The best Quotes by Treebeard

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.

You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.

Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little orc. No one cares for the woods anymore.

The Ents cannot hold back this storm. We must weather such things as we have always done.

Never is too long a word even for me.

I always like going south. Somehow it feels like going downhill.

Many of these trees were my friends. Creatures I had known from nut and acorn.

And those little family of field mice that climb up sometimes, and they tickle me awfully.

My home lies deep in the forest near the roots of the mountain.

Bless my bark!

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

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

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

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

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

You would die before your stroke fell.

Sam: "I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales. I wonder if people will ever say, 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring.' And they'll say, 'Yes, it's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, dad?' 'Yes, my boy. The most famousest of Hobbits. And that's saying a lot.'"
Frodo: "You've left out on of the chief characters. Samwise the Brave. I want to hear more about Sam! Frodo wouldn't have got far without Sam..."

Women of this country learned long ago, those without swords can still die upon them.

Gandalf? That was what they used to call me. Gandalf the Grey. That was my name. I am Gandalf the White. And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.

Darkness took me and I strayed out of thought and time. Stars wheeled overhead and every day was as long as a life age of The Earth. But it was not the end. I felt life in me again. I've been sent back until my task is done.

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.

They fight beside you because they would not be parted from you. Because they love you!

Aragorn: "What do you fear, lady?"
Éowyn: "A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire."

If Aragorn survives this war you will still be parted. If Sauron is defeated and Aragorn made king and all that you hope for comes true you will still have to taste the bitterness of mortality. Whether by the sword or the slow decay of time, Aragorn will die. And there will be no comfort for you. No comfort to ease the pain of his passing. He will come to death. An image of the splendor of the kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world. But you, my daughter, you will linger on in darkness and in doubt as nightfall in winter that comes without a star. Here you will dwell bound to your grief under the fading trees until all the world is changed and the long years of your life are utterly spent.

How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines, it’ll shine out the clearer.

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

Master broke his promise. Master betrayed us. Wicked. Tricksy. False. We ought to wring his filthy little neck. Kill him! Kill them both! And then we take the Precious and we'll be the master!

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end it's only a passing thing this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.

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.

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."

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

My friends… you bow to no one!

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.

Hobbits really are amazing creatures. You can learn all there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you.

So many people today - and even professional scientists - seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest.

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

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.

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

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

Where there is love, it is never truly dark.

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.

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

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

"The deeds of Men will outlast us, Gimli."
"And yet come to naught in the end but might-have-beens, I guess", said the Dwarf.
"To that the Elves know not the answer", said Legolas.