The Two Towers

„Do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown.”

„I spoke only as do all men in my land, and I would gladly learn better.”

„There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.”

„I have more need of thought than of sleep.”

„I don't know about sides. I go my own way; but your way may go along with mine for a while.”

„For Ents are more like Elves: less interested in themselves than Men are, and better at getting inside other things. And yet again Ents are more like Men, more changeable than Elves are, and quicker at taking the colour of the outside, you might say. Or better than both: for they are steadier and keep their minds on things longer.”

„I told him many things that he would never have found out by himself; but he never repaid me in like kind. I cannot remember that he ever told me anything. And he got more and more like that; his face, as I remember it — I have not seen it for many a day — became like windows in a stone wall: windows with shutters inside.”

„I spoke hastily. We must not be hasty. I have become too hot. I must cool myself and think; for it is easier to shout «stop!» than to do it.”

„Likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed at home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later.”

„Let us look first and guess later!”

„We may not shoot an old man so, at unawares and unchallenged, whatever fear or doubt be on us. Watch and wait!”

„I have forgotten much that I thought I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten. I can see many things far off, but many things that are close at hand I cannot see.”

„This in brief is how I see things at the moment, if you wish to have a piece of my mind as plain as possible.”

„For he that strikes the first blow, if he strikes it hard enough, may need to strike no more.”

„I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.”

„You chose amid doubts the path that seemed right: the choice was just, and it has been rewarded.”

„Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope!”

„We have spent all the time that is allowed to a meeting of parted friends. Now there is need of haste.”

„Far let us ride now together, and part not in this world again!”

„In two ways may a man come with evil tidings. He may be a worker of evil; or he may be such as leaves well alone, and comes only to bring aid in time of need.”

„The wise speak only of what they know.”

„Faithful heart may have froward tongue.”

„I would not risk anything that is not my own.”

„Men need many words before deeds.”

„The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.”

„None knows what the new day shall bring him.”

„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.”

„You are not without allies, even if you know them not.”

„One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters.”

„It is difficult with these evil folk to know when they are in league, and when they are cheating one another.”

„Wherever I have been, I am back.”

„A wild beast cornered is not safe to approach.”

„Meddle not in policies which you do not understand.”

„Even if your war on me was just — as it was not, for were you ten times as wise you would have no right to rule me and mine for your own profit as you desired.”