

    “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

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    #107

    “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.” - Frodo Baggins

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    #108

    “The hasty stroke goes oft astray.” - Aragorn

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    #109

    "My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail is a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!" - Smaug

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    #110

    "It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. But such falls and betrayals, alas, have happened before." - Elrond

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    #111

    "[to his army] Hold your ground! Hold your ground. Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of Men comes crashing down. But it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!" - Aragorn

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    #112

    “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.” — Elrond

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    #113

    “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

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    #114

    ″‘Stew the rabbits!’ squealed Gollum in dismay. ‘Spoil beautiful meat Smeagol saved for you, poor hungry Smeagol!‘” - Gollum

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    #115

    "I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone." - Gandalf

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    #116

    "I kill where I wish and none dare resist. I laid low the warriors of old and their like is not in the world today. Then I was but young and tender. Now I am old and strong, strong strong." - Smaug

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    #117

    “Bring your pretty face to my axe.” - Gimli

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    #118

    “You must understand young hobbit, takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.” - Treebeard

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    #119

    “A red sun rises, blood has been spilled this night.” - Legolas

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Fell deeds awake! Now for wrath. Now for ruin...and a red dawn." - Theoden (film version)

    #120

    “Together, my lord Sauron, we shall rule this Middle-earth. The old world will burn in the fires of industry. Forests will fall. A new order will rise. We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc.” -Saruman

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