Gandalf Quotes

Frodo: He's gone, hasn't he? He talked for so long about leaving. I didn't think he'd really do it. Gandalf?
Gandalf: [emerging from his thoughts, he sees the ring in Frodo's hand] Hmm. Bilbo's ring. He's gone to stay with the elves. He's left you Bag End.
[as Gandalf offers an envelope, Frodo puts the Ring inside]
Gandalf:

[sealing the envelope] Along with all his possessions. The ring is yours now.

Frodo: [voiceover] And thus it was. A fourth age of middle-earth began. And the fellowship of the ring... though eternally bound by friendship and love... was ended. Thirteen months to the day since Gandalf sent us on our long journey... we found ourselves looking upon a familiar sight. We were home. How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on... when in your

heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend... some hurts that go too deep... that have taken hold. Bilbo once told me his part in this tale would end... that each of us must come and go in the telling. Bilbo's story was now over. There would be no more journeys for him... save one. My dear Sam. You cannot always be torn in two. You will

have to be one and whole for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be and to do. Your part in the story will go on.

Gandalf: Your treachary has already cost many lives. Thousands more are now at risk, but you could save them Saruman. You were deep in the enemy's council.
Saruman: So you have come here for information. I have some for you.
[he reveals his palantir]
Saruman: Something festers in the heart of Middle-Earth. Something that you

have failed to see. But the Great Eye has seen it. Even now he presses his advantage. His attack will come soon. You're all going to die. But you know this don't you, Gandalf?
[sneering]
Saruman: You cannot think that this Ranger will ever sit upon the throne of Gondor. This exile, crept from the shadows, will never be crowned king. Gandalf does not hesistate to

sacrifice those closest to him, those he professes to love. Tell me... what words of confort did you give the halfling before you sent him to his doom? The path that you have set him on can only lead to death.
Gimli: I've heard enough."
[to Legolas]
Gimli: "Shoot him. Stick an arrow in his gob.
[Legolas goes to do so]

Gandalf: No. Come down Saruman, and your life will be spared.
Saruman: Save your pity and your mercy; I have no use for it!
[he fires at Gandalf, who emerges unscathed from the flames]
Gandalf: Saruman, your staff is broken.

Saruman: You have fought many wars and slain many men, Theoden King, and made peace afterwards. Can we not take council as we once did, my old friend? Can we not have peace?
Theoden: We shall have peace... We shall have peace, when you answer for the burning of the Westfold, and the children that lie dead there! We shall have peace, when the lives of the

soldiers whose bodies were hewn even as they died against the gates of the Hornberg, are avenged! When you hang from a gibbit for the sport of your own crows...! We shall have peace.
Saruman: Gibbits and crows! DOTARD! What do *you* want, Gandalf Greyhame? Let me guess. The key of Orthanc? Or perhaps the keys of Barad-Dur itself? Along with the crowns of the seven kings and

the rods of the five wizards?