Other Quotes: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Theoden: A great host, you say? Aragorn: All Isengard is emptied. Theoden: How many? Aragorn: Ten thousand strong at least. Theoden: [astonished] Ten thousand? Aragorn: It is an army bred for a single purpose, to destroy the world of men. They will be here by nightfall. Theoden: Let them come. Frodo: I am Frodo Baggins, and this is Samwise Gamgee. Faramir: Your bodyguard? Sam: His gardener. Legolas: [in Elvish] You're late.
[in English] Legolas: You look terrible. Gollum: [to Sam] Stupid, fat hobbit. Gimli: Toss me. Aragorn: What? Gimli: I cannot jump the distance. You'll have to toss me. Don't tell the elf.
[A wall of soldiers line the ramparts. A gap appears] Gimli: You could have found a better spot. Pippin: It's talking, Merry. The tree is talking. Gandalf: The battle of Helm's Deep is over. The battle for Middle Earth is about to begin. Gollum: Leave now and never come back. Galadriel: The power of the enemy is growing. Sauron will use his puppet Saruman to destroy the people of Rohan. Isengard has been unleashed. The Eye of Sauron now turns to Gondor, the last free kingdom of men. His war on this country will come swiftly. He senses the Ring is close. The strength of the Ringbearer is failing. In his heart, Frodo begins to understand. The quest will claim his life. You know this. You have foreseen it. It is the risk we all took. In the gathering dark, the will of the Ring grows strong. It works hard now to find its way back into the hands of men. Men, who are so easily seduced by its power. The young captain of Gondor has but to extend his hand, take the Ring for his own and the world will fall. He is close now, so close to achieving his goal. For Sauron will have dominion over all life on this Earth, even unto the ending of the world. The time of the elves is over. Do we leave Middle-Earth to its fate? Do we let them stand alone? Gandalf: Gandalf? Yes... that was what they used to call me. Gandalf the Gray. That was my name. Gimli: Gandalf... Gandalf: *I* am Gandalf the White. And I come back to you now - at the turn of the tide. Legolas: A red sun rises, blood has been spilled this night. Aragorn: There was an army bred for a single purpose, to destroy the world of men. Gollum: [singing] The rock and pool, is nice and cool, so juicy sweet. Our only wish,
[he whacks the fish on the rock] Gollum: to catch a fish,
[another whack] Gollum: so juicy sweet. Merry: Pippin, I think we made a mistake in leaving the Shire. Saruman: If the wall is breached, Helms Deep will fall. Wormtongue: Even if it is breached, it will take a number beyond reckoning - thousands to storm the keep. Saruman: Tens of thousands. Wormtongue: But, my lord, there is no such force. Eomer: What business does an elf, man, and a dwarf have in the Ridder-Mark? Speak quickly. Gimli: Give me your name, horse-master, and I shall give you mine. Eomer: [dismounts] I would cut off your head, dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground. Legolas: You would die before your stroke fell. Frodo: I can't do this Sam. Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. Frodo: What are we holding on to Sam? Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for. Gollum: We be nice to them, if they be nice to us. Sam: What we need is a few good taters. Gollum: What's taters, precious? What's taters, eh? Sam: Po-tay-toes. Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew. Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish. Sam: Even you couldn't say no to that. Gollum: Oh yes we could. Spoilin' nice fish. Give it to us raw and wrigglin'. You keep nasty chips. Sam: You're hopeless. Aragorn: Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall. Legolas: They may yet be alive. Gollum: All dead... all rotting. Elves and men and orcses Gollum: So bright... so beautiful... my precious. Frodo: What did you say? Gollum: Master should be resting, Master needs to keep up his strength. Frodo(standing up): Who are you? Gollum: Mustn't ask us. Mustn't answer. Frodo: Gandalf told me you were one of the River-folk. Gollum: Cold be heart and hand and bone. Cold be travelers far from home. Frodo(next to Gollum): He said your life was a sad story. Gollum: They do not see what lies ahead, when Sun has failed and Moon is dead. Frodo(in front of Gollum): You were not so very different from a Hobbit once, were you? (Gollum looks up at him) Smeagol. Gollum: What did you call me? Frodo: That was your name once, wasn't it? Gollum: My name? My name... Smeagol. Gollum: He wants the precious. Always he is looking for it. And the precious is wanting to go back to him... But we mustn't let him have it. Gandalf: All our hopes now lie with two little hobbits, somewhere in the wilderness. Sam: It's me. It's your Sam. Don't you know your Sam? Sam: Hey Stinker don't go gettin' too far ahead. Frodo: Why do you do that? Sam: What? Frodo: Call him names. Run him down all the time. Sam: Because... because that's what he is Mr. Frodo. There's naught left in him but lies and deceit. It's the ring he wants. That's all he cares about. Frodo: You have no idea what it did to him... what it's still doing to him. I want to help him Sam.
[following Gollum, walking down the path] Sam: I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales. Frodo: [turns around] What? Sam: I wonder if people will ever say, 'let's hear about Frodo and the Ring.' And they'll say 'yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?' 'Yes, my boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that's saying alot.' Frodo: [continue walking] You left out one of the chief characters - Samwise the Brave. I want to hear more about Sam.
[Frodo stops and turns to Sam] Frodo: Frodo wouldn't got far without Sam. Sam: Now Mr. Frodo, you shouldn't make fun; I was being serious. Frodo: So was I.
[they continue to walk] Sam: Samwise the Brave... Gimli: Most have seen too many winters. Legolas: Or too few. Gimli: Milady... Eowyn: Lord Aragorn, where is he. Gimli: He fell. Aragorn: This is a dream. Arwen: Then it is a good dream. Theoden: Last time I looked Théoden, not Aragorn, was king of Rohan. Gollum: But, the fat hobbit. He knows. Eyes always watching. Gandalf: Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east. Aragorn: [In Elvish] Show no mercy... for you shall receive none. Gimli: It's true you don't see many dwarf women. In fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, that they are often mistaken for dwarf men. Aragorn: It's the beards. Theoden: I will not risk open war. Aragorn: Open war is upon you whether you would risk it or not. Frodo: There is no promise you can make that I can trust. Gollum: Cold be heart and hand and bone, cold be travelers far from home... they do not see what lies ahead when sun has failed and moon is dead. Theoden: So much death. What can men do against such reckless hate? Aragorn: Ride out with me. Ride out and meet them. Theoden: For death and glory. Aragorn: For Rohan. For your people. Gandalf: The courtesy of your hall is somewhat lessened of late Théoden, King. Gandalf: [To Grima] Be silent. And keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm. Saruman: Together, my lord Sauron, we shall rule this Middle-earth. The old world will burn in the fires of industry. Forests will fall. A new order will rise. We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc. Merry: The fires of Isengard will spread, and the forests of Tuckborough and Buckland will burn. And all that was once great and good in this world will be gone. There won't be a Shire, Pippin. Gimli: Bring your pretty face to my axe. Ugluk: Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys. Theoden: The crops can be re-sown, the homes re-built. Within these walls... we will outlast them. Aragorn: They do not come to destroy Rohan's crops or villages. They come to destroy its people. Down to the last child. Theoden: What will you have me do? Look at my men. Their courage hangs by a thread. Theoden: Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time. Faramir: What did they steal from you? Gollum: MY PRECIOUS. Aaah. Gollum: We swears to serve the master of the precious. We swears on... on... on the precious. Theoden: Why should I welcome you, Gandalf Stormcrow? Wormtongue: A just question my liege. Late is the hour in which this conjurer chooses to appear. 'Lathspell' I name him. Ill news is an ill guest. Gollum: Don't follow the lights. Theoden: Fell deeds await... Now for Wrath... Now for Ruin... and the Red Dawn...
[(horn blows] Theoden: Forth Eorlingas. Galadriel: The time of the Elves is over. Do we leave Middle-earth to its fate? Do we let them stand alone? Haldir: We are proud to fight alongside men once more. Haldir: I bring word from Lord Elrond of Rivendell. An Alliance once existed between Elves and Men. Long ago we fought and died together. We come to honor that allegiance. Aragorn: Mae govannen, Haldir. You are most welcome. Haldir: We are proud to fight alongside Men once more. Gollum: He is drawing all evil to him. Faramir: Your sense of duty is no less than his, I deem. You wonder what his name is... where he comes from... if he really was evil at heart, or what lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there... in peace. War will make corpses of us all. Sam: Who are they? Gollum: Wicked men. Servants of Sauron. They are called to Mordor. The Dark One is gathering all armies to him. It won't be long now. He will soon be ready. Sam: Ready to do what? Gollum: To make his war. The last war that will cover all the world in shadow. Aragorn: You have some skill with a blade. Eowyn: Women of this country learned long ago that those without swords can still die upon them. I fear neither death nor pain. Aragorn: What do you fear, milady? Eowyn: A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire. Aragorn: You're the daughter of kings. A shield maiden of Rohan. I do not think that will be your fate. Faramir: I think, at last we understand each other, Frodo Baggins. Gandalf: There is no way out of that ravine, Théoden is walking into a trap. Gollum: Sméagol... Why do you cry, Sméagol? Smeagol: Cruel men hurts us. Master tricks us. Gollum: Of course he did. I told you he was tricksy. I told you he was false. Smeagol: Master is our friend... our friend. Gollum: Master betrayed us. Smeagol: No, not it's business. Leave us alone. Gollum: Filthy little hobbites. They stole it from us. Smeagol: No... No. Faramir: What did they steal? Gollum: Myyy PRECIOUSSS. Sam: Mr. Frodo, put the ring on; just this once, disappear. Frodo: I can't... you were right Sam, it has taken over me. If I put it on he will find me. Sam: It's the Ring... Frodo: It's getting heavier. Sam: This place looks oddly familiar. Frodo: That's because we've been here before, we're going in circles. Frodo: Maybe he deserves to die, but now that I see him I do pity him. Frodo: Stop. He is our guide, this creature is bound to me as I'm as bound to him. Treebeard: We have just decided.
[Merry and Pippin lean in] Merry: Yes? Treebeard: I have told your names to the Entmoot, and we have decided you are not orcs. Pippin: Well that's good news. Gimli: It's luck you live by lad... let's hope it lasts the night. Legolas: You're friends are with you, Aragorn... Gimli: Let's hope they last the night... Treebeard: Saruman. A wizard should know better. There is no curse in elvish, entish or the tongues of men for such treachery. My business is with Isengard tonight, with a rock and stone. Rarum-rum. Come, my friends. The ents are going to war. It is likely that we go to our doom: The last march of the ents. Treebeard: You must understand young hobbit, takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say. Treebeard: War... yes it affects us all. Saruman: Rohan, my lord, is ready to fall. Treebeard: [about orcs] They come with fire, they come with axes... gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning. Destroyers and usurpers, curse them. Treebeard: My home is deep in the forest near the roots of the mountains. Treebeard: I promised Gandalf I would keep you safe and safe is where I'll keep you. Gimli: You'll find more cheer in a graveyard. Treebeard: We Ents cannot hold back this storm. We must weather such things as we have always done. Merry: How can that be your decision? Treebeard: This is not our war. Merry: But you're part of this world, aren't you?... You must help... please. Treebeard: Many of these trees were my friends. Creatures I had known from nut or acorn. Pippin: I'm sorry Treebeard. Treebeard: They had voices of their own. Saruman. A wizard should know better. Theoden: Dark have been my dreams of late. Gimli: It's all right, it's all right. Nobody panic, that was deliberate. It was deliberate. Uruk-hai#1: What is it? What do you smell? Uruk-hai#2: Man flesh. They've picked up our trail. Gimli: [out of breath] I am wasted over long distances. We Dwarves are natural sprinters, very deadly over shorter distances. Wormtongue: Ah, but you are alone. Who knows what you have spoken to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all your life seems to shrink, the walls of your bower closing in about you, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in? So fair, yet so cold like a morning of pale Spring still clinging to Winter. Gandalf: You would not part an old man from his walking stick? Eomer: Look for your friends, but do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands. Frodo: I can't do this Sam. Sam: I know, by right we shouldn't even be here. Pippin: Don't talk to it, Merry. Don't encourage it. Treebeard: That doesn't make sense to me. But, then again, you are very small. Pippin: And what side are you on? Treebeard: Side. I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Eowyn: My Lord. Aragorn. I am to be sent with the women into the caves. Aragorn: That is an honorable charge. Eowyn: To mind the children, to find food and bedding when the men return. What renown is there in that? Aragorn: My Lady, there may come a time for valor without renown. Who then will your people look to in the last defense? Eowyn: Let me stand at your side. Aragorn: I cannot command it.
[pause. Aragorn turns to walk away from her.] Eowyn: You do not command the others to stay. They stay because they would not be parted from you. Because they love you. I am sorry. Legolas: They run as if the very whips of their masters were behind them. Haldir: I bring word from Elrond of Rivendell. An alliance once existed between elves and men. Long ago we fought and died together. We come to honor that allegiance. Gandalf: On the lowest dungeon on top of the highest mountain peak I fought with the Balrog of Morgoth... Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon the mountain side... Darkness took me and I strayed away through thought and time. Stars wield overhead and everyday was as long as a life age of the earth... But it was not the end. I felt life in me again. I've been sent back until my task is done.
[Gandalf the White whistles and a white horse appears] Legolas: That is one of the Mearas, unless my eyes are cheated by some spell. Gandalf: Shadowfax. He's the lord of all horses and he's been my friend through many dangers. Frodo: [bewitch] They're here, they've come. Frodo: You were not so different from a hobbit once. Frodo: You were not very different from a hobbit once, were you? Smeagol... Gollum: What did you call me? Frodo: That was your name once, wasn't it? A long time ago. Gollum: My name... My name... Smeagol. Sam: You know I don't usually hold with foreign food, but this Elvish stuff - it's not bad. Frodo: Nothing dampens your spirits Sam. Sam: [looks at the nearing rain clouds] Those rain clouds might. Frodo: Gandalf. Sam: Mr. Frodo, what the matter? Frodo: Nothing... just a dream. Theoden: No parent should have to bury their own child. Gandalf: He was strong in life. His spirit will find the way to the halls of your forbearers. Gandalf: I will draw you out, Saruman, as poison is drawn from a wound. Aragorn: No, my lord - let him go. Enough blood has been split on his account. Pippin: The closer we are to danger, the farther we are from harm. It's the last thing he'll expect. Merry: Are you mad? We will be caught for sure. Pippin: Not this time. Theoden: Simbelmyne. Ever has it grown on the tombs of my forebears. Now it shall cover the grave of my son. Alas, that these evil days should be mine. The young perish and the old linger. That I should live to see that last days of my house. Gandalf: Théodred's death was not of your making. Theoden: No parent should have to bury their child. Frodo: The Ring will not save Gondor it only has the power to destroy, you must release me. Sam: You want to know what happen to Boromir? Do you want to know why your brother died? He tried to take the Ring from Frodo after swearing an oath to protect him. The Ring drove your brother mad. Treebeard: I always liked going South, somehow it feels like going downhill. Frodo: Gandalf told me your life was a sad story, Smeagol. Gollum: What did you call me? Frodo: That was your name once. Gollum: My name... Smeagol. Faramir: So this is the answer to all the riddles, here in the wild I have you, two halflings and a host of men at my call, and the ring of power within my grasp. Elrond: Our time here is ending, Arwen's time. Let her go... let her take the ship into the West. let her bear her love for you to the undying lands, there her love for you will be ever green. Sam: Mordor... the one place in Middle-Earth we don't want to see any closer... And it's the one place we're trying to get to... it's just where we can't get. Gollum: Where is it? Where is it? They stole it from us. My precious... Curse them. We hates them. It's ours it is... and we wants it. Gimli: What's happening out there? Legolas: Shall I describe it to you... or would you like me to go find you a box? Saruman: A new power is rising. Its victory is at hand. This night the land will be stained with the blood of Rohan. March to Helm's Deep. Leave none alive. To war. Saruman: The world is changing. Who now has the strength to stand against the armies of Isengard... and Mordor? To stand against the might of Sauron and Saruman... and the union of the Two Towers? Gollum: I found it I did. A way through the marshes. Orcs don't use it, orcs don't know it. They go round for miles and miles. Come hobbitses, soft and quick like shadows we must be. Elrond: He is not coming back. Why do you linger here when there is no hope? Arwen: There is still hope. Elrond: If Aragorn survives this war, you will still be parted. If Sauron is defeated and Aragorn made king and all that you hope for comes true you will still have to taste the bitterness of mortality. Whether by the sword or the slow decay of time, Aragorn will die. And there will be no comfort for you, no comfort to ease the pain of his passing. He will come to death an image of the splendor of the kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world. But you, my daughter, you will linger on in darkness and in doubt as nightfall in winter that comes without a star. Here you will dwell bound to your grief under the fading trees until all the world is changed and the long years of your life are utterly spent.
[During the Battle of Helm's Deep, Gimli has killed an Uruk-Hai warrior] Gimli: Legolas. Two already. Legolas: I'm on seventeen. Gimli: What. I'll have no pointy ear outscoring me. Legolas: [shoots two more arrows] Nineteen.
[From the Extended Edition] Boromir: He loves you, father. Denethor: Do not trouble me with Faramir, I know his uses and they are few. Grima Wormtongue: His staff. I told you to take the Wizard's staff. Theoden: Look at my men. Their courage hangs by a thread. If this is to be our end, then I would have them make such an end, as to be worthy of remembrance. Aragorn: Gimli, lower your axe. Legolas: The trees have feelings, my friend. The elves began it, waking up the trees, teaching them to speak. Gimli: Talking trees. What do trees have to talk about, hmm... except the consistency of squirrel droppings? Legolas: Forgive me. I mistook you for Saruman Gandalf: I am Saruman. Or Rather, Saruman as he should have been. Legolas: Final count - 42. Gimli: 42? That's not bad for a pointy-eared elvish princling. I myself am sitting pretty on 43.
[Legolas shoots the orc that Gimli is sitting on] Legolas: 43 Gimli: He was already dead. Legolas: He was twitching Gimli: He was twitching because he's got my axe embedded in his nervous system. Merry: He doesn't look to happy does he? Pippin: Not to happy at all, Merry. Merry: Still, the view must be quite nice from up there. Pippin: Oh yes, its a quality establishment. I hear the staff are VERY good Sam: Captain Faramir, you have shown your quality, sir - the very highest. Faramir: The Shire must truly be a great realm, Master Gamgee, where gardeners are held in high honor. Eowyn: Your words... are poison. Pippin: Merry? Merry: What, Pip? Pippin: I'm hungry.
[From Extended Edition] Eowyn: How old are you anyways? Aragorn: ... Eowyn: 60?... 70?... 80?... Aragorn: 87
[after falling off from the horse] Gimli: That was deliberate, it was deliberate. Sam: We're innocent travelers. Faramir: There are no travelers in this land... only servants of the Dark Lord. Frodo: We are bound to an errand of secrecy. Those who claim to oppose the enemy would do well not to hinder us. Saruman: We have only to remove those who oppose us.
[to his reflection] Gollum: You don't have any friends. Nobody likes you. Wormtongue: Why do you lay these troubles on an already troubled mind? Gollum: Sneaky little hobbitses.
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