"Power of the Dark Lord!"
1. "It is true that if these hobbits understood the danger they would not dare to go. But they would still wish to go, or wish that they dared, and be shamed and unhappy."
AnswerGandalf, to Elrond, on including Merry and Pippin in the Company of the Ring.
2. "You should fear the many eyes of the servants of Sauron. I do not doubt that news of the discomfiture of the Riders has already reached him, and he will be filled with wrath."
AnswerElrond, to the Company of the Ring on their departure.
3. "1 too once passed the Dimrill Gate, but though I also came out again, the memory is very evil. I do not wish to enter Moria a second time."
Answer Aragorn, to Gandalf and Gimli, about taking a path through Moria.
4. "Many have received worse than this in payment for the slaying of their first orc. The cut is not poisoned, as the wounds of orc-blades too often are."
AnswerAragorn, to Sam, after they escaped from Moria.
5. "Against my will we passed under the shades of Moria, to our loss. And now we must enter the Golden Wood, you say. But of that perilous land we have heard in Gondor, and it is said that few come out who once go in."
AnswerBoromir, to Aragorn, on entering Lothlórien.
6. "Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more dearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him."
AnswerHaldir, to Legolas, on blindfolding the Company to journey through Lothlórien.
7. "Nothing, unless it might be - unless it is permitted to ask, nay, to name a single strand of your hair, which surpasses the gold of the earth as the stars surpass the gems of the mine."
AnswerGimli, to Galadriel, when she asked him to name a gift.
8. "What it was I cannot guess, but I have never felt such a challenge. The counter-spell was terrible. It nearly broke me."
AnswerGandalf, to the Company, on closing the door to a passage of Moria.
9. "Yet even so, as Ring-bearer and as one that had borne it on finger and seen that which is hidden, your sight is grown keener. You have perceived my thought more clearly than many that are accounted wise."
AnswerGaladriel, to Frodo, shortly after he offered her the Ring.
10. You are forgetting not only your family history, but all you ever knew about trolls. It is broad daylight with a bright sun, and yet you come back trying to scare me with a tale of live trolls waiting for us in this glade!"
AnswerStrider, to Pippin, on discovering the Trolls of stone from Bilbo's adventure.