The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Movie Quotes
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 onto, Sam?
Sam
That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
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[Aragorn and Gimli are looking at the Uruk-hai, but are separated from them by a gap]
Gimli
Oh come on, we can take 'em.
Aragorn
It's a long way.
Gimli
Toss me.
Aragorn
What?
Gimli
I cannot jump the distance, you'll have to toss me.
Gimli
[pauses, looks up at Aragorn]
Gimli
Don't tell the Elf.
Aragorn
Not a word.
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[following Gollum down the path]
Sam
I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales.
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 a lot.'
Frodo
[continue walking]
You've left out one of the chief characters - Samwise the Brave. I want to hear more about Sam.
[stops and turns to Sam]
Frodo
Frodo wouldn't have 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...
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Gollum
What's taters, precious? What's taters, eh?
Samwise "Sam" Gamgee
*Po-tay-toes*! Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a *stew*! Lovely big, golden... chips with a nice piece of fried fish.
[Gollum spits in disgust]
Samwise "Sam" Gamgee
Even *you* couldn't say no to that.
Gollum
Oh, yes, we could! Spoil a nice fish.
[gets right up in Sam's face]
Gollum
Give it to us raw and wr-r-r-r-riggling, you keep nasty chips!
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Legolas
They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard.
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[from extended version]
Legolas
Final count, forty-two.
Gimli
Forty-two? Oh, that's not bad for a pointy-eared elvish princeling. Hmph! I myself am sitting pretty on forty-THREE.
Gimli
He was already dead!
Legolas
He was twitching.
Gimli
He was *twitching* because he's got my axe EMBEDDED IN HIS NERVOUS SYSTEM!
[rattles the handle of his ax; the Uruk's arms and legs twitch]
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Gandalf
[to Aragorn]
Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east.
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Theoden
[pick up a white flower]
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
Theodred's death was not of your making.
Theoden
No parent should have to bury their child.
[Theoden drops to his knees and starts sobbing]
Gandalf
He was strong in life. His spirit will find the way to the halls of your fathers.
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Gandalf
The battle of Helm's Deep is over; the battle for Middle-earth is about to begin.
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Theoden
Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!
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Gollum
We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!
Smeagol
Master is my friend.
Gollum
You don't have any friends; nobody likes you!
Gollum
You're a liar and a thief.
Smeagol
No.
Gollum
"Go away?"
[Gollum laughs mockingly as Smeagol begins to cry]
Gollum
Where would you be without me, uh? gollum, gollum... *I* saved us! It was me! *We* survived because of *me*!
Gollum
What did you say?
Smeagol
Master looks after us now. We don't need you anymore.
Smeagol
Leave now, and never come back!
Gollum
No!
[Gollum snarls in frustration]
Smeagol
LEAVE! NOW! AND NEVER COME BACK!
[Gollum is silent; Smeagol waits]
Smeagol
[looks around; then begins galumphing around with joy]
We told him to go away... and away he goes, Precious! Gone, gone, gone! SMEAGOL IS FREE!
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Legolas
A red sun rises, blood has been spilled this night.
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Ugluk
[after beheading an insubordinate Orc attempting to eat Merry and Pippin]
Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!
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[during the Battle of Helm's Deep, Gimli has killed an Uruk-Hai warrior]
Gimli
Legolas! Two already!
Legolas
I'm on seventeen!
Gimli
Huh? I'll have no pointy-ear outscoring me!
[kills another one]
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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. How did it come to this?
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Aragorn
You have some skill with a blade.
Eowyn
The women of this country learned long ago, those without swords can still die upon them. I fear neither death nor pain.
Aragorn
What do you fear, my lady?
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 are a daughter of kings, a shield maiden of Rohan. I do not think that will be your fate.
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Gandalf
The veiling shadow that glowers in the East takes shape. Sauron will suffer no rival. From the summit of Barad-dur his eye watches ceaselessly. But he is not so mighty yet that he is above fear. Doubt ever gnaws at him. The rumor has reached him. The heir of Numenor still lives. Sauron fears you, Aragorn. He fears what you may become. And so he will strike hard and fast at the world of Men. He will use his puppet Saruman to destroy Rohan. War is coming. Rohan must defend itself, and therein lies our first challenge, for Rohan is weak and ready to fall. The King's mind is enslaved; it's an old device of Saruman's. His hold over King Theoden is now very strong. Sauron and Saruman are tightening the noose. But, for all their cunning, we have one advantage. The Ring remains hidden. And that we should seek to destroy it has not yet entered their darkest dreams. And so the weapon of the Enemy is moving towards Mordor in the hands of a Hobbit. Each day brings it closer to the fires of Mount Doom. We must trust now in Frodo. Everything depends now upon speed and upon the secrecy of his quest. Do not regret your decision to leave him. Frodo must finish this task alone.
Aragorn
He's not alone. Sam went with him.
Gandalf
Did he? Did he indeed? Good. Yes, very good.
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Gandalf
[to Grima]
Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.
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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.
Theoden
The Horn of Helm Hammerhand will sound in the deep, one last time!
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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.
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Eomer
What business does an Elf, Man, and a Dwarf have in the Riddermark? 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.
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[takes a good look at Aragorn]
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Frodo
We are bound to an errand of secrecy. Those who claim to oppose the enemy would do well not to hinder us.
Faramir
The enemy?
[He walks to the body of a dead Haradrim soldier that he killed with his bow, and turns him over with his foot]
Faramir
His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is... where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. 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.
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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.
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[Frodo and Sam are lowering themselvs down a cliff]
Sam
Can you see the bottom?
Frodo
No. Don't look down, Sam, just keep going!
[Frodo catches it, loses his grip and then lands on the ground]
Frodo
I think I found the bottom.
Sam
It's not natural. None of it.
Frodo
What's in this?
Sam
Nothin'. Just a bit of seasoning. I thought maybe if we was havin' a roast chicken one night or something...
Frodo
Roast chicken?
Sam
You never know.
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Legolas
Look at them. They're frightened. You can see it in their eyes.
[All the men turn to look at him]
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[sounds of trees 'speaking' is heard]
Aragorn
Gimli, lower your axe.
Legolas
They 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?
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[Pippin drinks some Ent-draught, and grows in height]
Merry
You're taller.
Pippin
Who?
Merry
You!
Pippin
Than what?
Merry
Than *me*!
Pippin
I've always been taller than you.
Merry
Pippin, everyone knows *I'm* the tall one. *You're* the short one.
Pippin
Please, Merry. You're what, three-foot-six? At the most? Whereas me, I'm pushing three-seven, three-eight.
Merry
Three-foot-eight? You did something.
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[scene from extended version]
Gimli
This new Gandalf is more grumpy than the old one.
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[a wall of soldiers line the ramparts - the top of Gimli's helm barely peeks over the top]
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Gimli
It's true you don't see many Dwarf-women. And in fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, that they are often mistaken for Dwarf-men.
Gimli
And this in turn has given rise to the belief that there are no Dwarf-women, and that Dwarves just spring out of holes in the ground!
[Eowyn laughs]
Gimli
Which is, of course, ridiculous.
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Eowyn
Leave me alone, snake!
Wormtongue
Oh, 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's chill.
Eowyn
Your words are poison!
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Treebeard
We have just agreed...
[Merry and Pippin lean in]
Merry
Yes?
Treebeard
I have told your names to the Entmoot, and we have agreed you are not Orcs.
Pippin
Well, that's good news.
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[after meeting with Gandalf in Fangorn Forest]
Aragorn
In one thing you haven't changed, my friend - you still speak in riddles.
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Gimli
Whatever luck you live by... let's hope it lasts the night.
Legolas
Your friends are with you, Aragorn.
Gimli
Let's hope they last the night...
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[after Legolas has shot and killed a Warg heading toward Gimli]
Gimli
But that one counts as mine!
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Aragorn
[looking at defenders of Helm's Deep]
Farmers, ferriers, stable boys. These are no soldiers.
Gimli
Most have seen too many winters.
Legolas
Or too few.
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[loud yell]
Treebeard
There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery.
Pippin
Look, the trees! They're moving!
Merry
Where are they going?
Treebeard
They have business with the Orcs. My business is with Isengard tonight, with rock and stone.
[Ents emerge from the woods, following Treebeard]
Treebeard
Hroom, hm, come, my friends. The Ents are going to war. It is likely that we go to our doom. The last march of the Ents.
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Gollum
Oh! Cruel Hobbit! It does not care if we be hungry. It does not care if we should die! Not like Master. Master cares. Master knows. Yes, Precious...
[Frodo takes hold of the Ring]
Gollum
Once it takes hold of us it never lets go.
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[last lines]
Frodo
Smeagol?
Sam
We're not going to wait for you. Come on.
Smeagol
Master. Master looks after us. Master wouldn't hurt us.
Gollum
Master broke his promise.
Smeagol
Don't ask Smeagol. Poor, poor Smeagol.
Gollum
Master betrayed us. Wicked. Tricksy, False. We ought to wring his filthy little neck. Kill him! Kill him! Kill them both! And then we take the precious... and we be the master!
Smeagol
But the fat Hobbit, he knows. Eyes always watching.
Gollum
Then we stabs them out. Put out his eyeses, make him crawl.
Smeagol
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Gollum
Kill them both.
Smeagol
Yes. No! No! It's too risky. It's too risky.
Sam
Where is he? Where has he gone? Hey, Gollum! Where are you?
Frodo
Smeagol?
Gollum
We could let *her* do it.
Smeagol
Yes. She could do it.
Gollum
Yes, precious, she could. And then we takes it once they're dead.
Smeagol
Once they're dead. Shh.
[Comes out of hiding]
Smeagol
Come on Hobbits. Long ways to go yet. Smeagol will show the way.
Gollum
Follow me.
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Eomer
What business does an Elf, a Man, and a Dwarf have in the Riddermark? Speak quickly!
Gimli
Give me your name, Horse-master, and I shall give you mine.
Eomer
[dismounts his horse]
I would cut off your head, Dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground.
[Rohirrim point their spears at Legolas]
Aragorn
[signals for Legolas to lower his weapon]
I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn. This is Gimli, son of Glóin, and Legolas of the Woodland Realm. We are friends of Rohan, and of Théoden, your King.
Eomer
Théoden no longer recognizes friend from foe. Not even his own kin.
[takes off helmet]
Eomer
Saruman has poisoned the mind of the king and claimed lordship over these lands. My company are those loyal to Rohan, and for that we are banished. The White Wizard is cunning. He walks here and there, they say, as an old man hooded and cloaked. And everywhere his spies slip past our nets.
Aragorn
We are no spies. We track a party of Uruk-Hai, westward across the plain. They have taken two of our friends captive.
Eomer
The Uruks are destroyed. We slaughtered them during the night.
Gimli
But there were two Hobbits! Did you see two Hobbits with 'em?
Aragorn
They would be small. Only children to your eyes.
Eomer
We left none alive. We piled the carcasses and burned them.
Gimli
Dead?
Eomer
I am sorry.
[Éomer whistles a signal]
Eomer
Hasufel! Arod! May these horses bear you to better fortune than their former masters. Farewell.
[puts on helmet, mounts his horse]
Eomer
Look for your friends. But do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands.
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[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 is the lord of all horses and has been my friend through many dangers.
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Gandalf
From the lowest dungeon to the highest 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 out of thought and time... The stars wheeled overhead, and every day 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.
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Gandalf
Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.
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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!
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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.
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Sam
Spies! Now wait just a minute!
Faramir
Well, if you're not spies, then who are you?
[they remain silent, Faramir sighs and sits]
Faramir
Speak!
Frodo
We are Hobbits of the Shire. Frodo Baggins is my name and this is Samwise Gamgee.
Faramir
Your bodyguard?
Sam
His gardener.
Faramir
And where is your skulking friend? That gangrel creature. He had an ill-favoured look.
Frodo
[reluctant]
There was no other. We set out from Rivendell with seven companions. One we lost in Moria. Two were my kin. A dwarf there was also. And an elf. And two men. Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and Boromir of Gondor.
Frodo
Yes, for my part.
Faramir
It would grieve you then to learn that he is dead.
Faramir
As one of his companions, I had hope you would tell me. He was my brother.
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Gimli
[out of breath]
I'm wasted on cross-country! We Dwarves are natural sprinters, very dangerous over short distances.
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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. It is close now, so close to achieving its 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?
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Sam
[to Faramir]
You want to know what happened 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! He tried to kill him! The Ring drove your brother mad.
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Grima Wormtongue
His staff. I told you to take the Wizard's staff.
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Theoden
I will not risk open war.
Aragorn
Open war is upon you whether you would risk it or not.
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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
It is not in my power to command it.
[pause; Aragorn turns to walk away from her]
Eowyn
You do not command the others to stay! They fight beside you because they would not be parted from you! Because they love you.
[Aragorn stops, and she realizes she has said too much]
Eowyn
I am sorry.
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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.
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Saruman
If the wall is breached, Helm's 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.
[they go out onto the balcony, and see an army of ten thousand Uruk-hai]
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Treebeard
You must understand, young Hobbit, it 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.
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[from extended version]
Merry
[watching Saruman look out at the ruin of Isengard from the tower]
He doesn't look too happy, does he?
Pippin
Not too happy at all, Merry.
Merry
Still, I suppose the view would be quite nice from up there.
Pippin
Oh yes, it's a quality establishment. I hear the staff are VERY good.
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[the army of Isengard starts charging at the walls of Helm's Deep]
Theoden
So it begins.
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Sam
Hey, Stinker! Don't go getting 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; it'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.
Sam
Why?
Frodo
Because I have to believe he can come back.
Sam
You can't save him, Mr. Frodo.
Sam
I do. It's the ring. You can't take your eyes off it; I've seen you. You're not eating. You barely sleep. It's taken ahold of you, Mr. Frodo. You have to fight it.
Frodo
I know what I have to do, Sam. The ring was entrusted to *me*. It's my task, mine, my own!
[storms off]
Sam
Can't you hear yourself? Don't you know who you sound like?
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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.
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Legolas
Forgive me. I mistook you for Saruman.
Gandalf
I am Saruman. Or rather, Saruman as he should have been.
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Gollum
Sneaky little Hobbitses.
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Treebeard
[of Orcs]
They come with fire, they come with axes... gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning! Destroyers and usurpers, curse them!
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Pippin
They must have decided something by now.
Treebeard
Decided? No, we have just finished saying "Good Morning".
Merry
But it's night time already! You can't take forever!
Treebeard
Now, don't be hasty, master Meriadoc.
Merry
We're running out of time!
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Smeagol
Cruel men hurts us. Master tricksed 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.
[shrieks]
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Gollum
Master should be resting, Master needs to keep up his strength.
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.
Gollum
They do not see what lies ahead, when Sun has faded and Moon is dead.
[Gollum looks sad and lost in thought]
Frodo
Smeagol.
Frodo
That was your name once... a long time ago. Wasn't it
[suddenly remember and smiles in recognition]
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[from the extended edition]
Boromir
You give him no credit and yet he tries to do your will. He loves you, Father.
Denethor
Do not trouble me with Faramir. I know his uses and they are few.
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Gollum
All dead... all rotten. Elves and men and orcses. A great battle, long ago. The Dead Marshes... yes, that is their name.
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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.
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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.
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Merry
I think we might have made a mistake leaving the Shire, Pippin.
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Faramir
I think at last we understand one another, Frodo Baggins.
Madril
You know the laws of our country - the laws of your father. If you let them go your life will be forfeit.
Faramir
Then it is forfeit. Release them.
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Theoden
[after being exorcised]
I know your face... Eowyn.
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Ugluk
What is it? What do you smell?
Mauhur
Man flesh. They've picked up our trail.
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Treebeard
[reacting to Pippin's plan]
That doesn't make sense to me. But, then again, you are very small.
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Treebeard
I always like going South; somehow, it feels like going downhill.
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[to the army of Isengard]
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!
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Arwen
There is still hope.
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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.
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Legolas
Come on, Gimli!
Gimli
Three days and nights pursuit. No food, no rest. No sign of our quarry, but what bare rock can tell!
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[Shadowfax rears]
Aragorn
Gandalf.
Gandalf
Théoden King stands alone.
Eomer
Not alone. Rohirrim!
[Rohirrim gather behind him]
Theoden
Eomer!
Eomer
TO THE KING!
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Gamling
Every villager able to wield a sword has been sent to the armory... my lord?
Theoden
Who am I, Gamling?
Gamling
You are our king, sire.
Theoden
And do you trust your king?
Gamling
Your men, my Lord, will follow you to whatever end.
Theoden
To whatever end...
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Frodo
We can't leave this here for someone to follow us down.
Sam
Who's going to follow us down here, Mr. Frodo? It's a shame, really. Lady Galadriel gave me that. Real Elvish rope. Well, there's nothing for it - it's one of my knots. It won't come free in a hurry.
[Sam tugs wistfully on the rope, and by the magical grace of Galadriel, it falls into his hands]
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[Pippin burps after drinking]
Merry
You just said something... treeish!
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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? Together, my Lord Sauron, we shall rule this Middle-earth.
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[after falling off from the horse]
Gimli
That was deliberate, it was deliberate.
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Treebeard
[to Merry and Pippin]
I promised Gandalf I would keep you safe and safe is where I'll keep you.
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[Treebeard is is walking through the forest, carrying Merry and Pippin]
Treebeard
I believe you will enjoy this next one, too. It is one of my own compositions. Ahem. 'Beneath the roof of sleeping... leaves and dreams of trees untold, When woodland halls are... green... and cool, and the wind is in the west, Come back to me... Come... back... to me, And say my land is... best.'
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Faramir
[to Frodo]
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.
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Theoden
Crops can be re-sown, 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.
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Merry
Why are there so few of you, when you live so long? Are there Ent children?
Merry
Why is that?
Treebeard
We lost the Entwives.
Pippin
Oh, I'm sorry. How did they die?
Treebeard
Die? No. We *lost* them. And now, we cannot *find* them. I don't suppose you've seen Entwives in the Shire?
Merry
Can't say that I have. You, Pip?
Pippin
What do they look like?
Treebeard
Hrrooom... I... don't... remember... now.
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Theoden
[to Grima]
Your leechcraft would have had me crawling on all fours like a beast!
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Aragorn
Legolas! What do your Elf eyes see?
Legolas
The Uruks turn Northeast. They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard!
Aragorn
Saruman.
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Merry
[to the suggestion of returning home]
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.
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Theoden
When last I looked, Théoden, not Aragorn, was king of Rohan.
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Theoden
[upon being exorcised]
Gandalf...
Gandalf
Breathe the free air again, my friend.
Theoden
[stands up from the throne]
Dark have been my dreams of late.
[looks at his hands]
Gandalf
Your fingers would remember their old strength better... if they grasped your sword.
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H.ma
I cannot allow you before Theoden King so armed, Gandalf Greyhame... by order of Grima Wormtongue.
[Gandalf nods, and they hand over their weapons]
H.ma
Your staff.
Gandalf
Oh... you would not part an old man from his walking stick?
[Hama lets them through; Gandalf winks at Aragorn]
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[Aragorn walks through the ranks of Elven defenders of Helm's Deep]
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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.
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Gandalf
The courtesy of your hall is somewhat lessened of late Théoden, King.
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Frodo
[to Faramir]
The Ring will not save Gondor. It only has the power to destroy. Please, let me go.
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Eomer
How long has it been since Saruman bought you? What was the promised price, Grima? When all the Men are dead you would take your share of the treasure?
[Wormtongue looks at Eowyn]
Eomer
Too long have you watched my sister. Too long have you haunted her steps.
[Eomer is seized by two guards]
Wormtongue
You see much, Eomer son of Eomund. Too much.
[Eomer is beaten by the guards]
Wormtongue
You are banished forthwith from the Kingdom of Rohan... under pain of death.
Eomer
You have no authority here! Your orders mean nothing!
Wormtongue
Oh, but this order does not come from me. It comes from the King. He signed it this morning.
[Shows Eomer the banishment order, signed by Theoden's seal]
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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.
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Frodo
Gollum says there is a tunnel above Minas Morgul. It climbs up into the mountains.
Faramir
Cirith Ungol?
[Faramir notices Gollum is acting suspiciously. He slams him to the wall. Gollum inhales and gags in surprised horror and pain over being choked]
[Faramir tightens his grip on Gollum's neck. Gollum winces in pain and gasps]
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[repeated line]
Smeagol
My precious...
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Pippin
And whose side are you on?
Treebeard
Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little Orc.
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Wormtongue
Why do you lay these troubles on an already troubled mind?
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Sam
Mr. Frodo, put the ring on; just this once, disappear.
Frodo
I can't... You were right, Sam. The ring is taking me. If I put it on he will find me.
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Eomer
[to Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas]
Look for your friends, but do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands.
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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.
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Sam
Mordor... the one place in Middle-Earth we don't want to see any closer... the one place we're trying to get to... is just where we can't get. Let's face it, Mr. Frodo. We're lost!
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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.
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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.
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Eomer
[to Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas]
[whistles]
Eomer
Hasufel! Arod! May these horses bear you to better fortune than their former masters.
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Treebeard
The Ents are going to war.
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Snaga
Just a mouthful. A bit off the flank!
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Sam
[grumbling about the lack of life in the Dead Marshes]
I hate this place; it's too quiet. There hasn't been the sight or sound of a bird in two days!
Gollum
No... No birdses to eat.
[longingly]
Gollum
No crunchable birdses!
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[Sam and Frodo have captured Gollum and are dragging him with a long piece of string thick rope around his neck. Gollum is screaming his head off in pain]
[groans]
Gollum
It freezes...
[Sam jerks the rope, causing Gollum to topple on his back and be dragged by Sam]
Gollum
[grabbing hold of a nearby rock with one hand and pulls the rope back with his other hand]
Nasty elves twisted it! TAKE IT OFF US!
Sam
Quiet you!
[Gollum throws his head back as he throws a convulsive temper tantrum and lets out a prolonged wail]
Sam
[exasperated; to Frodo]
It's hopeless! Every orc in Mordor is going to hear this racket! Let's just tie him up and leave him.
Sam
That's more than you deserve!
[Gollum stops withering and sits up]
Gollum
We'll be nice to them, if they be nice to us.
[holds out the rope; dramatically yet politely]
Gollum
Take this off us.
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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.
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Gandalf
All our hopes now lie with two little Hobbits, somewhere in the wilderness.
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Gollum
We swears to serve the master of the Precious. We will swear on... on... the Precious!
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[Rangers try to capture Gollum, who is resisting]
Frodo
Stop! This creature is bound to me and I to him. He is our guide.
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Treebeard
My home is deep in the forest near the roots of the mountains.
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Gandalf
I will draw you, Saruman, as poison is drawn from a wound.
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Aragorn
[Théoden threatens to kill Wormtongue]
No, my lord - let him go. Enough blood has been spilt on his account.
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Elrond
Our time here is ending, Arwen's time is ending. Let her go... let her take the ship into the West. Let her bear her love for you to the Undying Lands, there it will be ever green...
Aragorn
...but never more than a memory.
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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 as shadows we must be.
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Saruman
We have only to remove those who oppose us.
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[Frodo and Sam have captured Gollum. Sam is violently dragging Gollum with a long piece of rope around his neck]
[Sam jerks the rope, causing Gollum to topple. Sam drags Gollum, who grabs a rock and grabs the rope, pulling it back]
Sam
Quiet, you!
[Gollum lets out a high-pitched wail as he throws a temper tanturm, complete with convulsion]
Sam
[to Frodo; exasperated]
It's hopeless! Every orc in Mordor is going to hear this racket! Let's just just tie him up and leave him.
Sam
That's more than you deserve!
Gollum
Agggghhhhhhahhhh...
[Gollum flops on his back as he continues to throw a mini-tantram]
Frodo
Maybe he does deserve to die. But now I see him, I do pity him.
[Gollum stops convulsing and looks up at Frodo]
Gollum
We'll be nice to them, if they be nice to us. Take this off of us... We swear to do whatever you wants... we swear.
Frodo
There is no promise you can make that I can trust.
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[after Boromir's inspiring speech]
Faramir
Good speech. Nice and short.
Boromir
Leaves more time for drinking!
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[Gollum has Sam in a headlock. Frodo jumps to Sam's rescue and points his sword at Gollum, who looks at it in terror]
[Gollum does so. Frodo continues to pin him down Gollum's pupils widen as he squeaks faintly]
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Smeagol
[a black rider is flying over Sam, Frodo and Smeagol's hiding place; startled]
Ah-uh-uh? AHHHHH!
[He ducks down and covers his ears as the black rider and it's wraith mount swoops down and lets out an eerie piercing cry]
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[Sméagol is being tortured by Faramir's henchmen]
Smeagol
OOHH-WHHHHAAAAAAHHHHH! Oh!
[the guards yell and kick him as Faramir calmly stands in the distance]
Smeagol
OW-Whaaa! Oh!
[tries to scamper away on all fours, hyperventilating. Before Sméagol can escape, one of the men grabs him by the ankle and drags him back]
Smeagol
OOOH-AAAHHH! AhHAAAAA! AAHHHH!
[One of the guards holds up Sméagol while the other guard punches Sméagol in the stomach]
Faramir
That's enough.
[the guard throws Sméagol against the wall, who then crawls into a corner fearfully]
[curls up into a fetal position as he sobs]
Faramir
Answer me!
[continues to cry]
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!
Gollum
Filthy little hobbitses! They stole it from us!
Faramir
What did they steal?
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Saruman
There will be no dawn... for men.
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[after the battle and Boromir's speech]
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Gandalf
The fate of the world will now be decided.
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Gollum
But, the fat Hobbit. He knows. Eyes always watching.
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Galadriel
The time of the Elves is over. Do we leave Middle-earth to its fate? Do we let them stand alone?
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Gandalf
There is no way out of that ravine, Théoden is walking into a trap.
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Saruman
Rohan, my lord, is ready to fall.
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Sam
[to Gollum, who is trying to persuade Frodo to release him in exchange of Gollum becoming Frodo's servant]
I don't believe you!
Gollum
[gasps fearfully and scrambles away; climbing on top of a boulder]
Gollum
[Gollum lets out a high-pitched noise as Sam's jerking on the rope chokes him and throws him on to the ground]
Sam
He's trying to trick us! We let him go, he'll throttle us in our sleep.
Gollum
[Gollum sits up and gasps in air greedily, clutching his throat]
[Frodo looks at the gasping Gollum and then at Sam. After a moment's pause, Frodo approaches Gollum, who backs away in fear]
[He backs away as Frodo crotches down to Gollum's eye level. Gollum looks at Frodo, uneasily]
Frodo
You've been there before?
[Frodo slowly takes off the rope around Gollum's neck. Sam looks suspicious, while Gollum looks surprised and relieved]
Frodo
You will lead us to the Black Gate.
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Eowyn
My uncle told me a strange thing. He said that you rode to war with Thengel, my grandfather. But he must be mistaken.
Aragorn
King Theoden has a good memory. He was only a small child at the time.
Eowyn
Then you must be at least 60.
[Aragon gives a non-committal snicker]
Eowyn
70? You cannot be 80!
Aragorn
87.
Eowyn
[a little in awe]
You are one of the Dunedain. A descendant of Numenor, blessed with long life. It was said that your race had passed into legend.
Aragorn
There are few of us left. The Northern Kingdom was destroyed long ago.
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[Frodo and Sam have been captured by soldiers of Gondor; they stand in a cave behind a waterfall; Faramir approaches]
Faramir
My men tell me that you are orc spies.
Faramir
Well, if you're not spies, then who *are* you?
[they say nothing; he sits]
Faramir
Speak.
Frodo Baggins
We are hobbits of the Shire. Frodo Baggins is my name, and this is Samwise Gamgee.
Faramir
Your bodyguard?
Samwise "Sam" Gamgee
His gardener.
Faramir
And where is your skulking friend? That gangrel creature. He had an ill-favoured look.
Frodo Baggins
There was no other. We set out from Rivendell with seven companions. One we lost in Moria. Two were my kin. A dwarf there was also, and an elf. And two men: Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and Boromir of Gondor.
Frodo Baggins
Yes... for my part.
Faramir
[stands up and paces; looks back at Frodo]
It will grieve you, then, to learn that he is dead.
Faramir
As one of his companions, I'd hoped you would tell me.
[pauses]
Faramir
He was my brother.
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[extended edition; Frodo examines a small wooden box]
Frodo Baggins
What's in this?
Samwise "Sam" Gamgee
Nothin'.
[pauses]
Samwise "Sam" Gamgee
Just a bit of seasonin'. I thought maybe if we was having a roast chicken one night or somethin'.
Frodo Baggins
Roast *chicken*?
Samwise "Sam" Gamgee
You never know.
Frodo Baggins
Sam.
[shakes his head]
Frodo Baggins
My dear Sam.
[opens the box]
Samwise "Sam" Gamgee
It's very special, that. It's the best salt in all the Shire.
[looks at Sam]
Frodo Baggins
It's a little bit of home.
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[extended edition; Merry and Pippin are in Fangorn Forest]
Peregrin "Pippin" Took
I had the loveliest dream last night. There was this large barrel full of pipe weed, and we smoked all of it.
[Merry smiles]
Peregrin "Pippin" Took
And then... you were sick.
[Merry is not amused]
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Ugluk
The prisoners go to Saruman, alive and unspoiled.
Grishnakh
Alive? Why alive? Do they give good sport?
[lashes his tongue]
Ugluk
They have something. An Elvish weapon. The master wants it for the war.
Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck
Shh! As soon as they find out we don't, we're dead.
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Grishnakh
Grish-nack!
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