“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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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.
“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
Faramir via The Two Towers
He bitterly regretted his foolishness and reproached himself for weakness of will; for he know perceived that in putting on the Ring he obeyed not his own desire, but the commanding wish of his enemies. He wondered if he would be maimed for life, and how they would now manage to continue their journey. He felt too weak to stand.
via The Fellowship of the Ring
“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour 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.”
