Lord-of-the-rings Quotes
You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women...
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...With a religious book it is less what we see in it than what we see through it that matters. J. R...
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I think if Jeremy Corbyn got a cloak, he'd make a very good Gandalf.

I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler. -Frodo Baggins
Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long for...
Show MoreHow shall a man judge what to do in such times?''As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill...
Show MoreI must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to y...
Show MoreNobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of l...
Show MoreIt's the deep breath before the plunge.
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.
His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm comi...
Show MoreAnd she answered: 'All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. Bu...
Show MoreFar, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.
Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability ...
Show MoreThere's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.
But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can ...
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Against delay. Against the way that seems easier. Against refusal of the burden that is laid on me. ...
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You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin – to the bitter end. And you can trust us to...
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The gr...
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Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,’ said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam’s gentle arms, closing his ey...
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There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star...
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There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and...
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It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger...
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Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he...
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I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White

No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small cre...
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Hobbits always so polite, yes! O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else c...
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Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadi...
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I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stor...
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Sam: I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales. Frodo: [turns around] What? Sam: I wonder if...
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I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once. "Elvii?" Marcon...
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And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think, yes, ...
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