Frodo Quotes - Page 2

• Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Farewell, Saying Goodbye, Years

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.691, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All that is gold does not glitter,
  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.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Strong, Kings

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.... That there's some good in the world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fighting, Towers, Stories

  "Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", 2002.

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• Are you in pain, Frodo?' said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo's side. 'Well, yes I am,' said Frodo. 'It is my shoulder. The wound aches, and the memory of darkness is heavy on me. It was a year ago today.' 'Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured,' said Gandalf. 'I fear it may be so with mine,' said Frodo. 'There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?' Gandalf did not answer.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Pain, Memories, Real

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• I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Friendship, Return Of The King, Glad

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.926, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. 'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Rivers, Feet

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hurt, Often Is, Giving

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.691, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My dear Frodo!’ exclaimed Gandalf. ‘Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Years, Way, Months

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fellowship, Way, Lord Of The Ring

  The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 2, ch. 2 (1954)

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

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, Light, May

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.266, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hurt, Hands, Evil

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  New Day, Shining, Towers

  "Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Towers, Want, Sometimes

  "Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• All that is gold does not glitter.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Being Strong, Travel, Fantasy Novels

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fellowship, Death Penalty, Lord Of The Ring

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Fog, Knowing, Settings

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• No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Memories, Flower

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.916, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Taken, Eye, Madness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.926, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well. So up you get! Come on, Mr. Frodo dear! Sam will give you a ride. Just tell him where to go, and he'll go

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Giving, Samwise Gamgee, Return Of The King

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.919, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. When the labours or repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a good deal and going through all his notes. He resigned the office of Deputy Mayor at the Free Fair that Midsummer, and dear old Will Whitfoot had another seven years of presiding at Banquets.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Writing, Years

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• She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white whose gentle voice was soft and sad.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Laughter, Fall

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• To me there is nothing so admirable as a passionate love-bond between two human begins. Sam loves Frodo and wants to protect him and Frodo is extremely protective of Sam. So what you have are these two people locked into this journey together. They don't need to explain what they are to each other, they don't need to talk about it; they just are.

  Sean Astin

  Journey, Two, People

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• Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Climbing, Hands, Tree

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.248, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind," said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up myself, if it breaks my back and heart.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Bones, Break

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.918, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't the great tales never end?" "No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  People, Ends, Said

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.697, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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