Quotes

"Learn now the lore of Living Creatures!  First name the four, the free peoples: Eldest of all, the elf-children; Dwarf the delver, dark are his houses; Ent the earthborn, old as mountains; Man the mortal, master of horses..."

~Treebeard

"We come, we come with roll of drum: ta-runda runda runda rom!"

~the Ent's battle song

"By Elbereth and Luthien the Fair, you shall have neither the Ring nor me!"

~Frodo Baggins

"Seek for the Sword that was broken: In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken stronger that Morgul-spells.  There shall be shown a token that Doom is near at hand, For Isildur's Bane shall waken, And the Halfling forth shall stand."

~Aragorn

"I have something to do before the end.  I must see it through, sir, if you understand."

~Samwise Gamgee

"I heard them clearly.  But for the darkness and our own fear I should have guessed that they were beasts wild with some sudden gladness.  They spoke as horses will when they meet a friend that they have long missed."

~Legolas

"He sprang to his feet and leaped to the top of a large rock.  There he stood, grown suddenly tall, towering above them.  His hood and his grey rags were flung away.  His white garments shone.  He lifted up his staff, and Gimli's axe leaped from his grasp and fell ringing on the ground.  The sword of Aragorn, stiff in his motionless hand, blazed with a sudden fire.  Legolas gave a great shout and shot an arrow high into the air: it vanished with a flash of flame."

~narration

"Man! Man!  Indeed not!  I am a hobbit and no more valiant than I am a man, save perhaps now and again by necessity..."

~Peregrin Took

"Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.  To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!"

~Eomer

"But no living man am I!  You look upon a woman.  Eowyn I am, Eomund's daughter.  You stand between me and my lord and kin.  Begone, if you be not deathless!  For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him!"

~Eowyn

"My dear ass, your pack is lying by your bed, and you had it on your back when I met you."

~Peregrin Took

"Follow what may, great deeds are not lessened in worth." 

~Legolas

"You may triumph of the fields of the Pelennor for a day, buy against the Power that had now arisen there is no victory."  

~Denethor

"Do you think you killed him with that apple Sam?"

~Peregrin Took