Sometimes, the pain almost became a reward. Became a game. A contest, to see whose will was the mightier.
Sometimes to find the light, we must first touch the darkness.
I gave power to the enemy. So that makes me responsible.[Theo]Some say that is the way of things. But I believe the wise also look upon what is in our hearts.[Galadriel]
Only you can show what you are. You choose by what you do.
It is said the wine of victory is sweetest for those in whose bitter trials it has fermented.
It is hardly mercy to ask a man to set his integrity aflame.
In the end, this shadow is but a small and passing thing. There is light and high beauty forever beyond its reach. Find the light, and the shadow will not find you.
If we didn’t do everything we weren’t supposed to do, we’d hardly do anything at all.
If the Elves abandon Middle-earth now, the armies of darkness will march over the face of the earth. It will be the end, not just of our people, but all peoples.[to Elrond]
Evil does not sleep, it waits. And in the moment of our complacency, it blinds us.[to Elrond]
Dwarven anger outlives even Elven memory.
Choose not the path of fear, but that of faith.[to Míriel]
