Middle Earth Quotes - Page 2

• I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sad, Grief, Evil

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.1007, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, Arrows, Towers

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.656, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and 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 us.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Death, Wish, Fellowship

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Death, Wise, Giving

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

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• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Change, Happiness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Hope

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.859, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Over hill and under hill

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hills, Misty Mountains, Great Hobbit

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
  The crownless again shall be king.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Roots, Fantasy Novels

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Success, Frodo, Return Of The King

  "Fictional character: Frodo Baggins". "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", 2003.

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• The burned hand teaches best.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hands, Growth, Action

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.584, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Such is of 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

  Moving, Eye, Small Hands

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Darkness, Books And Movies, Fellowship

  The Fellowship of the Ring epigraph (1954)

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• The wise speak only of what they know

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wise, Speak, Two Towers

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.355, 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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• 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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• The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Fire, Hands

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.584, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.

  George R. R. Martin

  Heaven, Earth, Fantasy

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “Dreamsongs 2-Book Bundle: Dreamsongs Volumes I and II”, p.437, Bantam

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• Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Friendship, Goodbye, Peace

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.1007, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.

  N.D. Wilson

  Dream, Honesty, Reading

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• But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dur, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Home, Eye, Dark

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• Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.

  Jim C. Hines

  Children, Mirrors, World

  Jim C. Hines (2013). “Libriomancer”, p.112, Random House

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• But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only a shadow in the waters that was soon lost in the West. There he stood far into the night, hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-Earth, and the sound of them sank deep into his heart.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Night, Sea

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”

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• I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Imagination, Age

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I just really hope that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema can resolve all their differences. I'm hoping that's going to happen, but we'd have to wait and see. I would love to explore Middle Earth again with Peter.

  Karl Urban

  Differences, Waiting, Cinema

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• A lot of ideas took us to dead ends or we found the tone wasn’t just right. I think we discovered very quickly this wasn’t just a song to end The Battle of the Five Armies — it was a song to say goodbye to Middle-earth.

  Billy Boyd

  Goodbye, Song, Army

  “THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES: Check Out the Music Video for Billy Boyd’s ‘The Last Goodbye’” by Prtti Nemiroff, collider.com. November 21, 2014.

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