Gandalf Quotes — The Lord of the Rings

A bent dark sword lies across coiled rope on weathered stone. — Original artwork

Fight. Fight to the last man. Fight for your lives.

Gandalf

A grey wizard hangs from the broken edge of a stone bridge over a chasm as a fiery whip from a demon below coils around his leg. — Original artwork

Fly, you fools.

Gandalf

Fool of a Took. Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity.

Gandalf

I suppose you think that was terribly clever.

Gandalf

An old wizard in a grey cloak and pointed hat sits in a cosy round hobbit parlour by an open green door. — Original artwork

Keep it secret. Keep it safe.

Gandalf

Painterly wooden spoon projecting from a brass keyhole plate beside an acorn and oak leaves. — Original artwork

Of all the inquisitive Hobbits, Peregrin Took, you are the worst.

Gandalf

A brown glove with one raised finger casts an exclamation-mark-shaped shadow on pale ground. — Original artwork

Send these foul beasts into the abyss.

Gandalf

A gold ring rests on green moss beneath a glass dome against dark blue-grey. — Original artwork

There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power.

Gandalf

A small aged brass hourglass with almost no sand left in the top, casting a long soft shadow on a dark blue background. — Original artwork

Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.

Gandalf

A grey wizard with a glowing staff stands alone on a narrow stone bridge over a fiery chasm as a vast shadow-and-flame demon rises behind it. — Original artwork

You shall not pass!

Gandalf

Two differently patterned floral paper halves form a heart joined by a thin golden thread on cream ground. — Original artwork

Your father loves you, Faramir. He will remember it before the end.

Gandalf

Painterly open atlas with a brass compass, wooden spoon and shell on warm cream. — Original artwork

"Many are my names in many countries: Mithrandir among the Elves, Tharkûn to the Dwarves; Olórin I was in my youth in the West that is forgotten, in the South Incánus, in the North Gandalf; to the East I go not."

Gandalf

Inside a lamplit hobbit-hole study, a young hobbit sits at a table by the fire while a tall grey wizard with a staff stands at the round window. — Original artwork

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Gandalf

Woodcut-style illustration: a grey-bearded wizard in a pointed hat drives a horse-drawn cart piled with fireworks down a Shire lane, as a young curly-haired hobbit with a book looks up at him beside round hobbit doors. — Original artwork

A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.

Gandalf

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take.

Gandalf

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.

Gandalf

We come to it at last, the great battle of our time. The board is set. The pieces are moving.

Gandalf

I've found it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk, that keep the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love.

Gandalf