1. “All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost.” – Bilbo Baggins
2. “I am Gandalf the White. And I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide.” – Gandalf
3. “The world is full enough of and mischances without wars to multiply them.” – Warden
4. “Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth, and now I have no time.” – Gandalf
5. “Where there’s life, there’s hope.” – Bilbo Baggins
6. “Fly, you fools!” – Gandalf
7. “There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.” – Aragorn
8. “The hasty stroke goes often astray.” – Aragorn
9. “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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10. “I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.” – Frodo Baggins
11. “There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.” – Treebeard
12. “Death is just another path—one that we all must take.” – Gandalf
13. “Your time will come. You will face the same evil, and you will defeat it.” – Arwen
14. “It is useless to meet with revenge. It will heal nothing.” – Frodo Baggins
15. “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 for his glory. I love only that which they defend.” – Faramir
16. “Do not come between the Nazgul and his prey.” – Witch-king of Angmar
17. “In the place of a Dark Lord, you would have a Queen! Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the morn! Treacherous as the seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair!” – Lady Galadriel
18. “The Age of Men is over. The Time of the Orc has come.” – Gothmog
19. “The mightiest man may be slain by one arrow.” – Pippin
20. “It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the enemy, for good or for ill.” – Elrond
21. “From the ashes, a fire shall be woken. A light from the shadow shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken. The crownless again shall be king.” – Arwen
22. “There is only one Lord of the Ring—only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power.” – Gandalf
23. “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
24. “He that breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.” – Gandalf
25. “The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time.” – Gandalf
26. “Often does hatred hurt itself!” – Gandalf
27. “The reason for my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days.” – Faramir
28. “One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its black gates are guarded by more than just orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire, and ash, and dust. The very air you breathe is a poisonous fume. Not with ten thousand men could you do this. It is folly.” – Boromir
29. “I will be dead before I see the ring in the hands of an elf! Never trust an elf!” – Gimli
30. “But the only measure that he knows is desire—desire for power; and so he judges all hearts.” – Gandalf
31. “Into his heart, the thought will not enter that any will refuse it—that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this, we shall put him out of reckoning.” – Gandalf
32. “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the success 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
33. “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 was done.” – Gandalf
34. “Deep is the abyss that is spanned by Durin’s Bridge, and none has measured it.” – Gimli
35. “The wish to wield it would be too great for my strength. I shall have such a need for it. Great perils lie before me.” – Gandalf
36. “The treacherous are ever distrustful.” – Gandalf
37. “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
38. “Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.” – Elrond
39. “Show them no mercy for you shall receive none!” – Aragorn
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40. “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.” – Aragorn
41. “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
42. “For behold! the storm comes, and now all friends should gather together, lest each singly be destroyed.” – Gandalf
43. “A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.” – Aragorn
44. “I’m glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee, here at the end of all things.” – Frodo Baggins
45. “Here at last, on the shores of the sea comes the end of our Fellowship.” – Gandalf
46. “Before you came along, we Bagginses were very well thought of.” – Frodo Baggins
47. “For the time will soon come when Hobbits will shape the fortunes of all.” – Gandalf
48. “Hobbits really are amazing creatures. You can learn all that there is to know about them in a month, and yet after a hundred years, they can still surprise you.” – Gandalf
49. “My heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy come to me that no reason can deny.” – Faramir
50. “I made a promise, Mr Frodo. A promise.” – Samwise Gamgee
51. “And to that I hold. I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” – Arwen
52. “And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.” – Eowyn
53. “All’s well that ends better.” – Hamfast Gamgee
54. “To me, it would not seem that a Steward who faithfully surrenders his charge is diminished in love or in honour.” – Gandalf
55. “My time is over. It is no longer my task to set things to rights, nor to help folk to do so. And as for you, my dear friends, you will need no help.” – Gandalf
56. “You are grown up now. Grown indeed very high; among the great you are, and I have no longer any fear at all for any of you.” – Gandalf
57. “I am old, Gandalf. I don’t look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed!” – Bilbo Baggins
58. “Courage is found in unlikely places.” – Gildor
59. “And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the , and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.” – Eowyn
60. “Oft the unbidden guest proves the best company.” – Eomer
61. “The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it—white shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.” – Gandalf
62. “There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.” – Samwise
63. “Sworn words may strengthen the quaking heart.”– Gimli
64. “You may learn something, and whether what you see it fair or evil, that may be profitable, and yet it may not. Seeing is both good and perilous.” – Lady Galadriel
65. “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” – Gimli
66. “I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are evil.” – Gandalf
67. “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.” – Lady Galadriel
68. “All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.” – Gandalf
69. “The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.” – Gandalf
70. “Do not be eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.” – Gandalf
71. “Do not hope. It has forsaken these lands.” – Eomer
72. “The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.” – Frodo
73. “For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road.” – Elrond
74. “But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.” – Samwise Gamgee
75. “The wise speak only of what they know.” – Gandalf
76. “Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror.” – Gimli
77. “Who knows? Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope!” – Gandalf
78. “His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.” – Aragorn
79. “It is a comfort not to be mistaken at all points. Do I not know it only too well!” – Gandalf
80. “Pity? It was Pity that stayed in his hand. Pity and mercy not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo.” – Gandalf
81. “Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring. With Pity.” – Gandalf
82. “Yet it has a bottom, beyond light and knowledge.” – Gandalf
83. “Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise.” – Gildor
84. “Only a small part is played in great deeds by any hero.” – Gandalf
85. “Do not trouble your hearts overmuch with thoughts of the road tonight.” – Lady Galadriel
86. “News from afar is seldom sooth.” – Theoden
87. “Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the sun.” – Legolas
88. “Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear.” – Aragorn
89. “Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.” – Aragorn
90. “I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old—they choose the wisest person present to speak to.” – Gandalf
91. “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
92. “Oft in lies, truth is hidden.” – Glorfindel
93. “Valour needs first strength, and then a weapon.” – Boromir
94. “The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.” – Faramir
95. “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
96. “To crooked eyes, truth may wear a wry face.” – Gandalf
97. “In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.” – Faramir
98. “Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.” – Gandalf
99. “Oft, hope is born when all is forlorn.” – Legolas
100. “Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet, though you do not see them.” – Lady Galadriel
101. “Shortcuts make delays, but inns make longer ones.” – Frodo Baggins
102. “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
103. “Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.” – Gildor
104. “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
105. “Gandalf, my old friend, this will be a night to remember.” – Bilbo Baggins
106. “You cannot pass! I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor. The dark fire will not avail you, Flame of Udun! Go back to the shadow.” – Gandalf
107. “Many that live deserve death, and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them?” – Gandalf
108. “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
109. “Yet, such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world—small hands do them because they must, while the of the great are elsewhere.” – Elrond
110. “Your fingers would remember their old strength better if they grasped your sword.” – Gandalf
111. “A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.” – Gandalf
112. “When in doubt, follow your nose.” – Gandalf
113. “It’s the job that’s never started that takes longest to finish.” – Samwise Gamgee
114. “The way of the Ring to my heart is by pity—pity for weakness and the desire of strength to do good. Do not tempt me! I dare not take it, not even to keep it safe, unused.” – Gandalf
115. “Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.” – Bilbo Baggins
116. “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
117. “Yet a treacherous weapon is ever a danger to the hand.” – Gandalf
