“Yes”, said Aragorn, “we shall need the endurance of Dwarves. But come! With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter! We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves, and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!”
via The Two Towers
He knelt for a while, bent with weeping, still clasping Boromir’s hand. So it was that Legoloas and Gimli found him.
via The Two Towers
“Fair speech may hide a foul heart.”
Samwise Gamgee via The Two Towers
“Ah! The Ring!” said Boromir, his eyes lighting. “The Ring! Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing? So small a thing!”
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew; of wind there came and in the branches blew.
The love of the Elves for their land and their works is deeper than the deeps of the Sea, and their regret is undying and cannot ever wholly be assuaged.
Galadriel via The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
He rose clumsily and bowed in dwarf-fashion, saying: ‘Yet more is fair is the living land of Lórien, and the Lady Galadriel is above all the jewels that lie beneath the earth!’
Gimli via The Fellowship of the Ring
The finest rockets ever seen:
they burst in stars of blue and green,
or after thunder golden showers
come falling like a rain of flowers.
via The Fellowship of the Ring
“My dear Bagginses and Boffins,” he began again; “and my dear Tooks and Brandybucks, and Grubbs, and Chubbs, Burrowses, and Hornblowers, and Bolgers, Bracegirdles, Goodbodies, Brockhouses and Proudfoots.” “Proudfeet!” shouted an elderly hobbit from the back of the pavilion.
- The Fellowship of the Ring
The Mathom-house it was called; for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom.
via The Fellowship of the Ring
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“Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say “out of the frying pan and into the fire” in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.
At that moment there was a knock at the door, and Sam came in. He ran to Frodo and took his left hand, awkwardly and shyly. He stroked it gently and then he blushed and turned hastily away.
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.
via The Hobbit
“His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.”
Aragorn via The Return of the King
