Help! Tolkien Quotes Needed - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lomelinde · 05-11-2002, 06:32 PM

I am in need of everyone's aid. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

My school is already asking me to submit a senior quote for my yearbook next year and I really want to do a Tolkien nugget. However, I don't want to go through all his books trying to find an inspirational phrase. That would be slightly painstaking. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] So I need some ideas for quotes- if you have any you can think of off the top of your head for a starry-eyed high school senior. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

The quotes can't be more than 25 words. Otherwise, go for it, and thanks in advance! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Daniel Telcontar · 05-11-2002, 06:37 PM

The idea that we get from plays and novels, is that falling in love is something that just happens to us, like measles.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, in his book:
Tree and Leaf.
Hope it does the job!! [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]

Jessica Jade · 05-11-2002, 07:16 PM

i highlighted all my fave quotes in my copy of LOTR to read them often. There are SO many. I'll go get them some other time for you, when i have more time, but here's some of my personal faves:

"The wide world is all around you. You can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out."
-Gildor Inglorien in Fellowship

"Starting is too great a claim for any, and only a small part is played in great deeds by any hero."
-Elrond

"It's a dangerous business going out your front door. You step on the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there no knowing where you might be swept of to."
-Bilbo

"Not all those who wander are lost."
-Aragorn's poem

"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

"I will not say: do not weep, for not all tears are an evil."
-Gandalf

"So it must often be, when things are in danger: someone must give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them."
-Frodo (hmmm never mind, that probably wouln't be a good yearbook quote even though it's a good one.)

"The road goes ever on and on..."
-Bilbo

The quote in my signature is a good one too [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

That's all i can remember for now. And speaking of senior quotes...i'll have to start thinking about which one I'm gonna use, even though i don't graduate til '04! he heh... it'll be soo hard to choose because i have sooo many favorite Tolkien quotes.
Tolkien is the greatest!

Gimli Son Of Gloin · 05-11-2002, 08:32 PM

Well you could use,

Quote:

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûl agh burzum-ishi krimpatul

Or you could use my signature(top part)
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avarerniliel · 05-11-2002, 08:52 PM

Well, here are some touching quotes, and some funny ones....

I think someone else mentioned it but the one when Bilbo discussed not to go out your front door because it's a dangerous business is good.

"Give me fish now and keep nassty chips."-Gollum

"Not all that is gold glitters, not all who wander are lost."-Aragorn

When Gandalf disscusses the life/death ideas of Gollum to Frodo.

Actually, that wasn't all that helpful, sorry. I didn't have my books with me, but they are some of my personal faves. Good luck!

Raefindel · 05-11-2002, 10:18 PM

I don't know half of you as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

[ May 12, 2002: Message edited by: Raefindel ]

Lomelinde · 05-11-2002, 10:51 PM

Oh, wow, thanks everybody so far. These look good, please keep them coming.

By the way, Jessica Jade, I know your signature is a good quote. It's my signature too, lol. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] What were the chances... [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

Tigerlily Gamgee · 05-11-2002, 11:50 PM

I am a big fan of the quote from The Two Towers that is in my signature [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Gimli Son Of Gloin · 05-13-2002, 08:26 PM

I like my signature(top part)
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Aosama, the Wandering Star · 05-13-2002, 08:43 PM

Here are a bunch that I liked (my sister made my search for them for a book she was filling with quotes):
"I love him. He's like that, and sometimes it shines through, somehow. But I love him, whether or no."
-Sam (not very yearbook-y, I'll admit)

"What do you fear, lady?" he asked.
"A cage," she said, "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is beyond recall or desire."
-Aragorn/Eowyn

"Therefore I say to you, lady: Stay! For you have no errand to the South."
"Neither have those others who go with thee. They go only because they would not be parted from thee - because they love thee."
-Aragorn/Eowyn

"I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way."
-Frodo

"There go three that I love, and the smallest not the least," he said. "He knows not to what end he rides, yet if he knew he would still go on."
-Aragorn

"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."
-Gandalf

Pity filled his heart and great wonder, and suddenly the slow-kindled courage of his race awoke. She should not die, so fair, so desperate! At least, she should not die alone, unaided.
-Battle of Pelenor Fields

"Aure entuluva!/Day shall come again!"
-sorry, do not know who said this [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

Amin mela llie/I love you all
-as far as I know, it is just an Elvish phrase

and one of my personal favs:
"Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens."
-Gimli

Just my input [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Jessica Jade · 05-20-2002, 01:38 PM

I really like these quotes too:

Quote:

"Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end" ~ Legolas (THE TWO TOWERS)

Quote:

"What do you fear, lady?" he asked.
"A cage," she said, "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is beyond recall or desire."
-Aragorn/Eowyn

Can you guys please tell me what page, or at least what chapter those quotes are from? I'd really like to know so that i can read them in context. Thanks!

Aosama, the Wandering Star · 05-20-2002, 01:44 PM

The "What do you fear, Lady?" comes from "The Return of the King", Chapter II (The Passing Of The Grey Company). In my all-in-one edition (with the picture of the Nazgul from the movie on the front), it is on page 767.

05-11-2002, 06:32 PM	#1
Lomelinde Haunting Spirit Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ha! Wouldn't you like to know? Posts: 80	Help! Tolkien Quotes Needed I am in need of everyone's aid. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] My school is already asking me to submit a senior quote for my yearbook next year and I really want to do a Tolkien nugget. However, I don't want to go through all his books trying to find an inspirational phrase. That would be slightly painstaking. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] So I need some ideas for quotes- if you have any you can think of off the top of your head for a starry-eyed high school senior. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] The quotes can't be more than 25 words. Otherwise, go for it, and thanks in advance! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ The Dwarf breathes so loud I could've shot him in the dark, drunk, blindfolded and hanging upside down from a tree.

05-11-2002, 06:37 PM	#2
Daniel Telcontar Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 713	The idea that we get from plays and novels, is that falling in love is something that just happens to us, like measles. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, in his book: Tree and Leaf. Hope it does the job!! [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img] __________________ Two beer or not two beer, that is the question; by Shakesbeer

05-11-2002, 07:16 PM	#3
Jessica Jade Wight Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Tirion upon Túna, Atlanta Posts: 154	i highlighted all my fave quotes in my copy of LOTR to read them often. There are SO many. I'll go get them some other time for you, when i have more time, but here's some of my personal faves: "The wide world is all around you. You can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out." -Gildor Inglorien in Fellowship "Starting is too great a claim for any, and only a small part is played in great deeds by any hero." -Elrond "It's a dangerous business going out your front door. You step on the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there no knowing where you might be swept of to." -Bilbo "Not all those who wander are lost." -Aragorn's poem "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 "I will not say: do not weep, for not all tears are an evil." -Gandalf "So it must often be, when things are in danger: someone must give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them." -Frodo (hmmm never mind, that probably wouln't be a good yearbook quote even though it's a good one.) "The road goes ever on and on..." -Bilbo The quote in my signature is a good one too [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] That's all i can remember for now. And speaking of senior quotes...i'll have to start thinking about which one I'm gonna use, even though i don't graduate til '04! he heh... it'll be soo hard to choose because i have sooo many favorite Tolkien quotes. Tolkien is the greatest! __________________ http://www.cadential64.com The musicians had indeed laid bare the youngest, most innocent of our ideas of life, the indestructible yearning for the way things aren't and can never be. ~ Philip Roth, The Human Stain

05-11-2002, 10:18 PM	#6
Raefindel Sword of the Spirit Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Washington State Posts: 1,313	I don't know half of you as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. [ May 12, 2002: Message edited by: Raefindel ] __________________ Blessed be the Lord my Strength, Who trained my hands for war and my fingers to fight. Psallm 144:1

05-11-2002, 10:51 PM	#7
Lomelinde Haunting Spirit Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ha! Wouldn't you like to know? Posts: 80	Oh, wow, thanks everybody so far. These look good, please keep them coming. By the way, Jessica Jade, I know your signature is a good quote. It's my signature too, lol. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] What were the chances... [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] __________________ The Dwarf breathes so loud I could've shot him in the dark, drunk, blindfolded and hanging upside down from a tree.

05-11-2002, 08:52 PM	#5
avarerniliel Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: In front of the moniter... Posts: 58	Well, here are some touching quotes, and some funny ones.... I think someone else mentioned it but the one when Bilbo discussed not to go out your front door because it's a dangerous business is good. "Give me fish now and keep nassty chips."-Gollum "Not all that is gold glitters, not all who wander are lost."-Aragorn When Gandalf disscusses the life/death ideas of Gollum to Frodo. Actually, that wasn't all that helpful, sorry. I didn't have my books with me, but they are some of my personal faves. Good luck!

05-11-2002, 11:50 PM	#8
Tigerlily Gamgee Hostess of Spirits Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Meduseld Posts: 1,055	I am a big fan of the quote from The Two Towers that is in my signature [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ ~ ExerciseJunky.com (Hobbits fitness of choice!)~ ~Lady of Rohan: An Eowyn Fansite ~ ~The NEW/OLD Barrow Downs Photo Page~

05-13-2002, 08:26 PM	#9
Gimli Son Of Gloin Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: The Halls of Montezuma, and the Shores of Tripoli Posts: 495	I like my signature(top part) \| \| \| V __________________ The Few, the Proud, the Marines.

05-13-2002, 08:43 PM	#10
Aosama, the Wandering Star Wight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Middle-Earth Posts: 210	Here are a bunch that I liked (my sister made my search for them for a book she was filling with quotes): "I love him. He's like that, and sometimes it shines through, somehow. But I love him, whether or no." -Sam (not very yearbook-y, I'll admit) "What do you fear, lady?" he asked. "A cage," she said, "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is beyond recall or desire." -Aragorn/Eowyn "Therefore I say to you, lady: Stay! For you have no errand to the South." "Neither have those others who go with thee. They go only because they would not be parted from thee - because they love thee." -Aragorn/Eowyn "I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way." -Frodo "There go three that I love, and the smallest not the least," he said. "He knows not to what end he rides, yet if he knew he would still go on." -Aragorn "I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil." -Gandalf Pity filled his heart and great wonder, and suddenly the slow-kindled courage of his race awoke. She should not die, so fair, so desperate! At least, she should not die alone, unaided. -Battle of Pelenor Fields "Aure entuluva!/Day shall come again!" -sorry, do not know who said this [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] Amin mela llie/I love you all -as far as I know, it is just an Elvish phrase and one of my personal favs: "Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens." -Gimli Just my input [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

05-20-2002, 01:44 PM	#12
Aosama, the Wandering Star Wight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Middle-Earth Posts: 210	The "What do you fear, Lady?" comes from "The Return of the King", Chapter II (The Passing Of The Grey Company). In my all-in-one edition (with the picture of the Nazgul from the movie on the front), it is on page 767.