Favorite quotes

[bmilder]

What are your favorite quotes and scenes from LotR? I like the classic "What has it got in its pocketses" by Gollum. (Oh wait, that's the Hobbit... well, regardless of the forum this is in you can take quotes from whatever book you want ;)) "Fool of a Took!"

[Darth Tater]

A quote that doesn't get noticed as much as it should: "No, they eat and drink, Sam. The shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own. I don't think it gave life to the orcs, it only ruined them and twisted them; and if they are to live at all, they have to live like oter living creatures." A powerfull message in this age of where man thinks he has the right to create living beings himself, this age of cloning. That's how I read it anyways.

[Elanor]

The best one of all, at the Grey Havens: "'But,' said Sam, and tears started in his eyes, 'I thought you were going to enjoy the Shire, too, for years and years, after all you have done.' "'So I thought too, once. But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them." --Frodo

[emilsson]

Excellent choice, Elanor! :) I like that one too. My favorite though is from the Silmarillion: "Many are the strange chances of the world, said Mithrandir, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter"

[dmaul96]

"Hobbits always so polite, yes. O nice hobbits! Sméagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else could find. Tired he is, thirsty he is, yes thirsty; and he guides them and he searches for paths, and they say 'sneak, sneak'. Very nice friends, O yes my precious, very nice." That is my favorite quote ever!

[Spock1]

The road goes ever onward. Indeed!

[Darth Tater]

Great series of poems!

[Fat middle]

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens" (Gimli) "Maybe, but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall"(Elrond) "Yet sworn word may strengthen quaking heart" (Gimli) "Or break it" (Elrond)

[ArwenUndomiel02]

My favorite is actually a song. The Oliphaunt song, recited by Sam. But as 1)It's really long, and 2)I don't have my book here at school, I won't write it out...

[galadriel1]

Elanor, great quote! It is so true to life! Spock!!!! You finally made it over to the board! Awesome! What do you think of our crazy little bunch? As for one of my favorite quotes, check out my new sig. Of course, it`s one of The Lady`s quotes. :-)

[galadriel1]

And of course this classic rhyme is a favorite: All that is gold does not glltter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither; Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken; The crownless again shall be king.

[Smack Down Hotel 2]

'Yes, Perhaps, Yes' Said Gollum. 'Sméagol always helps, if they asks - if they asks nicely.' 'Right!' said Sam 'I does ask. and if that isnt nice enough, I begs.' I love that chapter, "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit", it's funny

[Darth Tater]

So many good quots! I really love the Aragorn poem thing too, as a matter of fact I've done some projects based on it in school. No one but this one teacher had any clue what it was about, but who cares, I liked em anyways.

[andustar]

lol i got here and i have so much to say... no one my age seems to want to talk about tolkien you will be seeing me very often from now :D
well anyway my fav quote is from UT - the hunt for the ring, but its not something that someone said. ok here;
(saruman has been talking nonsense at the council, and gandalf is smoking his pipe. saruman gets annoyed with the way gandalf sits there silently blowing rings and begins to taunt him. gandalf laughs at first but -)

Gandalf did not laugh again, and he did not answer, but looking keenly at Saruman he drew on his pipe and sent out a great ring of smoke with many smaller rings that followed it. Then he put up his hand, as if to grasp them, and they vanished. With that he got up and left.

i love that... it was gandalfs way of showing saruman that 'desire to posses them had begun to enter into his policies and his study of the lore of the Rings, and warning him that if he tried to grasp them they would elude him.'

of course thats not my real fav but all my best ones from the Lord of the Rings have been put up already, besides i love everything to do with gandalf
andustar

[Darth Tater]

andustar knows what my current favorite quote is ;)

[andustar]

yes :) btw ive decided to stop posting so much or youl all get sick of me
so i won't even tell them all what your quote was :p

[anduin]

Andustar...you must tell us....or at least Tater...speak up! ;)

[andustar]

well since ive given up being silent... gandalf says in the sil, 'help shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter'
gtg now sorry, would write more

[Yazad]

Of course it's nearly impossible to choose one, but here's a go...

Gandalf did not move. And in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the City, a @#%$ crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of wizardry or war, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn.
And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns. In dark Mindoullin's sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the North wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last.

P.S. LMAO, I can't believe it bleeped out the word for rooster. Too funny!

[bmilder]

Yeah, :lol:

If I had control over the censor I'd take that word out, but unfortunately ezboard doesn't have a customizable profanity block list yet. I don't want to turn off the censor since it's useful overall, but I feel sorry for anyone named Richard who uses a nickname ;) :p

[anduin]

I had ezboard add "c o c k" to the profanity list......I don't think that it is an appropriate term for "rooster". ;)

[kcbob]

Yazad, you hit it right on the nose. "Rohan had come at last" is THE pinnacle of the whole story. I mentioned in the "Favorite book" thread that this scene gives me chills every time I read it.

[horce]

Go not to the elves for council for they will say both yes and no.

[anduin]

That is a great line! :) Talk about a catch 22.....

Welcome to Entmoot. :)

[Lord Kaos]

i agree whit horce, although my favorite kuote is "the End" :PP

just kiring, one of the most amazing quotes is from sam, rigth in the end.."well, im home at last"

Feanorian Greatings

Lord Kaos -- Sauron´s Second cousin twice removed

[Yazad]

:)

Speaking of "Well, I'm home at last", of course my favorite sentimental line is,

"Thank goodnes" from the end of the Hobbit.

Rivaling the "Rohan had come at last" of course, is the followup which I adore... (had a hard time deciding between the two)

"But it was no orc chieftain or brigand who led the assault upon Minas Tirith. The darkness was breaking - too soon, before the date his master had set for it. Fortune had betrayed him for the moment and the world turned against him. Victory was slipping from his grasp even as he stretched his hand out to seize it. But his arm was long."

A terribly fine piece of writing!

:)

Sorry for going on...

Yazad

p.s. I apologize for garbling up the quote, I don't have a copy with me!

[Anteater]

Well... I love the songs of Tom Bombadil... "hey dol! derry dol!"
What excellent jibberish!!!

Later!!!

[Lillian C]

Pippin: "I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party."

Gandalf: "Then you certainly will not be chosen, Peregrin Took!"

:D

[etherealunicorn]

I like "Rohan had come at last" and I have to agree with Horce's contribution "Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no".

[Elfling]

I love the one Elanor quoted from the Grey Havens;

"It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them."

but I also like;

"Lobelia took the point, but she also took the spoons."
From Book I Chapter II
and;

"It is crunchable? Is it tasty?" :p
From "The Passage of the Marshes", Book IV

[etherealunicorn]

The one that Lillian quoted is also a classic. Typical Pippin, if I do say so myself.

[Spock1]

"Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subltle and quick to anger."
:|

[Fat middle]

"Lord Smeagol. Gollum the Great. The Gollum!" :)

[etherealunicorn]

After spending the morning out mowing and doing various other bits of yardwork, I have to make an addition to my favorite quotes, as I thought of this one several times today as I worked amid the clouds of mosquitoes:

"What do they live on when they can't get hobbit?" Truly, the buzzing little monsters ate me alive! :) :lol:

[BilboFrodo]

Firstly I would just like to say to ArwenUndomiel102 that the oliphant is a peom said by Samwise and not a song
Well my favourite quote comes from the Ring sets out (book one of LOTR)When Frodo and Gandalf are sitting in Frodo's house and they throw the ring into the fire and get it out, it is too long for me to write so if you don't know what I'm talking about its on page 56 of the first edition

[RKittle]

" Bless us and splash us, my precioussss! I guess it's a choice feast; at least a tasty morsel it'd make us, gollum!"

Gollum (the guy always cracks me up!)

[gatito]

...And that we called the life of Men, the way of the world. We cared little for what lay beyond the borders of our land. Songs we have that tell of these things, but we are forgetting them, teaching them only to children, as a careless custom. And now the songs have come down among us out of srange places, and walk visible under the sun.


-Theoden


This is my first time reading LOTR but I was reading that today on the bus and it caught my eye.


Luv Always,
Gat

[Morkhon]

I can't believe that someone hasn't mentioned these yet.


"You cannot pass,' he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. 'I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avial you, flame of Udun. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass."
Gandalf at the Bridge of Khazad-dum.


"Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace!"

"A cold voice answered: "Come not between the Nazgul and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where they flesh shall be devoured, and they shrivelled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye."

A sword rang as it was drawn. "Do what you will; but I will hinder it, if I may."

"Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!"

"But no livin man am I! You look upon a woman. Eowyn I am, Eomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him."
Exchange between Eowyn and the Witch-king at the Battle of the Pellenor Fields.


My favorite peom next to the Crownless again shall be king one is the one in the House of Elrond about Earendil the Mariner. I will provide a short excerpt because it is three pages long.

In panoply of ancient kings,
in chained rings he armoured him;
his shining shield was scored with runes
to ward all wounds and harm from him;
his bow was made of dragon-horn,
his arrows shorn of ebony;
of silver was his habergeon,
his scabbard of chalcedony;
his sword of steel was valiant;
of adamant his helmet tall,
an eagle-plume upon his crest,
upon his breast an emerald.

What is a habergeon?

And of course my signature quote.

[Gilthalion]

My signature quote, of course.

[TheresaMF]

Recently I was struck by a description from the chapter, "The Passage of the Marshes" in the Two Towers.

"Dreadful as the Dead Marshes had been, and the arid moors of the Noman-lands, more loathsome far was the county that the crawling day now slowly revealed to his shrinking eyes."..."The gasping pools were choked with ash and crawling muds, sickly white and gray, as if the mountains had vomited the filth of their entrails upon the lands about. High mounds of crushed and powdered rock, great cones of earth fire-blasted and poison-stained, stood like an obscene graveyard in endless rows, slowly revealed in the reluctant light. They had come to the desolation that lay before Mordor: the lasting monument to the dark labour of its slaves that should endure when all their purposes were made void..."

The crawling day . . . *shiver*. And the thought, in the last sentance, of a desolation lasting beyond time, like Charn in the Chronicles of Narnia.

Happier: "my companion, who alas, is overcome with weariness" from The Two Towers. "Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?" from the Hobbit has to be almost my top favorite (to quote outloud anyway :D ). "And you too are dangerous, Gimli son of Gloin" from Gandalf's talk in Fangorn.

[Shanamir Duntak]

My sig! :p

[arynetrek]

how about

"behold! we are nto bound forever to the cirlces of the world, and beyond them is more than memory" - the passing of King Elessar

or the last 4 paragraphs of "Mt. Doom" from RotK

aryne *

[Gilthalion]

Another good one from the Hobbit...

Thorin Oakenshield's last words:

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

[Avis Took]

aaa my fave quote---so many to chose from

well of course i like "his name is pippin,a very valiant man"
another would have to be" who is this giant with the loud voice? not little pippin! what is your size in hats now?"
and lots by gollum o course what a funny guy
and sam had some good ones as well
of course Pippin is the all time wittiest

[Jochen Deyke]

I've always rather liked the whole "good morning" bit Gandalf goes through at the start of The Hobbit.

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[Miralys]

Hi All,

I'm a newbie but here is one of my fave quotes (so many good ones it's hard to pick!) I thought it was particularly profound since it applies to life in any realm.

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be to eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the wise cannot see all ends."

~Gandalf, "The Fellowship of the Ring

[Morkhon]

Myralis, I used that quote in an essay argueing against captial punishment. Too bad my teacher was completely oblivious to where it came from until she read the bibliography (sp?). Tolkien is so great to pull stuff out of to quote for all kinds of papers.

[TrunksGT]

"Don't mess with me, I know Tae Kwon Doe!"
"Who?"
"That guy over there!"

Thats not from lotr, but i really like it :)

MUHAHAHAHA!!!

[dunedain lady]

Hmmm....I like the "good morning" scene for its humor, and I've always loved the beginning of the Silmarillion, where it's describing how Eru leads the Valar in the music. I also like the part in Fellowship after Bilbo dissapears, and it says "One hundred and fourty four flabbergasted hobbits..." and I can't remember the rest of the quote. I just lilke "flabbergasted hobbits."

[arynetrek]

i forgot one - all of "the choices of master samwise"

whoever mentioned the "many that die deserve life" quote, i've used that to argue several points also. tolkien has quotes for every occasion.

aryne *

[Shanamir Duntak]

What does "flabbergasted" means?

[Gilthalion]

flabergast -to make speechless with amazement.