The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (film)

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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.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a 2002 epic fantasy adventure film and the second installment in The Lord of the Rings motion picture trilogy based on the book by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Directed by Peter Jackson. Written by Frances Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson.
A New Power Is Rising. (taglines)

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[edit] Gandalf the White

  • The Grey Pilgrim, that’s what they used to call me. Three hundred lives of men I’ve walked this earth and now I have no time. With luck, my search will not be in vain. Look to my coming at first light on the fifth day. At dawn, look to the East.
  • Sauron's wrath will be terrible, his retribution swift. The battle for Helm's Deep is over. The battle for Middle Earth is about to begin. All our hopes now lie with two little hobbits, somewhere in the wilderness.

[edit] Saruman

  • 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, Lord Sauron, we shall rule this Middle-Earth. The old world will burn in the fires of industry. The forests will fall. A new order will rise. We will drive the machinery of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the Orc. We have only to remove those who oppose us.
  • 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! There will be no dawn...for Men!

[edit] Others

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.
  • 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 hands, 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 of 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?
  • Gollum: They're thieves, they're thieves! They're filthy little thieves! Where is it? Where is it? They ssstole it from us... my precioussss. Curse them! We hates them! It's ours, it is, and we wants it!
  • Sam: [to Faramir] Do you want to know what happened to Boromir? 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!

[edit] Dialogue

Samwise Gamgee: Mordor. The one place in Middle-earth we don’t want to see any closer, and the one place we’re trying to get to. It’s just where we can’t get. Let’s face it, Mr. Frodo, we’re lost. I don’t think Gandalf meant for us to come this way.
Frodo Baggins: He didn’t mean for a lot of things to happen, Sam... but they did.
Éomer: 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.
Éomer: [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 Glóin, and Legolas of the Woodland Realm. We are friends of Rohan, and of Théoden, your King.
Éomer: Théoden no longer recognizes friend from foe. Not even his own kin. 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.
Éomer: 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.
Éomer: We left none alive. We piled the carcasses and burned them.
Gimli: Dead?
Éomer: I am sorry. [whistles] Hasufel! Arod! May these horses bear you to better fortune than their former masters. Farewell. Look for your friends. But do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands.
Samwise Gamgee: 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, yes, that is their name! This way. Don't follow the lights. [Sam slips and almost ends up in the water] Careful now! Or hobbits go down to join the Dead Ones, and light little candles of their own.
Aragorn: [seeing Gandalf alive] It cannot be. You fell.
Gandalf the White: Through fire and water. 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 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've been sent back until my task is done.
Aragorn: Gandalf...
Gandalf the White: Gandalf? Yes... that's what they used to call me. Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
Gimli: [surprised] Gandalf!
Gandalf the White: I am Gandalf the White. And I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide.
Gríma Wormtonge: [finds Éowyn crying over Théodred's body] Oh, he... he must have died sometime in the night. What a tragedy for the king to lose his only son and heir. I understand his passing is hard to accept, especially now that your brother has deserted you.
Éowyn: Leave me alone, snake!
Gríma Wormtonge: Oh, but you are alone! Who knows what you have spoken to the darkness. In bitter watches of the night, when all your life seems to shrink, the walls of your bower closing in about you, like a hutch to trammel some wild thing in. So fair, so cold, like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.
Éowyn: Your words are poison!
Gríma Wormtonge: Late is the hour in which this conjurer chooses to appear! Láthspell I name you. Ill news is an ill guest.
Gandalf the White: 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. [Points his staff at Grima]
Gríma Wormtonge: [Terrified] The staff! [To guards] I TOLD YOU TO TAKE THE WIZARD'S STAFF!
Gandalf the White: Théoden! Son of Thengel! Too long have you sat in the shadows. Harken to me! I release you from this spell... [Attempts to remove Saruman's influence, seemingly to no avail]
Théoden: [Laughs cruelly] You have no power here, Gandalf the Gray! [Continues to laugh]
Gandalf the White: [Removes his gray cloak, stunning Théoden with the white robe beneath] I will draw you, Saruman, as poison is drawn from a wound!
Saruman: [Speaking through Théoden] If I go...Théoden dies!
Gandalf the White: [Casts a spell, knocking Théoden back] You did not kill me...you will not kill him!
Saruman: [Speaking through Théoden] Rohan is mine!
Gandalf the White: [Casts another spell] Begone! [Théoden lunges in anger, but Gandalf successfully casts Saruman's influence out]
Théoden: Gandalf?
Gandalf the White: Breathe the free air again, my friend.
Théoden: [stands up from the throne] Dark have been my dreams of late. [looks at his hands]
Gandalf the White: Your fingers would remember their old strength better... if they grasped your sword.
Gollum: So bright... so beautiful... my precious.
Frodo: What did you say?
Gollum: Master should be resting, Master needs to keep up his strength.
Frodo: 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: [ignoring him] Cold be heart and hand and bone. Cold be travelers far from home.
Frodo: 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: You were not so very different from a Hobbit once, were you... Sméagol?.
Gollum: [startled] What... what did you call me?
Frodo: That was your name once, wasn't it?
Gollum: My name? My name... [smiles] Sméagol.
Gollum: We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!
Sméagol: No. Not master!
Gollum: Yes, precious, false! They will cheat you, hurt you, lie!
Sméagol:: Master's my friend!
Gollum: You don't have any friends! Nobody likes you.
Sméagol: I'm not listening... I'm not listening...
Gollum: You're a liar, and a thief.
Sméagol: No!
Gollum: [with relish] Murderer!
Sméagol: [miserable] Go away.
Gollum: "Go away?" [laughs cruelly]
Sméagol: [begins to cry] 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!
Sméagol:[stops crying] Not anymore.
Gollum: [puzzled] What did you say?
Sméagol: Master looks after us now. We don't need you.
Gollum: What?
Sméagol: Leave now, and never come back!
Gollum: [hisses] No!
Sméagol: Leave now, and never come back! [Gollum snarls] LEAVE NOW, AND NEVER COME BACK! [Gollum is silent] We told him to go away... and away he goes, Precious! Gone, gone, gone! Sméagol is free!
[Sam is cooking coneys that Gollum caught]
Sméagol: What's it doing?! Stupid, fat hobbit! You ruins it!
Samwise Gamgee: What's to ruin? There was hardly any meat on them. What we need is a few good taters.
Sméagol: What's "taters", precious? What's "taters", eh?
Samwise Gamgee: Po-tay-toes! Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew. Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish. [Sméagol spits] Even you couldn't say no to that.
Sméagol: Oh yes, we could! Spoiling nice fish! Give it to us raw, and wriggling! You keep nasty chips!
Samwise Gamgee: You're hopeless.
Sam: [to Gollum] 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: [angrily] What do you know about it? Nothing! [instantly remorseful] 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 hold 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!
Sam: Can't you hear yourself? Don't you know who you sound like?
Faramir: [to Frodo and Sam] My men tell me that you are Orc spies.
Samwise Gamgee: Spies! Now wait just a minute!
Faramir: Well, if you're not spies, then who are you? Speak!
Frodo Baggins: We are Hobbits of the Shire. Frodo Baggins is my name and this is Samwise Gamgee.
Faramir: Your bodyguard?
Samwise Gamgee: His gardener.
Faramir: And where is your skulking friend? That gangrel creature. He had an ill-favoured look.
Frodo Baggins: [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 Baggins: Yes, for my part.
Faramir: It would grieve you then to learn that he is dead.
Frodo Baggins: [shocked] Dead? How? When?
Faramir: As one of his companions, I had hope you would tell me.
Frodo Baggins: [alarmed] If something has happened to Boromir, we would have you tell us!
Faramir: His horn washed up on the river bed, about six days past. It was cloven in two. But more than this I know it in my heart. He was my brother.
[Frodo has allowed Faramir to take Gollum prisoner]
Gollum: Sméagol... Why does he cry, Sméagol?
Sméagol: [sobbing] Cruel men hurts us. Master tricksed us.
Gollum: Of course he did. I told you he was tricksy. I told you he was false.
Sméagol: Master is our friend... our friend.
Gollum: Master betrayed us.
Sméagol: No, not it's business. Leave us alone.
Gollum: Filthy little hobbitses! They stole it from us!
Sméagol: No... No.
Faramir: What did they steal?
Gollum: [screams] My PRECIOUSSS!
Gimli: 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 playfully] It’s the beards.
[Éowyn giggles]
Gimli: This in turn had lead to the belief that there are no women, and that Dwarves just spring out of holes in the ground, which is of course ridiculous.
[Gimli falls from his horse]
Gimli: I'm all right, nobody panic. That was deliberate!
Elrond: [in Elvish] Arwen, it is time. 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 splendour 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. Do I not also have your love?
Arwen: [crying] You have my love, father.
Théoden: A great host, you say?
Aragorn: All Isengard is emptied.
Théoden: How many?
Aragorn: Ten thousand strong at least.
Théoden: [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.
Théoden: Let them come.
Théoden: They will break upon this fortress like water on rock. Saruman's hordes will pillage and burn, we’ve seen it before. Crops can be resown. Homes rebuilt. 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.
Théoden:[Whispered] What would you have me do? 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: Send out riders, my lord, you must call for aid.
Théoden: And who will come? Elves? Dwarfs? We are not so lucky in our friends as you. The old alliances are dead.
Aragorn: Gondor will answer.
Théoden: Gondor?! Where was Gondor when the westfold fell, where was Gondor when our enemies closed in around us! No, my lord Aragorn. We are alone.
Legolas: Look at them. They're frightened. You can see it in their eyes. [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!
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: [failing to see over the wall] What's happening out there?
Legolas: Shall I describe it to you? Or would you like me to find you a box?
Gimli: [killed two Uruk-Hai warriors] 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!
Treebeard: We have just agreed... [falls asleep]
Merry Brandybuck: Yes?
Treebeard: [wakes up] I have told your names to the Ent moot and we have agreed... you are not Orcs. [smiles]
Pippin Took: Well, that’s good news.
Gimli: Oh, come on! We can take 'em!
Aragorn: It's a long way.
Gimli: [reluctantly] Toss me.
Aragorn: What?
Gimli: I cannot jump the distance, you'll have to toss me! [Aragorn nods] Don't tell the Elf.
Aragorn: Not a word.
Pippin Took: Maybe Treebeard’s right. We don’t belong here, Merry. It's too big for us. What can we do in the end? We've got the Shire. Maybe we should go home.
Merry Brandybuck: The fires of Isengard will spread. And the woods of Tuckborough and Buckland will burn. And all that was once green and good in this world will be gone. There won't be a Shire, Pippin.
[Spellbound by the ring, Frodo attacks Sam with his sword]
Samwise Gamgee: It's me. It's your Sam. Don't you know your Sam?
[Frodo snaps out of the spell, horrified, and drops his sword]
Frodo Baggins: I can't do this, Sam.
Samwise Gamgee: 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 Baggins: What are we holding on to, Sam?
Samwise Gamgee: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.
[after the Battle of Helm's Deep]
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 that Gimli is sitting on] 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!
Samwise Gamgee: I wonder if we’ll ever be put into songs or tales.
Frodo Baggins: What?
Samwise Gamgee: 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 Baggins: You left out one of the chief characters: Samwise the Brave. I want to hear more about Sam. Frodo wouldn’t have got far without Sam.
Samwise Gamgee: Now Mr. Frodo, you shouldn’t make fun. I was being serious.
Frodo Baggins: So was I. [walks away]
Samwise Gamgee: [to himself] Samwise the Brave.
[last lines]
Sméagol: Master... Master looks after us. Master wouldn’t hurt us.
Gollum: Master broke his promise.
Sméagol: Don’t ask Sméagol. Poor, poor Sméagol...
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 takes the precious... and we be the master!
Sméagol: The fat hobbit, he knows. Eyes always watching.
Gollum: Then we stabs them out! Put out his eyeses! Make him crawl!
Sméagol: Yes! Yes! Yes!
Gollum: Kill them both.
Sméagol: Yes! No no! It’s too risky, it’s too risky.
Gollum: [sly] We could let her do it.
Sméagol: Yes... she could do it!
Gollum: Yes, precious, she could. And then we takes it once they’re dead.
Sméagol: Once they’re dead...
Gollum: Shhhh...
Sméagol: [to Frodo and Sam] Come on, hobbits. Long ways to go yet. Sméagol will show you the way.
Gollum: Follow me.

[edit] See also

[edit] Taglines

  • The Journey Continues.
  • The Fellowship Is Broken.
  • A New Power is Rising.
  • Save the Precious.

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