Living an exciting and fulfilling life is something that everyone deserves to have, yet it seems so unattainable for many people.
Sometimes what you need is just a little inspiration and wisdom to get through the day, to live a better life every day.
J.R.R.Tolkien is one of the wisest men on earth. His masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, an epic high fantasy novel that turned into an epic movie series decades later, is the greatest trilogy that you shouldn’t miss.
The Lord of the Rings gives us the wisdom of a meaningful life- about death, friendship, faith, courage, hope, love and sacrifice.
Here are top 30 enlightening, memorable, inspiring quotes from The Lord of the Rings trilogy that all we need.
For my precious
1.
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing.
— Frodo Baggins
2.
Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
— J. R. R. Tolkien
3.
We must take a hard road, a road unforeseen. There lies our hope, if hope it be. To walk into peril – to Mordor. We must send the Ring to the Fire.
— Elrond
4.
Your time will come. You will face the same Evil, and you will defeat it.”
– Arwen
5.
A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.
— Gandalf
6.
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
— Queen Galadriel
7.
Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror.
— J. R. R. Tolkien
8.
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish. — Sam Gamgee
9.
Shortcuts make delays, but inns make longer ones— Frodo
10.
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
— Gandalf
11.
Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it . . . White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.”
– Gandalf
12.
Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.
— Gandalf
13.
The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time.”
– Gandalf
14.
Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
— Gandalf
15.
And to that I hold. I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
—Arwen
16.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
— Gandalf
17.
Sam is an excellent fellow, and would jump down a dragon’s throat to save you, if he did not trip over his own feet.
— Pippin
18.
I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.
— Frodo
19.
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,
— Gimli
20.
You may learn something, and whether what you see be fair or evil, that may be profitable, and yet it may not. Seeing is both good and perilous.
— Galadriel
21.
It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing. Such a little thing.
— Boromir
22.
It is but a shadow and a thought that you love. I cannot give you what you seek.
— Aragorn
23.
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
— Haldir to the Fellowship
24.
The burned hand teaches best. After that advice about fire goes to the heart.
— Gandalf
25.
Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread through shadows to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight.
— J. R. R. Tolkien
26.
Aragorn: ’What do you fear, lady?’
Éowyn: ‘A cage. To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.’
27.
If any of the Wise should with this Ring overthrow the Lord of Mordor, using his own arts, he would then set himself on Sauron’s throne, and yet another Dark Lord would appear.
— Elrond
28.
I don’t know, and I would rather not guess.
— Frodo
29.
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.
— J. R. R. Tolkien
30.
I’m glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee…here at the end of all things.”
— Frodo
What are your favorite quotes from Lords of the Rings?
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