Lord of the Rings Quotes About An Epic Life

The Lord of the Rings is one of the greatest and most influential film trilogies in history. So whether you are a fan of the film or books, here are a few quotes that will inspire you to live an epic life.

1. “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.” — Queen Galadriel

2. “Your time will come. You will face the same Evil, and you will defeat it.” – Arwen

3. “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” – Arwen

4. “This day does not belong to one man but to all. Let us together rebuild this world that we may share in the days of peace.” – Aragorn

5. “Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.” — Aragorn

6. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”― J.R.R. Tolkien

7. “It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing.” — Frodo

8. “There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power.” – Gandalf

9. “Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.” — Gandalf

10. “A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.”— Aragorn

11. “The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time.” – Gandalf

12. “Who knows? Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope!” — Gandalf

13. “You are the luckiest, the canniest, and the most reckless man I ever knew. Bless you, laddie.” – Gimli

14. “It is not the strength of the body, but the strength of the spirit.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

15. “Anyways, you need people of intelligence on this sort of… mission… quest… thing.” – Pippin

16. “Oh, it’s quite simple. If you are a friend, you speak the password, and the doors will open.” – Gandalf

17. “I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.” — Frodo

18. “We swears, to serve the master of the Precious. We will swear on… on the Precious!” – Gollum

19. “The Ring has awoken, it’s heard its master’s call.” – Gandalf

20. “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” – Haldir

21. “Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.” – Elrond

22. “You may learn something, and whether what you see be fair or evil, that may be profitable, and yet it may not. Seeing is both good and perilous.” — Galadriel

23. “Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.” – Elrond

24. “The wise speak only of what they know.” – Gandalf

25. “But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.” — Sam

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Design Quotes to Boost Creativity & Inspire Artistry

These powerful quotes about the art of design will get your creativity flowing.

1. “Design is intelligence made visible.” – Alina Wheeler

2. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

3. “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

4. “Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.” – Brian Reed

5. “The artist in me cries out for design.” – Robert Frost

6. “The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.” – Paul Rand

7. “You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” – Walt Disney

8. “Design adds value faster than it adds costs.” – Joel Spolsky

9. “Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.” – Robert L. Peters

10. “Every great design begins with an even better story.” – Lorinda Mamo

11. “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” –Steve Jobs

12. “The more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.” – Marian Bantjes

13. “Design is not a single object or dimension. Design is messy and complex.” – Natasha Jen

14. “Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.” – Elon Musk

15. “The alternative to good design is always bad design. There is no such thing as no design.” – Adam Judge

16. “It’s through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.” – Paula Scher

17. “Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.” – Tom Peters

18. “I don’t think there is anything wrong with white space. I don’t think it’s a problem to have a blank wall.” – Annie Leibovitz

19. “Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all… good design must primarily serve people.” – Thomas J. Watson

20. “Accessible design is good design.” – Steve Ballmer

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Three times movies have predicted the future

There are so many movies out there set in the future, whether near or distant, that seem to have astounding technology as well as stunning revelations. However, how many of these things actually come to pass. Well, we’ve put together a list of three movies that have done an astounding job of predicting the future.

Bladerunner (1982)

Though we may not be driving hovercars or living with the rolling darkness, but one thing they got spot on was the giant billboards advertising foodstuffs with moving pictures projected onto them. When Bladerunner was made the jumbotron billboard wasn’t even running in Times Square of Piccadilly Circus.

The Cable Guy (1996)

As funny as this movie is, the rant at the end is where they really hit the mark. Carry’s rant “Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone and computer! Visit the Louvre on one channel, and watch female mud wrestling on another! You can do your shopping at home or play Mortal Kombat! In 1996 this all seemed far flung and virtually impossible, but over twenty years later we have exactly that.

Super Mario Bros. (1993)

The most chilling prediction of any movie, was the moment in Super Mario Bros. where the Twin Towers in New York City can be seen disintegrating while a plane creates a hole and flies through the right tower. Even now, that is still a hard one to watch.

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A cute couple of novels on the perils of digital dating

Love can be a tough business in any era, but with the current wave of digital dating has added a whole new wave of difficulty to finding true love. Here are two romance novels which detail the perils of digital dating.

The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai

There’s not much about dating apps the Rhiannon Hunter doesn’t know, but when it comes to romance, she less sure of herself. Rhi is devoted to her career, and although she makes a living from hook-ups, her own cynical view of romance means she rarely swipes right. Her ethos of self-preservation protects her up to a point, but when she is swept off her feet one night by retired pro footballer Samson Lima.

Samson is sweet and sexy, but doesn’t hang around and after that one crazy night, he vanishes. By the time he resurfaces, Rhi thinks she has gotten over her feelings for him in the wake of his sudden departure. To make matters worse, though, Samson is working with a direct business rival.

Can their relationship survive these constant glitches and is Rhi prepared to break all her rules of romance for one shot at true love?

How To Hack A Heartbreak by Kristin Rockaway

Mel has swiped right one too many times and this time she has vowed to get revenge on a succession of sleazebags who insist one sending her unsolicited pictures of an adult variety. What they don’t know is the Mel is a computer whizz who specializes in fixing up laptops and coding. The dating app Fluttr has brought her into the world of the aforementioned sleazebags, but when she decides to make her own app to turn the tables on these guys, it explodes. JerkAlert strikes a chord with harassed women and is an instant success. But when Mel must decide between a relationship with the one nice guy she might have a thing for – Alex – and her burgeoning career, she has a tough choice to make.

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3 is the magic number for these wizard tales

The Harry Potter series of novels may have awoken an interest in all things magic, but there are other collections of books which also provide something of the supernatural to delight readers and these ones come in threes.

The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemisin

This features magic and supernatural happenings on a grand scale. There’s not turning enemies into frogs, in the Broken Earth Trilogy, characters can move and spilt entire continental plates and bring about apocalyptic events. All this is intertwined with personal stories about loss, death and betrayal.

The Broken Empire Trilogy by Mark Lawrence

Epic war and dark magic come together in this sweeping trilogy which kicks off with the first book Prince of Thorns. The opening offering introduces readers to Jorg Ancrath, the young prince referred to in the title of the first books. The conflict as scarred him from an early age as he has to deal with the death of his parents and his sudden elevation to power. Often brutal and uncompromising, the trilogy also contains enough magic and mystique to allow readers to get lost in the sumptuous storytelling.

The Magicians Trilogy by Lev Grossman

This series has drawn comparisons with the Harry Potter series due to the fact that it is set in a school for magic, just like JK Rowling’s famous wizard. However, while Hogwarts was more like a high school/boarding school for would-be wizards, Brakebills College tends towards the teenage angsty end of the young magician. So we have the usual introspection of young adults wondering where they fit in in the world mixed with the fact that they can do magic.

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The Origins of the Dragon

Think about a mythical beast that can often be found in fantasy novels… at least one of your thoughts will almost certainly be a dragon. While there is no physical evidence of any fire-breathing winged lizards ever existing, the motif of the dragon permeates so much of our culture from East to West, that it is as if it were a real creature who once walked the earth.

Here is some of the story behind the myth of the dragon.

The word ‘dragon’ first appeared in the English lexicon in the 1200s. It stems from the word ‘draconem’ or ‘draco’ in Latin which means ‘giant snake’. Original representations of dragons are very serpent-like. You can find images of dragons in almost every culture across the globe, and so there is much dispute about the actual origins of the creature.

One theory is that dragons represent an innate fear that humans are born with: a fear of snakes and large predators, such as birds of prey. According to this theory, the winged, snake-like creature is therefore an amalgamated representation of our evolutionary fears in the form of a generic monster.

Another theory is that people discovered fossils of dinosaur bones and were inspired to create images resembling giant lizards. And yet another is that people would have seen and heard stories of real giant lizards, such as crocodiles and komodo dragons and the stories became elaborated over time.

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Facing Adversity

Adversity is something that we all come up against at some point in our lifetime, but it is how we face that adversity that defines us. Here is a short story about how adversity can change us.

A daughter went to see her father, complaining about how miserable her life was and how she didn’t know how she was going to make it through. She was tired of fighting all the time. Her father was a chef. He listened to her talk and then took three pans and filled them with water. He placed all three on to boil. When they were boiling he put potatoes in one pan, eggs in another and ground coffee beans in the last. He let them boil for a while, not saying a word to his daughter.

When they were done, he took the pans off the heat. He put the potatoes in one bowl, the eggs in another and the coffee in a cup.

“What do you see?” he asked his daughter.

“Potatoes, eggs and coffee,” she huffed.

“Look again. Feel the potatoes and the eggs. Taste the coffee,” he said. She touched the potatoes, they were soft. She peeled back the egg shell to find the egg was hard. She sipped the coffee and the taste brought a smile to her face.

“What does this mean?” she asked her father.

“When you face adversity, it affects everyone differently. The boiling water is adversity. When the potatoes faced it they became soft and weak. When the eggs faced it they became hardened. When the coffee beans faced it, they changed and became something new. Which one will you be?”

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