#gandalf

For even the very wise cannot see all ends. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#prophecy #unanticipated #wise

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#gandalf #hope #doubt

You will not pass!” Roman thundered. Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#funny #gandalf #gunmetal-magic #ilona-andrews #lotr

Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#gandalf #goodbye #leaving #sorrow #evil

Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#death

The wise speak only of what they know, Gríma son of Gálmód. A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy words with a serving-man till the lightning falls.' There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight became blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark as night. The fire faded to sullen embers. Only Gandalf could be seen, standing white and tall before the blackened hearth. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#galmod #gandalf #grima #snake #death

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#gandalf #reductionism #wisdom #wisdom

The authority is not granted you to deny the return of the king! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#authority

Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#inspiration #joy #inspirational

My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours. Yet she was doomed to wait upon an old man, whom she loved as a father, and watch him falling into a mean dishonoured dotage; and her part seemed to her more ignoble than that of the staff he leaned on. -Gandalf to Eomer, of Eowyn ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#eomer #eowyn #gandalf #girl-power #courage