The most famous quotes from The Fellowship of the Ring (the book)
The top 3 according to 72 votes from people: All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. · One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, / One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. · 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.. (Updated Jul 22, 2022.)
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us", "Not all those who wander are lost" and "Fly, you fools!": the best-known lines of Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring, as written in the novel, with who says them.
Top 14
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Gandalf.
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One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, / One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
The Ring-verse, inscribed on the One Ring.
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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.
Gandalf.
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I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.
Frodo at the Council of Elrond.
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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's farewell speech at his party.
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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, at the Council.
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All that is gold does not glitter, / Not all those who wander are lost.
Bilbo's verse about Aragorn.
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Fly, you fools!
Gandalf on the Bridge of Khazad-dûm.
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It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door.
Bilbo, as remembered by Frodo.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
Gildor, the Elf.
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Short cuts make delays, but inns make longer ones.
Frodo.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
Gildor, the Elf.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
Gimli to Elrond.
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The Road goes ever on and on / Down from the door where it began.
Bilbo's walking song.
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"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us" got me through 2020 honestly