Inspiring Quotes from The Lord of the Rings: Wisdom for Every Journey

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"His old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

- Gandalf

"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 praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Do not then stumble at the end of the road."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Oft hope is born when all is forlorn."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand—that and such hope as I bring."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin—to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours—closer than you yourself keep it. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Don't go where I can't follow!"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"For behold! the storm comes, and now all friends should gather together, lest each singly be destroyed."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"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

"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

"Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you."

- Sam

"You shall not pass!"

- Gandalf

"Death is just another path. One that we all must take."

- Gandalf

"Wise speak only of what they know."

- Gandalf

"Not all those who wander are lost."

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"I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way."

- Frodo Baggins

"Come on Sam. Remember what Bilbo used to say: 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."

- Frodo Baggins

"There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for."

- Sam Gamgee

"Even the smallest person can change the course of history."

- Lady Galadriel

"The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true."

- Lady Galadriel

"May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out."

- Lady Galadriel

"This day does not belong to one man but to all. Let us together rebuild this world that we may share in the days of peace."

- Aragorn

"It is not the strength of the body, but the strength of the spirit."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"There's some good in this world... and it's worth fighting for!"

- Samwise Gamgee

"I can't carry it for you... but I can carry you!"

- Samwise Gamgee

"There is always hope."

- Aragorn

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."

- Galadriel

"I would have gone with you to the end, into the very fires of Mordor."

- Aragorn

"Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!"

- Theoden

"I am no man."

- Eowyn

"I made a promise, Mr Frodo. A promise. "Don't you leave him Samwise Gamgee." And I don't mean to. I don't mean to."

- Sam

"For Frodo."

- Aragorn

"This task was appointed to you. And if you do not find a way, no one will."

- Galadriel

"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."

- Elrond

"The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time."

- Gandalf

"It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing."

- Frodo Baggins

"It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish."

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"Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer."

- Sam Gamgee

"One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."

- Gandalf

"Do not trouble your hearts overmuch with thought of the road tonight. Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet, though you do not see them."

- Lady Galadriel

"Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised."

- Aragorn

"For the time will soon come when Hobbits will shape the fortunes of all."

- Lady Galadriel

"A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early; he arrives precisely when he means to."

- Gandalf

"I know what I must do. It’s just… I’m afraid to do it."

- Frodo Baggins

"A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship."

- Aragorn

"I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened."

- Frodo Baggins

"It’s mine. My own. My precious."

- Bilbo

"Where was Gondor when the Westfold fell?"

- Theoden