Our list of the best quotes from Amazon Prime’s fantasy adventure TV series based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Lord of the Rings. Set thousands of years before The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, The Rings of Power follows a cast of characters as they confront evil in Middle-earth, establishing legacies that endure long after their deaths.
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Season 1 Quotes
Galadriel: Nothing is evil in the beginning. And there was a time when the world was so young, there had not yet been a sunrise. But even then there was light.
Young Galadriel: How am I to know which lights to follow?
Finrod: Sometimes we cannot know until we have touched the darkness.
Young Galadriel: But that seems so simple.
Finrod: The most important truths often are.
Galadriel: This place is so evil, our torches give off no warmth.
Ornery Hunter: World’s strange. If I let them pitch-kettle me, I’d never get off me bar stool.
Nori Brandyfoot: If we didn’t do everything we weren’t supposed to, we’d hardly do anything at all.
Nori Brandyfoot: Haven’t you ever wondered what else is out there? How far the river flows, or where the sparrows learn the new songs they sing in spring? I can’t help but feel there’s wonders in this worldm, beyond our wandering.
Marigold Brandyfoot: Elves have forests to protect. Dwarves, their mines. Men, their fields of grain. Even trees have to worry about the soil beneath their roots. But we Harfoots are free from the worries of the wide world. We are but ripples in a long, long stream. Our paths set by the passing seasons. Nobody goes off trail and nobody walks alone. We have each other. We’re safe. That is how we survive.
Elrond: It is said the wine of victory is sweetest for those in whose bitter trials it has fermented.
Galadriel: Evil does not sleep, Elrond. It waits. And in the moment of our complacency, it blinds us.
Arondir: The past is with us all, whether we like it or not.
Arondir: We call them artificers. Most wounds to our bodies heal of their own accord. So, it is their labor instead to render hidden truths as works of beauty. For beauty has great power to heal the soul.
High King Gil-galad: The same wind that seeks to blow out a fire may also cause its spread.
Bronwyn: [after Arondir’s told her he’s leaving] Say what you wish to say.
Arondir: I have said it already. A hundred times over, in every way but words.
Elrond: It is hard to see what is right when friendship and duty are mingled.
High King Gil-galad: Such is the burden of those who lead, and those who would seek to.
Nori Brandyfoot: That’s a tomorrow problem.
Elrond: Strange, isn’t it? How one object could be responsible for creating so much beauty, and so much pain.
Lord Celebrimbor: True creation requires sacrifice.
Elrond: What is it you hope to craft?
Lord Celebrimbor: “What” is but a glint on the far horizon. You have come to Eregion to help me achieve the “how”.
Lord Celebrimbor: I admire all who can see into the mystery of things, who can divine from the plainness of what is, the beauty of what could be.
Malva: Stop your lounge-a-daising and lend us a foot.
Halbrand: [to Galadriel] The tides of fate are flowing. Yours may be heading in, or out.
Abigail: [referring to Galadriel] Does she look dangerous to you?
Halbrand: Looks can be deceiving.
Prince Durin IV: A dog may bark at the moon. But he cannot bring it down.
Prince Durin IV: [to Durin] Twenty years might be the blink of an eye to an Elf. But I’ve lived an entire life in that time. A life you missed!
Prince Durin IV: [to Elrond] One apology to Disa and you’re off. No getting better acquainted. No reminiscing about the past. And absolutely no staying for dinner.
Princess Disa: You see, a mountain’s like a person. It’s a long and ever-changing story made of countless small parts. Earth and ore, air and water. Sing to it properly, each of those parts will reflect your song back to you, telling you its story, showing you what might be hidden, where to mine, where to tunnel, and where to leave the mountain untouched.
Elrond: Where there is love, it is never truly dark.
Galadriel: I am simply wondering what manner of man would so readily abandon his companions to death.
Halbrand: The sort that knows how to survive.
Halbrand: [to Galadriel] You don’t have the look of someone to whom things happen by accident. Which means you were running. Whether toward or from something, I haven’t yet decided.
Halbrand: Why are you stranded at sea?
Galadriel: Because rather than rest in glory, I chose to seek out the very enemy responsible for your suffering.
Halbrand: [to Galadriel] If you want to murder Orcs and settle a score, that’s your affair. But don’t dress it up as heroism.
Prince Durin IV: Elrond is a friend. I trust him.
King Durin III: There can be no trust between hammer and rock. Eventually one or the other must surely break.
Queen Regent Míriel: She is but one Elf.
Pharazôn: An avalanche can start with one stone.
Sail Master: There is no harsher master than the sea.
Captain Elendil: In my experience, it is unwise to live one’s life guessing after signs and portents.
Nori Brandyfoot: There’s head-sense, Poppy, and there’s heart-sense.
Poppy Proudfellow: There’s common sense and nonsense. And if you’re all out of the first, then you can borrow some of mine.
Vilma: We don’t need friends, girl. We need to survive.
Nori Brandyfoot: Without friends, what are we surviving for?
Nori Brandyfoot: I know I’m not special. I know I’m just one little Harfoot in a grand wide world. But he is special. I can feel it.
Captain Elendil: The past is dead. We either move forward or we die with it.
Galadriel: [to Halbrand] You are more than you claim.
Galadriel: Your people have no king, for you are him.
Halbrand: That’s an odd thing to say to a man in a cage.
Galadriel: A cage you have landed in because you chafe under the rags of the common. And the armor that ought to rest upon your shoulders weighs upon your soul.
Halbrand: [to Galadriel] I am not the hero you seek.
Pharazôn: Cleverness is for men of small ambition.
Valandil: [to Isildur] Leave it to you to get kicked out of something you never earned in the first place.
Adar: [to Arondir] You have been told many lies. Some run so deep, even the rocks and roots now believe them. To untangle it all, would all but require the creation of a new world. But that is something only the gods can do. And I am no god. At least, not yet.
Elrond: There is no secret worth concealing with deception.
Elrond: [to Durin] I care nothing for whatever is in that chamber. I do care for you, for this friendship. And secrets do not become it.
Prince Durin IV: So you really did come all this way just for Eregion?
Elrond: I came because twenty years is far too long to stay away. Even for an Elf.
Halbrand: In an instance like this, it seems to me that you’d do well to identify what it is that your opponent most fears.
Galadriel: And exploit it?
Halbrand: No. Give them a means of mastering it. So that you can master them.
Queen Regent Míriel: Faith may bind one heart, Galadriel. But it is too fine a thread from which to hang a kingdom.
Princess Disa: Even the hottest coals eventually cool.
Prince Durin IV: [referring to King Durin] Yeah, but sometimes I wish they wouldn’t. Sometimes I wish I could tell him exactly what I think of him, and never trade words with the old goat again!
King Durin III: Intuition is a powerful tonic.
Queen Regent Míriel: There is a fateful hour in the destinies of men. An hour of judgment in which each of us, every one, must decide who we shall be. Are our hearts become as the statues that surround our isle? Or do they yet beat with the blood of the heroes that carved them? Is our valor confined to the graves of our slumbering fathers? Or is it here, amongst us even now, waiting to burst forth as the rising Sun? I would neither command, nor invite you to any danger I myself would not face.
Galadriel: Swordsmanship is about balance, rather than strength. Fight with your feet. Not your arms.
Galadriel: Never trust brute force to best an Orc. It’s often easiest to outmaneuver them.
Pharazôn: Sometimes the folly of youth is enough to make an old man weep.
Elrond: Loyalty to a friend ought to be expected. Regardless of his race.
Pharazôn: It’s folly to kick against the current. You see, the tide may rise and drown a man, or fall and sweep him out to sea. The trick of mastering the current is to know which way it will turn next.
High King Gil-galad: The blight upon this tree is but an outer manifestation of an inner reality. That the light of the Eldar, our light, is fading.
High King Gil-galad: Hope is never mere, Elrond, even when it is meager. When all other senses sleep, the eye of hope is first to awaken, last to shut.
Pharazôn: A kingdom should be led. Not dragged.
Galadriel: Sometimes to find the light, we must first touch the darkness.
Elrond: A burden shared may either be halved or doubled. Depending on the heart that receives it.
Prince Durin IV: Aulë’s beard! Enough with the quail sauce. Give me the meat, and give it to me raw.
Galadriel: Despise not the labor which humbles the heart. Humility has saved entire kingdoms the proud have all but led to ruin.
Bronwyn: “In the end, this shadow is but a small and passing thing. There is light and high beauty forever beyond its reach. Find the light, and the shadow will not find you.”
