The best Quotes by The Stranger

Alone, it's just a journey. Now, adventures, they must be shared.

Betimes, our paths are laid before us by powers greater than our own. In those moments, it's our task to make our feet go where our hearts wish not to tread.

From shadow you came. To shadow I bid you return!

Istar? In your tongue, that means "wise one". Or "wizard".

When in doubt, Elanor Brandyfoot, always follow your nose.

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.

Galadriel: "One will always corrupt. Two will divide."
Celebrimbor: "But with three, there is balance."

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

What will they do when you tell them that you were my ally? When you tell them that Sauron lives because of you?

Halbrand: "You bind me to the light. And I bind you to power. Together, we can save this Middle-earth."
Galadriel: "Save? Or rule?"
Halbrand: "I see no difference."
Galadriel: "And that is why I will never be at your side."

I have been awake since before the breaking of the first silence. In that time... I have had many names.

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

Since the mountain of fire's eruption, the Great Tree is all but bleeding leaves. Soon, the last will fall. And unless our people leave these shore, so shall we.

Sometimes the perilous path is the only path.

Tamar: "You're not so bad, low man."
Halbrand: "Well, then, I best make my retreat, while you've still got a warm opinion of me."

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

The iron that must bear the most heavy of burdens must also endure the most rigorous tempering!

There are powers beyond darkness at work in this world. Perhaps on days such as this, we've little choice but to trust to their designs and surrender our own.

Every war is fought both without and within. Of that, every soldier must be mindful.

What cannot be known hollows the mind. Fill it not with guesswork.

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

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.

In adventuring, as in business, you always have to seize the opportunity while it's there.

It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts.

Tyrion: "You broke my nose."
Bronn: "I did not break your nose."
Tyrion: "How do you know?"
Bronn: "'Cause I've been breaking noses since I was your size and I know what it sounds like."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!"

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."