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Subject: Today is J.R.R.Tolkien's birthday!

"You're a wizard, Harry" Aslan - The Chronicles of Riddick

  • 01.03.2013 1:11 PM PDT

I can't remember if this is a movie exclusive or not, but I love this quote all the same!

Pippin: I didn't think it would end this way.
Gandalf: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... And then you see it.
Pippin: What? Gandalf?... See what?
Gandalf: White shores... and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.
Pippin: [smiling] Well, that isn't so bad.
Gandalf: [softly] No... No it isn't.

  • 01.03.2013 1:18 PM PDT
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I understand nothing because my life is a conspiracy.

Cool.

  • 01.03.2013 1:18 PM PDT

Also.

Confusticate and bebother these dwarves!

-Bilbo at his "unexpected party"

[Edited on 01.03.2013 1:20 PM PST]

  • 01.03.2013 1:19 PM PDT

Driven by success.
Follow me if you wish:@JamilDeanTriaa

"One does not simply walk into Mordor."

  • 01.03.2013 1:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: elsnben
I can't remember if this is a movie exclusive or not, but I love this quote all the same!

Pippin: I didn't think it would end this way.
Gandalf: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... And then you see it.
Pippin: What? Gandalf?... See what?
Gandalf: White shores... and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.
Pippin: [smiling] Well, that isn't so bad.
Gandalf: [softly] No... No it isn't.


I just saw the whole scene in my head.
Every camera angle, every look on their faces.

[Edited on 01.03.2013 1:21 PM PST]

  • 01.03.2013 1:20 PM PDT


Posted by: Burpees
Isn't he dead?


Yes. It doesn't mean we can't say happy birthday to him though...

  • 01.03.2013 1:25 PM PDT

Supreme Dictator, Industrial Polluter, Megalomaniac, Corrupt Politician, Underhanded Reprobate, Rainforest Ravager, Puppy Kicker, Oil Spill Coordinator, Holiday Hater, and an Insurance Salesman.

" 'Good morning' said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat.
'What do you mean?' he said. 'Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?'
'All of them at once,' said Bilbo."

  • 01.03.2013 1:29 PM PDT

Sam: Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields... and eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?
Frodo: No, Sam. I can't recall the taste of food... nor the sound of water... nor the touch of grass. I'm... naked in the dark, with nothing, no veil... between me... and the wheel of fire! I can see him... with my waking eyes!
Sam: Then let us be rid of it... once and for all! Come on, Mr. Frodo. I can't carry it for you... but I can carry you!

Happy birthday to the creator of the greatest fictional world of all time!

  • 01.03.2013 1:29 PM PDT


Posted by: DarkONI
Hurray for an old man that didn't even want to license a movie as long as he lived and yet most people know about him via movies that probably ruined all the writing effort that he invested in Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

The movies were nice though.
Well he obviously was okay with it to some extent, as he had promised Christopher Lee the position as Gandalf in the movie.

  • 01.03.2013 1:31 PM PDT

My name is Bilbo Baggins!

  • 01.03.2013 1:32 PM PDT

Never make me angry. I am a Hitman and I can easily find you and take you out.


Posted by: Cybil
Its also my birthday :D


My god... I haven't seen you in ages! It's good to see you again because your jumping jelly makes me happy. :D

  • 01.03.2013 1:32 PM PDT


Posted by: master brute714
My name is Bilbo Baggins!


Bagginses? What is a Bagginses, precious?

  • 01.03.2013 1:34 PM PDT
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Happy birthday to the creator of the most extraordinary and magical universe ever, he had such a vivid imagination and he was amazing.

  • 01.03.2013 1:35 PM PDT

NightPhoenix443
"True Honor lies in the heart of the sword; not the heart of the man"

Not my favorite but...

Legolas: Final count, forty-two.
Gimli: Forty-two? Oh, that's not bad for a pointy-eared elvish princeling. Hmph! I myself am sitting pretty on forty-THREE.
Legolas: [takes out an arrow, and shoots the Uruk Gimli is sitting on in the stomach] Forty-three.
Gimli: He was already dead!
Legolas: He was twitching.
Gimli: He was *twitching* because he's got my axe EMBEDDED IN HIS NERVOUS SYSTEM!
[rattles the handle of his ax; the Uruk's arms and legs twitch]

There are so many more...

  • 01.03.2013 1:39 PM PDT

"I will show you how a true Prussian officer fights!"

"And i will show you where the iron crosses grow..."

- "Cross of Iron"


Posted by: elsnben
I can't remember if this is a movie exclusive or not, but I love this quote all the same!

Pippin: I didn't think it would end this way.
Gandalf: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... And then you see it.
Pippin: What? Gandalf?... See what?
Gandalf: White shores... and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.
Pippin: [smiling] Well, that isn't so bad.
Gandalf: [softly] No... No it isn't.



One of my favorite parts of any movie.

  • 01.03.2013 1:41 PM PDT

This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends;
Not with a bang but a whimper.

A Turin Turambar turun ambartanen.

  • 01.03.2013 1:42 PM PDT
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Thank you Tolkien for bringing this wonderful story to us which lead to the creation of brilliant movies.

Rest in peace.

  • 01.03.2013 1:42 PM PDT

You guys have forgot the Gandalf quote toward Frodo about Pity in Moria, when he sees Gollum.

  • 01.03.2013 1:44 PM PDT


Posted by: mcheifshawn
Not my favorite but...

Legolas: Final count, forty-two.
Gimli: Forty-two? Oh, that's not bad for a pointy-eared elvish princeling. Hmph! I myself am sitting pretty on forty-THREE.
Legolas: [takes out an arrow, and shoots the Uruk Gimli is sitting on in the stomach] Forty-three.
Gimli: He was already dead!
Legolas: He was twitching.
Gimli: He was *twitching* because he's got my axe EMBEDDED IN HIS NERVOUS SYSTEM!
[rattles the handle of his ax; the Uruk's arms and legs twitch]

There are so many more...


I love that part <3

  • 01.03.2013 1:45 PM PDT


Posted by: Graver18
You guys have forgot the Gandalf quote toward Frodo about Pity in Moria, when he sees Gollum.


Frodo: It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill him when he had the chance.
Gandalf: Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. 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. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.
Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought.

  • 01.03.2013 1:47 PM PDT

My precious

  • 01.03.2013 2:04 PM PDT

"Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don't look like mutton again tomrrer"

- one of the forrest trolls in chapter three of 'The Hobbit'

  • 01.03.2013 2:07 PM PDT

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