Quote Archive

"As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of the Dwarves." ~The Hobbit

". . . It was in the year that the White Council drove the dark power from Mirkwood, just before the Battle of Five Armies, that Bilbo found his ring." ~Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring

"You must go - and therefore we must too. . . . you will need more than one companion in your dangerous adventure." ~Peregrin Took, The Fellowship of the Ring

"[Weathertop] is a hill, just to the north of the Road, about half way from here to Rivendell. . . . After Weathertop our journey will become more difficult, and we shall have to choose between various dangers." ~Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

"There were Nine Riders at the water's edge below, and Frodo's spirit quailed before the threat of their uplifted faces." ~The Fellowship of the Ring

"Moria! Moria! Wonder of the Northern world! Too deep we delved there, and woke the nameless fear. . . . At last, however, Balin listened to the whispers, and resolved to go; and though Dain did not give leave willingly, he took with him Ori and Oin and many of our folk, and they went south." ~Gloin, The Fellowship of the Ring

"Then Elendil the Tall and his mighty sons, Isildur and Anarion, became great lords . . . but Sauron of Mordor assailed them, and they made the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, and the hosts of Gil-Galad and Elendil were mustered in Arnor." ~The Fellowship of the Ring

"It has been said that dragon-fire could melt and consume the Rings of Power, but there is not now any dragon left on earth in which the old fire is hot enough; nor was there ever any dragon, even Ancalagon the Black, who could have harmed the One Ring, the Ruling Ring, for that was made by Sauron himself." ~Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

"How the wind howls! It is howling with wolf-voices. The Wargs have come west of the Mountains!" ~Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

"I too once passed the Dimrill Gate . . . but though I also came out again, the memory is very evil. I do not wish to enter Moria a second time." ~Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

"'I fear he had ill tidings to record in a fair hand,' said Gandalf. 'The first clear word is sorrow, but the rest of the line is lost, unless it ends in estre. Yes, it must be yestre followed by day being the tenth of novembre Balin lord of Moria fell in Dimrill Dale. He went alone to look in Mirrormere. An orc shot him from behind a stone. We slew the orc, but many more... up from east up the Silverlode. The remainder of the page is so blurred that I can hardly make anything out, but I think I can read we have barred the gates, and then can hold them long if, and then perhaps horrible and suffer. Poor Balin! He seems to have kept the title that he took for less than five years.'" ~The Fellowship of the Ring

"Orophin has now gone in haste back to our dwellings to warn our people. None of the Orcs will ever return out of Lorien. And there will be many Elves hidden on the northern border before another night falls." ~Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring

"...we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make." ~Wood Elf Leader, The Fellowship of the Ring

"Then suddenly with a deep-throated call a great horn blew, and the blast of it smote the hills and echoed in the hollows, rising in a mighty shout above the roaring of the falls. 'The horn of Boromir!' [Aragorn] cried. 'He is in need!' He sprang down the steps and away, leaping down the path. 'Alas! An ill fate is on me this day, and all that I do goes amiss. Where is Sam?'" ~The Two Towers

"I would have guided Frodo to Mordor and gone with him to the end; but if I seek him now in the wilderness, I must abandon the captives to torment and death. My heart speaks clearly at last: the fate of the Bearer is in my hands no longer." ~Aragorn, The Two Towers

"With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter. . . . Forth the Three Hunters!" ~Aragorn, The Two Towers

"It was in forgotten years long ago that Eorl the Young brought them out of the North, and their kinship is rather with the Bardings of Dale, and the Beornings of the Wood, among whom may still be seen many men tall and fair, as are the Riders of Rohan." ~Aragorn, The Two Towers

"...Aragorn rose at once, and he led the Company forth upon the journey of greatest haste and weariness . . . and only his will held them to go on. No other mortal Men could have endured it, none but the Dunedain of the North..." ~The Return of the King

"My Lord, you called me. I come. What does the king command." ~Faramir to Aragorn Elessar, The Return of the King

"Little time was left to Aragorn for the ordering of his battle. Upon the one hill he stood with Gandalf, and there fair and desperate was raised the banner of the Tree and Stars. Upon the other hill hard by stood the banners of Rohan and Dol Amroth, White Horse and Silver Swan. And about each hill a ring was made facing all ways, bristling with spear and sword." ~The Return of the King

'Verily, for in the high tongue of old I am Elessar, the Elfstone, and Envinyatar, the Renewer': and he lifted from his breast the green stone that lay there. 'But Strider shall be the name of my house, if that be ever established. In the high tongue it will not sound so ill, and Telcontar I will be and all the heirs of my body.' ~Aragorn, The Return of the King