Speaking of foolish, I can't believe I missed these two:
"Get up, you tom-fool of a Took!" his first words to Peregrin as Gandalf
the White in "Flotsam and Jetsam." (I actually remembered this one off the top
of my head...then forgot to put it in my list. Tom-fool indeed.)
And yes, it's just a crime that we forgot this classic from "The Breaking of
the Fellowship," second only to 'fool of a Took':
"Fool, take it off! Take off the Ring!"
We're never explicitly told who is "speaking" here, but the phrasing makes it
unmistakable, especially once the coroborrating evidence is revealed in "The
White
Rider."
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"In that hour I looked on Aragorn and thought how great and terrible a Lord he might have become in the strength of his will, had he taken the Ring to himself. Not for naught does Mordor fear him."
