Quotes and Sayings about Elves

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.

Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

Bronwyn: "Alfirin seeds."
Arondir: "It is a tradition among Elves. Before the battle begins, plant one."
Bronwyn: "New life, in defiance of death?"

Elves have forests to protect. Dwarves their mines. Men their fields of grain. Even trees have to worry about the soil beneath their roots. But we Harfoots have each other. We're safe.

The doom of the Elves is to be immortal, to love the beauty of the world, to bring it to full flower with their gifts of delicacy and perfection, to last while it lasts, never leaving it even when ‘slain', but returning – and yet, when the Followers come, to teach them, and make way for them, to ‘fade' as the Followers grow and absorb the life from which both proceed. The Doom of Men is mortality, freedom from the circles of the world.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

Gaston: "How can you read this, there's no pictures?"
Belle: "Well, some people use their imagination."

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only once."

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Doors are for people with no imagination.

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

It's like we talked about, you control this world. Let the pain go, let the hurt go, let the guilt go. What you are imagining right now, that world you control. That place can be as real as any pain.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

I think as you grow older your christmas list gets shorter, because the things you want can't be bought.

Kate: "We have to hang the stockings and make the eggnog. It just won't be Christmas without it!"
Claire: "Oh, honey, there is more to Christmas than all that stuff."

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what helps to keep a family together over the long haul.

Spring is coming, but the air is chilled
It reminds me of the winter fires we would always build
Hiding from the cold is always warmer in your arms
Whenever you are kissing me, it is Christmas in my heart

January always brought me down
All the magic of December
Is like a circus leaving town
All I wanna do is to follow it around
Cause everybody wishes it was Christmas all year 'round

Lord Blackadder: "Ah, Melchett! Greetings! I trust Christmas brings you its traditional mix of good food and violent stomach cramp."
Lord Melchett: "And compliments of the season to you, Blackadder. May the Yuletide log slip from your fire and burn your house down."

What I learned from Christmas this year: If I lived in a gingerbread house, it'd take an hour and twelve minutes for me to become homeless.

Ted: "You're scared of the seven dwarves?"
Robin: "Just of Doc. He's creepy... I mean, the guy went to medical school, what is he doing living with six coalminers."

Calling a Dwarf dishonest in her own home? That's a recipe for strong gravy!

Our people believe that when a new Dwarf-King is crowned, the voices of all his forbearers flow into him, sharing with him their counsel and wisdom. Even their mistakes.

The mightiest thing a Dwarf can do is to be worthy of the name of his father.

Dwarven anger outlives even Elven memory. Break your promise, and the power of this stone will doom you and your kin to sorrow, to your last day on this Middle-earth.

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

Where there is love, it is never truly dark.

If we didn't do everything we weren't supposed to, we'd hardly do anything at all.

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.

Who do you think you're poking? I'm a great wizard, I am! I'll turn you into a mindless ugly toad... gosh! It worked!

Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. I choose a mortal life.

In the end, this shadow is but a small and passing thing. There is light and high beauty forever beyond its reach. Find the light and the shadow will not find you.

Such is of 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.

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

I go now to my long rest in the timeless halls beyond the seas and the Mountains of Aman. It will be long ere I am seen among the Noldor again; and it may be that we shall not meet a second time in death or life, for the fates of our kindreds are apart. Farewell!

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

Only you can show what you are. You choose by what you do.

Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

Elrond is as much a brother to me as if he'd been fired in my own mother's womb.