Galadriel's Quotes
Book Quotes
"Gandalf the Grey set out with the Company, but he did not pass the borders of this land. Now tell us where he is; for I much desired to speak with him again. But I cannot see him from afar, unless he comes within the fences of Lothlórien,: a grey mist is about him, and the ways of his feet and of his mind are hidden from me."
---The Fellowship of the Ring: The Mirror of Galadriel
"Yet more fair is the living land of Lóthlorien, and the Lady Galadriel is above all the jewels that lie beneath the earth!"
---The Fellowship of the Ring: The Mirror of Galadriel [said by Gimli]
"But even now there is hope left. I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be. But this I will say to you: your Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while all the Company is true."
---The Fellowship of the Ring: The Mirror of Galadriel
"Here is the Mirror of Galadriel. I have brought you here so that you may look in I, if you will. Many things I can command the Mirror to reveal, and to some I can show what they desire to see. But the Mirror will also show things unbidden, and those are often stranger and more profitable than things which we wish to behold. What you will see, if you leave the Mirror free to work, I cannot tell. For it shows things that were, and things that are, and things that yet may be. But which it is that he sees, even the wisest cannot always tell."
---The Fellowship of the Ring: The Mirror of Galadriel
"Remember that the Mirror shows many things, and not all have yet come to pass. Some never come to be, unless those that behold the visions turn aside from their path to prevent them. The Mirror is dangerous as a guide of deeds."
---The Fellowship of the Ring: The Mirror of Galadriel
"I know what it was that you last saw, for that is also in my mind. Do not be afraid! But do not think that only by singing amid the trees, nor even by the slender arrows of elven-bows, is this land of Lothlórien maintained and defended against its Enemy."
---The Fellowship of the Ring: The Mirror of Galadriel
"It is not permitted to speak of it, and Elrond could not do so. But it cannot be hidden from the Ring-bearer, and one who has seen the Eye. Verily it is in the land of Lothlórien, upon the finger of Galadriel that one of the Three remains. This is Nenya, the Ring of Adamant, and I am its keeper."
---The Fellowship of the Ring: The Mirror of Galadriel
"Wise the Lady Galadriel may be, yet here she has met her match in courtesy. Gently are you revenged for my testing of your heart at our first meeting. You begin to see with a keen eye. I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired to ask what you offer. For many long years I had pondered what I might do, should the Great Ring come into my hands, and behold! It was brought within my grasp. The evil that was devise long ago works on in many ways, whether Sauron himself stands or falls. Would not that have been a noble deed to set to the credit of his Ring, if I had taken it by force or fear from my guest?
"And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will have a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful atnd terrible as the Morning and the Night. Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!"
---The Fellowship of the Ring: The Mirror of Galadriel
"I pass the test. I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel."
---The Fellowship of the Ring: The Mirror of Galadriel
Click here to view Galadriel's two songs of the Eldamar,
as well as the English translation of one of them.
Movie Quotes
"It is what will come to pass, if you should fail. The Fellowship is breaking, it has already begun. He will try to take the Ring, you know of whom I speak. One by one, it will destroy them."
---The Fellowship of the Ring: The Mirror of Galadriel
" You are a Ring-bearer, Frodo. To bear a Ring of Power is to be alone."
---The Fellowship of the Ring: The Mirror of Galadriel
" Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."
---The Fellowship of the Ring: The Mirror of Galadriel
"The world is changed... I feel it in the water... I feel it in the earth... I smell it in the air... Much that once was, is lost... For none now live, who remember it... It began with the forging of the Great Rings. Three were given to the Elves, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Seven to the Dwarf lords, great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls. And nine, nine rings were gifted to the race of men, who, above all else, desire power. But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master Ring, to control all others. And into this Ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. One Ring to rule them all."
---The Fellowship of the Ring: Prologue
"The time of the Elves is over. Do we leave Middle-earth to its fate? Do we let them stand alone?"
---The Two Towers: The Story Forseen From Lorien
" The power of the Three Rings is ended. The time has come... for the dominion of Men."
---The Return of the King: The Grey Havens
" This task was appointed to you, Frodo of the Shire. If you do not find a way, no one will."
---The Return of the King: Shelob's Lair
" And for you, Frodo Baggins, I give you the light of Earendil our most beloved star. May it be a light to you in dark places when all other lights go out."
---The Return of the King: The Choices of Master Samwise
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