160 Quotes About Lord-of-the-rings

Den som ikke kan skille seg av med sine skatter når han må, han er i lenker.

Even in ancient days they were, as a rule, shy of 'the Big Folk', as they call us, and now they avoid us with dismay and are becoming hard to find.

I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get into a huge war over a piece of jewelry that everybody wants but nobody can wear.

For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road.

We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the highway would I take it," I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them.

I would cut off your head, dwarf, if it stood but a bit higher off the ground.

You would die before your stroke fell!