The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 quotes

Sméagol/Gollum

My precious.
Note: ranked #85 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Aragorn

Legolas! What do your Elf-eyes see?

Legolas

The Uruks turn northeast... They are taking the Hobbits to Isengard!

Aragorn

...Saruman.
Geographically, Legolas should have said northwest.

Aragorn

Pendraith! ("Ladders!")

Gimli

Good!

Aragorn

Give me your sword.

Aragorn

What is your name?

Haleth

Haleth, son of Háma, my lord. The men are saying that we will not live out the night. They say that there is no hope.

Aragorn

This is a good sword, Haleth son of Háma. There is always hope.

Aragorn

Farmers, farriers, stable boys. These are no soldiers.

Gimli

Most have seen too many winters.

Legolas

Or too few. Look at them, they're frightened. You can see it in their eyes. [in Elvish] And they should b. Three hundred... against ten thousand?

Aragorn

They have more hope of defending themselves here than at Edoras.

Legolas

Aragorn, they cannot win this fight. They're all going to die!

Aragorn

Then I shall die as one of them!

Aragorn

It is an army bred for a single purpose... to destroy the world of Men. They will be here by night fall.

Let them come!

Éomer

If we don't defend our country, Saruman will take it by force.

Grima Wormtongue

That is a lie. Saruman the white has forever been our friend and ally.
Th?oden (mumbling weakly): Gríma... Gríma...

Éomer

Orcs are roming freely across our lands. Unchecked, unchallenged, killing at will. Orcs bearing the White Hand of Saruman. [throws a helmet, bearing the white hand at Gríma's feet]

Why do you lay these troubles on an already troubled mind? Can you not see? Your uncle is wearied by your malcontent, your warmongering.

Éomer

Warmongering? [grabs Gríma by the throat] How long is it since Saruman bought you? What was the promised price, Gríma? When all the men are dead, you would take your share of the treasure? [sees Gríma looking at Éowyn] Too long have you watched my sister. Too long have you haunted her steps. [Gríma smiles. several men come from behind and seize Éomer]

You see much Éomer, son of Éomund. Too much. You are banished forthwith from the kingdom of Rohan, under pain of death.

Éomer

What business does an Elf, a Man, and a Dwarf have in the Riddermark? Speak quickly!

Gimli

Give me your name, horsemaster, and I shall give you mine.

Éomer

I would cut off your head, dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground.

Legolas

You would die before your stroke fell! [The riders raise their spears, until Aragorn pushes Legolas' bow aside]

Aragorn

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.

Éomer

Theoden no longer recognises friend from foe. Not even his own kin. [Removes his helmet]. Saruman has poisoned the mind of the king and claimed lordship over these lands. My company and I are those loyal to Rohan, and for that, we are banished. The White wizard is cunning, they say. He walks here and there, like an old man, hooded and cloaked. And everywhere his spies slip passed our nets.

Aragorn

We are no spies. We track a party of Uruk-hai westwards across the plain. The've taken two of our friends captive.

Éomer

The Uruks are destroyed. We slaughtered them during the night.

Gimli

But there were two hobbits. Did you see two hobbits with them?

Aragorn

They would be small, only children to your eyes.

Éomer

We left none alive. We piled the carcasses and burned them. [gestures to the smoke coming over the hill]

Gimli

They're dead?

Éomer

I am sorry. [Éomer pauses, then whistles] Hasufel! Arod! [two horses trot over] May these horses bear you to better fortune than their former masters. [Mounts his horse and dons his helmet] Look for your friends. But do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands. [To his riders] We ride north!

Elrond

Arwen, tollen i lu. I chair gwannar na Valannor. Si bado, no cirar. ("Arwen. The ships are leaving for Valinor. Go now, before it is too late.")

Arwen

I have made my choice.

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. Arwen, there is nothing for you here... only death.

Elrond

Ah im, u-'erin veleth lin? ("Do I not also have your love?")

Arwen

Gerich veleth nin, ada. ("You have my love, father.")

Faramir

I think at last we understand one another, Frodo Baggins.

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.

Faramir

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? 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

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

You're a friend of Boromir?

Frodo

Yes. For my part.

Faramir

It will grieve you then to learn that he is dead.

Frodo

Dead? How? When?

Faramir

As one of his companions, 'd hoped you would tell me. He was my brother.

Faramir

To enter the forbidden pool pays the penilty of death. They wait for my comand. Shall I shoot?

Rock and pool, is nice and cool, so juicy swee-eeet! Our only wish, to catch a fish, so juicy swee-eeet!

Frodo

This is Sting. You've seen it before, haven't you... Gollum. Release him, or I'll cut your throat!

Frodo

What food have we got?

Sam

Let me see. Ah, yes. Lembas bread. And look! More lembas bread. I don't usually hold with foreign foods, but this Elvish stuff, it's not bad.

Frodo

Nothing ever dampens your spirits, does it, Sam?

Sam

Those rain clouds might.

Gimli

If I had time I'd get this adjusted...

Gimli

It's a little tight across the chest!