Treebeard Quotes

“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. 'For one thing it would take a long while: my name is growing all the time, and I've lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time saying anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“For it is easier to shout 'Stop!', than to do it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“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.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Never is too long a word even for me...”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“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.

-Treebeard/Fangorn”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“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! than to do it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“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.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Those were the broad days! Time was when I could walk and sing all day and hear no more than the echo of my own voice in the hollow hills. The woods were like the woods of
Lothlórien, only thicker, stronger, younger. And the smell of the air!”
― TOLKIEN J.R.R

“Those were the broad days! Time was when I could walk and sing all day and hear no more than the echo of my own voice in the hollow hills. The woods were like the woods of Lothlórien, only thicker, stronger, younger. And the smell of the air!”
― J. R. R. Tolkien

“I must cool myself and think; for it is easier to shout stop! than to do it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason of Isengard

“Almost felt you liked the Forest! That’s good! That’s uncommonly kind of you,’ said a strange voice. Turn round and let me have a look at your faces. I almost feel that I dislike you both, but do not let us be hasty. Turn around!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers