More quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

"I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to"
"There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark."
"Mercy!"cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?""The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas,"laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?"
"There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."
"The day will bring hope for me,"said Aragorn. "Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?""So the minstrels say,"said Éomer."Then let us defend it, and hope!"