Quotes on Galadriel

And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

And what do you wish?' he said at last. 'That what should be shall be,' she answered.

A sister they had, Galadriel, most beautiful of all the house of Finwë; her hair was lit with gold as though it had caught in a mesh the radiance of Laurelin.

And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and 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 world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.

I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.

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