Book Quotes and Movie Quotes from The Lord of the Rings

There can be no triumph without loss. No victory without suffering. No freedom without sacrifice.

Night changes many thoguhts.

I don't want to be in a battle, but waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

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.

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!

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.