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| Year: | 2002 |
| Rating: | 8.7(326029) |
| Listed in: | Action, Adventure, Fantasy |
| Directed by: | Peter Jackson |
| Actors: | Bruce Allpress Sean Astin John Bach Sala Baker Orlando Bloom Cate Blanchett |
| "A New Power Is Rising." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Peter Jackson | |
| Actors | |
| Bruce Allpress | as Aldor |
| Sean Astin | as Samwise 'Sam' Gamgee |
| John Bach | as Madril |
| Sala Baker | as Man Flesh Uruk |
| Orlando Bloom | as Legolas Greenleaf |
| Billy Boyd | as Peregrin 'Pippin' Took |
| Jed Brophy | as Sharku/Snaga |
| Sam Comery | as Éothain |
| Brad Dourif | as Grima Wormtongue |
| Calum Gittins | as Haleth |
| Bernard Hill | as Theoden |
| Bruce Hopkins | as Gamling |
| Paris Howe Strewe | as Théodred - Prince of Rohan |
| Christopher Lee | as Saruman the White |
| Nathaniel Lees | as Uglúk |
| John Leigh | as Háma |
| Robbie Magasiva | as Mauhur |
| Ian McKellen | as Gandalf |
| Dominic Monaghan | as Meriadoc 'Merry' Brandybuck |
| Viggo Mortensen | as Aragorn |
| Craig Parker | as Haldir |
| Bruce Phillips | as Rohan Soldier |
| Robert Pollock | as Mordor Orc |
| John Rhys-Davies | as Gimli/Voice of Treebeard |
| Andy Serkis | as Gollum |
| Ray Trickett | as Bereg |
| Karl Urban | as Eomer |
| Stephen Ure | as Grishnákh |
| Hugo Weaving | as Elrond |
| David Wenham | as Faramir |
| Elijah Wood | as Frodo Baggins |
| Lee Hartley | as Hero Orc |
| Philip Grieve | as Hero Orc |
| Billy Jackson | as Cute Rohan Refugee Child |
| Sean Bean | as Boromir (extended edition) |
| Jarl Benzon | as Elf |
| Jørn Benzon | as Elf Archer - Helm's Deep Scene |
| Callum Boyens | as Refugee child at Helms Deep |
| Karlos Drinkwater | as Easterling Warrior |
| Daniel Falconer | as Elvin Warrior |
| Phillip Spencer Harris | as Ranger 1 |
| Dan Hennah | as Man of Rohan |
| Paul Holmes | as Orc |
| Joe Hopkins | as Refugee child at Helms Deep |
| Tom Hopkins | as Refugee child at Helms Deep |
| Peter Jackson | as Rohirrim Warrior |
| Sandro Kopp | as Elf |
| Alan Lee | as Man of Rohan |
| Timothy Lee | as Wildman |
| Joseph Mika-Hunt | as Uruk -Hai |
| Henry Mortensen | as Reluctant Rohan Child Warrior |
| John Noble | as Denethor (extended edition) |
| Paul Norell | as Easterling |
| Barrie M. Osborne | as Rohirrim Soldier |
| Marcus Thorne | as Featured Orc |
| Piripi Waretini | as Uruk-Hai Soldier |
| Josh Wood | |
| Actresses | |
| Cate Blanchett | as Galadriel |
| Robyn Malcolm | as Morwen |
| Miranda Otto | as Eowyn |
| Olivia Tennet | as Freda |
| Liv Tyler | as Arwen |
| Victoria Beynon-Cole | as Hero Orc |
| Katie Jackson | as Cute Rohan Refugee Child |
| Hannah Wood | as Woman in Cave |
Movie info
| Languages: | English, Sindarin, Old English |
| Filming dates: | 11 October 1999 - 22 December 2000 |
| Budget: | USD 94,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 340,478,898 USD (14 December 2003) UK - 57,062,828 GBP (16 March 2003) Worldwide - 920,400,000 USD (8 November 2003) Australia - 25,844,984 AUD (8 January 2003) France - 39,581,159 USD (4 February 2003) Hong Kong - 26,501,560 HKD (12 March 2003) Italy - 7,233,506 EUR (19 January 2003) Netherlands - 13,535,000 EUR (12 September 2003) New Zealand - 9,398,346 NZD (22 January 2003) Philippines - 82,949,795 PHP (31 December 2003) Spain - 7,170,000 EUR (22 December 2002) |
| Plot: | After the fellowship has broken, Merry and Pippin, taken by orcs, make new allies in the Ents, while Legolas, Gimli and Aragorn make allies in the people of Rohan, and all of them must launch an assault on Isengard. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam force Gollum to guide them through Mordor, trusting him with their lives. |
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Original Soundtracks
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"Gollum's Song" Performed by Emiliana Torrini Courtesy of Virgin Records America, Inc. Music by Howard Shore Lyrics by Fran Walsh "Evenstar" Music by Howard Shore Lyrics by Fran Walsh Performed by Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano "Breath of Life" Music by Howard Shore Lyrics by Fran Walsh Performed by Sheila Chandra "Isengard Unleashed" Music by Howard Shore Lyrics by Fran Walsh Performed by Elizabeth Fraser & Ben Del Maestro "Farewell to Lorien" (from extended version) Music by Howard Shore Lyrics by Fran Walsh Performed by Hilary Summers |
Goofs
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Continuity: When King Theoden is having his armor strapped on, his aide fastens the left shoulder strap, then we see the leg greaves being strapped on, and gloves being tied. In the next shot, the aide goes to fasten the left shoulder strap again, and there are no greaves on his legs or gloves on his hands. Continuity: The length of the chain in which Frodo carries the ring changes throughout the film Continuity: SPOILER: Near the end of the film, when Frodo and Sam are in Osgiliath, the chain around Frodo's neck with the ring on repeatedly switches between being caught around one of his buttons and hanging freely between shots. Continuity: When Gandalf the White first enters Theoden's hall, the position of his staff changes from being held perpendicular to the ground to being held parallel between shots. Director Peter Jackson noticed this error for the first time while recording the Director's Commentary for the Extended Edition of the DVD. Continuity: When Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli are entering Theoden's throne room for the first time, Gandalf turns quickly around when the doors close but in the next shot his head is centered. Continuity: Aragorn's sword disappears from his hand shortly before he falls off his horse, but reappears in its scabbard later. Continuity: When Treebeard is talking to Merry and Pippin at the Entmoot, the stars that can be seen behind him change. Continuity: The gash on Merry's face changes sides throughout the movie. Sometimes it is on his left brow, sometimes on the right. SYNC: When Saruman is talking to the Uruk-Hai, they are obviously screaming and yelling, but there is no noise coming from them. Continuity: Aragorn's beard repeatedly changes length between shots in King Theoden's hall. Continuity: Merry and Pippin switch position between shots when Merry is making his speech to Treebeard at the Entmoot. Continuity: When Frodo, Sam, and Gollum are in the Dead Marsh and the Nazgul flies over, Frodo goes after the ring with his left hand, which Sam grabs and holds. Frodo is then shown putting his right hand to his chest, but in the wide shot, his right hand is still lying at his side. Continuity: In the storeroom where Sam is suggesting that Frodo use the Ring to escape, Frodo is initially sitting in front of a barrel. When Faramir arrives, Frodo and Sam are sitting on a cloak and there are no barrels in sight. Continuity: SPOILER: When Gimli enters Helm's Deep for the first time, he speaks to Eowyn about Aragorn's fate. Before she speaks, Gimli's helmet is on and his axe is covered in blood. After she speaks, his helmet is off and his axe is clean. Continuity: When Legolas is pulling Gimli and Aragorn to safety using the rope during the battle of Helm's Deep, Gimli is on Aragorn's right side for every shot except the first close-up of Aragorn in Gimli, where he is clearly on Aragorn's left. Continuity: When Legolas shoots the rope of one of the big ladders, the previous shot has already shown the ladder to be past straight vertical position. The ladder should continue it's arc towards the wall, but instead it falls back. Continuity: When the main characters are standing on the cliff looking out towards Mordor, you can see Helm's Deep over their shoulders. The hole in the wall from the gunpowder is conspicuous by its absence. Crew: A small gas pipe, leading to one of the large torches outside the Golden Hall, is briefly visible in some scenes in Edoras. Continuity: Legolas' eyes are brown for the majority of the battle of Helm's Deep, instead of their customary blue. However, it is reported that this particular color change came about when Orlando Bloom's blue contact lenses were forgotten during some of the shooting for this sequence. Revealing mistakes: In the beginning of the movie, when Frodo and Sam are walking on the rocky mountain their rubber artificial feet can be clearly seen flapping around. SYNC: In the initial shot when Theoden is talking to Gamling on the wall outside Helm's Deep, Gamling's mouth is moving like he's replying to Theoden's orders but no sound is heard. SYNC: When the Rohirrim surround Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli at the beginning, you can see Éomer's lips moving in one of the wider shots and he obviously talks to the three but there is no sound coming out of his mouth. Continuity: When the Rohirrim surround Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli and Éomer starts talking to them, the sunlight changes direction and intensity. Continuity: When Merry and Pippin are dropped to the ground by the Uruk-Hai, Merry is lying very close to Pippin. In the next shot Pippin is obviously a few feet away for he has to crawl closer to Merry to be able to talk to him Continuity: When the Merry and Pippin are first seen being carried by the Uruk Hai, they are behind each other. In the next shot they are being carried beside each other. Continuity: After the Rohirrim surrounding Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli are about to leave, you can just make out Eomer's sword falling out of its sheath. It can be seen in the next shot. Continuity: The position of Legolas' quiver changes from one side to the other and then back again in Fangorn forest. Continuity: When Aragorn is tracking the hobbits beside Fangorn forest, his ring is on his right hand. Later, when the "White Wizard" is approaching the ring has switched to his left hand. Continuity: Pippin's hands are tied, but when he falls under the horse, his hands are untied and apart. When Aragorn is working out what happened we see, in the flashbacks, that Pippin did not cut his bonds until after the horse incident. FAIR: SPOILER: During Arwen's vision of Aragorn's (eventual) death, Aragorn's fingers do not move on his sword as many, many people have suggested - they are Arwen's fingers. Continuity: When Sam is telling Frodo to use the ring to escape Faramir, the light changes directions (from the left in the wide shot, from the right in the close-up). Continuity: In the "dream sequence" where Aragorn remembers his time with Arwen prior to embarking on the quest to destroy the ring they embrace and kiss. As they do so, Aragorn's left hand is alternately on her face/around her waist between shots. Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: As Théoden, Aragorn and the others ride out of Helm's Deep at the end of the battle, when they ride down the "bridge", one of the computer generated Orcs, on the side of the bridge that is closest to the camera, goes straight through one of the horses before he is thrown from the bridge. Also (and conversely), horsemen in the back of the column slash with their swords at invisible targets. Continuity: In Helms Deep, as Legolas throws the shield onto the stairs, he has his bow in his left hand. As he runs to jump onto the shield, the bow is gone. As he is sliding down the stairs, he is using the bow again. Continuity: When Frodo and Sam are hidden under the elvish cloak at the Black Gate, we can see from under the cape the feet of the enemy soldier through a gap in between the cloth and the floor. But in the next shoot when Frodo unfold the cape (that looks like a rock) we can see it was well buried in the dust and there is no possible gap. Continuity: When Legolas has to hand over his weapons, he takes the knives from his back. When Aragorn hands over his own sword, we see Legolas taking off his knives again in the background. Continuity: When Legolas is waiting on the wall for the Urak Hai battle to begin at Helms Deep his hands repeatedly change position on his bow between shots. Continuity: When Aragorn is lying on the river's shore, he forces himself onto an unsaddled horse. But, when he sees the Orc Army and starts to gallop towards Helms Deep, he is riding with a saddle. Continuity: When Gandalf and Theoden are talking outside town, near the burial mounds covered in white flowers, all the shots of Gandalf show the wind whipping his hair around, but in all the shots of Theoden there is not even a hint of a breeze in his hair. Continuity: When Frodo is sliding down the hill outside the Black Gate he has a pack on his back but when he covers Sam with his cloak the pack is gone Continuity: When Pippin climbs Treebeard, he has several smudges of blood on his face. These have disappeared seconds later, when Treebeard is holding both Pippin and Merry. Continuity: When Theoden the king grasps his sword, Gandalf's grey coat is not on the floor at the wide shot. Revealing mistakes: As women and children enter Helm's Deep's caves, a rock stalactite swings back and forth after an extra touches it. Continuity: When the three ladders are raised on the Keep in the Helms Deep sequence, the wide and close-in shots alternate between the outer two ladders being about 30 feet apart and less than 5 feet apart, respectively (the third is in between them and never makes it up). Continuity: After Legolas shoots two arrows into the shoulder region of the Uruk-Hai running with the torch, the arrows are nowhere to be seen in the shot that shows the runner diving into drain on the side of the wall of Helms Deep. Continuity: When Theodred is buried, Gandalf's hair is grey and sticking out to the side, in the next shot it is Gandalf's usual color of long flowing white. Fact errors: In the cast list for the Extended Edition, John Noble 's name is misspelled, "Nogle". Revealing mistakes: At Helm's deep, several elves draw and shoot their bows (complete with sound effects) but no arrows are seen. Revealing mistakes: In the shot where Aragorn orders the men of Rohan to fire their arrows (just after the elves do from the wall at Helms Deep) his sword's blade disappears as it comes toward the camera. Continuity: When everyone is traveling to Helm's Deep, Gimli is riding on a horse. The head of his axe changes positions (blade down, blade up) several times when his is talking to people. Continuity: Gamling's cloak is alternately over his shoulder and behind his back between shots as he is being instructed by Aragorn. Continuity: When Saruman tells the Orc to send out the Warg riders, his staff is in his right hand. In the next shot it's in his left hand. SYNC: When Saruman tells the Orc to send out the Warg riders, a couple of seconds later the Orc's lips are moving in a reply, but no sound is heard. Crew: Immediately after Legolas slides down the steps on the shield, a rain-sprinkler can be seen at the top of the frame during his close-up. Continuity: When Aragorn first comes to Helm's Deep, the cut on his shoulder disappears during the sequence when Theoden tells Gimli that he can defend his own keep. Continuity: When the orcs are carrying Merry and Pippin on their backs the wide shots show the orc carrying Pippin to be closer to the camera with the orc carrying Merry to his left. But in the close-ups they have swapped places with Pippin having to turn to his right to speak to Merry. CHAR: Just as Ugluk and the troop of Uruk-Hai stop and Uruk asks, "What is it? What do you smell?" one of the Uruk-Hai fails to notice a bump in the terrain and goes sprawling to the floor. Revealing mistakes: At the end of the film when Gollum is crawling through the woods talking to himself, his hands and feet disappear into the ground. Continuity: Sam is using his stew pot to cook rabbit stew in Ithilien when the Gondorian rangers find the hobbits, at which time they place them under capture, seemingly leaving the stew pot behind, but Sam has it attached to his pack later when he, Frodo and Gollum are leaving Osgiliath. Continuity: SPOILER: When Gamling and Hama ride ahead of the Rohan civilians to scout, and Hama's horse starts to get nervous and Gamling asks what's wrong, Hama is on the right and Gamling is on the left. Then in the next shot they switch places. And when the Warg jumps upon Hama they switch places again. Continuity: When Pippin crawls toward Merry to talk to him, Merry is laying on his back. In the next shot, only one second later, he is laying on his side. Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: At the very end of the movie, when Gandalf, Theoden, and rest of the main survivors of Helm's Deep ride over the hill together, and Gandalf says "The battle for Helm's Deep is over. The battle for Middle-Earth is about to begin.", the actor portraying Eomer is clearly not Karl Urban. This shot was done during pickups when Urban was not available, but WETA was supposed to cover up the actor's face with Urban's. Revealing mistakes: This was changed on the DVD, but on the original version of the movie, during the battle of Helms Deep the orks launched ropes with hooks on them at the top of the wall. They started to hoist the big ladders with the ropes. Two scenes later they pushed the ladders the rest of the way to the wall but the ropes were not there. DATE: During several close-ups of Gandalf, like the scene in Théoden's hall, you can clearly see he's wearing contact lenses. Revealing mistakes: When the Uruks are first introduced in the movie, we see all of them standing in one place for a split second and then they begin to run. Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When the Ents are destroying Isengard, there is a shot of Saruman that runs in reverse as he looks down from the top of the tower. One can tell from the motion of his hair and beard. Revealing mistakes: When Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and Theoden ride out in the Helm's Deep battle, the back row of Rohirrim soldiers are swinging their swords at nothing. Continuity: While everyone was amazed by Legolas' skill in firing three arrows in quick succession whilst sliding down the stairs on an Uruk-shield, you can clearly see that each shot is cut when he is about half way down the stairs, i.e. he only had time to fire one arrow. Continuity: When Legolas is about to slide on the shield, his bow disappears when it shows the shot of his legs, yet in the next shot his bow is in his hand Continuity: When Eowyn is traveling to Helm's Deep, her hair hangs loose around her face. About the time she arrives at Helm's Deep, it is suddenly pulled back on each side. Continuity: When Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, and Gandalf first enter the Golden Hall of Edoras, Legolas is supporting Gandalf with his arm. When the door is shut behind them he lets go and in the next shot their arms are together again. Fact errors: When the gate to Mordor is opened, it is clearly seen to be as thick as the wall, and each corner is seen to be a right angle. There is no space at all in between the gate and the wall when it is closed, later on in the same scene. However, the gate opens on a curve, and so would get stuck every time it opened or closed, unless the wall was somehow retracted. We do not see the wall retracted at all, thus it is physically impossible for such a gate to exist. Continuity: During the battle of Helms Deep, when Legolas starts fighting with his knives you can clearly see there are no arrows left in his quiver. Later in the battle he's shooting arrows from his bow again. Revealing mistakes: When Theodred is carried to the graveyard, his heavy scale mail armor is caught in the wind; a heavy looking item supposedly made from steel plates with tough leather on the backside, but none the less it flaps in the wind. Fact errors: During the battle with the Warg riders, a Warg and Orc fall across Gimli. Visibly struggling to lift them off, there is no change in effort or position when a second Warg puts its weight on Gimli. This should be an addition of several hundred pounds. Continuity: In one of the aerial shots of the Uruk-Hai taking the hobbits to Isengaurd, Merry and Pippin are not on the backs of any of the Uruk-Hai. This is pointed out by Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan in the cast commentary on the extended edition. Continuity: While on their way to Helm's Deep, Gimli is telling tales to Eowin and Aragorn in order to while away the long hours of the trip. At several points, however, you can see the direction of the battle ax's head change from blade forward to blade backwards then forwards again, all within mere seconds of each other. Crew: In the battle of Helm's Deep, when the Uruk-hai are about to ram the gate, a camera is seen in the left. SYNC: In the Extended Edition, when Merry and Pippin find Saruman's food storage, You can hear Merry whispering "Saruman's store," but his lips do not move when he starts to say it. PLOT: When Faramir's party is called back to Osgiliath, they stop on a ridge looking toward the city. In the distance, you can see Minas Tirith, which is west of Osgiliath; therefore the party is on the eastern side of the Anduin. Once they reach the city, one of the men of Gondor mentions that Mordor's forces have taken the eastern half of the city. So how did Faramir's party get to the western side? If they used the sewer that Faramir sends Frodo and Sam into later, why did he have to explain to them what those sewers were at that time? They'd already have been through them once. Revealing mistakes: After Aragorn's line "You have some skill with a blade," the sword spin is clearly sped up to appear fast. The people and fire in the background move much too fast, looking like Keystone Cops. Continuity: In the scene where Treebeard the ent is carrying Merry and Pippen through the forest explaining to them about the lack of Ent-wives, the location of the branches around his head keep moving. Either they are from the side of his head and his shoulder, two out of his head, or none at all. Continuity: When Éomer and company ambush the Uruk-hai, we see Pippin as he is almost trampled by a horse. When the shot cuts to Pippin, his arms are unbound and free as he moves to defend himself. When he rolls away, however, his hands are bound. DATE: In the film's extended edition, Gimli refers to his ax being embedded in an enemy's "central nervous system," a medical term both modern-day and human. Continuity: Normally, Legolas' bow is white, but right before the battle with the Wargs, its brown in the close up. SYNC: During the trek to Helm's Deep, right after Gimli's horse runs off and he falls from it, Théoden turns to Aragorn and begins to speak yet no sound comes from him. Revealing mistakes: Several shots after Legolas, Gimli and Aragorn encounter Eomer and his men have been reversed (leaf-brooches are upside down, and Legolas' chest straps and quiver are on the wrong side). Revealing mistakes: At times the character Gimli is as tall as Aragorn's shoulders. At other times, he is much shorter. The same error can be seen in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) when Gandalf and Bilbo embrace. Revealing mistakes: (Flipped shot) When Legolas says in Elvish, "There's something out there," the Elvish Brooches (leaf brooches holding their cloaks together) are facing the opposite direction. Peter Jackson first noticed this error while recording the Extended DVD Director commentary. Revealing mistakes: Gandalf's horse "Shadowfax" is obviously played by at least two different horses in the movie, as different markings can be seen on the horses. Revealing mistakes: In the battle at Helm's Deep, when Aragorn unsheathes his sword, the shot is reversed (he draws it left-handed when he is right-handed). FAIR: When Shadowfax first appears, there are tracks across the paddock behind and to the right of him. Some say these are tire tracks, others argue that they could just as easily be the wheel ruts of a farm cart. In response, the first group say that the ruts are too far apart to be from a farm cart, and the space in between is too narrow, meaning that they are definitely those of a car or truck. Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Faramir is holding Sam and Frodo in Osgiliath, and is about to let them go, the shot of the Hobbits is reversed (leaf brooches face the wrong way). Revealing mistakes: (flipped shot) When Aragorn is tracking Merry and Pippin from the orc pyre to Fangorn Forest, his ring (usually on his left hand) is on his right forefinger and his glove (usually on his right) is on his left hand. Revealing mistakes: Just after Sam says "How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?" we cut to a shot of Aragorn which is a reversed shot - the scar on his lip is on the wrong side. Continuity: Very near the beginning of the Extended version, some of the real fog in a valley visible at a distance behind Frodo and Sam abruptly disappears. While some close-ups were filmed in studio, it is also possible that there was a delay in filming these "on location" shots. PLOT: When Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, and Gandalf enter Edoras, they surrender their weapons. When Gimli pins Wormtongue to the floor, his axe blade can be seen next to his head. Revealing mistakes: The Orcs use axes to chop the trees into smaller logs, but, when the logs are thrown on the fire, the ends are smooth, as if cut with a saw. PLOT: SPOILER: At Osgiliath, Frodo (still dangling the Ring from his neck) pulls out a sword which he did not have moments before. As a prisoner of war, Frodo would not have been allowed to keep his sword or the Ring. DATE: During the second close-up of Legolas's eyes in Fangorn Forest, you can see that he is wearing contact lenses. Revealing mistakes: When the Rohirrim are searching for the body of Théodred at the fords of Isen, Éomer rolls over the body of a Rohan soldier. Next to him you can clearly see a piece of yellow and black striped tape (in the bottom left corner), possibly a marker. Revealing mistakes: During the scenes of the capture of Gollum there is a breeze blowing Sam and Frodo's curly hair and surrounding grass clumps. Gollum's long stringy hair hangs straight and unmoving. Continuity: In their very first scene when Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli are seen running on top of a mountain, you can see Gimli's boot/shoe fall off. Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When the Ents break the dam in Isengard, the water flows out in slow motion, you can see the characters in front of the water move at normal speed. PLOT: SPOILER: Samwise berates 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." While Frodo could have told Sam about Boromir's madness, there is no way for either of them to know how Boromir died. |
Quotes
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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. Legolas: [in Elvish] You're late. [in English] You look terrible. Gollum: [to Sam] Stupid, fat hobbit. 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. [pauses, looks up at Aragorn] Don't tell the elf. Aragorn: Not a word. [a wall of soldiers line the ramparts - the top of Gimli's helm barely peeks over the top] Gimli: [to Legolas] You could have picked a better spot. Pippin: It's talking, Merry. The tree is talking. Gandalf: The battle of Helm's Deep is over; the battle for Middle Earth is about to begin. Gollum: We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false! Smeagol: No. Not master! Gollum: Yes, precious, false! They will cheat you, hurt you, LIE. Smeagol: Master is our friend! Gollum: You don't have any friends; nobody likes you! Smeagol: I'm not listening... I'm not listening... Gollum: You're a liar and a thief. Smeagol: No! Gollum: *Murderer*. Smeagol: Go away! Gollum: "Go away?" [Gollum laughs as Smeagol begins crying] Smeagol: I hate you, I hate you. Gollum: Where would you be without me, gollum, gollum? I saved us! It was me! We survived because of me! Smeagol: [stops crying] Not anymore. Gollum: What did you say? Smeagol: Master looks after us now. We don't need you anymore. Gollum: What? Smeagol: Leave now, and never come back! Gollum: No! Smeagol: Leave now, and never come back! [Gollum screams in frustration] Smeagol: LEAVE! NOW! AND NEVER COME BACK! [Gollum is silent] Smeagol: [looks around] We told him to go away... and away he goes, Precious! Gone, gone, gone! Smeagol is free! Gimli: [Orcs begin their attack on Helm's Deep] Send them to me! [first lines] Gandalf: You cannot pass! Frodo: Gandalf! Gandalf: I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. Go back to the shadow. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun! You shall not pass! 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? Gandalf: The fate of the world will now be decided. Theoden: So it begins. Gandalf: Gandalf? Yes... that was what they used to call me. Gandalf the Gray. That was my name. Gimli: Gandalf... Gandalf: *I* am Gandalf the White. And I come back to you now - at the turn of the tide. Legolas: A red sun rises, blood has been spilled this night. Gollum: [singing] The rock and pool, is nice and cool, so juicy sweet. Our only wish, [he whacks the fish on the rock] to catch a fish, [another whack] so juicy sweet. Merry: I think we might have made a mistake leaving the Shire, Pippin. 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] Eomer: What business does an elf, man, and a dwarf have in the Ridder-Mark? Speak quickly. Gimli: Give me your name, horse-master, and I shall give you mine. Eomer: [dismounts] I would cut off your head, dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground. Legolas: [draws his bow and aims at arrow at Eomer's throat] You would die before your stroke fell. Frodo: I can't do this, Sam. Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam? Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for. Gollum: We be nice to them, if they be nice to us. [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. Sam: What we need is a few good taters. Gollum: What's taters, precious? What's taters, eh? Sam: *Po-tay-toes!* Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew... Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish. [Gollum makes a noise of disgust while sticking his tongue out] Sam: 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. Sam: You're hopeless. Aragorn: Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall. Legolas: They may yet be alive. Sam: 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. Gollum: So bright... so beautiful... ah, Precious. Frodo: What did you say? Gollum: Master should be resting, Master needs to keep up his strength. Frodo: [standing up] Who are you? Gollum: Mustn't ask us, not it's business. Gollum, gollum. Frodo: Gandalf told me you were one of the River-folk. Gollum: Cold be heart and hand and bone. Cold be travelers far from home. Frodo: [next to Gollum] He said your life was a sad story. Gollum: They do not see what lies ahead, when Sun has faded and Moon is dead. Frodo: [in front of Gollum] You were not so very different from a Hobbit once, were you? [Gollum looks up at him] Frodo: Smeagol. Gollum: What did you call me? Frodo: That was your name once, wasn't it? Gollum: My name? My name... Smeagol. Gollum: He wants the precious. Always he is looking for it. And the precious is wanting to go back to him... But we mustn't let him have it. Gandalf: All our hopes now lie with two little hobbits, somewhere in the wilderness. Sam: 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. Frodo: [snaps] What do you know about it? Nothing!... I'm sorry, Sam. I don't know why I said that. 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? [following Gollum 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 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... Aragorn: Farmers, ferriers, stable boys. These are no soldiers. Gimli: Most have seen too many winters. Legolas: Or too few. Gimli: My lady... Eowyn: Lord Aragorn... where is he? Gimli: He fell. Arwen: Go to sleep. Aragorn: I am asleep. This is a dream. Arwen: Then it is a good dream. 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. Theoden: When last I looked, Théoden, not Aragorn, was king of Rohan. Gollum: But, the fat hobbit. He knows. Eyes always watching. Gandalf: Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east. Aragorn: [In Elvish] Show them no mercy... for you shall receive none! 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. Aragorn: [whispering] It's the beards. 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. Theoden: I will not risk open war. Aragorn: Open war is upon you whether you would risk it or not. 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. Frodo: There is no promise you can make that I can trust. 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! Gandalf: The courtesy of your hall is somewhat lessened of late Théoden, King. 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. 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: [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. Gimli: Bring your pretty face to my axe. Ugluk: Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys. 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. 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? Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time. Gollum: We swears to serve the master of the precious. We will swear on... on... the precious! Theoden: Why should I welcome you, Gandalf Stormcrow? Wormtongue: A just question, my liege. Late is the hour in which this conjurer chooses to appear. "Lathspell" I name him. Ill news is an ill guest. Gollum: Don't follow the lights. Galadriel: The time of the Elves is over. Do we leave Middle-earth to its fate? Do we let them stand alone? Haldir: I bring word from Lord Elrond of Rivendell. An Alliance once existed between Elves and Men. Long ago we fought and died together. We come to honor that allegiance. Aragorn: Mae govannen, Haldir. You are most welcome. Haldir: We are proud to fight alongside Men once more. Gollum: He is drawing all evil to him. Faramir: [from the Extended Edition] The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he comes from, and if he really was evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home, and would he not rather have stayed there... in peace? War will make corpses of us all. 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. Treebeard: [after seeing the torn-down forest around Isengard] Saruman! A wizard should know better! [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] 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. 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. Gandalf: There is no way out of that ravine, Théoden is walking into a trap. 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. Faramir: What did they steal? Gollum: Myyy PRECIOUSSS. Sam: Mr. Frodo, put the ring on; just this once, disappear. Frodo: I can't... You were right, Sam. The ring is taking me. If I put it on he will find me. Sam: It's the Ring, isn't it? Frodo: It's getting heavier. Sam: This looks strangely familiar. Frodo: Because we've been here before. We're going in circles! Frodo: Maybe he does deserve to die, but now that I see him I do pity him. Frodo: Stop! This creature is bound to me and I to him. He is our guide. 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. Gimli: Whatever luck you live by... let's hope it lasts the night. Legolas: You're friends are with you, Aragorn. Gimli: Let's hope they last the night... 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. Merry: It's been going for hours. 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 Merriadoc. Merry: We're running out of time! Saruman: Rohan, my lord, is ready to fall. Treebeard: [about orcs] They come with fire, they come with axes... gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning. Destroyers and usurpers, curse them. Treebeard: My home is deep in the forest near the roots of the mountains. Treebeard: I promised Gandalf I would keep you safe and safe is where I'll keep you. Gimli: You'll find more cheer in a graveyard. Treebeard: We Ents cannot hold back this storm. We must weather such things as we have always done. Merry: How can that be your decision? Treebeard: This is not our war. Merry: But you're part of this world, aren't you?... You must help... please. Treebeard: Many of these trees were my friends. Creatures I had known from nut or acorn. Pippin: I'm sorry, Treebeard. Treebeard: They had voices of their own. Saruman! A wizard should know better! Theoden: 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. Theoden: I know your face, Eowyn. [from extended version] Sam: Can you see the bottom? Frodo: No. Don't look down, Sam, just keep going! Sam: [drops a small box] Ouagh! Catch It! Grab it, Mr. Frodo! [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. Man Flesh Uruk: What is it? What do you smell? Mauhur: Man flesh. They've picked up our trail. Gimli: [out of breath] I'm wasted on cross-country! We Dwarves are natural sprinters, very dangerous over short distances. 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! 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] Eomer: Look for your friends, but do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands. Pippin: [of Treebeard] Don't talk to it, Merry. Don't encourage it. Treebeard: That doesn't make sense to me. But, then again, you are very small. Pippin: And whose side are you on? Treebeard: Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little orc. 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. [to the Orcs] Saruman: There will be no dawn... for men. Legolas: They run as if the very whips of their masters were behind them. 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. [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. Frodo: [bewitched] They're here, they've come. Sam: You know I don't usually hold with foreign food, but this Elvish stuff - it's not bad. Frodo: Nothing dampens your spirits Sam. Sam: [looks at the nearing rain clouds] Those rain clouds might. Frodo: [waking up from a nightmare] Gandalf! Sam: What is it, Mr. Frodo? Frodo: Nothing... just a dream. Gandalf: I will draw you, Saruman, as poison is drawn from a wound. Aragorn: [Théoden threatens to kill Wormtongue] No, my lord - let him go. Enough blood has been spilt on his account. Pippin: The closer we are to danger, the farther we are from harm. It's the last thing he'll expect. Merry: Are you mad? We will be caught for sure. Pippin: Not this time. Theoden: Simbelmyne. Ever has it grown on the tombs of my forebears. Now it shall cover the grave of my son. Alas, that these evil days should be mine. The young perish and the old linger. That I should live to see that last days of my house. Gandalf: Théodred's death was not of your making. Theoden: No parent should have to bury their child. Gandalf: He was strong in life. His spirit will find the way to the halls of your fathers. Frodo: The Ring will not save Gondor. It only has the power to destroy. Please, let me go. 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. Treebeard: I always like going South; somehow, it feels like going downhill. Faramir: So this is the answer to all the riddles: here in the wild I have you, two halflings and a host of men at my call, and the Ring of Power within my grasp. Elrond: Our time here is ending, Arwen's time 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. 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! 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] 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! 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. Elrond: He is not coming back. Why do you linger here when there is no hope? Arwen: There is still hope. Elrond: If Aragorn survives this war, you will still be parted. If Sauron is defeated and Aragorn made king and all that you hope for comes true you will still have to taste the bitterness of mortality. Whether by the sword or the slow decay of time, Aragorn will die. And there will be no comfort for you, no comfort to ease the pain of his passing. He will come to death an image of the splendor of the kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world. But you, my daughter, you will linger on in darkness and in doubt as nightfall in winter that comes without a star. Here you will dwell bound to your grief under the fading trees until all the world is changed and the long years of your life are utterly spent. [during the Battle of Helm's Deep, Gimli has killed an Uruk-Hai warrior] Gimli: Legolas! Two already! Legolas: I'm on seventeen! Gimli: Huh? I'll have no pointy-ear outscoring me! [kills another one] Legolas: [shoots two more arrows] Nineteen! [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. Grima Wormtongue: His staff. I told you to take the Wizard's staff. Theoden: Look at my men. Their courage hangs by a thread. If this is to be our end, then I would have them make such an end, as to be worthy of remembrance. Aragorn: Gimli, lower your axe. Legolas: 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? Legolas: Forgive me. I mistook you for Saruman. Gandalf: I am Saruman. Or rather, Saruman as he should have been. [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, its a quality establishment. I hear the staff are VERY good. Sam: Captain Faramir, you have shown your quality, sir - the very highest. Faramir: The Shire must truly be a great realm, Master Gamgee, where gardeners are held in high honor. Pippin: Merry? Merry: What, Pip? Pippin: I'm hungry. [after falling off from the horse] Gimli: That was deliberate, it was deliberate. Sam: We're innocent travelers. Faramir: There are no travelers in this land... only servants of the Dark Lord. Frodo: We are bound to an errand of secrecy. Those who claim to oppose the enemy would do well not to hinder us. Saruman: We have only to remove those who oppose us. Wormtongue: Why do you lay these troubles on an already troubled mind? Gollum: Sneaky little hobbitses. Legolas: Look at them. They're frightened. You can see it in their eyes. [All the men turn to look at him] Legolas: [in Elvish] And they should be. Three hundred... against ten thousand! Aragorn: [in Elvish] They have a better chance defending themselves here than at Edoras... Legolas: [in Elvish] Aragorn... they cannot win this fight. They are all going to die! Aragorn: [in English] Then I shall die as one of them! 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] Aragorn: [about the orcs] Their pace has quickened. They must have caught our scent. Hurry! 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! 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. [Shadowfax rears] Aragorn: Gandalf. Gandalf: Theoden king stands alone. Eomer: Not alone. Rohirrim! [Rohirrim gather behind him] Theoden: Eomer! Eomer: TO THE KING! Eomer: [whistles] Hasufel! Arod! May these horses bear you to better fortune than their former masters. [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. Legolas: [takes out an arrow, and shoots the Uruk Gimli is sitting on in the stomach] 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] 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... [after Legolas has shot and killed a Warg heading toward Gimli] Gimli: But that one counts as mine! [about the Ring Wraiths] Sam: I thought they were dead! Gollum: Dead? No, you cannot kill them. No. [from extended version] Boromir: Remember today, little brother. [from extended version] [looking at the elvish rope] Frodo: We can't leave this here for someone to follow us down. Sam: Who's going to follow us down here, Mr. Frodo? Sam: It's a shame, really. Lady Galadriel gave me that. Real elvish rope. Sam: Well, there's nothing for it - it's one of my knots. It won't come free in a hurry. [tugs rope, rope falls] Frodo: Real Elvish rope. Gimli: Keep breathing. That's the key. Breathe. Treebeard: The Ents are going to war. [after meeting with Gandalf in Fangorn Forest] Aragorn: In one thing you haven't changed, my friend - you still speak in riddles. Snaga: Just a mouthful. A bit off the flank! [from the extended version] 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.' [from extended version] Faramir: Good Speech. Nice and short. Boromir: Leaves more time for drinking! [from the extended version] Pippin: Why are there so few of you, when you live so long? Are there Ent children? Treebeard: [Sadly] Brrharroom. There have been no Entings for a terrible long count of years. 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. [hopefully] I don't suppose you've seen Entwives in the Shire? Merry: Can't say that I have. You, Pip? Pippin: [thinks for a moment] What do they look like? Treebeard: [pauses] Hrrooom... I... don't... remember... now. [scene from extended version] Merry: You just said something... treeish! [scene from extended version] 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. [scene from extended version] Gimli: This new Gandalf is more grumpy than the old one. Theoden: Your leechcraft would have had me crawling on all fours like a beast! Legolas: They're taking the hobbits to Isengard. Faramir: [to Frodo and Sam] My men tell me that you are Orc spies. 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. Faramir: [solemn] You are a friend of Boromir? Frodo: Yes, for my part. Faramir: It would grieve you then to learn that he is dead. Frodo: [shocked] Dead? How? When? Faramir: As one of his companions, I had hope you would tell me. He was my brother. 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: [gets off horse] I would cut off your head, Dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground. Legolas: [prepares bow and arrow] You would die before your stroke fell. [Rohirrim point spears at Legolas] Aragorn: [signals for Legolas to bring down his weapon] I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn. This is Gimli, son of Gloin, and Legolas of the Woodland Realm. We are friends of Rohan, and of Theoden, your King. Eomer: Theoden no longer recognizes friend from foe. Not even his own kin. [takes off helmet] 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. [whistles] Hasufel! Arod! May these horses bear you to better fortune than their former masters. Farewell. [puts on helmet, gets on horse] Look for your friends. But do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands. |
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