894 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien

I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me!

We cannot achieve victory by arms, but by arms we can give the Ring-bearer his only chance, frail though it be.

The trees do not like strangers. They watch you. They are usually content merely to watch you, as long as daylight lasts, and don't do much. Occasionally the most unfriendly ones may drop a branch, or stick a root out, or grasp at you with a long trailer. But at night things can be most alarming, or so i am told.

All your long years we have been friends. Trust me as you once did, let it go

I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White

However it may prove, one must tread the path that need chooses!

But of Olórin that tale does not speak; for though he loved the Elves, he walked among them unseen, or in form as one of them, and they did not know whence came the fair visions or the promptings of wisdom that he put into their hearts. In later days he was the friend of all the Children of Ilúvatar, and took pity on their sorrows; and those who listened to him awoke from despair and put away the imaginations of darkness.

Gandalf the Grey set out with the Company, but he did not pass the borders of this land. Now tell us where he is; for I much desired to speak with him again.

Ilya horyas men carë úvië ná i carë lúmenen yan me ná antaina