Why did the chicken cross the road? (LOTR)

[pegkerr]

shirebound started it here.

Boromir: To defend Gondor against its enemies
Gandalf: I thought I told everyone to stay off the Road.
Sam: Look, Mr. Frodo! The roast chicken we've been waiting for!
Legolas: It has heard the Sea, and will now be ever restless.
Pippin: Did someone say chicken?

grimnir1 added:
Galadriel: It passes the test. It will diminish, and cross the road and remain a chicken.
Eowyn: It doesn't want to stay in a cage behind bars any more until all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

ethereal_hobbit:
Boromir: It's a strange thing that we suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a chicken . . . such a little thing."

sorrowful_eagle:
Gandalf: It's not a chicken. It is one of the Nine, disguised as a chicken, and the other eight are following close behind. I warned you that the Dark Lord had many servants - beasts, birds - that includes chickens.

green_ghost:
Smeagol: What's chicken precious? What's chicken, eh?
Gollum:: Because it doesn't have any friends. Nobody likes chicken.
green_ghost then added: Actually, it never got across that road. Gandalf wouldn't let it pass.

anna_burrows:
Gandalf: The chicken is never late, nor is it early. It crosses the road precisely when it means to!
Bilbo: It needed a holiday, a very long holiday, and didn't expect to return. In fact, it meant not to.
Boromir: It better not have gone to Gondor. Gondor has no chicken. Gondor needs no chicken.
Sam: If the chicken takes one more step, it'll be the farthest from home it's ever been.

myladylyssa:
Treebeard: Don't be hasty, young chicken. It is likely that you go to your doom. The last march of the chickens.
Bilbo: It was quite ready for another adventure.
Gamling: It leaves because there is no hope.
Theoden: It leaves because it must.

clever_hobbit:
Bilbo: Frodo, tell me again, lad- where was it going?
Arwen: I wish... I could have seen him... one last time...
Elrond: Take it by the safest road. A bus lies on the other side to carry it to KFC. The last journey of the chicken.
Eomer: What business does a chicken have in the Mark? Speak quickly!
Faramir: Is this what you wish? That I had crossed the road and the chicken had not?
Frodo: There was no other way.
Gollum: Clever chickenses to walk so far!

lilybaggins:
Denethor: Bring wood and olive oil. We're having roast chicken.

slightlytookish
Orcs: Chicken? Why can't we have some chicken? We've had nothing but maggoty bread for three stinking days!

elanor1013
Merry: All the other chickens have crossed. It would be ashamed to be left behind.
Eowyn: Why can it not cross for those it loves?

wordsworthy:
Frodo: I will take the chicken, though I do not know the way.

Comments

Galadriel's Guard

[surielle.livejournal.com]

Galadriel's Guard: The Chicken breathes so loud, we could have shot him in the dark.

Re: Galadriel's Guard

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

Was that actually Haldir?

Barliman Butterburr: "Why did the chicken cross the road? Why I plain forgot."

Re: Galadriel's Guard

[surielle.livejournal.com]

Yes.. I think it could have been.. I couldn't remember the name, if I ever knew it... :) I think it was the same fellow who led the elves to Helm's Deep in the movie.. I don't have the books here to check the accuracy or names :) But I still love that quote :)