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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

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The Uruks turned northeast! They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard!

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

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

Aragorn

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  • Rohan, realm of the horse lords. There is something evil at work in these lands. Something evil gives speed to these creatures and sets its will against us.
  • It is an army bred for a single purpose: to destroy the World of Men.
  • Show them no mercy... for you shall receive none!

Gandalf the White

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  • I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide.
  • The coming of Merry and Pippin will be like the falling of small stones that starts an avalanche in the mountains.
  • 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.
  • I will draw you, Saruman, as poison is drawn from a wound!
  • 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.

Gollum/Sméagol

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  • The thieves! The thieves! The filthy little thieves!
  • We swears to serve the master of the precious. We'll swear on...on the precious!
  • We be nice to them, if they be nice to us.

Sam Gamgee

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  • It's me. It's your Sam. Don't you know your Sam?
  • 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'll 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...That there's some good in the world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

Saruman

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  • The world is changing. Who now has the strength to stand against the armies of Isengard...and Mordor? To stand against the might of Sauron and Saruman and the union of the two towers? Together, my Lord Sauron, we shall rule this Middle-Earth. The old world will burn in the fires of industry. The 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. 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.

Théoden

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  • Your leech-craft would have had me crawling on all fours like a beast!
  • So it begins.
  • So much death... what can Men do against such reckless hate?
  • Let this be the hour when we draw swords together! Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red dawn!

Others

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  • Elrond: 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.
  • Faramir: A chance for Faramir, captain of Gondor, to show his quality.
  • Frodo: This is Sting. You've seen it before, haven't you... Gollum. Release him, or I'll cut your throat!
  • Gimli: Three days and nights pursuit. No food, no rest! Nor a sign of a quarry of what a bare rock can tell!
  • Gimli: I'm wasted on cross-country! We dwarves are natural sprinters! Very dangerous over short distances!
  • Merry: 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.
  • Treebeard: 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.
  • Treebeard: Many of these trees were my friends. Creatures I had known from nut and acorn.
  • Uglúk: I don't take orders from orc maggots.

Dialogue

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Aragorn: Legolas! What do your Elf eyes see?
Legolas: The Uruks turned northeast! They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard!
Mauhúr: I'm starving! We ain't had nothing but maggoty bread for three stinking days!
Snaga: Yeah! Why can't we have some meat? What about them? They're fresh!
Uglúk: They are not for eating!
Grishnákh: What about their legs? They don't need those. Ooh, they look tasty...!
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: I would cut off your head, Dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground.
Legolas: You would die before your sword fell!
Pippin: And, whose side are you on?
Treebeard: Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little Orc. Nobody cares for the woods anymore.
Aragorn: You fell.
Gandalf: 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.
Éowyn: Leave me alone, snake!
Gríma: Oh, but you are alone. Who knows what you've 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.
Théoden: Dark have been my dreams of late.
Gandalf: Your fingers would remember their old strength better...if they grasped your sword.
Gollum: What's it doing?! Stupid, fat Hobbit! It ruins it!
Sam: What's to ruin? There's hardly any meat on them. What we need is a few good taters.
Gollum: What's "taters", precious? What's "taters", eh?
Sam: Po-ta-toes! Boil em, mash em, stick 'em in a stew. Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish. Even you couldn't say no to that.
Gollum: Oh yes, we could! Spoiling nice fish! Give it to us raw, and wriggling! You keeps nasty chips!
Sam: You're 'opeless.
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: [aside to Éowyn] It's the beards.
Gimli: This in turn has given raise to the belief that there are no women. And that Dwarves just spring out of holes in the ground! Which is of course ridiculous.
Frodo: We are Hobbits of the Shire. Frodo Baggins is my name, and this is Samwise Gamgee.
Faramir: Your bodyguard?
Sam: His gardener.
Gollum: Filthy little Hobbitses, they stole it from us!
Sméagol: No... No...
Faramir: What did they steal?
Gollum: My...Preciousss!
Saruman: If the wall is breached, Helm's Deep will fall.
Gríma: Even if it is breached, it would take a number beyond reckoning, thousands to storm the keep.
Saruman: Tens of thousands.
Théoden: 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? Dwarves? 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?! Where was Gon—? No, my lord Aragorn. We are alone.
Aragorn: Farmers, ferriers, 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!
Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Théoden: Who am I, Gamling?
Gamling: You are our king, sire.
Théoden: And do you trust your king?
Gamling: Your men, my lord, will follow you to whatever end.
Théoden: To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West, behind the hills, into Shadow. How did it come to this?
Gimli: What's happening out there?
Legolas: Shall I describe it to you? Or would you like me to find you a box?
Gimli: Legolas! Two already!
Legolas: I'm on seventeen!
Gimli: Huh? I'll have no pointy-ear outscoring me!
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!... Don't tell the Elf.
Aragorn: Not a word.
Sam: I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales.
Frodo: 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: 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.
Gollum: 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.

Cast

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About The Two Towers

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Andy Serkis: Hi, everybody. My name's Andy Serkis, and I'm delighted to receive this award on behalf of everybody who brought Gollum to life. I can't actually be with you this evening, because we're down in New Zealand, completing more shots on Gollum for Return of the King. I'm actually in the motion capture studio where we do lots of Gollum. Uh, I would like to say a big thank you to all the MTV fans, to the Lord of the Rings fans, and to everybody who worked on Gollum. It is a complete marriage of skills-
Gollum: You're a liar and a thief! [he takes the MTV award] It's mine! I won it! It was me! We only won because of me!
Sméagol: And me! MTV's my friend! My friend!
Gollum: You don't have any friends. Nobody likes you!
Sméagol: Dobby likes me!
Gollum: Dobby?! Dobby's a fucking fag!
Andy Serkis: That's enough, Gollum.
Gollum: Piss off, Serkis, you stupid, fat, wart face fucking turd!
Andy Serkis: I'm--I'm not fat.
Gollum: We're not gonna thank anyone. No, no! Not you, not MTV, and not those pixel-pushing pin-dicks at Weta Digital! And Peter Jackson, my precious, who do you think you are, you fucking hack?! Shame on you! Shame on you! Go fuck yourself!
Sméagol: Not listening. I'm not listening!
Gollum: Frankly, nothing can compensate for the long hours and low pay and miserable experience we've had making this fucking movie. And if you think this shitty little tub of gold popcorn is gonna remotely make up for everything we've suffered, you're sadly fucking mistaken! You're all bastards! MTV sucks! We hate you all!
Sméagol: [smiles] Good night!
  • MTV Award speech by Andy Serkis and Gollum/Sméagol (May 2003)

See also

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Taglines

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  • The Battle for Middle-earth Begins.
  • The Journey Continues.
  • The Fellowship Is Broken.
  • A New Power is Rising.
  • Save the Precious.
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