Do not be hasty, that is my motto.
Do not be hasty, that is my motto.
Book III, Treebeard
Other The Two Towers Quotes
- We’re going on a bit too fast. You and I, Sam, are still stuck in the worst places of the story, and it is all too likely that some will say at this point: “Shut the book now, dad; we don’t want to read any more.” - View Quote Details on We’re going on a bit too fast. You and I,…
- To hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the story was already written. But you’ve left out one of the chief characters: Samwise the stouthearted. “I want to hear more about Sam, dad. Why didn’t they put in more of his talk, dad? That’s what I like, it makes me laugh. And Frodo wouldn’t have got far without Sam, would he, dad?” - View Quote Details on To hear you somehow makes me as merry as if…
- The Ring’ll be found, and there’ll be no more songs. - View Quote Details on The Ring’ll be found, and there’ll be no more songs.
- If the One goes into the Fire, and we are at hand? I ask you, Sam, are we ever likely to need bread again? I think not. If we can nurse our limbs to bring us to Mount Doom, that is all we can do. More than I can, I begin to feel. - View Quote Details on If the One goes into the Fire, and we are…
- How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
‘As he ever has judged,’ said Aragorn. ‘Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves, and another among Men. It is a man’s part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house. - View Quote Details on How shall a man judge what to do in such… - I have lived to see strange days. Long we have tended our beasts and our fields, built our houses, wrought our tools, or ridden away to help in the wars of Minas Tirith. And that we called the life of Men, the way of the world. We cared little for what lay beyond the borders of our land. Songs we have that tell of these things, but we are forgetting them, teaching them only to children, as a careless custom. And now the songs have come down among us out of strange places, and walk visible under the Sun. - View Quote Details on I have lived to see strange days. Long we have…
- …But so our path is laid. - View Quote Details on …But so our path is laid.
- Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You’ll be letting out your own right names if you’re not careful. - View Quote Details on Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should…
- So that is the King of Rohan. A fine old fellow. Very polite. - View Quote Details on So that is the King of Rohan. A fine old…
- I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee. - View Quote Details on I am wise enough to know that there are some…
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