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Boromir: [holding the ring after Frodo has lost it]
It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over
so small a thing. Such a little thing.
Galadriel: I know what it is you saw, for it is
also in my mind.
[telepathically]
Galadriel: It is what will come to pass, If you should fail. The
Fellowship is breaking, it has already begun. He will try to take the
Ring, you know of whom I speak. One by one, it will destroy them.
Frodo: [telepathically] If you ask it of me, I will give you the One
Ring.
Galadriel: You offer it to me freely? I do not deny that my heart has
greatly desired this.
[starts to grow dark]
Galadriel: In the place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Not dark
but beautiful and terrible as the Morn! Treacherous as the Seas!
Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and
despair!
[she stops]
Galadriel: I have passed the test. I will diminish, and go into the
West, and remain Galadriel.
Frodo: I cannot do this alone.
Galadriel: You are a Ring-bearer, Frodo. To bear a Ring of Power is to
be alone.
[pulls out her hand]
Galadriel: This is Nenya, the Ring of Adament. And I am it's keeper.
This task was appointed to you, and if you do not find a way, no one
will.
Frodo: I know what I must do, it's just that... I'm afraid to do it.
Galadriel: Even the smallest person can change the course of the
future.
Gandalf:
The fate of the world will now be decided.
Gimli:
Nobody tosses a dwarf.
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]
Gimli: Don't tell the elf.
Aragorn: Not a word.
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.
Arwen: Go to sleep.
Aragorn: I am asleep. This is a dream.
Arwen: Then it is a good dream.
Frodo: There is no promise you can make that I can
trust.
Gimli: Bring your pretty face to my axe.
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: 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.
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!
Pippin: And whose side are you on?
Treebeard: Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side,
little orc.
Gimli: Keep breathing. That's the key. Breathe.
Galadriel:
I give you the light of Eärendil, our most beloved star. May it be a
light for you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
Boromir: Frodo... Where is Frodo?
Aragorn: I let Frodo go.
Boromir: Then you did what I could not.
Galadriel: The world is changed. I feel it in the
water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once
was is lost, for none now live who remember it. It began with the
forging of the Great Rings. Three were given to the Elves, immortal,
wisest and fairest of all beings. Seven to the Dwarf lords, great
miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls. And nine, nine rings were
gifted to the race of men, who, above all else, desire power. But they
were, all of them, deceived, for another Ring was made. In the land of
Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in
secret a master Ring, to control all others. And into this Ring he
poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. One
Ring to rule them all.
Frodo: You're late.
Gandalf: A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He
arrives precisely when he means to.
Gollum: It came to me, my own, my love... my...
preciousssss.
Gandalf:
Frodo has passed beyond my sight. The darkness is deepening.
Aragorn: If Sauron had the Ring, we would know it.
Gandalf: It's only a matter of time.
"Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow
takes another shape and grows again."
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But
that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do
with the time that is given us."
Bilbo: I don't know half of you half as well as I
should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you
deserve.
Sam: I don't think there will be a return journey,
Mr. Frodo.
Gimli: Never thought I'd die fighting side by side
with an Elf.
Legolas: What about side by side with a friend?
Gimli: Aye. I could do that.
Sam: [Both are overcome by exhaustion] Do you
remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon. And the orchards
will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket.
And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields... and
eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the
taste of strawberries?
Frodo: No, Sam. I can't recall the taste of food... nor the sound of
water... nor the touch of grass. I'm... naked in the dark, with
nothing, no veil... between me... and the wheel of fire! I can see
him... with my waking eyes!
Sam: Then let us be rid of it... once and for all! Come on, Mr. Frodo.
I can't carry it for you... but I can carry you!
[after Legolas single-handedly takes out an
Oliphant and its drivers]
Gimli: That still only counts as one.
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