The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring quotes

View Quote I will take it. I will take the ring to Mordor. Though, I do not know the way.

View Quote (aside) Mordor, Gandalf - is it left or right?

View Quote I amar prestar aen. The world is changed. Han mathon ne nen. I feel it in the water. Han mathon ne chae. I feel it in the earth. A han noston ned 'wilith. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it.

View Quote For the time would soon come when Hobbits would shape the fortunes of all.

View Quote In place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the sea! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair!

View Quote 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 all the company is true.

View Quote (singing) The road goes ever on and on / Down from the door where it began / Now far ahead the road has gone / And I must follow if I can...

View Quote A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.

View Quote Bilbo Baggins! Do not take me for some conjurer of cheap tricks! I am not trying to rob you! I'm trying to help you. All your long years we've been friends. Trust me as you once did. Let it go.

View Quote (musing on the Ring) Riddles in the Dark. My precious.

View Quote (of the inscription on the Ring)In the Common tongue it says, "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them."

View Quote The spirit of Sauron endured. His life force is bound to the Ring, and the Ring survived. Sauron has returned. His Orcs have multiplied. His fortress of Barad-dûr is rebuilt in the land of Mordor. Sauron needs only this Ring to cover all the lands in a second darkness. He is seeking it… seeking it and all his thought is bent on it. For the Ring yearns above all else, to return to the hand of its master. They are one; the Ring and the Dark Lord. Frodo... he must never find it.

View Quote Understand, Frodo, I would use this Ring from a desire to do good… but through me, it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine.

View Quote My dear Frodo. Hobbits really are amazing creatures. You can learn all that there is to know about them in a month, and yet after a hundred years, they can still surprise you.

View Quote Always remember, Frodo, the Ring is trying to get back to its master. It wants to be found.