Legolas
Come, Gimli!
Gimli
[Panting heavily]
I'm wasted on cross-country! We dwarves are natural sprinters! Very dangerous over short distances!
Scenes with Gimli
16 scenes Legolas
Gimli
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
[taking out bow]
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
[nods]
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!
White Wizard
You are tracking the footsteps of two young hobbits.
Aragorn
Where are they?
White Wizard
They passed this way the day before yesterday. They met someone they did not expect. Does that comfort you?
Aragorn
Who are you? Show yourself!
Aragorn
[The White Wizard steps out of the light revealing to be Gandalf]
It cannot be... you fell!
Gandalf
Through fire... and water... From the lowest dungeon to the highest peak, I fought him, the Balrog of Morgoth. Until at last, I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon the mountainside. Darkness took me. And I strayed out of thought and time. Stars wheeled overhead and everyday was as long as a life-age of the earth. But it was not the end. I felt life in me again. I have been sent back, until my task is done.
Aragorn
Gandalf.
Gandalf
Gandalf? Yes... that's what they used to call me. Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
Gimli
Gandalf!
Gandalf
I am Gandalf the White! I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide.
Háma
I cannot allow you before Theoden King so heavily armed, Gandalf Greyhame. By order of... [he pauses disgustedly] Gríma Wormtongue.
Háma
(Gandalf nods. Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli proceed to remove their weapons and give them to the soldiers. Háma pauses, as if waiting for something.)
Your staff.
Gandalf
Oh?... You wouldn't part an old man from his... walking-stick?
Gríma
[Gandalf turns, and gives a quick and nonchalant wink to Aragorn. Aragorn grins back. They enter the hall. The doors and windows close, and extra guards casually prepare for fighting] [whispering in Th?oden's ear]
My lord, Gandalf the Grey is coming. He is not welcome.
Gandalf
The courtesy of your hall is somewhat lessened of late, Th?oden King.
Th?oden
[weakly]
Why... should I welcome you... Gandalf Stormcrow?
Gríma
[to Th?oden]
A just question, my liege. [rises] Late is the hour in which this conjurer chooses to appear! Láthspell I name you. Ill news is an ill guest.
Gandalf
Be silent! Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth! I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.
Gríma
[Shoves his staff in Gríma's face]
His staff! I told you to take the wizard's staff!
Gimli
[A brawl ensues between Gríma's men and the heroes; Gríma and his men are quickly subdued] [to Gríma, having seized him]
I would stay still if I were you!
Gimli
[Gimli is talking to Éowyn]
It's true you don't see many Dwarf women. In fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, that they're often mistaken for Dwarf men.
Aragorn
[Whispers, strokes beard]
It's the beards.[Éowyn giggles]
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! Which is, of course, ridiculous. Woah! [falls off horse] I'm all right! I'm all right. Nobody panic! That was deliberate! It was deliberate!
Gimli
[putting on a mail coat too long for him]
If I had time I'd get this adjusted...
Gimli
[Aragorn and Legolas look at each other]
It's a little tight across the chest!
Gimli
[Gimli stands next to Legolas on the wall. Only the top of his helmet is visible]
You could have picked a better spot!
Gimli
Well, lad, whatever luck you live by, let's hope it lasts the night.
Legolas
Your friends are with you, Aragorn.
Gimli
Let's hope they last the night.
Gimli
What's happening out there?
Legolas
Shall I describe it to you, or would you like me to find you a box? [Gimli laughs.]
Aragorn
Pendraith! ("Ladders!")
Gimli
Good!
Gimli
Legolas! Two already!
Legolas
I'm on seventeen!
Gimli
Hah! I'll have no pointy-ears outscoring me!
Legolas
[he kills another Uruk]
Nineteen!
Gimli
Oh, come on! We can take 'em!
Aragorn
It's a long way.
Gimli
[Reluctantly]
...Toss me.
Aragorn
[Surprised]
What?
Gimli
I cannot jump the distance, so you'll have to toss me!
Gimli
[Aragorn is ready to throw Gimli]
Ah! ...Don't tell the Elf.
Aragorn
[Grins]
Not a word.
[Aragorn picks up Gimli and throws him over the gap]
Th?oden
So much death. What can men do against such reckless hate?
Aragorn
Ride out with me. Ride out and meet them.
Th?oden
For death and glory!
Aragorn
For Rohan. For your people.
Gimli
The sun is rising.
Gandalf
[Aragorn remembers what Gandalf said] [voiceover]
Look for my coming at first light on the fifth day. At dawn, look to the east.
Th?oden
Yes. Yes! The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep ...one last time!
Gimli
Yes!
Th?oden
[runs off to blow the horn]
Let this be the hour that we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for Wrath, now for Ruin, and a Red Dawn!
Th?oden
[a thundering blast issues from the horn]
Forth Éorlingas!
Legolas
Final count... forty-two.
Gimli
Forty-two. That's not bad for a pointy-eared Elvish princeling. I myself am sitting pretty on forty-three.
Legolas
[Legolas frowns, and almost in a blink of the eye shoots the orc Gimli is sitting on]
Forty-three.
Gimli
He was already dead!
Legolas
He was twitching.
Gimli
He was twitching...?! 'Cause he's got my axe embedded in his nervous system! [to exemplify this, he tilts his axe, and the dead orc twitches again]
Gimli
Three days and nights pursuit. No food, no rest! Nor a sign of a quarry of what a bare rock can tell!
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
[in Elvish]
They have more hope of defending themselves here than at Edoras.
Legolas
[in Elvish]
Aragorn, they cannot win this fight. They're all going to die!
Aragorn
[in common tongue]
Then I shall die as one of them!
Other characters in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Sméagol/Gollum
Andy Serkis
Aragorn
Viggo Mortensen
Gandalf the White
Ian McKellen
Legolas
Orlando Bloom
Frodo
Elijah Wood
King Théoden
Bernard Hill
Faramir
David Wenham
Sam
Sean Astin
Merry
Dominic Monaghan
Pippin
Billy Boyd
Treebeard
John Rhys-Davies
Éomer
Karl Urban
Gríma
Saruman the White
Christopher Lee
Smeagol
Éowyn
Miranda Otto
Galadriel
Cate Blanchett
