| Quote | Character |
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| 'Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.' | |
| 'Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! | |
| 'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.' | |
| ''Come! Let us go on! The thought of those merry young folk driven like cattle burns my heart.' | |
| 'If I hear not allowed much oftener, I'm going to get angry.' | |
| 'Here do I swear fealty and service to Gondor, and to the Lord and Steward of the realm, to speak and to be silent, to do and to let be, to come and to go, in need or plenty...' | |
| 'Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would have never come, had I known the danger of light and joy.' | |
| 'My name is growing all the time, and I've lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story.' | |
| 'Eldest, that's what I am. Mark my words, my friends: Tom was here before the river and the trees; Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn.' | |
| 'Yes, I am white now, Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.' | |
| Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay. You know little of the lands beyond your bounds. Peace and freedom, do you say?' | |
| 'We promises, yes I promise! I will serve the master of the Precious.' | |
| We must take a hard road, a road unforeseen. There lies our hope, if hope it be. To walk into peril — to Mordor. We must send the Ring to the Fire.' | |
| 'A cage,' she said. 'To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.' | |
| 'I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way' | |
| 'For myself. I would see the White Tree in flower again in the courts of the kings, and the Silver Crown return, and Minas Tirith in peace...' | |
| 'I thought that Elves were all for moon and stars: but this is more elvish than anything I ever heard tell of. I feel as if I was inside a song, if you take my meaning.' | |
| 'And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning.. | |
| 'The Ring'll be found, and there'll be no more songs.' | |
| 'I am the daughter of Elrond. 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...' | |
