Prologue
Galadriel:
I amar prestar aen (The world is changed.)
han mathon ne nen (I feel it in the water.)
han mathon ne chae. (I feel it in the earth.)
a han noston ned gwilith. (I smell it in the air.)
~ Treebeard: ‘For the world is changing: I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air.’ [6.I. These are the parting words of Treebeard to the Lady Galadriel, whom he never met before and never will again.]

Galadriel: It betrayed Isildur to his death.
~ Gandalf: ‘It had slipped from Isildur’s hand and betrayed him;…’ [1.II.SP]
~ Elrond: ‘… But he was betrayed by it to his death.’ [2.II.COE]

Galadriel: History became legend, legend became myth and for two and a half thousand years, the Ring passed out of all knowledge.
~ Gandalf: ‘And there in the dark pools of the Gladden Fields, the Ring passed out of knowledge and legend; …’ [1.II.SP]
~ Elrond: ‘For in the days of Isildur the Ruling Ring passed out of all knowledge, …’ [2.II.COE]

Galadriel: It abandoned Gollum. But something then happened the Ring did not intend: it was picked up by the most unlekely creature imaginable. Bilbo Baggins from the Shire.
~ Gandalf: ‘…, it abandoned Gollum. Only to be picked up by the most unlikely person imaginable: Bilbo from the Shire!’ [1.II. SP]

A Long Expected Party
Gandalf:
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 …
~ Bilbo: ‘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 …’ [1.I.LEP]

Gandalf to Frodo: Ohhh! The long expected party!
~ title: ‘A Long-Expected Party’ [1.I. LEP]

Gandalf: So how is the old rascal? I hear it’s going to be a party of special magnificence.
~ text: ‘When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.’ [1.I. LEP]

Frodo: And the rest of them are turning up anyway.
~ text: ‘A very few were overlooked by accident, but as they turned up all the same, that did not matter.’ [1.I.LEP]

Gandalf to Frodo: Ohhh! The long expected party!
~ title: ‘A Long-Expected Party’ [1.I. LEP]

Frodo: Whatever you do, you’ve been officially labelled a disturber of the peace.
~ Gandalf: ‘They say I am a nuisance and a disturber of the peace.’ [1.I. LEP]

Gandalf: Riddles in the dark…
~ title: ‘Riddles In the Dark’ [Hobbit V]

The Ring Uncloaked
Gandalf: The year 3434, of the Second Age. Here follows the account of Isildur, High King of Gondor, and the finding of the Ring of Power.
It has come to me, the One Ring, which shall be an heirloom of my kingdom. All those who follow in my bloodline shall be bound to its fate, for I will risk no hurt to the Ring. It is precious to me, though I buy it with great pain… The markings upon the band begin to fade. The writing which at first was as clear as red flame, has all but disappeared, a secret now that only fire can tell.
~ Gandalf: ‘The Great Ring shall go now to be an heirloom of the North Kingdom; but records of it shall be left in Gondor, where also dwell the heirs of Elendil, lest a time come when the memory of these great matters shall grow dim. It was hot when I first took it, hot as a glede, and my hand was scorched, so that I doubt if ever again I shall be free of the pain of it. Yet even as I write it is cooled, and it seemeth to shrink, though it loseth neither its beauty nor its shape. Already the writing upon it, which at first was as clear as red flame, fadeth and is now only barely to be read. It is fashioned in an Elven script of Eregion, for they have no letters in Mordor for such subtle work, but the language is unknown to me. I deem it to be a tongue of the Black Land, since it is foul and uncouth. What evil it saith I do not know, but I trace here a copy of it lest it fade beyond recall. The Ring misseth, maybe, the heat of Sauron’s hand, which was black and yet burned like fire, and so Gil-galad was destroyed; and maybe were the gold made hot again, the writing would be refreshed. But for my part I will risk no hurt to this thing: of all the works of Sauron the only fair. It is precious to me, though I buy it with great pain…’ [2.II.COE]

Random Hobbit answers to Nazgûl’s hissed ‘Bagginsssss’ with There’s no Bagginses around here. They’re all up in Hobbiton.
~ Farmer Maggot: ‘Be off!’ I said. ‘There are no Bagginses here. You’re in the wrong part of the Shire. You had better go back west to Hobbiton…’ [1.IV. Farmer Maggot tells Frodo, Sam and Pippin about his encounter with one of the Black Riders, when they have dinner at his farm.]

Merry & Pippin:
Hey, ho, to the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe
Rain may fall and wind may blow
But there still be… many miles to go
Sweet is the sound of pouring rain
And the stream that falls from hill to plain
Better than rain or rippling brook –
Is a mug o’ beer inside this Took!
~ Merry & Pippin: Ho! ho! ho! To the bottle I go / To heal my heart and drown my woe / Though rain may fall and wind may blow, / And many miles be still to go, / Under a tall tree I will lie, / And let the clouds go sailing by…) [1.III.STM]
~ Sam, Frodo & Pippin: O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain, / And the brook that leaps from hill to plain; / But better than rain or rippling streams / Is Water Hot that smokes and steams! [1.V. This is a verse from the bathing song!]

Random GDI Hobbit #1: There’s been some strange folk crossing the Shire.
~ Sam: ‘All the same, you can’t deny that others besides our Halfast have seen queer folk crossing the Shire…’ [1.II.SP]

Random Pub Hobbit #2: Far off tales and children’s stories, that’s all that is!
~ Ted Sandyman: ‘But I can hear fireside tales and children’s stories at home, if I want to.’ [1.II.SP]

Random Pub Hobbit #3: Cracked, he was…
Random Pub Hobbit #2: And young Mr. Frodo here – he’s crackin’!
~ Ted Sandyman: ‘Oh, they’re both cracked,’ said Ted. ‘Leastways old Bilbo was cracked, and Frodo’s cracking.’ [1.II.SP]

Gandalf: ‘I must see the head of my order.
~ Gandalf: ‘He is the chief of my order and the head of the Council.’ [1.II. SP]

Frodo: I can cut across country easily enough.
~ Frodo: ‘I am going to cut straight across country from here.’ [1.III.STM]

The Treasons of Isengard
Saruman: Smoke rises from the mountain of Doom.
~ Boromir: ‘Smoke is rising once again from Orodruin that we call Mount Doom.’ [2.II.COE]

Saruman: We must join with him, Gandalf. We must join with Sauron. It would be wise, my friend.
~ Saruman: ‘We can join with that Power. It would be wise Gandalf.’ [2.II.COE]

Saruman: I gave you the chance of aiding me willingly, but you have elected the way of pain.
~ Saruman: ‘I gave you the chance of aiding me willingly, and so saving yourself much trouble and pain.’ [2.II.COE]

The Road to Bree
Sam: Don’t you lose him, Samwise Gamgee.’ And I don’t mean to.
~ Sam: ‘Don’t you leave him!’ they said to me. ‘Leave him!’ I said. ‘I never mean to.’ [1.III.STM]

Frodo: Sam, we’re still in the Shire. What could possibly happen?
~ Frodo: ‘And I am still in the Shire,’ he thought. [1.III. Frodo is tempted for the first time to put on the Ring, as the company encounters a wraith.]

6. At the Sign of the Prancing Pony
Frodo (repeating Butterbur): Strider…
~ title: Strider [1.X]

Sam: Let him go, or I’ll ‘ave you, Longshanks!
~ Bill Ferny: ‘Morning, Longshanks!’ [1.XI. As the Hobbits leave Bree in the company of Strider, Bill Ferny – a spy who sells them Bill the Pony – mocks Strider.]

Strider to Sam: You have a stout heart, little hobbit.
~ Strider to Merry: ‘You have a stout heart.’ [1.X. Merry went out on his own, unaware of the events at the Prancing Pony, and encounters a wraith.]

Weathertop
Merry: How do we know this Strider is a friend of Gandalf?
~ Sam: ‘How do we know that you are the Strider that Gandalf speaks about?’ [1.X.S]

Frodo: I think a servant of the Enemy would look fairer … and feel fouler.
~ Frodo: ‘You have frightened me several times tonight, but never in the way that servants of the Enemy would, or so I imagine. I think one of his spies would – well, seem fairer and feel fouler, if you understand.’ [1.X.S]

Merry: What do they eat when they can’t get hobbit?
~ Sam: ‘What do they live on when they can’t get hobbit?’ [1.XI.KitD]

Aragorn: This is beyond my skill to heal.
~ Glorfindel: ‘Alas! the wounds of this weapon are beyond my skill to heal.’ [1.XII. FtF]

Flight to the Ford
Aragorn: He’s passing into the Shadow World. He’ll soon become a Wraith like them.
~ Gandalf: ‘ You would have become a wraith under the dominion of the Dark Lord…’ [2.I. Gandalf fills in a recovering Frodo on the last stage of their journey to Rivendell.]

Arwen: He’s fading.
~ Gandalf: ‘You were beginning to fade’ [2.I. Gandalf fills in a recovering Frodo on the last stage of their journey to Rivendell.]

Arwen: There are five Wraiths behind you. Where the other four are I do not know.
~ Glorfindel: ‘There are five behind us – and they are not all. Where the other four may be, I do not know.’ [1.XII.FtF]

Arwen: I do not fear them.
~ Gandalf: ‘And here in Rivendell there live still some of [Sauron’s] chief foes: the Elven-wise, lord of the Eldar from beyond the furthest seas. They do not fear the Ringwraiths…’ [2.I.MM]

Arwen: Noro lim, Asfaloth, noro lim!
~ Glorfindel: ‘noro lim, noro lim, Asfaloth!’ [1.XII.FtF]

Many Meetings
Saruman: The friendship of Saruman is not lightly thrown aside.
~ Saruman: ‘The friendship of Saruman and the power of Orthanc cannot be lightly thrown aside.’ [3.X. When the company of King Théoden, lead by Gandalf the White, confronts Saruman the White, the wizard tries to persuade Éomer to choose his side with these words.]

Frodo: Bilbo!
Bilbo: Hullo, Frodo, my lad!
~ text: ‘Bilbo!’ cried Frodo with sudden recognition, and he sprang forward. ‘Hullo, Frodo my lad!’ said Bilbo. [2.I.MM]

Gandalf: By foul craft Saruman has crossed Orcs with Goblin-men.
~ Treebeard: ‘Are they Men he has ruined, or has he blended the races of Orcs and Men?’ [3.IV. Treebeard tells Merry and Pippin about Saruman the White and his destruction of the woods.]

Elrond: The time of the Elves is over.
~ Saruman: ‘The time of the Elves is over.’ [2.II.COE]

Elrond: The blood of Númenor is all but spent, it’s pride and dignity forgotten.
~ Boromir: ‘Believe not that in the land of Gondor the blood of Númenor is spent, nor all its pride and dignity forgotten.’ [2.II.COE]

Boromir: The blade that cut the Ring from Sauron’s hand.
~ Gandalf: ‘…; and Isildur Elendil’s son cut the Ring from Sauron’s hand and took it for his own.’ [2.II.SP]

Arwen: You are Isildur’s heir, not Isildur himself.
~ Aragorn: ‘I am but the heir of Isildur, not Isildur himself.’ [2.II.COE]

Aragorn: I thought I had strayed into a dream…
~ text: …and he halted amazed, thinking he had strayed into a dream,… [Appendix A(v)]

The Council Of Elrond
Elrond: Bring forth the Ring, Frodo.
~ Gandalf: ‘Bring out the Ring, Frodo!’ [2.II.COE]

background guy (off screen): The doom of man.
~ Boromir: ‘The doom of Minas Tirith’ [2.II.CoE]

Boromir: In a dream … I saw the eastern sky grow dark. But in the west a pale light lingered. A voice was crying, “Your doom is near at hand… Isildur’s Bane is found…… Isildur’s Bane…
~ Boromir: ‘‘In that dream I thought the eastern sky grew dark and there was a growing thunder, but in the West a pale light lingered, and out of it I heard a voice, remote but clear, crying:
Seek for the Sword that was broken;
In Imladris it dwells;
There shall be counsels taken
Stronger than Morgul-spells.
There shall be shown a token
That Doom is near at hand,
For Isildur’s Bane shall waken
And the Halfling forth shall stand.
[2.II. Boromir explains at the council why he came to Rivendell in the first place.]

Boromir: It is a gift. A gift to the foes of Mordor.
~ Boromir: ‘It is a gift, I say; a gift to the foes of Mordor.’ [2.X.BoF]

Legolas: He is Aragorn, son of Arathorn.
~ Elrond: ‘He is Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and he is descended through many fathers from Isildur Elendil’s son of Minas Ithil.’ [2.II.COE]

Boromir: There is evil there that does not sleep. And the great Eye is ever watchful.
text: ‘There was an eye in the dark tower that did not sleep.’ [2.X. When Frodo climbs the High Seat of Amon Hen, he sees the land of Mordor before him.]

Gandalf: ‘I will help you bear this burden Frodo Baggins, as long as it is yours to bear.’
~ Gandalf: ‘I will help you bear this burden, as long as it is yours to bear.’ [1.II.SP]

Merry: You’d have to send us home tied up in a sac to stop us!
~ Pippin: ‘You’ll have to tie us down in a sack’ [2.III. RGS]

Pippin: Anyway you need people of intelligence on this sort of mission, quest… thing.
Merry: Well that rules you out Pip.
~ Pippin: ‘There must be someone with intelligence in the party.’
~ Gandalf: ‘Then you certainly will not be chosen, Peregrin Took!’
[2.III. RGS]

The Ring Goes South
Elrond: Farewell – hold to your purpose.
~ Goldberry: ‘And hold to your purpose!’ [I.VIII.FotBD]

Gimli: Nothing. It’s just a wisp of cloud.
~ Gandalf: ‘ It may be nothing, only a wisp of thin cloud.’ [2.III.RGS]

Boromir: It’s moving fast. Against the wind.
~ Aragorn: ‘It was moving fast, then’ muttered Aragorn, ‘and not with the wind.’ [2.III.RGS]

Legolas: Crebain from Dunland!
~ Aragorn: ‘They are crebain out of Fangorn and Dunland.’ [2.III.RGS]

Gandalf: The passage south is being watched.
~ Aragorn: ‘ Hollin is no longer wholesome for us: it is being watched.’ [2.III.RGS]

Boromir: It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing… Such a little thing.
~ Boromir: ‘Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing!’ [2.X. Part of Boromir’s near-monologue when he tries to persuade Frodo to give him the Ring.]

Boromir: As you wish. I care not.
~ Boromir: ‘I care not.’ [2.X. Boromir’s reaction when Frodo doesn’t want to show him the Ring.]

Legolas: There is a fell voice on the air.
~ Boromir: ‘Let those call it the wind who will; there are fell voices on the air…’ [2.III. Boromir isn’t at all convinced that the stormy weather is accidental, or created by Caradhras itself.]

Saruman: The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep.
~ Gandalf: ‘They delved too greedily and too deep.’ [2.IV.JiD]

Saruman: You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm: Shadow and flame.
~ Aragorn: ‘It was both a shadow and a flame…’ [2.VII. Aragorn tells Galadriel and Celeborn about Gandalf’s death.]

The Gates of Moria
Gandalf: There are many powers in this world, for good or for evil – some are greater than I am, and against some I have not yet been tested.
~ Gandalf: ‘There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.’ [2.I. MM]

Gandalf: Oh it’s quite simple. If you are a friend you speak the password and the doors will open.
~ Gimli): ‘That is plain enough. If you are a friend, speak the password, and the doors will open, and you can enter.’ [2.IV.JiD]

Aragorn to Pippin: Do not disturb the water.
~ Frodo to Boromir: ‘Don’t disturb it.’ [2.IV.JiD]

Boromir: This is no mine. It’s a tomb.
~ Frodo: ‘It looks like a tomb.’ [2.IV.JiD]

Gandalf: We must face the long dark of Moria.
~ Gandalf: ‘I do not think you will be able to drag your Bill inside, into the long Dark of Moria.’ [2.IV.JiD]

A Journey In the Dark
Gandalf: Gollum hates and loves the Ring, as he hates and loves himself. He will never be rid of his need for it.
~ Gandalf: ‘He hated [the Ring] and loved it, as he hated and loved himself. He could not get rid of it.’ [1.II. Gandalf tells Frodo the story of the Ring Bilbo left him]

Frodo: It’s a pity Bilbo didn’t kill him when he had the chance!
Gandalf: Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo’s hand. Many that live deserve death, and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before this is over. The pity of Bilbo will rule the fate of many.
~ Frodo: ‘What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had the chance!’
~ Gandalf: ‘Pity? It was pity that stayed his hand. (…) 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. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before this is over; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many – yours not least.’ [1.II.SP]

Gandalf: 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.
~ Gandalf: ‘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.’ [1.II.SP]

Gandalf: There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil. Biblo was meant to find the Ring, in which case you also were meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought.
~ Gandalf: ‘Behind that there was something else at work, beyond any design of the Ring-maker. I can put it no plainer than to say that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought.’ [1.II.SP]

Gandalf: The wealth of Moria is not in gold, or jewels, but in mithril. Bilbo had a shirt of mithril rings that Thorin gave him.
Gimli: Oh! That was a kingly gift!
Gandalf: Yes! I never told him, but its worth was greater than the value of the Shire.
~ Gandalf: ‘The wealth of Moria was not in gold and jewels, the toys of the Dwarves, nor in iron, their servant. … For here alone in the world was found Moria-silver, or true-silver as some have called it: mithril is the Elvish name. (…) Bilbo had a corselet of mithril-rings that Thorin gave him.’
~ Gimli: ‘That was a kingly gift!’
~ Gandalf: ‘Yes. I never told him, but its worth was greater than the value of the Shire and everything in it.’
[2.IV.JiD]

Gandalf: Behold the great realm and dwarf city of Dwarrowdelf!
~ Gimli: ‘This is the great realm and city of Dwarrowdelf.’ [2.IV.JiD]

Sam: Now there’s an eye-opener, and no mistake.
~ Sam: ‘That was an eye-opener, and no mistake!’ [2.IV. Gandalf scares off a bunch of wargs that have surrounded the Fellowship during the night with some very nifty lighting tricks that certainly impress our Sam.]

Balin’s Tomb
Gandalf: He is dead then. It’s as I feared.
~ Frodo: ‘He is dead then. I feared it was so.’ [2.IV.JiD]

Gandalf: Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time and rid us of your stupidity!
~ Gandalf: ‘Fool of a Took! This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance.’ [2.IV.JiD]

Boromir: They have a cave-troll.
~ Gandalf: ‘A great cave-troll I think.’ [2.V. Gandalf describes what he saw during his attempt at parley with the attackers.]

Gandalf: I think there’s more to this Hobbit than meets the eye.
~ Bilbo: ‘There is more to this Hobbit than meets the eye.’ [2.III. Bilbo after handing the mithril vest over to Frodo.]

Gandalf: To the bridge of Khazad-dûm!
~ title: The Bridge of Khazad-dûm [2.V]

Boromir: What is this new devilry?
~ Gandalf: ‘There is some new devilry here.’ [2.V.BoK]

Gandalf: A Balrog.
~ Legolas: ‘Ai! ai! A Balrog! A Balrog is come!’ [2.V. Spoken like a true hero, Legolas is the first one to identify their new foe.]

Gandalf: A demon of the ancient world.
~ Aragorn: ‘An evil of the Ancient World it seemed…’ [2.VII. Aragorn describes to Celeborn and Galadriel what happened to Gandalf.]

Gandalf: Do as I say!! Swords are no more use here!
~ Gandalf: ‘Do as I say! … Swords are no more use here. Go!’ [2.V. Gandalf stands on the bridge and tries to get rid of an overly heroic Boromir and Aragorn.]

Lothlórien
Galadriel: Frodo… Your coming to us is as the footsteps of doom.
~ Galadriel: ‘Do you not see now why your coming is to us as the footstep of Doom?’ [2.VII. Galadriel explains to Frodo about the three Elven Rings and her part in defying Sauron.]

Haldir: The Dwarf breathes so loud we could have shot him in the dark.
Legolas: ‘Yes they are Elves, and they say that you breathe so loud that they could shoot you in the dark..’ [2.VI. Legolas mocks poor Samwise.]

Gimli: Aragorn! These woods are perilous. We should go back.
~ Boromir: ‘But it is perilous.’ [2.VI. Boromir agrees to enter Lórien, but isn’t too keen.]

Gimli: Ishkhaqwi ai durugnul! (supposedly: A plague upon the stiff necks of Elves!)
~ Aragorn: ‘Now let us cry: “A plague upon the stiff necks of Elves!”‘ [2.VI. Legolas refuses to enter Lothkórien blindfolded as a part of Aragorn’s bargain to allow Gimli passage through the woods.]

Haldir: Caras Galadhon, the heart of Elvendom on earth.
~ Aragorn: ‘Here is the heart of Elvendom on earth’ [2.VI.L]

Night Over Caras Galadhon
Celeborn: Tell me where is Gandalf? For I much desire to speak with him.
~ Galadriel: ‘Now tell us where he is; for I much desired to speak with him again.’ [2.VII.MoG]

Galadriel: He has fallen into shadow.
~ Aragorn: ‘Gandalf the Grey fell into Shadow.’ [2.VII.MoG]

Legolas: He was taken by both shadow and flame – a Balrog of Morgoth. For we went needlessly into the net of Moria.
~ Aragorn : ‘It was both a shadow and a flame: strong and terrible.’
~ Legolas: ‘It was a Balrog of Morgoth.’
~ Celeborn: ‘And if it were possible, one would say that at the last Gandalf fell from wisdom into folly, going needlessly into the net of Moria.’
[2.VII.MoG]

Galadriel: For the world has grown full of peril, and in all lands love is now mingled with grief.
~ Haldir: ‘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.’ [2.VI.L]

Celeborn: Without Gandalf, hope is lost.
~ Aragorn: ‘Farewell, Gandalf! What hope have we without you?’ [2.VI.L]

Galadriel: Go now and rest for you are weary with sorrow and much toil. Tonight you will sleep in peace….
~ Celeborn: ‘You are worn with sorrow and much toil. … Now you shall rest.’ [2.VII.MoG]

Galadriel (in Frodo’s mind): Welcome, Frodo of the Shire: one who has seen the Eye!
~ Galadriel: ‘But it cannot be hidden from the Ring-bearer, and one who has seen the Eye.’ [2.VII. Galadriel explains why Frodo can see Nenya, one of the Elven rings of power, and Sam cannot.]

Legolas: I have not the heart to tell you. For me the frief is still too near.
~ text: ‘But if Legolas was with the Company, he would not interpret the songs for them, saying that he had not the skill, and that for him the grief was still too near, a matter for tears and not yet for song.’ [2.VII.MoG]

Elvish choir:
Mithrandir, Mithrandir, A Randir Vithren
~ Elvish lament: ‘Mithrandir Mithrandir O Pilgrim Grey!’ [2.VII.MoG]

Boromir: She said to me: ‘Even now there is hope left.’
~ Galadriel: ‘But even now there is hope left.’ [2.VII.MoG]

Boromir: It is long since we had any hope.
~ Faramir: ‘It is long since we had any hope.’ [4.V. Faramir has led Sam and Frodo into safety and speaks with them about Boromir and the current situation in Minas Tirith.]

Boromir: And the tower guard shall take up the call: ‘The Lords of Gondor have returned.
~ text: ‘Then Aragorn set trumpeters at each of the four roads that ran into the ring of trees, and they blew a great fanfare, and the heralds cried aloud: ‘The Lords of Gondor have returned and all this land that is theirs they take back.’ [5.X. At the Crossroads of the King Aragorn reclaims his land.]

Galadriel: This task was appointed to you and if you do not find a way, no one will.
~ Elrond: ‘I think that this task was appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will.’ [2.II. Elrond is pleased with Frodo’s decision to bear the Ring to Mount Doom.]

Frodo: Then I know what I must do. It’s just, I’m afraid to do it.
~ Frodo: ‘For I know what I should do, but I am afraid of doing it, Boromir: afraid.’ [2.X.BotF]

Farewell To Lórien
Saruman: My fighting Uruk-hai.
~ Uglúk: ‘We are the fighting Uruk-hai!’ [3.III.UH]

Saruman: Whom do you serve?
~ Éomer: ‘Whom do you serve?’ [3.II. Éomer questions the three hunters.]

Saruman: You will taste man flesh!
~ Uglúk: ‘We are the servants of Saruman the Wise, the White Hand, the Hand that gives us man’s flesh to eat.’ [3.III.UH]

Saruman: Bring them to me alive and unspoilt.
~ Uglúk: ‘Alive and as captured, no spoiling. That’s my orders.’ [3.III.UH]

Celeborn: Never before have we clad strangers in the garb of our own people. May these cloaks help shield you from unfriendly eyes.
~ anonymous Elf: ‘You will find them a great aid in keeping out of the sight of unfriendly eyes… (…) Never before have we clad strangers in the garb of our people’ [2.VIII.FtL]

Legolas: Lembas! Elvish waybread.
~ another anonymous Elf: ‘We call it lembas or waybread…’ [2.VIII.FtL]

Celeborn: With every league you travel south the danger will increase. Mordor Orcs now hold the eastern shore of the Anduin.
~ Boromir: ‘The Orcs prowl on the east-shore; if you go forward, peril will grow with every mile…’ [2.IX.GR]

Celeborn: Seldom do Orcs journey in the open under the Sun, and yet these have done so.
~ Legolas: ‘Seldom will Orcs journey in the open under the sun, yet these have done so.’ [3.II. Tracking the party of Uruk-hai that captured Merry and Pippin, Legolas wonders about their prey.]

Galadriel: And for you, Samwise Gamgee, Elven rope made of hithlain.
~ yet another anonymous Elf: ‘They are made of hithlain.’ [2.VIII.FtL]

Gimli: Except to look upon the Lady of the Galadhrim one last time, for she is more fair than all the jewels beneath the earth.
~ Gimli: ‘…the Lady Galadriel is above all the jewels that lie beneath the earth!’ [2.VII.MoG]

Galadriel: Am meleth dîn. I ant e guil Arwen Undómiel pelitha. (means: For her love, I fear the grace of Arwen Evenstar will diminish.)
~ Elrond: ‘Arwen Undómiel shall not diminish her life’s grace for less cause.’ [Appendix A(v) Elrond agrees to let Arwen marry Aragorn if he becomes King and re-unites Men.]

Galadriel: You have your own choice to make, Aragorn: to rise above the height of all your fathers since the days of Elendil – or to fall into darkness with all that is left of your kin.
~ Elrond: ‘A great doom awaits you, either to rise above the height of all your fathers since the days of Elendil, or to fall into darkness with all that is left of your kin.’ [Appendix A(v)]

Anduin
Boromir: And if he alerts the enemy to our whereabouts, it will make the crossing even more dangerous.
~ Aragorn: ‘Quite apart from murder by night on his own account, he may put any enemy that is about on our trail.’ [2.IX.A]

The Breaking Of the Fellowship
Legolas (to Aragorn): A shadow and a threat has been growing in my mind.
~ Aragorn (to Frodo): ‘…but a shadow and a threat has been growing in my sleep.’
[2.X.BoF]

Aragorn: I would have gone with you to the end. Into the very fires of Mordor.
~ Aragorn: ‘I would have guided Frodo to Mordor and gone with him to the end…’ [2.I.DoB]

Aragorn: The Ring is beyond our reach now.
~ Gandalf: ‘…it has gone beyond our reach.’ [3.V.WR]

Aragorn: Let’s hunt some Orc!
~ Aragorn: ‘I am Strider. I came out of the North. I am hunting Orcs.’ [3.II. Aragorn’s introduction of himself to Éomer is rather brief.]

Sam: Strider will look after them.
~ Frodo: ‘Strider will look after them.’ [2.X.BoF]