Book Quotes

"He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment." -- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give that to them?" -- Gandalf


"No one tosses a dwarf!" -- Gimli


"The dwarf made so much noise we could have shot him in the dark!" -- Haldir


"So do I, 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." -- Gandalf


Frodo: I'm going to Mordor alone.
Sam: Of course you are, and I'm going with you!


Gandalf: What did you hear? Speak!
Sam: N-nothing important. That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a dark lord, and something about the end of the world but please, Mr. Gandalf, sir, don't hurt me. Don't turn me into anything... unnatural.


Legolas: "Final count...42."
Gimli: "42! Oh, that's not bad for a pointy-eared elvish princling. I myself am sitting pretty on 43."
Legolas: (shoots an arrow into the Uruk-hai Gimli is sitting on) "43."
Gimli: "He was already dead."
Legolas: "He was twitching."
Gimli: "He was twitching...because he's got my axe imbedded in his nervous system!!"


Witch King: You fool. No man can kill me. Die now.
Eowyn: I am no man.


Gimli: Well, this is a thing unheard of. An Elf would go underground, where a Dwarf dare not. Oh, I'd never hear the end of it.


"Do you want me to find a box?" -- Legolas to Gimli