Two Towers Quotes - Page 2

• Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Light, Earth

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.424, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear, nor are they one thing among Elves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Evil, Judging

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• To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Horse, Rain, Wind

  "Fictional character: Théoden". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", 2002.

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• Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Philosophy, Heart, May

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.461, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Night, Blood, Towers

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• And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Towers, Want, Sometimes

  "Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• 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.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Darkness, Shadow, World

  "Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Morning, Spring, Winter

  "Fictional character: Gríma Wormtongue". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", 2002.

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• Often does hatred hurt itself.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hurt, Hatred, Doe

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.571, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Graduation, Senior, College

  "Dare to disagree". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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• Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

  Orrin Hatch

  Graduation, Senior, Education

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• And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fate, Simple, Evil

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.440, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Careers, Two, Iraq

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Do you call the people in Los Angeles in the nineties - do you call them rebels or opposition ? They are rebels. They are not rebels even, they are beheading. This opposition, opposing country or government, by beheading ? By barbecuing heads ? By eating the hearts of your victim ? Is that opposition ? What do you call the people who attacked the two towers on the 11th of September ? Opposition ? Even if they're not Americans, I know this, but some of them I think have nationality - I think one of them has American nationality. Do you call him opposition or terrorist ?

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Heart, Thinking

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• If I had been president, I would have come out and declared: "Nothing there, ever! This place stays as it is. We make a big place there where people can pray about the errors we have made that those two towers had to fall."

  Luigi Colani

  Fall, People, President

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Children, Two

  Victor Hugo (1904). “Notre Dame of Paris”

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• Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?" "The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Sea, Names

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• Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Rocks, Elbows, Lumps

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.407, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Philosophical, Two

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.449, Stanford University Press

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• I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.

  Liv Tyler

  Hard Work, Two, Trying

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• As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Two, Long, League

  'Qua Curam Ventus' (1849)

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• Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Names, Want, Pleasant Surprises

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Watching the completed version of The Two Towers for example, I was very conscious of scenes - sometimes whole sequences - that I had seen being filmed or edited but which hadn't made it into the final cut.

  Brian Sibley

  Cutting, Two, Example

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• But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly. 'The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stories, Speak, Masters

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.455, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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