Frodo Quotes

These are some of the more memorable Frodo quotes from the movies, and some from the books too.

( The Movies )

The Fellowship of the Rings

"Don't worry, Sam. Rosie knows an idiot when she sees one."

" I miss the Shire. I spent all my childhood pretending I was off somewhere else … off with you on one of your adventures! My own adventure turned out to be quite different. I'm not like you, Bilbo."

"I will take the Ring to Mordor. Though-- I do not know the way."

"I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened."

"I know what you would say. And it would seem like wisdom but for the warning in my heart."

The Two Towers

"This is Sting. You’ve seen it before, haven’t you... Gollum! Release him or I’ll cut your throat!"

"I know what I have to do Sam. The Ring was entrusted to me! It's my task! Mine! My own!"

"The Ring will not save Gondor. It has only the power to destroy. Please, let me go."

"They’re here. They’ve come."

The Return of the King

" We can't do this by ourselves, Sam. Not without a guide. I need you on my side."

" I can feel his blade!"

" I have to destroy it, Smeagol, for both our sakes."

" Give it to me... Give me the ring, Sam. Sam!! Give me the ring! You must understand... the ring is my burden. It will destroy you, Sam."

" No, Sam. I can't recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. I'm naked in the dark. There's nothing--no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I can see him with my waking eyes."

"The ring is mine."

" I can see the Shire... The Brandywine River... Bag End... Gandalf's fireworks... The lights in the party tree."

"And thus it was: the fourth age of Middle-Earth began; and the Fellowship of the Ring, though eternally bound by friendship and love, was ended.

"Thirteen months to the day since Gandalf sent us on our long journey, we found ourselves looking upon a familiar sight. We were home."

"How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand there is no going back? There are some things time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep that have taken hold."

"My dear Sam, you can not always be torn in two: you will have to be one and whole for many years. You have so much to enjoy, and to be, and to do. Your part in this story will go on."

( The Books )

The Fellowship of the Rings

"The road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with weary feet, Until it joins some larger way, Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say."

The Two Towers

"If you can think of any way we could have both used the rope and yet brought it down with us, then you can pass on to me ninnyhammer, or any other name your Gaffer gave you,"

"I mean a danger to yourself alone. You swore a promise by what you call the Precious. Remember that! It will hold you to it; but it will seek a way to twist it to your own undoing. Already you are being twisted. You revealed yourself to me just now, foolishly. Give it back to Smeagol you said. Do not say that again! Do not let that thought grow in you! You will never get it back. But the desire of it may betray you to a bitter end."

"But Samwise Gamgee, my dear hobbit - indeed, Sam my dearest hobbit, friend of friends - I do not think we need to give thought to what comes after that. To do the job as you put it - what hope is there that we ever shall? And if we do, who knows what will come of that? If the One goes into the fire and we are at hand? I ask you, are we ever likely to need bread again? I think not."

The Return of the King

"So I thought too, once. But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them. But you are my heir: all that I had and might have had I leave to you."

"But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad that you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam."

"But you must understand. It is my burden, and no one else can bear it. It is too late now, Sam dear. You can't help me in that way again. I am almost in its power now. I could not give it up, and if you tried to take it I should go mad."

"I am tired, weary, and I haven't a hope left. But I have to go on trying to get to the Mountain, as long as I can move. The Ring is enough."

"Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate; And though I oft have passed them by, A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun"

"At least, I know that such things happened, but I cannot see them. No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades."