"The Fellowship of the Ring" Quotes
A group of adventurers embark on a perilous journey to destroy a powerful ring and save Middle-earth.
classics | 527 pages | Published in 1954
Quotes
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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.
The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow, if I can.
There is a seed of courage hidden (often deeply, it is true) in the heart of the fattest and most timid hobbit, waiting for some final and desperate danger to make it grow.
The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.
It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.
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.
