The best Quotes from Return to Moria

The forge's fire has a long gone cold under the mountain of Durin's folk. A shadow took our treasured halls. Now, it calls us back. Khazad-dûm! Speak, friend, and enter.

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

So do all who live to see such times; but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

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.

If this is love, I don't want it. Take it away, please! Why does it hurt so much?

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

I'm not a hero, or a warrior... not even a burglar.

Without me, eyes are marbles, no darkness they see.
Faces look garbled, no flurry they feel.
No breath, no cheer, death not to fear.
Time is not spent, roses has no scent.
At nothing you can marvel without me.

Cold be heart and hand and bone. Cold be travelers far from home. They do not see what lies ahead when sun has failed and moon is dead.

The fat Hobbit, he knows. Eyes always watching. Then we stabs them out. Put out his eyeses and make him crawl.

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 no knowing where you might be swept off to.

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.

One day I'll remember. Remember everything that happened: the good, the bad, those who survived... and those that did not.

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

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

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens

There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for.

Gorbag: "Stop your squealing, you dunghill rat! I'm gonna bleed you like a stuck pig."
Sam: "Not if I stick you first!"

Pippin: "What's that?"
Merry: "This, my friend, is a pint."
Pippin: "It comes in pints? I'm getting one."
Sam: "You got a whole half already!"

Gimli: "Toss me!"
Aragorn: "What?"
Gimli: "I cannot jump the distance. You'll have to toss me... don't tell the elf!"

"I have looked the last on that which was fairest," he said to Legolas his companion. "Henceforth I will call nothing fair unless it be her gift."

There's plenty for the both of us. May the best Dwarf win!

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.

One thing we can do better than any creature in all Middle-earth. We stay true to each other, with our hearts even bigger than our feet.

From the ashes, a fire shall be woken. A light from the shadow shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken. The crownless again shall be king.

Some things are certain. If I leave him now I will regret it forever.

Why do you fear the past? You are Isildur's heir not Isildur himself. You are not bound to his fate.

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

The Ring passed to Isildur, who had this one chance to destroy evil forever, but the hearts of men are easily corrupted.

Elrond: "You're making that promise very difficult to keep."
Galadriel: "Were it easy, it would not require trust."

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.

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

Bilbo once told me his part in this tale would end, that each of us must come and go in the telling.

For it is easier to shout "stop!" than to do it.

Come, my friends. The Ents are going to war. It is likely that we go to our doom. Last march of the Ents.

I told Gandalf I would keep you safe. And safe is where I'll keep you.

Gimli: "I never thought I'd die fighting side by side with an elf."
Legolas: "What about side by side with a friend?"
Gimli: "Aye, I could do that."

Gimli: "What's happening out there?"
Legolas: "Shall I describe it to you... or would you like me to find you a box?"

A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.

Arise, Riders of Théoden! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death!

Théoden: "I am happy for you. He is an honorable man."
Éowyn: "You are both honorable men."
Théoden: "It was not Theoden of Rohan who led our people to victory."

Saruman: "Can we not have peace?"
Theoden: "We shall have peace, when you answer for the burning of the Westfold, and the children that lie dead there! We shall have peace, when the lives of the soldiers whose bodies were hewn even as they died against the gates of the Hornberg, are avenged! When you hang from a gibbit for the sport of your own crows...! We shall have peace."

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.

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

We do not say goodbye. We say namárië. It means more than simply "farewell". It means, "Go towards goodness."

My friends… you bow to no one!

Night changes many thoguhts.

Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields when the age of Men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand! Men of the West!

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to.