The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers Quotes

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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Eomer : Look for your friends, but do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands.

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Pippin : [ of Treebeard ] Don't talk to it, Merry. Don't encourage it.

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Treebeard : That doesn't make sense to me. But, then again, you are very small.

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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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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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[ to the Orcs ]
Saruman : There will be no dawn... for men.

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Legolas : They run as if the very whips of their masters were behind them.

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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 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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Frodo : [ bewitched ] They're here, they've come.

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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.
Sam : [ looks at the nearing rain clouds ] Those rain clouds might.

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Frodo : [ waking up from a nightmare ] Gandalf!
Sam : What is it, Mr. Frodo?
Frodo : Nothing... just a dream.

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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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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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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.
Gandalf : He was strong in life. His spirit will find the way to the halls of your fathers.

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Frodo : The Ring will not save Gondor. It only has the power to destroy. Please, let me go.

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Sam : 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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Treebeard : I always like going South; somehow, it feels like going downhill.

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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.

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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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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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Gimli : [ failing to see over the wall ] What's happening out there?
Legolas : Shall I describe it to you?
Gimli : [ turns ] Hmm?
Legolas : Or would you like me to find you a box? [ Gimli laughs ]

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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!

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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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Elrond : He is not coming back. Why do you linger here when there is no hope?
Arwen : There is still hope.

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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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[ 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 ]
Legolas : [ shoots two more arrows ] Nineteen!

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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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