The Lord of the Rings (books) Quote Game
The Rules:
I will start out with a quote from the Lord of the Rings triology. The person who guesses where in the book it is from and can give the sentence either before or after my quote wins and gets to post the next quote.
Example:
Quote: "I wish to make an announcement"
Guess:
This is from Bilbo's speech at his birthday party, shortly before he puts the Ring on, disappears and leaves the Shire.
"Thirdly and finally,"" he said, "I wish to make and announcement."
"I regret to announce that - though, as I said, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to spend among you - this is the end. I am going. I am leaving now. Good-bye!"
If there is no answer for a week anyone can move in and post a new quote to keep the game going.
Quote 1: I will tell you what I know, and give you some good advice
Quote 1: I will tell you what I know, and give you some good advice
Reply:
Aragorn speaks privately with the hobbits in The Prancing Pony =)
"Don't be alarmed! I mean just this: I will tell you what I know, and give you some good advice - but I shall want a reward."
"And what will that be, pray?" said Frodo.
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This is in ROhan, after Gima's and Saruman's influence was removed from Theoden, and he asked for his sword. Eomer offered his and Theoden was quite surprised that Eomer still had his sword, since he had been locked up.
"It is my doing, Lord," said Hama, trembling. "I understood that Eomer was to be set free. Such joy was in my heart that I may have erred. Yet, since he was free again, and he a Marshal of the Mark, I brought him his sword as he bade me."
"To lay at your feet, my Lord." said Eomer. [..]
"Will you not take the sword?" said Gandalf.
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Quote 3: "Give me that basket!"
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Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin (and a basket of mushrooms)arrive to The Buckland and are about to head to Crickhollow:
"All right! You and Pippin know your way; so I’ll just ride on and tell Fatty Bolger that you are coming. We’ll see about supper and things."
"We had our supper early with Farmer Maggot," said Frodo; "but we could do with another."
"You shall have it! Give me that basket!" said Merry, and rode ahead into the darkness.
Quote 4: "I will not speak of them now, so near, so near..."
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This is from Return of the King when Beregond is showing Pippin around, and explaining about Osgiliath, and brings up the arrival of the Black Riders.
Pippin: The Black Riders?
Beregond: Yes, they were black, and I see that you know something of them, though you have not spoken of them in your tales.
Pippin: I know of them, but I will not speak of them now, so near, so near."
Quote 5: But there is not time for travellers' tales
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Quote 5: But there is not time for travellers' tales.
Reply:
Aragorn goes to the Houses of Healing to tend Faramir, Eowyn and Merry and meets Pippin.
"Strider! How splendid! Do you know, I guessed it was you in the black ships. But they were all shouting corsairs and wouldn’t listen to me. How did you do it?"
Aragorn laughed, and took the hobbit by the hand. "Well met indeed!" he said. "But there is not time yet for travellers’ tales."
Quote 6: "Were I as hasty as you, I might have slain you long ago."
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Ohhh, one from me favorite part of the book. It's in Ithilien, when Sam loses his patience a bit when he thinks Faramir is implying that Frodo might have someting to do with Boromir's death.
Sam: [..]"If you think my Master murdered this Boromir and then ran away, you've got no sense; but say it, and have done! And then let us know what you meant to do about it. But it's a pity that folk as talk about fighting the Enemy can't let others do their bit in their own way without interfering. He'd be mighty pleased, if he could see you now. Think he'd got a new friend, he would."
"Patience!" said Faramir, but without anger. "Do not speak before your master, whose wit is greater than yours. And I do not need any to teach me of our peril. Even so, I spare a brief time, in order to judge justly in a hard matter. Were I as hasty as you, I might have slain you long ago. For I am commanded to slay all whom I find in this land without the leave of the Lord of Gondor. But I do not slay man or beast needlessly, and not gladly even when it is needed. Neither do I talk in vain. So be comforted. Sit by your master, and be silent!"
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(I knew you would like my quote)
Quote 7: What shall we wear?
Reply:
This is when Frodo and Sam wake up after to have been rescued from Mordor and met Gandalf; the wizard tells them that the King of Gondor (they don't know he is Strider) is waiting for them.
‘The King?’ said Sam. ‘What king, and who is he?’
‘The King of Gondor and Lord of the Western Lands,’ said Gandalf ‘and he has taken back all his ancient realm. He will ride soon to his crowning, but he waits for you.’
‘What shall we wear?’ said Sam; for all he could see was the old and tattered clothes that they had journeyed in, lying folded on the ground beside their beds.
‘The clothes that you wore on your way to Mordor,’ said Gandalf. ‘Even the orc-rags that you bore in the black land; Frodo, shall be preserved. No silks and linens, nor any armour or heraldry could be more honourable. But later I will find some other clothes, perhaps.’
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This is when Frodo confronts Saruman in the Shire. Saruman tells him how he came here to "teach them a lesson".
"It would have been a sharper lesson, if only you had given me a little more time and more Men. Still I have already done much that you will find it hard to mend or undo in your lives. And it will be pleasant to think of that and set it against my injuries."
"Well, if that is what you find pleasure in," said Frodo,"I pity you. It will be a pleasure of memory only, I fear. Go at once and never return!"
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Quote 9: You forget to whom you speak
Reply:
Aragorn meets Legolas and Gimli and tells them he has used the Palantir. Gimli fears what Aragorn might have said to Sauron, if he did, and Aragorn replies:
"You forget to whom you speak," said Aragorn sternly, and his eyes glinted. "Did I not openly proclaim my title before the doors of Edoras? What do you fear that I should say to him? Nay, Gimli," he said in a softer voice, and the grimness left his face, and he looked like one who has laboured in sleepless pain for many nights. "Nay, my friends, I and the lawful master of the Stone, and I had both the right and the strength to use it, or so I judged. The right cannot be doubted. The strength was enough - barely."
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During Faramir's illness when it seems that he is dying, Denethor is deteriorating fast, and Pippin as the good soul he is can't stand it and making some weak attempt to cheer him up.
"Do not weep, lord," he stammered."Perhaps he will get well. Have you asked Gandalf?"
"Comfort me not with wizards!" said Denethor."The fool's hope has failed. The Enemy has found it, and now his power waxes; he sees our very thoughts, and all we do is ruinous. I sent my son forth, unthanked, unblessed, out into needless peril, and here he lies with poison in his veins. Nay, nay, whatever may now betide in war, my line too is ending, even the House of Stewards has failed. Mean folk shall rule the last remnant of the Kings of Men, lutking in the hills until all are hounded out."
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Oooh, this is how TTT starts! When Aragorn, all puzzled, is searching for Frodo in Amon Hen!
Aragorn sped on up the hill. Every now and again he bent to the ground. Hobbits go light, and their footprints are not easy even for a Ranger to read, but not far from the top a spring crossed the path, and in the wet earth he saw what he was seeking.
"I read the signs aright," he said to himself. "Frodo ran to the hill-top. I wonder what he saw there? But he returned by the same way, and went down the hill again."
Quote 12: Need brooks no delay, yet late is better than never
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This is Eomer, during the Ride of the Rohirrim to Gondor, when they find the dead errant riders of Gondor.
"Alas!" said theoden."Then Denethor has heard no news of our riding and will despair of our coming."
"Need brooks no delay, yet late is better than never." said Eomer."And mayhap in this time shall the old saw be proved truer then ever before since men spoke with mouth."
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Quote 13: Elrond was against their coming.
Reply:
This is Gimli when the Three Hunters are searching for Merry and Pippin (in Rohan, after to have met Éomer), and find out what remains of the orcs' corpses the rohirrim burned.
"We can do no more," said Gimli sadly. "We have been set many riddles since we came to Tol Brandir, but this is the hardest to unravel. I would guess that the burned bones of the hobbits are now mingled with the Orcs'. It will be hard news for Frodo, if he lives to hear it; and hard too for the old hobbit who waits in Rivendell. Elrond was against their coming."
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This is when Gandalf meets Radagast, who tells him about the Ringwraiths, and that they are looking for somewhat in the Shire. (Actually, Gandalf tells this story):
"Gandalf!" he cried. "I was seeking you. But I am a stranger in these parts. All I knew was that you might be found in a wild region with the uncouth name of Shire."
"Your information is correct," I said. "But do not put it that way, if you meet any of the inhabitants. You are near the borders of the Shire now. And what do you want with me? It must be pressing. You were never a traveller, unless driven by great need."
"I have an urgent errand." he said. "My news is evil." Then he looked about him, as if the hedges might have ears. "Nazgul," he whispered. "The Nine are abroad again. They have crossed the River secretly and are moving westward. They have taken the guise of riders in black."
Quote 15: I shall get myself a bit into training, too.
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Quote 15: I shall get myself a bit into training, too.
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This is when Frodo is packing to leave Bag End. No news from Gandalf, still, and for his worry.
Frodo was restless and anxious, listening in vain for a sound of Gandalf. He decided to wait until nightfall. After that, if Gandalf wanted him urgently, he would go to Crickhollow, and might even get there first. For Frodo was going on foot. His plan - for pleasure and a last look at the Shire as much as any other reason - was to walk from Hobbiton to Bucklebury Ferry, taking it fairly easy.
"I shall get myself a bit into training, too," he said, looking at himself in a dusty mirror in the half-empty hall. He had not done any strenuous walking for a long time, and the reflection looked rather flabby, he thought.
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In Lorien, shortly after Frodo spots Gollum, Haldir appears, and he seems to have seen him also.
"There is something in this tree that I have never seen before," he (Haldir) said. "It was not an orc. It fled as soon as I touched the tree-stem. It seemed to be wary, and to have some skill in trees, or I might have thought that it was one of the Hobbits. I did not shoot, for I dared not arouse cries: we cannot risk battle. A strong company of Orcs has passed. They crossed the Nimrodel - curse their foul feet in its clear water! - and went on down the old road beside the river. They seemed to pick up some scent, and they searched the ground for a while near the place where you halted. The three of us could not challenge a hundred, so we went ahead and spoke with feigned voices, leading them into the wood."
Reply:
Frodo and Sam's meeting with the rangers of Ithilien *and* Faramir. The men wonder what are they, no orcs, and no elves, and Sam claims they are but travellers taking a rest.
The tall green man laughed grimly. "I am Faramir, Captain of Gondor," he said. "But there are no travellers in this land: only the servants of the Dark Tower, or of the White."
"But we are neither," said Frodo. "And travellers we are, whatever Captain Faramir may say."
"Then make haste to declare yourselves and your errand," said Faramir. "We have a work to do, and this is no time or place for riddling or parleying."
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I have become very fond of Strider:
After Frodo awakes in Rivendell he and Gandalf talk about what happened (and want went wrong), and some other things. "Yes," seid Frodo, "it was Strider that saved us. Yet I was afraid of him at first. Sam never quite trusted him. I think, not at any rate until we met Glorfindel."
Gandalf smiled. "I have heard all about Sam," he said. "He has no more doubts now."
"I am glad," said Frodo."For i have become very fond of Strider. Well, fond isn't the right word. I mean he is dear to me; though he is strange, and grim at time.
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