quotations from The Lord of the Rings
Don't ... tempt me Frodo! I dare not take it. Not even to keep it safe. Understand, Frodo. I would use this ring from a desire to do good ... But through me, it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine.
GANDALF
The Fellowship of the Ring
This new Gandalf is more grumpy than the old one.
GIMLI
The Two Towers
Generous deeds should not be checked by cold council.
FARAMIR
The Return of the King
Master betrayed us. Wicked. Tricksy, False. We ought to wring his filthy little neck. Kill him! Kill him! Kill them both! And then we take the precious ... and we be the master!
GOLLUM
The Two Towers
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
FRODO
The Return of the King
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. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.
GANDALF
The Return of the King
Your fingers would remember their old strength better ... if they grasped your sword.
GANDALF
The Two Towers