Memorable Quotes from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Selected from those on www.imdb.com 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. ------------------------------------------- Gimli: Toss me! Aragorn: What! Gimli: I cannot jump the distance. You'll have to toss me. [beat] Gimli: 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 White: 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 the White: Gandalf? That was what they used to call me. Gandalf the Gray. *I* am Gandalf the White. And I come back to you now -- at the turn of the tide. ------------------------------------------- Gollum: Master hurts us, Master betrays us. We should strangle him in his sleep. No, no, too risky...unless...we let 'her' do it... yes... Yes, she could do it for us, right precious? ------------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------------- [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: It's true you don't see many dwarf women. In fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, that they are mistaken for dwarf men. Aragorn: It's the beards. ------------------------------------------- Gandalf the White: [To Grima] Silence! Hold 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 bridges 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! ------------------------------------------- Th‚oden: The crops can be re-sown, the homes re-built. Aragorn: They do not come to destroy Rohan's crops or villages. They come to destroy its people. Down to the last child! Th‚oden: What will you have me do? Look at my men. Their courage hangs by a thread. ------------------------------------------- Th‚oden: Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. ------------------------------------------- Gandalf the White: Three hundred men's lives I have walked this earth and now I have no time. ------------------------------------------- Galadriel: There is nothing we can do for Frodo. The quest will claim his life. You have foreseen this. ------------------------------------------- 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! ------------------------------------------- Th‚oden: 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! ------------------------------------------- Th‚oden: Fell deeds await...Now for Wrath...Now for Ruin...and the Red Dawn... [(horn blows] Th‚oden: 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. ------------------------------------------- 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. owyn: 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? owyn: 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 the White: There is no way out of that canyon, Th‚oden is walking into a trap. ------------------------------------------- Evil Gollum: Why are you crying Sm‚agol? Gollum: Master betray us. Evil Gollum: Of course he did, I told you he would. ------------------------------------------- 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 have been here before, we're going around 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. ------------------------------------------- Pippin: Maybe Treebeard right, it's too big for us; let's go home, we still have the Shire. Merry: Fires of Isengard and Mordor will spread and the forest of Bucklin and Hardbottle will burn, there won't be a Shire, Pippin. ------------------------------------------- Treebeard: We have decided... [Merry and Pippin lean in] Merry: Yes? Treebeard: We have decided that you are not orcs. Pippin: Well that's good. ------------------------------------------- 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: Today the Ents go to war, it's likely we go to our doom. ------------------------------------------- Treebeard: You must understand young hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in old entish that we don't say something unless it takes us a long time to say. ------------------------------------------- Treebeard: War... yes it affects us all. ------------------------------------------- Saruman: Rohan, my lord, is ready to fall! ------------------------------------------- Treebeard: They come with fire, they come with axes...gnawing, biting, hacking, burning! ------------------------------------------- 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 the storm. We must weather such things as we have always done. Merry: How can that be your decision? Treebeard: This is not our war master Meriadoc. Merry: You're apart of this world aren't you?...Aren't you?! ------------------------------------------- Treebeard: Many of these trees were my friends I had known from nut or acorn. Pippin: I'm sorry Treebeard. Treebeard: They had voices of their own. A wizard should know better. My business is with Saruman tonight! With rock and stone. ------------------------------------------- Th‚oden: Dark have been my days 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. We are deadly over shorter distances. ------------------------------------------- [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 the White: Shadowfax. He's the lord of all horses and he's been my friend through many dangers. ------------------------------------------- Sam: You know I not one to take to foreign food, but this Elvish stuff is 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. ------------------------------------------- Th‚oden: No parent should have to bury their own child. Gandalf the White: He was strong in life. His spirit will find the way to the halls of your forbearers. ------------------------------------------- Gandalf the White: I 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 that what I always say. Merry: Are you mad? We will be caught for sure. Pippin: Not this time. ------------------------------------------- Th‚oden: 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 the White: Th‚odred's death was not of your making. Th‚oden: 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. ------------------------------------------- Treebeard: I always liked going South, somehow it feels like going downhill. ------------------------------------------- Gimli: What's happening out there? Legolas: Shall I describe it to you...or would you like me to go find you a box? ------------------------------------------- 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! - o -