Yes, yes, that’s not a gnomic utterance – but, I didn’t have one – so you got a translation of elvish from the entrance to the Mines of Moira – because LotRs.

Firstly – this may be only applicable at the beginning of the movie but it is a kind of introduction thing – if it was a book it would definitely be an utterance at the start of a chapter:

Today at the Fantasy Review Barn Nathan is taking us Tough Travelling through the tropes of fantasy.  This week’s topic is:

GNOMIC UTTERANCES

These are traditional and are set at the head of each section.  Culled from a mighty collection of wise sayings compiled by a sage some centuries before the Tour begins.  The Rule is that no Utterance has anything whatsoever to do with the section it precedes.

In other words… Those quotes that always start the chapter but rarely are connected to the plot.

I confess.  This one had me stopped in my tracks.  Well, Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn and Way of Kings series immediately sprang to mind and then I drew a bit of a blank.  I started flipping through some of my books and this isn’t as frequent as I thought!  So:

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Watership Down by Richard Adams

I couldn’t come up with anything else – I’ve sat down and actually flipped through loads of my books – I can find lots of books with something that starts at the beginning of the book but not each chapter.  I can find a book or two with chapters that end with a few words (not every chapter but a few)  But basically I’m stumped.  I hope everyone else has done better than me!

To finish with, gnomic utterances travels: