Treebeard Quotes: Treebeard, ancient and protector of the Ent race. predicting that remaining neutral in the struggle between good and evil would destroy his entire race, he called his companions to fight against evil.
Treebeard Quotes
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1. “Some of my kin look just like trees now, and need something great to rouse them; and they speak only in whispers. But some of my trees are limb-lithe, and many can talk to me.” – ‘The Two Towers’.
2. “But I spoke hastily. We must not be hasty. I have become too hot. I must cool myself and think; for it is easier to shout stop! then to do it.” – ‘The Two Towers’.
3. “But there, my friends, songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely.” – ‘The Two Towers’.
4. “Things will go as they will; and there is no need to hurry to meet them.” – ‘The Two Towers’.
5.”Hrum, now, well, I am an Ent, or that’s what they call me. Yes, Ent is the word. The Ent, I am, you might say, in your manner of speaking. Fangorn is my name according to some, Treebeard others make it. Treebeard will do.” – ‘The Two Towers’.
6. “I do not like worrying about the future. ” – ‘The Two Towers’.
7. “Side? I am on nobody’s side, because nobody is on my side, little orc.” – ‘The Return of the King’.
8. “Never is too long a word even for me…” – ‘The Return of the King’.
9. “It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.” – ‘The Two Towers’.
10. “‘I am not going to tell you my name, not yet at any rate.’ A queer half-knowing, half-humorous look came with a green flicker into his eyes.” – ‘The Two Towers’.
11. “Real names tell you the story of things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say.” – ‘The Two Towers’.
12. “. . . But let them march now and sing! We have a long way to go, and there is time ahead for thought. It is something to have started.” – ‘The Two Towers’.
13. “I promised Gandalf I would keep you safe and safe is where I’ll keep you.” – ‘The Two Towers’.
14. “I always like going South; somehow, it feels like going downhill” – ‘The Two Towers’.
15. “My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived very long long time; so my name is like a story.” – ‘The Two Towers’.
16. “My home is deep in the forest near the roots of the mountain” – ‘The Two Towers’.
17. “Hill. Yes, that was it. But it is a hasty word for a thing that has stood here ever since this part of the world was shaped. Never mind. Let us leave it, and go.” – ‘The Two Towers’.
18. “Indeed I have not seen them roused like this for many an age. We Ents do not like being roused; and we never are roused unless it is clear to us that our trees and our lives are in great danger.” – ‘The Two Towers’.
19. “Curse him, root and branch! Many of those trees were my friends, creatures I had known from nut and acorn; many had voices of their own that are lost forever now. And there is a waste of stump and bramble where once there were singing groves. I have been idle. I have let things slip. It must stop!” – ‘The Two Towers’.
20. “I have brought you a companion. He has an ent-house nearby. Bregalad is his Elvish name. He says he has already made up his mind and does not need to remain at the Moot. Hm, hm, he is the nearest thing among us to a hasty Ent. You ought to get on together. Good-bye!” – ‘The Two Towers’.
21. “Come, my friends. The Ents are going to war. It is likely that we go to our doom. The last march of the Ents.” – ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers’.
22. “I am not altogether on anybody’s side, because nobody is altogether on my side, if you understand me: nobody cares for the woods as I care for them, not even Elves nowadays.” – ‘The Two Towers’.
23. “Young master Gandalf, I’m glad you’ve come. Wood and water, stock and stone I can master, but there’s a wizard to manage here. Locked in his tower.” – ‘The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King’.
24. “That doesn’t make sense to me. But, then again, you are very small.” – ‘The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King’.
25. “They come with fire, they come with axes… gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning! Destroyers and usurpers, curse them!” – ‘The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King’.
26. “I believe you will enjoy this next one. It is one of my own compositions. Right, ahem. ‘Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves and dreams of trees untold, When woodland halls are green and cool, and the wind is in the west, Come back to me. Come back to me, And say my land is best.'” – ‘The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King’.
27. “The filth of Saruman is washing away. Trees will come back here – young trees, wild trees.” – ‘The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King’.
28. “Side? I am on no one’s side, because no one is on my side.” – ‘The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers’.
29. “Elves began it, of course, waking trees up and teaching them to speak and learn their tree-talk. They always wished to talk to everything, the old Elves did. But then the Great Darkness came, and they passed away over the Sea, or fled into far valleys and hid themselves, and made songs about days that would never come again. Never again.” – ‘The Two Towers’.
30. “Out of the shadows, the hobbits peeped, gazing back down the slope: little furtive figures that in the dim light looked like elf-children in the deeps of time peering out of the Wild Wood in wonder at their first Dawn.” – ‘The Two Towers’.
