#tolkien book quotes

- Celeborn to Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, Farewell to Lórien

- Théooden’s Call to Arms, The Two Towers, Book III, The King of the Golden Hall

- Aragorn to Éomer, The Return of the King, Book V, The Houses of Healing

And there was also one last surprise, in honour of Bilbo, and it startled the hobbits exceedingly, as Gandalf intended. The lights went out. A great smoke went up. It shaped itself like a mountain seen in the distance, and began to glow at the summit. It spouted green and scarlet flames. Out flew a red-golden dragon - not life-size, but terribly life-like: fire came from his jaws, his eyes glared down; there was a roar, and he whizzed three times over the heads of the crowd.

- The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, A Long-expected Party

Happy Hobbit Day!

- Hummed by Thorin in his bedroom at Bag End, The Hobbit, An Unexpected Party 

- Hamfast “Old Gaffer” Gamgee, The Return of the King, Book VI, The Grey Havens

- The Man in the Moon stayed up too late, The Tales of the Perilous Realm, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil 
Clickhere for the whole poem. 

- Thranduil about Thorin, The Hobbit, Flies and Spiders

- Sung by the Hobbits on their way to Buckland, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, A Short Cut to Mushrooms

- Warden of the Houses of Healing to Éowyn, The Return of the King, Book VI, The Steward and the King

- Gandalf to the White Council, The Silmarillion, Of the Rings of Power

- Bilbo to Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, Many Meetings

- Epigraph to The Lord of the Rings

- Gimli to Legolas, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, Farewell to Lórien

- War Chant of the Ents, The Two Towers, Book III, Flotsam and Jetsam

- Frodo, The Return of the King, Book VI, The Scouring of the Shire

‘But do not expect me to wish you health and long life.’

 - Saruman to Frodo, The Return of the King, Book VI, The Scouring of the Shire

- About Merry missing Pippin, The Return of the King, Book V, The Ride of the Rohirrim

- About Urwen Lalaith, The Children of Húrin, The Childhood of Túrin 
(‘Happiness quote from The Children of Húrin’, requested by anonymous) 

… (or so Thorin said to the young dwarves).
You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after. So it proved on this occasion. 

- Of Thorin, The Hobbit, Over Hill and Under Hill