| Quote | Character | Book (Chapter) |
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| 'So that is the King of Rohan. A fine old fellow. Very polite.' | |
| 'It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep.' | |
| 'Do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.' | |
| 'Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.' | |
| 'And to him there is no purpose higher in the world as it now stands than the good of Gondor; and the rule of Gondor, my lord, is mine and no other man’s...' | |
| 'I am sorry: sorry you have come in for this burden: sorry about everything. Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.' | |
| 'It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. But such falls and betrayals, alas, have happened before.' | |
| 'I shall not go with him now when he departs to the Havens; for mine is the choice of Lúthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter.' | |
| 'I would not snare even an orc with a falsehood.' | |
| 'Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You'll be letting out your own right names if you're not careful.' | |
| 'I do not foretell, for all foretelling is now vain: on the one hand lies darkness, and on the other only hope. But if hope should not fail, then I say to you, Gimli son of Glóin, | |
| 'I have lived to see strange days. Long we have tended our beasts and our fields, built our houses, wrought our tools, or ridden away to help in the wars of Minas Tirith. ' | |
| 'Strange are the ways of men.' | |
| 'Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world's ending!' | |
| | Quote | Character | Book (Chapter) |
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| 'The cold hard lands, they bites our hands, they gnaws our feet. The rocks and stones are like old bones all bare of meat. But stream and pool is wet and cool: so nice for feet!' | |
| 'Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo.' | |
| 'Lathspell I name you, Ill-news; and ill news is an ill guest they say.' | |
| 'You would die before your stroke fell.' | |
| 'The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads.' | |
| 'You have robbed my revenge of sweetness, and now I must go hence in bitterness, in debt to your mercy. I hate it and you!' | |
| 'The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair...' | |
| 'Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you...' | |
| 'Hey! now! Come hoy now! Whither do you wander? Up, down, near or far, here, there or yonder? Sharp-ears, Wise-nose, Swish-tail and Bumpkin, White-socks my little lad...' | |
| 'I think that in the end, if all else is conquered, Bombadil will fall, Last as he was First; and then Night will come.' | |
| 'It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish, as my old gaffer used to say.' | |
| 'But no living man am I!' | |
| 'Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!' | |
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