90 Lord of the Rings Quotes to Inspire You Live a Epic Life

The Lord of the Rings is an epic high-fantasy novel by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. Lord of the Rings series is packed with incredible inspiration and fantastic imagery. The epic fantasy was first published in the mid-1950. Later on this legendary work was adapted by Peter Jackson and he directed award-winning The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. Further, an American fantasy television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power  was also developed  is  by J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay.  While fans continue to wait for details about a second season of The Rings of Power, which has no confirmed release date yet; in this article we have curated famous quotes from the book and movies. Here are Lord of the Rings Quotes to inspire you live a epic life.

Lord of the Rings Quotes

1. “Short cuts make long delays.” ~ Pippin

2. “The wise speak only of what they know.” ~ Gandalf

3. “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.” ~ Galadriel

4. “Not all those who wander are lost.” ~ Bilbo Baggins

5. “The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.” ~ Faramir

6. “Courage is found in unlikely places.” ~ Gildor
7. “All’s well that ends better.” ~ Hamfast Gamgee
8. “Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.” ~ Aragorn
9. “It is not the strength of the body, but the strength of the spirit.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
10. “It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.” ~ Sam Gamgee

LOTR Quotes

11. “Your time will come. You will face the same Evil, and you will defeat it.” ~ Arwen
12. “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
13. “Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.” ~ Gandalf
14. “Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror.” ~ Gimli
15. “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.” ~ Galadriel
16. “Who knows? Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope!” ~ Gandalf
17. “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.” ~ Legolas
18. “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.” ~ Galadriel
19. “Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man’s heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.” ~ Aragorn
20. “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.” ~ Galadriel

Quotes from Lord of the Rings

21. “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” ~ Arwen
22. “Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.” ~ Bilbo Baggins
23. “May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years!” ~ Gandalf
24. “The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.” ~ Warden
25. “There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for.” ~ Sam Gangee
26. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ~ Gandalf
27. “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.”  ~ Haldir
28. “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” ~ Gimli
29. “He that breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.” ~ Gandalf
30. “The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.” ~ Gildor

Best Lord of the Rings Quotes

31. “The Ring has awoken, it’s heard its master’s call.” ~ Gandalf
32. “It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing … such a little thing.”~ Boromir
33. “A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early; he arrives precisely when he means to.” ~ Gandalf
34. “Fly, you fools!” ~ Gandalf
35. “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.” ~ Bilbo Baggins
36. “You may learn something, and whether what you see be fair or evil, that may be profitable, and yet it may not. Seeing is both good and perilous.” ~ Galadriel
37. “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
38. “It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing. Such a little thing.” ~ Boromir
39. “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
40. “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

Best LOTR Quotes

41. “If we didn’t do everything we weren’t supposed to, we’d hardly do anything at all.” ~ Nori Brandyfoot
42. “Beauty has great power to heal the soul.” ~ Arondir
43. “But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.” ~ Sam Gamgee
44. “In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.” ~ Faramir
45. “For behold! the storm comes, and now all friends should gather together, lest each singly be destroyed.” ~ Gandalf
46. “Hope is never mere, even when it is meager.” ~ Gil-Galad
47. “Everyone, each of us, needs to decide who we shall be.” ~ Queen Regent Miriel
48. “For the time will soon come when Hobbits will shape the fortunes of all.” ~ Galadriel
49. “Evil will be drawn to you from outside the fellowship. And, I fear, from within you must trust yourself. Trust your own strengths.” ~ Gandalf
50. “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Lord of the Rings Quotes

51. “You shall not pass!” ~ Gandalf
52. “I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.” ~ Sam Gamgee
53. “Do not be so quick to deal out death and judgment. Even the very wise do not see all ends.” ~ Gandalf
54. “The old world will burn in the fires of industry. The forests will fall. A new order will rise.” ~ Saruman
55. “You have no authority here! Your orders mean nothing!” ~ Eomer
56. “Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why.” ~ Samwise Gamgee
57. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ~ Thorin Oakenshield
58. “A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.”~ Aragorn
59. “It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing.” ~ Frodo
60. “But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.” ~ Celeborn

LOTR Quotes

61. “I wonder if we’ll ever be put into songs or tales.” ~ Samwise Gamgee
62. “It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.” ~ Bilbo Baggins
63. “I thought up an ending for my book: ‘And he lived happily ever after, unto the end of his days.'” ~ Bilbo Baggins
64. “You can not hide, I see you! There is no life after me. Only death!” ~ Sauron
65. “No, thank you! We don’t want any more visitors, well-wishers or distant relations!” ~ Bilbo Baggins
66. “The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time.” ~ Gandalf
67. “You are the luckiest, the canniest, and the most reckless man I ever knew.” ~ Gimli
68. “When in doubt, follow your nose.” ~ Gandalf
69. “All shall love me and despair!” ~ Galadriel
70. “I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.” ~ Frodo

Famous Lord of the Rings Quotes

71. “I can avoid being seen, if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift.” ~ Aragorn
72. “Potatoes! Boil ’em, mash ’em, stick ’em in a stew.” ~ Samwise Gamgee
73. “You’ll find more cheer in a graveyard.” ~ Gimli
74. “War will make corpses of us all.” ~ Faramir
75. “There can be no trust between hammer and rock.” ~ King Durin III
76. “There is no secret worth concealing with deception.” ~ Elrond
77. “An avalanche can start with one stone.” ~ Pharazon
78. “Nothing is evil in the beginning.” ~ Galadriel
79. There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power.” ~ Gandalf
80. “Anyways, you need people of intelligence on this sort of… mission… quest… thing.” ~ Pippin

Lord of the Rings Quotes

71. “Oh, it’s quite simple. If you are a friend, you speak the password, and the doors will open.” ~ Gandalf
72. “We swears, to serve the master of the Precious. We will swear on… on the Precious!” ~ Gollum
73. “But no living man am I! You look upon a woman.” ~ Eowyn
74. “To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.” ~ Gandalf
75. “Valour needs first strength, and then a weapon.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
76. “I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
77. “Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.” ~ Elrond
78. “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” ~ Gandalf
79. “None knows what the new day shall bring him.” ~ Aragorn
80. “I am Gandalf the White. And I come back to you now… at the turn of the tide.”~  Gandalf

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