‘The Lord of the Rings’ is an epic high-fantasy novel written by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The story takes place in Middle-earth and has been translated into over fifty different languages.
We have chosen best quotes from The Lord of the Rings novel for you.
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The Lord of the Rings Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“All’s well that ends better.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“Be bold, but wary! Keep up your merry hearts, and ride to meet your fortune!” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“He drew a deep breath. ‘Well, I’m back,’ he said.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
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Quotes from The Lord of the Rings
“Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“That’s the only place in all the lands we’ve ever heard of that we don’t want to see any closer; and that’s the one place we’re trying to get to! And that’s just where we can’t get, nohow.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green. I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and people who will see a world that I shall never know.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“I have passed through fire and deep water, since we parted. I have forgotten much that I thought I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings.
“Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
Best Quotes from The Lord of the Rings
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“Who knows? Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope!” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“Well, I’ve made up my mind, anyway. I want to see mountains again, Gandalf – mountains; and then find somewhere where I can rest.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters. You did rightly.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“I’ll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“I wished to be loved by another, but I desire no man’s pity.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“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. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“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.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“Home is behind, the world ahead,
and there are many paths to tread
through shadows to the edge of night,
until the stars are all alight.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
Famous The Lord of the Rings Quotes
“Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate; And though I oft have passed them by, A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“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.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings.
“May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years!” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“But there, my friends, songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
Profound The Lord of the Rings Quotes
“The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“Well, I am going back into the open air, to see what the wind and sky are doing!” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“Was I chosen?’ ‘Such questions cannot be answered,’ said Gandalf. ‘You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“The great storm is coming, but the tide has turned.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“Go now, and die in what way seems best to you.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“Someone else always has to carry on the story.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“His old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“Now at this last 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.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“You will soon be well, if I do not talk you to death.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“If that’s being queer, then we could do with a bit more queerness in these parts.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings.
“Yet dawn is ever the hope of men,’ said Aragorn.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
“You have shown your usual cunning in getting up just in time for a meal.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings).
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