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This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and the counsels of the Great.
- Elrond

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originally written by jrr tolkienIn that vast shadow once of yore
Fingolfin stood: his shield he bore
with field of heaven's blue and star
of crystal shining pale afar.
In overmastering wrath and hate
desperate he smote upon that gate,
the Gnomish king, there standing lone,
while endless fortresses of stone
engulfed the thin clear ringing keen
of silver horn on baldric green.
His hopeless challenge dauntless cried
Fingolfin there: 'Come, open wide,
dark king, you ghatsly brazen doors!
Come forth, whom earth and heaven abhors!
Come forth, O monstruous craven lord,
and fight with thine own hand and sword,
thou wielder of hosts of banded thralls,
thou tyrant leaguered with strong walls,
thou foe of Gods and elvish race!
I wait thee here. Come! Show thy face!'

Then Morgoth came. For the last time
in those great wars he dared to climb
from subterranean throne profound,
the rumour of his feet a sound
of rumbling earthquake underground.
Black-armoured, towering, iron-crowned
he issued forth; his mighty shield
a vast unblazoned sable field
with shadow like a thundercloud;
and o'er the gleaming king it bowed,
as huge aloft like mace he hurled
that hammer of the underworld,
Grond. Clanging to ground it tumbled
down like a thunder-bolt, and crumbled
the rocks beneath it; smoke up-started,
a pit yawned, and a fire darted.

Fingolfin like a shooting light
beneath a cloud, a stab of white,
sprang then aside, and Ringil drew
like ice that gleameth cold and blue,
his sword devised of elvish skill
to pierce the flesh with deadly chill.
With seven wounds it rent his foe,
and seven mighty cries of woe
rang in the mountains, and the earth quook,
and Angband's trembling armies shook.

Yet Orcs would after laughing tell
of the duel at the gates of hell;
though elvish song thereof was made
ere this but one - when sad was laid
the mighty king in barrow high
and Thorndor, Eagle of the sky,
the dreadful tidings brought and told
to mourning Elfinesse of old.
Thrice was Fingolfin with great blows
to his knees beaten, thrice he rose
still leaping up beneath the cloud
aloft to hold star-shining, proud,
his stricken shield, his sundered helm,
that dark nor might could overwhelm
till all the earth was burst and rent
in pits about him. He was spent.
His feet stumbled. He fell to wreck
upon the ground, and on his neck
a foot like rooted hills was set,
and he was crushed - not conquered yet;
one last despairing stroke he gave:
the mighty foot pale Ringil clave
about the heel, and black the blood
gushed as from smoking fount in flood.

Halt goes for ever from that stroke
great Morgoth; but the king he broke,
and would have hewn and mangled thrown
to wolves devouring. Lo! from throne
that Manwë bade him build on high,
on peak unscaled beneath the sky,
Morgoth to watch, now down there swooped
Thorndor the King of Eagles, stooped,
and rending beak of gold he smote
in Bauglir's face, then up did float
on pinions thirty fathoms wide
bearing away, though loud they cried,
the mighty corse, the elven-king;
and where the mountains make a ring
far to the south about that plain
where after Gondolin did reign,
embattled city, at great height
upon a dizzy snowcap white
in mounded cairn the mighty dead
he laid upon the mountain's head.
Never Orc nor demon after dared
that pass to climb, o'er which they stared
Fingolfin's high and holy tomb,
till Gondolin's appointed doom.

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There is a third kind: pickers of bones, meddlers in other mens sorrows, carrionfowl that grow fat on war. What aid have you ever brought, Stormcrow?
- Wormtongue

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Murderers and elf friends! Slash them! Beat them! Bite them! Gnash them! Take them away to dark holes filled with snakes, and never let them see the light again!
- The Great Goblin

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… his name is Melkor, Lord of All, Giver of Freedom, and he shall make you stronger than they.
- Sauron to Ar-Pharazôn

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One thief deserves another.
- Saruman

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Now we see you, you nasty little creature! We will eat you and leave your bones and skin hanging on a tree... we'll hang him head downwards on a tree for a day or two.
- Spider, in Mirkwood

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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar.
- Smaug

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You have grown, Halfling. Yes, you have grown very much. You are wise, and cruel. You have robbed my revenge of sweetness, and now I must go hence in bitterness, in debt to your mercy. I hate it and you!
- Saruman

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It takes more to make a king than a piece of Elvish glass, or a rabble such as this. Why? Any brigand of the hills can show as good a following.
- Mouth of Sauron

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Radagast the Brown! Radagast the Bird-tamer! Radagast the Simple! Radagast the Fool! Yet he had just the wit to play the part I set him. For you have come, and that was the purpose of my message. And here you shall stay, Gandalf the Grey, and rest from your journeys. For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman the Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!
- Saruman

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Gibbets and Crows! Dotard! What is the house of Eorl but a thatched barn where brigands drink in the reek, and their brats roll around on the floor with their dogs!
- Saruman

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Come not between the Nazgul and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bare thee away to the Houses of Lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured and thy shriveled mind be left naked to the lidless eye.
- Witch King

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"We are seeking Baggins," he said hissing out the name like a snake. "Baggins is with them. If he comes, you will tell us, and we will repay you with gold. If you do not tell us, we will repay you - otherwise"
- Black Rider

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There is a third kind: pickers of bones, meddlers in other mens sorrows, carrionfowl that grow fat on war. What aid have you ever brought, Stormcrow?
- Wormtongue

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Murderers and elf friends! Slash them! Beat them! Bite them! Gnash them! Take them away to dark holes filled with snakes, and never let them see the light again!
- The Great Goblin

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… his name is Melkor, Lord of All, Giver of Freedom, and he shall make you stronger than they.
- Sauron to Ar-Pharazôn

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One thief deserves another.
- Saruman

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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar.
- Smaug

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One thief deserves another.

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Originally posted by Smodden
"fool of a took!"-gandalf the gray


how can you not love that line..?

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I will not give you counsel, saying do this, do that.

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Originally posted by Exa
The line above you quoted somehow reminds me of one of Feanors lines in the Silmarillion - a thief shall reveal thieves or something like that, I cant remember correctly, it's one or two sentences after Mandos' comment on Feanors famous quote ("and if I shall break them, I shall break my heart, and i shall be slain, first of all Eldar of Aman" - "Not the first..." (in reference to Finwe, slain shortly before by Melkor)

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'And is he not Vala as are they,' said his thought, 'and does he not understand their hearts? Yea, a thief shall reveal thieves!' Then he cried aloud: 'This things I will not do of free will. But if the Valar will constrain me, then shall I know indeed that Melkor is of their kindred.'

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Originally posted by Kitoky
This said by Galadriel.