These are some of my favorite quotes from Lord Of The Rings. Most are direct from the book some lifted from the movie. I'm not a closed mind Rings purist that thinks anytime the movies deviate from the exact wording from the books is an abomination. It is not a sin to love the books and the movies. In my opinion Jackson did everything possible to keep it faithful to the books. I don't think it could have been done any better, and I am thankful he did. One last thing, I love Harry Potter like most folk. But please understand how foolish you look when comparing a character created in the late '90s to one created in 1937. Gandalf is not based on Dumbledore, and saying so is just silly. Ok, that’s all done, onward to the quotes. Let me know your faves too! Ooops one more thing, these are in random order. Carry on ...

• “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, making friends at his 111th Birthday bash.

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• “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” ★ Gimli, calling it as he sees it.

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• “I would have gone with you to the end, into the very fires of Mordor.” ★ Aragorn, staying true as ever.

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• “Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!” ★ Theoden at Helm's Deep.

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• “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 not knowing where you might be swept off to.” ★ Bilbo Baggins issues Frodo some travelling advice.

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• “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. But you are my heir: all that I had and might have had I leave to you.” ★ Frodo explaining his immanent departure.

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• “They have taken the bridge and the second hall. We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes, drums... drums in the deep. We cannot get out. A shadow lurks in the dark. We can not get out... they are coming.” ★ Gandalf reading from the Book Of Mazarbul in Balin's tomb.

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• “And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns...Great horns of the north wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last.” ★ The Rohirrim showing that its Better late than never.--

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• “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.” ★ Faramir explaining his love of the White City.

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• “I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass! The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the shadows! You cannot pass!” ★ Gandalf to the poor Balrog that didn't know who he was messing with.

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• “...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.” ★ Setting aside the Ranger.

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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.” ★ The wisdom of Gandalf.

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• “In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl. A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl, under the archway that no enemy ever yet had passed, and all fled before his face. All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the Gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax: Shadowfax who alone among the free horses of the earth endured the terror, unmoving, steadfast as a graven image in Rath Dínen. "You cannot enter here," said Gandalf, and the huge shadow halted. "Go back to the abyss prepared for you! Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master. Go!" The Black Rider flung back his hood, and behold! he had a kingly crown; and yet upon no head visible was it set. The red fires shone between it and the mantled shoulders vast and dark. From a mouth unseen there came a deadly laughter. "Old fool!" he said. "Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!" And with that he lifted high his sword and flames ran down the blade.” ★ A two for one quote. Tolkien describing Gandalf vs The Witch King.

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