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Lord of the Rings.


Viggo Mortensen

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J.R.R. TOLKIEN His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I'm a really big 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I have all the extended editions.
NATHAN KRESS Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and dange...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical va...
C.S. LEWIS Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?'
PETER DINKLAGE Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.
IAN MCKELLEN I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Through shadow, to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight."- "Excerpt from Edge Of Night ...
JRR TOLKEIN I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It's like in the great ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN How are we supposed to get in?”
Stella kicked the metal shutter.
“Fool of a Took!” ...
MICHELLE HODKIN I like quoting 'Lord of the Rings': 'My list of allies grows thin! My list of enemies gr...
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ELIJAH WOOD I'm sorry I brought this upon you, my boy. I'm sorry you must carry this burden. I'm sorry for every...
LORD OF THE RINGS All that is gold does not glitter Not all those who wander are lost The old who are strong do not wh...
LORD OF THE RINGS I like half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as y...
LORD OF THE RINGS Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity!
LORD OF THE RINGS PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death i...
LORD OF THE RINGS How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to und...
LORD OF THE RINGS I'm naked in the dark...there's nothing...nothing...
LORD OF THE RINGS I can avoid being seen if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift.
LORD OF THE RINGS Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tem...
LORD OF THE RINGS My Precious - Gollum and the One Ring
LORD OF THE RINGS Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all wh...
LORD OF THE RINGS The mines are no place for a pony, even one so brave as Bill. Bye-bye Bill.
LORD OF THE RINGS They will find the Ring, and kill the one who carries it.
LORD OF THE RINGS So you have chosen.....Death.
LORD OF THE RINGS ...But the hearts of men are easily corrupted... And the ring of power has a will of its own.
LORD OF THE RINGS PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end her...
LORD OF THE RINGS But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's Elvish," Tummeler repeated. "It says, basically, 'Declare allegiance, and be welcomed."
"W...
JAMES A. OWEN It is but a shadow and thought that you love. I cannot give you what you seek.
LOED OF THE RINGS But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Gollum merece la muerte. La merece, sin duda. Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Frodo did not destroy the Ring; Gollum did. This is something he would always be reminded of, especi...
STEVE BIVANS Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Elrond,” Bruce said. “The Council of Elrond. From Lord of the Rings. It’s the meeting w...
ANDY WEIR No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The light sprang up again, and there on the brink of the chasm, at the very Crack of Doom, stood Fro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.
LEN WEIN Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's the deep breath before the plunge.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they ...
JUNOT DíAZ I tried reading The Lord of the Rings books. I got about fifty pages in... I got tired of reading th...
MIKE STOKLASA I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to y...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once.

"El...
JIM BUTCHER He [Bilbo] used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs we...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
RALPH BAKSHI I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then v...
ANDY SERKIS I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that ...
MARKUS ZUSAK A whole new career opened up for me when I was in 'Lord Of The Rings' and 'Star Wars....
CHRISTOPHER LEE I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not re...
DAMON LINDELOF The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,
APOLLO 13 Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do a...
PHILIPPA BOYENS 'Lord of the Rings' was going on; like, my college years were the years of 'Lord of the ...
EVAN DAUGHERTY Gollum is Gollum - though in 'Lord of the Rings' he's 600 years old and in 'The Hobb...
ANDY SERKIS The Beatles once approached Stanley Kubrick to do 'The Lord Of The Rings.' This was before T...
PETER JACKSON Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarve...
ORLANDO BLOOM There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN How shall a man judge what to do in such times?'
'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good a...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I wonder if people will ever say, "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring." And they'll say, "Yes, that...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I see that you are an elf-friend; the light in your eyes and the ring in your voice tells it.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Though he walked and breathed, and about him living leaves and flowers were stirred by the same cool...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN But everybody there knew 'Lord of the Rings,' ... It's really amazing.
ELIJAH WOOD Aragorn: Hold your ground, hold your ground. Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers. I see in your ey...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Sam: I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales. Frodo: [turns around] What? Sam: I wonder if...
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CHRISTOPHER LEE You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Let go! Gollum,' he said. 'This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you'l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Boy, am I glad there wasn't a fourth episode of Lord of the Rings.
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