Цитаты из книги Властелин Колец

Books ought to have good endings.

There must be someone with intelligence in the party.

The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world; small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

But the only measure that he knows is desire, desire for power; and so he judges all hearts.

For nothing is evil in the beginning.

Now at this last 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.

Yet even the most subtle spiders may leave a weak thread.

And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

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.

That is the doom that we must deem.

ГЭНДАЛЬФ: Предательство---оружие обоюдоострое.

Я заплатил за свою оплошность многими чёрными, страшными днями.

А затем я допустил большую ошибку, да, Фродо, и не первую; хотя боюсь, что она окажется наихудшей: я остановился.

Глядишь, и Сломанный Меч пригодится, если, конечно, рука его хозяина унаследовала не только обломки, но хоть немного мощи древних Королей. -- ( БОРОМИР )

Осторожность---это одно, она необходима, а вот нерешительность совсем другое. -- ( Колоброд-Арагорн )

Мужество прячется в самых неожиданных местах. -- ( ГИЛДОР )

He would sell anything to anybody; or make mischief for amusement.

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.

There's earth under his old feet, and clay on his fingers; wisdom in his bones, and both his eyes are open.

As far as he could remember, Sam slept through the night in deep content, if logs are contented.