The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Quotes

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a TV program that appeared on TV in 1970 . The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers stopped airing in 1970.

It features Barrie M. Osborne; Fran Walsh, and Peter Jackson as producer, Howard Shore in charge of musical score, and Andrew Lesnie as head of cinematography.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is recorded in English and originally aired in New Zealand. Each episode of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is 180 minutes long. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is distributed by New Line Cinema.

The cast includes: Elijah Wood as Frodo, Sean Astin as Sam, John Rhys-Davies as Gimli, Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn, Orlando Bloom as Legolas, Ian McKellen as Gandalf, Bernard Hill as Theoden, Hugo Weaving as Elrond, Craig Parker as Haldir, Brad Dourif as Wormtongue, David Wenham as Faramir, Liv Tyler as Arwen, Bruce Hopkins as Gamling, Cate Blanchett as Galadriel, Brad Dourif as Grima Wormtongue, Christopher Lee as Saruman, Cate Blanchett as Madril, John Leigh as H.ma, Sean Bean as Boromir, and John Noble as Denethor.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Quotes

Bernard Hill as Theoden

• (Bernard Hill) "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."

• (Bernard Hill) "So it begins."

• (Bernard Hill) "A great host, you say?"
• (Viggo Mortensen) "All Isengard is emptied."
• (Bernard Hill) "How many?"
• (Viggo Mortensen) "Ten thousand strong at least."
• (Bernard Hill) "Ten thousand?"
• (Viggo Mortensen) "It is an army bred for a single purpose: to destroy the world of men. They will be here by nightfall."
• (Bernard Hill) "Let them come."

• (Bernard Hill) "Gandalf --"
• (Ian McKellen) "Breathe the free air again, my friend."
• (Bernard Hill) "Dark have been my dreams of late."
• (Ian McKellen) "Your fingers would remember their old strength better -- if they grasped your sword."

• (Bernard Hill) "I will not risk open war."
• (Viggo Mortensen) "Open war is upon you whether you would risk it or not."

• (Bernard Hill) "I know your face -- Eowyn."

• (Bernard Hill) "When last I looked, Théoden, not Aragorn, was king of Rohan."

• (Bernard Hill) "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."
• (Ian McKellen) "Theodred's death was not of your making."
• (Bernard Hill) "No parent should have to bury their child."
• (Ian McKellen) "He was strong in life. His spirit will find the way to the halls of your fathers."

• (Bernard Hill) "So much death. What can men do against such reckless hate?"
• (Viggo Mortensen) "Ride out with me. Ride out and meet them."
• (Bernard Hill) "For death and glory."
• (Viggo Mortensen) "For Rohan. For your people."
• (Bernard Hill) "The Horn of Helm Hammerhand will sound in the deep, one last time."

• (Bernard Hill) "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."

• (Bernard Hill) "Why should I welcome you, Gandalf Stormcrow?"
• (Brad Dourif) "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."

• (Bernard Hill) "Your leechcraft would have had me crawling on all fours like a beast."

• (Bernard Hill) "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?"

Sean Astin as Sam

• (Sean Astin) "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."
• (Sean Astin) "Ready to do what?"
• (Gollum) "To make his war. The last war that will cover all the world in shadow."

• (Gollum) "It BURNS. It Burns us."
• (Gollum) "It freezes --"
• (Gollum) "Nasty elves twisted it. TAKE IT OFF US."
• (Sean Astin) "Quiet you."
• (Sean Astin) "It's hopeless. Every orc in Mordor is going to hear this racket. Let's just tie him up and leave him."
• (Gollum) "NO."
• (Gollum) "That would kill us. KILL US."
• (Sean Astin) "That's more than you deserve."
• (Gollum) "Oooooohhhhaaahhhh --"
• (Elijah Wood) "Maybe he does deserve to die -- But now that I see him, I do pity him."
• (Gollum) "We'll be nice to them, if they be nice to us."
• (Gollum) "Take this off us."

• (Sean Astin) "Can you see the bottom?"
• (Elijah Wood) "No. Don't look down, Sam, just keep going."
• (Sean Astin) "Ouagh. Catch It. Grab it, Mr. Frodo."
• (Elijah Wood) "I think I found the bottom."
• (Sean Astin) "It's not natural. None of it."
• (Elijah Wood) "What's in this?"
• (Sean Astin) "Nothin'. Just a bit of seasoning. I thought maybe if we was havin' a roast chicken one night or something --"
• (Elijah Wood) "Roast chicken?"
• (Sean Astin) "You never know."

• (Sean Astin) "We're innocent travelers."
• (David Wenham) "There are no travelers in this land -- only servants of the Dark Lord."
• (Elijah Wood) "We are bound to an errand of secrecy. Those who claim to oppose the enemy would do well not to hinder us."

• (Sean Astin) "I don't believe you."
• (Sean Astin) "GET DOWN."
• (Sean Astin) "I said, DOWN."
• (Elijah Wood) "Sam."
• (Sean Astin) "He's trying to trick us. We let him go, he'll throttle us in our sleep."
• (Elijah Wood) "You know the way to Mordor?"
• (Gollum) "Yes --"
• (Elijah Wood) "You've been there before?"
• (Gollum) "Yes."
• (Elijah Wood) "You will lead us to the Black Gate."

• (Sean Astin) "There are dead things. Dead faces in the water."
• (Gollum) "All dead -- all rotten. Elves and men and orcses. A great battle, long ago. The Dead Marshes -- yes, that is their name."

• (Sean Astin) "You know I don't usually hold with foreign food, but this Elvish stuff; it's not bad."
• (Elijah Wood) "Nothing dampens your spirits, Sam."
• (Sean Astin) "Those rain clouds might."

• (Sean Astin) "I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales."
• (Elijah Wood) "What?"
• (Sean Astin) "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.'"
• (Elijah Wood) "You've left out one of the chief characters; Samwise the Brave. I want to hear more about Sam."
• (Elijah Wood) "Frodo wouldn't have got far without Sam."
• (Sean Astin) "Now Mr. Frodo, you shouldn't make fun; I was being serious."
• (Elijah Wood) "So was I."
• (Sean Astin) "Samwise the Brave --"

• (Sean Astin) "What we need is a few good taters."
• (Gollum) "What's taters, precious? What's taters, eh?"
• (Sean Astin) "Po-tay-toes. Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew -- Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish."
• (Sean Astin) "Even you couldn't say no to that."
• (Gollum) "Oh yes we could. Spoilin' nice fish. Give it to us raw and w-r-r-riggling; you keep nasty chips."
• (Sean Astin) "You're hopeless."

• (Sean Astin) "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."

• (Sean Astin) "Captain Faramir, you have shown your quality, sir; the very highest."
• (David Wenham) "The Shire must truly be a great realm, Master Gamgee, where gardeners are held in high honor."

• (Gollum) "Aghh. It burns. It burns us -- It freezes --"
• (Gollum) "Nasty elves twisted it. Take it off us."
• (Sean Astin) "Quiet, you."
• (Sean Astin) "It's hopeless. Every orc in Mordor is going to hear this racket. Let's just just tie him up and leave him."
• (Gollum) "NO. That would kill us. KILL US."
• (Sean Astin) "That's more than you deserve."
• (Gollum) "Agggghhhhhhahhhh --"
• (Elijah Wood) "Maybe he does deserve to die. But now I see him, I do pity him."
• (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."
• (Elijah Wood) "There is no promise you can make that I can trust."

• (Sean Astin) "Hey, Stinker. Don't go getting too far ahead."
• (Elijah Wood) "Why do you do that?"
• (Sean Astin) "What?"
• (Elijah Wood) "Call him names, run him down all the time."
• (Sean Astin) "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."
• (Elijah Wood) "You have no idea what it did to him -- what it's still doing to him. I want to help him, Sam."
• (Sean Astin) "Why?"
• (Elijah Wood) "Because I have to believe he can come back."
• (Sean Astin) "You can't save him, Mr. Frodo."
• (Elijah Wood) "What do you know about it? Nothing --. I'm sorry, Sam. I don't know why I said that."
• (Sean Astin) "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."
• (Elijah Wood) "I know what I have to do, Sam. The ring was entrusted to me. It's my task, mine, my own."
• (Sean Astin) "Can't you hear yourself? Don't you know who you sound like?"

• (Sean Astin) "I thought they were dead."
• (Gollum) "Dead? No, you cannot kill them. No."

• (Sean Astin) "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."

Ian McKellen as Gandalf

• (Ian McKellen) "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."

• (Ian McKellen) "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."
• (Viggo Mortensen) "He's not alone. Sam went with him."
• (Ian McKellen) "Did he? Did he indeed? Good. Yes, very good."

• (Ian McKellen) "The courtesy of your hall is somewhat lessened of late Théoden, King."

• (Ian McKellen) "Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east."

• (Ian McKellen) "The fate of the world will now be decided."

• (Ian McKellen) "There is no way out of that ravine, Théoden is walking into a trap."

• (Ian McKellen) "Gandalf? Yes -- that was what they used to call me. Gandalf the Gray. That was my name."
• (John Rhys-Davies) "Gandalf --"
• (Ian McKellen) "I am Gandalf the White. And I come back to you now; at the turn of the tide."

• (Ian McKellen) "Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time."

• (Ian McKellen) "All our hopes now lie with two little Hobbits, somewhere in the wilderness."

Liv Tyler as Arwen

• (Liv Tyler) "Go to sleep."
• (Viggo Mortensen) "I am asleep. This is a dream."
• (Liv Tyler) "Then it is a good dream."

David Wenham as Faramir

• (David Wenham) "Where will you go to reach there, Frodo?"
• (Elijah Wood) "Gollum says there is a tunnel above Minas Morgul. It climbs up into the mountains."
• (David Wenham) "Cirith Ungol?"
• (David Wenham) "Is that its name?"
• (Gollum) "No, no."
• (Gollum) "Y-YES."

• (David Wenham) "The enemy?"
• (David Wenham) "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 -- n peace. War will make corpses of us all."

• (David Wenham) "I think at last we understand one another, Frodo Baggins."
• (Cate Blanchett) "You know the laws of our country; the laws of your father. If you let them go your life will be forfeit."
• (David Wenham) "Then it is forfeit. Release them."

• (Smeagol) "OOHH-WHHHHAAAAAAHHHHH. Oh."
• (Smeagol) "OW-Whaaa. Oh."
• (Smeagol) "OOOH-AAAHHH. AhHAAAAA. AAHHHH."
• (David Wenham) "That's enough."
• (David Wenham) "Where are you leading them?"
• (David Wenham) "Answer me."
• (Gollum) "Sméagol -- Why does it 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. Nobody's business. Leave us alone."
• (Gollum) "Filthy little hobbitses. They stole it from us."
• (Smeagol) "No -- NO."
• (David Wenham) "What did they steal?"

• (David Wenham) "My men tell me that you are Orc spies."
• (Sean Astin) "Spies. Now wait just a minute."
• (David Wenham) "Well, if you're not spies, then who are you?"
• (David Wenham) "Speak."
• (Elijah Wood) "We are Hobbits of the Shire. Frodo Baggins is my name and this is Samwise Gamgee."
• (David Wenham) "Your bodyguard?"
• (Sean Astin) "His gardener."
• (David Wenham) "And where is your skulking friend? That gangrel creature. He had an ill-favoured look."
• (Elijah Wood) "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."
• (David Wenham) "You are a friend of Boromir?"
• (Elijah Wood) "Yes, for my part."
• (David Wenham) "It would grieve you then to learn that he is dead."
• (Elijah Wood) "Dead? How? When?"
• (David Wenham) "As one of his companions, I had hope you would tell me. He was my brother."

• (Gollum) "Sméagol -- Why does he cry, Sméagol?"
• (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."
• (David Wenham) "What did they steal?"
• (Gollum) "Myyy PRECIOUSSS."

• (David Wenham) "Good speech. Nice and short."
• (Sean Bean) "Leaves more time for drinking."

• (David Wenham) "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."

John Rhys-Davies as Gimli

• (Eomer) "What business does an Elf, Man, and a Dwarf have in the Riddermark? Speak quickly."
• (John Rhys-Davies) "Give me your name, horse-master, and I shall give you mine."
• (Eomer) "I would cut off your head, Dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground."
• (Orlando Bloom) "You would die before your stroke fell."

• (John Rhys-Davies) "That was deliberate, it was deliberate."

• (John Rhys-Davies) "Legolas. Two already."
• (Orlando Bloom) "I'm on seventeen."
• (John Rhys-Davies) "Huh? I'll have no pointy-ear outscoring me."
• (Orlando Bloom) "Nineteen."

• (John Rhys-Davies) "What's happening out there?"
• (Orlando Bloom) "Shall I describe it to you?"
• (John Rhys-Davies) "Hmm?"
• (Orlando Bloom) "Or would you like me to find you a box?"

• (John Rhys-Davies) "My lady --"
• (Eowyn) "Lord Aragorn -- where is he?"
• (John Rhys-Davies) "He fell."

• (John Rhys-Davies) "You'll find more cheer in a graveyard."

• (John Rhys-Davies) "Send them to me."

• (John Rhys-Davies) "This new Gandalf is more grumpy than the old one."

• (John Rhys-Davies) "But that one counts as mine."

• (John Rhys-Davies) "Bring your pretty face to my axe."

• (John Rhys-Davies) "Whatever luck you live by -- let's hope it lasts the night."
• (Orlando Bloom) "Your friends are with you, Aragorn."
• (John Rhys-Davies) "Let's hope they last the night --"

• (John Rhys-Davies) "Keep breathing. That's the key. Breathe."

• (John Rhys-Davies) "Oh come on, we can take 'em."
• (Viggo Mortensen) "It's a long way."
• (John Rhys-Davies) "Toss me."
• (Viggo Mortensen) "What?"
• (John Rhys-Davies) "I cannot jump the distance, you'll have to toss me."
• (John Rhys-Davies) "Don't tell the Elf."
• (Viggo Mortensen) "Not a word."

• (John Rhys-Davies) "You could have picked a better spot."

• (John Rhys-Davies) "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."
• (Viggo Mortensen) "It's the beards."
• (John Rhys-Davies) "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."
• (John Rhys-Davies) "Which is, of course, ridiculous."

Bruce Hopkins as Gamling

• (Bruce Hopkins) "Every villager able to wield a sword has been sent to the armory -- my lord?"
• (Bernard Hill) "Who am I, Gamling?"
• (Bruce Hopkins) "You are our king, sire."
• (Bernard Hill) "And do you trust your king?"
• (Bruce Hopkins) "Your men, my Lord, will follow you to whatever end."
• (Bernard Hill) "To whatever end --"

Christopher Lee as Saruman

• (Christopher Lee) "We have only to remove those who oppose us."

• (Christopher Lee) "There will be no dawn -- for men."

• (Christopher Lee) "If the wall is breached, Helm's Deep will fall."
• (Brad Dourif) "Even if it is breached, it will take a number beyond reckoning, thousands, to storm the keep."
• (Christopher Lee) "Tens of thousands."
• (Brad Dourif) "But, my lord, there is no such force."

• (Christopher Lee) "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."

• (Christopher Lee) "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."

• (Christopher Lee) "Rohan, my lord, is ready to fall."

• (Christopher Lee) "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."

Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn

• (Viggo Mortensen) "Their pace has quickened. They must have caught our scent. Hurry."
• (Orlando Bloom) "Come on, Gimli."
• (John Rhys-Davies) "Three days and nights pursuit. No food, no rest. No sign of our quarry, but what bare rock can tell."

• (Viggo Mortensen) "Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall."
• (Orlando Bloom) "They may yet be alive."

• (Viggo Mortensen) "Farmers, ferriers, stable boys. These are no soldiers."
• (John Rhys-Davies) "Most have seen too many winters."
• (Orlando Bloom) "Or too few."

• (Viggo Mortensen) "Gandalf."
• (Ian McKellen) "Théoden King stands alone."
• (Eomer) "Not alone. Rohirrim."
• (Bernard Hill) "Eomer."
• (Eomer) "TO THE KING."

• (Viggo Mortensen) "Gimli, lower your axe."
• (Orlando Bloom) "They have feelings, my friend. The elves began it, waking up the trees, teaching them to speak."
• (John Rhys-Davies) "Talking trees. What do trees have to talk about, hmm -- except the consistency of squirrel droppings?"

• (Eowyn) "My Lord. Aragorn. I am to be sent with the women into the caves."
• (Viggo Mortensen) "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?"
• (Viggo Mortensen) "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."
• (Viggo Mortensen) "It is not in my power to command it."
• (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."
• (Eowyn) "I am sorry."

• (Viggo Mortensen) "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."
• (Viggo Mortensen) "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."
• (Viggo Mortensen) "You are a daughter of kings, a shield maiden of Rohan. I do not think that will be your fate."

• (Viggo Mortensen) "Show them no mercy -- for you shall receive none."

• (Viggo Mortensen) "No, my lord; let him go. Enough blood has been spilt on his account."

Orlando Bloom as Legolas

• (Orlando Bloom) "Final count, forty-two."
• (John Rhys-Davies) "Forty-two? Oh, that's not bad for a pointy-eared elvish princeling. Hmph. I myself am sitting pretty on forty-THREE."
• (Orlando Bloom) "Forty-three."
• (John Rhys-Davies) "He was already dead."
• (Orlando Bloom) "He was twitching."
• (John Rhys-Davies) "He was twitching because he's got my axe EMBEDDED IN HIS NERVOUS SYSTEM."

• (Orlando Bloom) "A red sun rises, blood has been spilled this night."

• (Orlando Bloom) "You're late."
• (Orlando Bloom) "You look terrible."

• (Orlando Bloom) "Look at them. They're frightened. You can see it in their eyes."
• (Orlando Bloom) "And they should be. Three hundred -- against ten thousand."
• (Viggo Mortensen) "They have a better chance defending themselves here than at Edoras --"
• (Orlando Bloom) "Aragorn -- they cannot win this fight. They are all going to die."
• (Viggo Mortensen) "Then I shall die as one of them."

• (Orlando Bloom) "They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard."

• (Orlando Bloom) "They run as if the very whips of their masters were behind them."

Elijah Wood as Frodo

• (Elijah Wood) "This is Sting. You've seen it before, haven't you -- Gollum?"
• (Sean Astin) "ugh."
• (Elijah Wood) "Release him, or I'll cut your throat."
• (Gollum) "EEEEYAHHHHHHH."

• (Elijah Wood) "Smeagol?"
• (Sean Astin) "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."
• (Sean Astin) "Where is he? Where has he gone? Hey, Gollum. Where are you?"
• (Elijah Wood) "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."
• (Smeagol) "Come on Hobbits. Long ways to go yet. Smeagol will show the way."
• (Gollum) "Follow me."

• (Elijah Wood) "Maybe he does deserve to die, but now that I see him I do pity him."

• (Elijah Wood) "We can't leave this here for someone to follow us down."
• (Sean Astin) "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."
• (Elijah Wood) "Real Elvish rope."

• (Elijah Wood) "I can't do this, Sam."
• (Sean Astin) "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."
• (Elijah Wood) "What are we holding onto, Sam?"
• (Sean Astin) "That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo -- and it's worth fighting for."

• (Elijah Wood) "Gandalf."
• (Sean Astin) "What is it, Mr. Frodo?"
• (Elijah Wood) "Nothing -- just a dream."

• (Elijah Wood) "They're here, they've come."

• (Gollum) "So bright -- so beautiful -- ah, Precious."
• (Elijah Wood) "What did you say?"
• (Gollum) "Master should be resting, Master needs to keep up his strength."
• (Elijah Wood) "Who are you?"
• (Gollum) "Mustn't ask us, not it's business. Gollum, gollum."
• (Elijah Wood) "Gandalf told me you were one of the River-folk."
• (Gollum) "Cold be heart and hand and bone. Cold be travelers far from home."
• (Elijah Wood) "He said your life was a sad story."
• (Gollum) "They do not see what lies ahead, when Sun has faded and Moon is dead."
• (Elijah Wood) "You were not so very different from a Hobbit once, were you?"
• (Elijah Wood) "Smeagol."
• (Gollum) "What did you call me?"
• (Elijah Wood) "That was your name once -- a long time ago. Wasn't it"
• (Gollum) "My name --"
• (Gollum) "Sme -- Smeagol."

• (Elijah Wood) "The Ring will not save Gondor. It only has the power to destroy. Please, let me go."

• (Elijah Wood) "There is no promise you can make that I can trust."

Sean Bean as Boromir

• (Sean Bean) "Remember today, little brother."

• (Sean Bean) "You give him no credit and yet he tries to do your will. He loves you, Father."
• (John Noble) "Do not trouble me with Faramir. I know his uses and they are few."

Brad Dourif as Wormtongue

• (Brad Dourif) "His staff. I told you to take the Wizard's staff."

• (Eowyn) "Leave me alone, snake."
• (Brad Dourif) "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."

• (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?"
• (Eomer) "Too long have you watched my sister. Too long have you haunted her steps."
• (Brad Dourif) "You see much, Eomer son of Eomund. Too much."
• (Brad Dourif) "You are banished forthwith from the Kingdom of Rohan -- under pain of death."
• (Eomer) "You have no authority here. Your orders mean nothing."
• (Brad Dourif) "Oh, but this order does not come from me. It comes from the King. He signed it this morning."

Hugo Weaving as Elrond

• (Hugo Weaving) "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."

• (Hugo Weaving) "He is not coming back. Why do you linger here when there is no hope?"
• (Liv Tyler) "There is still hope."

Cate Blanchett as Galadriel

• (Cate Blanchett) "The time of the Elves is over. Do we leave Middle-earth to its fate? Do we let them stand alone?"

• (Cate Blanchett) "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?"

John Leigh as H.ma

• (John Leigh) "I cannot allow you before Theoden King so armed, Gandalf Greyhame -- by order of Grima Wormtongue."
• (John Leigh) "Your staff."
• (Ian McKellen) "Oh -- you would not part an old man from his walking stick?"

Craig Parker as Haldir

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