If you haven't had enough you can also see lists of quotes from the Taruithorn holiday 2004.

Maria: “I wouldn’t want to be the car that ran over Edward.”

Peggy: “Have you ever actually met a deflated rubber cucumber?”
Sophia: “No, but I have a good imagination.”

Maria: “I’ve always thought Feanor was rather effeminate.”

Owen: “I want to go to sleep, but I can’t be bothered.”

Peggy: “What’s the rhyme scheme?”
Owen: “We’ll have to rhyme this line in a minute.”

Maria (to Owen): “To think that you’ll live to be called Peter Jackson by members of your own Society.”

Sophia: “Playing the guitar is a lot like playing Twister with your fingers.”

Maria: “Give me a sword!”

Interviewer (to Maria):“She’s one of the Illuminati of the society.”

Anna (In an email): “I was very disappointed, because they said they didn’t seal people off during the plague after all.”

Colin: “So, who’s suing us for mental torment?”

Edward: “I’m not into Tolkien that much.”

Sara: “Edward SIT down!”
Edward: “Why can’t we attack the yellows.”
Sara: “We’ve won.”
Edward: “I want the whole board.”
Maria: “You look a bit of a megalomaniac.”
Nicholay: “We’re not defending.”
Edward: “I just want to destroy you all.”
Sara: “There aren't enough pieces left in the game.”
Edward: “Can I please, please destroy everything?”(at the end of an epic game of Lord of the Rings Risk)

Sophia: “I think I must be designed by Satan.”

Maria: “I want the eagle’s blood.” (also during Risk)

Sophia: “Edward is always the most likely culprit.”

Nicholay: “I do not have enough midichlorians to beat Edward!!!” (after playing Star Wars racer)

Aram (to Nicholay): “Use that cabbage on your shoulders.”

Peter: “What’s that building doing there?!” (whilst lost in New York City)

Tora: “I saw Tolkien’s picture of Isengard recently, and it looks like a housing block from the 1960’s.”

Tora: “How do you think ’The Lord of the Rings’ would have been different if there had been jeeps?”

Owen: “I’m sure that *some* Oxford students are normal.”
Sophia: “Luckily, none of my friends are among them.”

Tora: “The peacock doesn't have to take Finals!”

Edward: “Don't say the R-word.”

Tora: “This is probably a silly question, but do mummy ducks need daddy ducks?”

Nicholay: “You are my lady who sits at home in North Rhun, and Tora is my lady who inspires me to world conquest.”

Anna: “I think the Lays of Belariand would lend themselves well to rap.”

Colin: “If you saw the things we do with jelly babies, you’d be scared of us.”
Meredith: “I am already.”

Linda: “This is the purpose of my life. To get freebies and to be a bitch.”

Sophia: “I generally don’t read things with princesses in them.”

Sophia (in a graveyard): “This would be a good place to have mysterious pagan rites.”

Owen: “I was feeling really sleepy recently, and I thought, maybe my consciousness is dying.”

Owen: “I think that Lord of the Rings is very poor.”

Ben (to Edward): “Can you tell us about your relationship with the word ‘eucatastrophe’?”

Colin: “In 1000AD, a Chinaman whose name is still remembered, except I don’t remember it...”

Lord Morgoth: “In my experience, prisoners *enjoy* being whipped.”

Maria (on the pronunciation of ‘auta i lome’): “Of course it’s ‘ee’, it’s ‘ee’ in every proper language.”

Owen: “You have to wrap the rope around your body in odd ways.” (On abseiling without a harness)

Nick: “Always remember the happy bunny of hope.”

Sophia: “I would feel deprived and neglected if people didn’t mock me. I wouldn't know what to do with myself.”

Nick: “Sophia, do you have Nicolay in your drawers?”

Toby: “Even my essays are slash. I was writing Mill/Bentham slash...”

Chris: “It’s terrible. Kathryn’s been in Cornwall for weeks. I’m not getting my bullying quota.”

Nick: “The fact that they stole it from me before I even thought of it is not my problem.”

Lloyd: “You may be wondering why I was looking for a gun on eBay.”

Nick: “I think I don’t like avocados. I may be confusing them with asparagus.”

Tora: “Is spontaneously factorising like spontaneously combusting?”

Nick (on Maria and Nicholay moving house by punt): “I would have come. I had no idea who any of you were, and I still would have come.”

Maria: “We’re all going insane, and we’re not even on the holiday yet.”

Sophia: “The quote’s page is pure genius, and I only say this because I think I thought of it myself.”

Nick (during a game of Mao): “Edward took a biscuit then Owen took a biscuit; I was convinced that if I took a biscuit I'd be playing out of turn.”

Edward: "I think the Oath [of Feanor] is badly worded."

Rebecca: "I don't think that any women in Tolkien menstruate."

Nick (after having been hitting himself with a mallet for the past five minutes): "No, that's painful."

Nick: "Assuming you are given a randomised pair of breasts"
Chris: "It must pass through every conceivable breast in every conceivable universe."
Nick: "I don't know about every conceivable universe ..."
Chris: "... but it's a lovely image."

Katy: "Can you get lesbians covered in cheese sauce on room service?"

Nick: "I used to have recurring dreams about falling off a cliff in a shopping trolley."
Owen: "Were you in the shopping trolley or was the cliff?"

Someone: "A planet that starts with a "J"?"
Nick: "Germany!"

Owen: "I'm happy and I'm not even doing anything with my hands!"

Sophia: "I like that dress! I would have worn that dress! (pause) Not now that Owen's worn it..."

Edward (getting confused at the AGM): "The returning officer shall allow postal bollocks to be accepted."

Sophia: "I don't want to aim for Toby - I want Owen!"

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