Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree. (The Two Towers) — J. R. R. Tolkien
May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top! — Stephen King
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. — Lao Tzu
Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor! — J. R. R. Tolkien
The gates of monarchs
Are arched so high that giants may jet through
And keep their impious turbans on without
Good morrow to the sun. — William Shakespeare
Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate. — Omar Khayyam
beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade — William Ernest Henley
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge. — J. R. R. Tolkien
One does not simply walk into Mordor. — Peter Jackson
Go then, there are other worlds than these. — Stephen King
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me! — David Lynch
his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Short Two Towers Quotes
A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth. — Lao Tzu
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. — Stephen King
The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down. — Ed McBain
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king. — J. R. R. Tolkien
There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world. — J. R. R. Tolkien
By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul. — Carl Sandburg
Two Towers Image Quotes
There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
The Two Towers Quotes
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. — Orrin Hatch
The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.
Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever. — Ernest Becker
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all. — Faramir
And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? — J. R. R. Tolkien
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born... and the day you find out why.
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.... That there's some good in the world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day! — J. R. R. Tolkien
Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried. — Mordecai Richler
A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Samwise Gamgee Quotes
Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Frodo: Go back, Sam! I’m going to Mordor alone. Sam: Of course you are, and I’m coming with you! — J. R. R. Tolkien
Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well. So up you get! Come on, Mr. Frodo dear! Sam will give you a ride. Just tell him where to go, and he'll go — J. R. R. Tolkien
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
Let him go, you filth! Let him go! You will not touch him again! — J. R. R. Tolkien
Sam, clinging to Frodo's arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. 'Poor old Bill!' he said in a choking voice. 'Poor old Bill! Wolves and snakes! But the snakes were too much for him. I had to choose, Mr. Frodo. I had to come with you. — J. R. R. Tolkien
It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam," said Frodo, "and I could not have borne that." "Not as certain as being left behind," said Sam. "But I am going to Mordor." "I know that well enough, Mr. Frodo. Of course you are. And I'm coming with you. — J. R. R. Tolkien
So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill. — J. R. R. Tolkien
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to — J. R. R. Tolkien
The wise speak only of what they know — J. R. R. Tolkien
There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark. — J. R. R. Tolkien
I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books. — Michael Connelly
On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. "How old is this ruin?" someone asked a guide. "Forty-two years," said Lange. — David Lange
Often does hatred hurt itself. — J. R. R. Tolkien
You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning. — Jennifer Love Hewitt
In the forest of primeval
A school for Good and Evil
Twin towers like two heads
One for the pure
And one for the wicked
Try to escape you'll always fail,
The only way out is
Through a fairytale. — Soman Chainani
Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time. — J. R. R. Tolkien
We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false! — J. R. R. Tolkien
Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas! — J. R. R. Tolkien
There is no curse in Elvish, Entish or the tongues of Men for this treachery! — J. R. R. Tolkien
Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — (Twenty bridges or twenty two) — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told. — Rudyard Kipling
I wonder if people will ever say, 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring.' And they'll say 'Yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?' 'Yes, my boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that's saying a lot.' — J. R. R. Tolkien
A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night. — J. R. R. Tolkien
To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this? — J. R. R. Tolkien
Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear, nor are they one thing among Elves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? — Stephen King
If I had been president, I would have come out and declared: "Nothing there, ever! This place stays as it is. We make a big place there where people can pray about the errors we have made that those two towers had to fall." — Luigi Colani
The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most. — Victor Hugo
The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu
And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took — J. R. R. Tolkien
The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall — J. R. R. Tolkien
Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves. — J. R. R. Tolkien
If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,-- One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country-folk to be up and to arm. — Paul Revere
As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make me laugh and are therefore my favourites are The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fawlty Towers. — Colin Mochrie
I suppose that, for me at least, the biggest difference betweenThe Gunslinger Born and the next two story arcs (The Long Road Home and Treachery), is that while Gunslinger Bornwas a translation of an existing novel, the next two arcs are really the stories that I've been weaving since I first started working with Steve King on the Dark Tower back in 2000/2001. — Robin Furth
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