Quotes from Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

For it is easier to shout "stop!" than to do it.

There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for.

Gimli: "What's happening out there?"
Legolas: "Shall I describe it to you... or would you like me to find you a box?"

Gimli: "Toss me!"
Aragorn: "What?"
Gimli: "I cannot jump the distance. You'll have to toss me... don't tell the elf!"

A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to.

You would die before your stroke fell.

Sam: "I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales. I wonder if people will ever say, 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring.' And they'll say, 'Yes, it'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've left out on of the chief characters. Samwise the Brave. I want to hear more about Sam! Frodo wouldn't have got far without Sam..."

Come, my friends. The Ents are going to war. It is likely that we go to our doom. Last march of the Ents.

Women of this country learned long ago, those without swords can still die upon them.

I told Gandalf I would keep you safe. And safe is where I'll keep you.

Gandalf? That was what they used to call me. Gandalf the Grey. That was my name. I am Gandalf the White. And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.

Darkness took me and I strayed out of thought and time. Stars wheeled overhead and every day 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.

Cold be heart and hand and bone. Cold be travelers far from home. They do not see what lies ahead when sun has failed and moon is dead.

They fight beside you because they would not be parted from you. Because they love you!

Aragorn: "What do you fear, lady?"
Éowyn: "A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire."

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.

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.

The fat Hobbit, he knows. Eyes always watching. Then we stabs them out. Put out his eyeses and make him crawl.

Master broke his promise. Master betrayed us. Wicked. Tricksy. False. We ought to wring his filthy little neck. Kill him! Kill them both! And then we take the Precious and we'll be the master!

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.

Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little orc. No one cares for the woods anymore.

The Ents cannot hold back this storm. We must weather such things as we have always done.

I always like going south. Somehow it feels like going downhill.

Many of these trees were my friends. Creatures I had known from nut and acorn.

And those little family of field mice that climb up sometimes, and they tickle me awfully.

My home lies deep in the forest near the roots of the mountain.

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.

The time of the Elves is over. Do we leave Middle-earth to its fate? Do we let them stand alone?

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 hand, 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 over 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?

Don't take it to him. He wants The Precious. Always, he is looking for it. And The Precious is wanting to go back to him. But we mustn't let him have it.

Let go, Gollum! This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you'll feel it this time!

Don't take names to yourself, Smeagol. It's unwise, whether they are true or false.

I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.

Speak, or I will put a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find hard to deal with!

It's true, you don't see many Dwarf women. And in fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance that they're often mistaken for Dwarf men. 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.

See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we grows very strong, stronger than the Wraiths. Lord Smeagol? Gollum the Great? The Gollum!

Rock and pool is nice and cool
So juicy sweet
Our only wish to catch a fish
So juicy sweet

Be silent! Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth! I haven't passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.

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.

You have become a fool, Saruman, and yet pitiable. You might still have turned away from folly and evil, and have been of service. But you choose to stay and gnaw the ends of your old plots. Stay then! But I warn you, you will not easily come out again. Not unless the dark hands of the east stretch out to take you!

Never is too long a word even for me.

Bless my bark!

Without me, eyes are marbles, no darkness they see.
Faces look garbled, no flurry they feel.
No breath, no cheer, death not to fear.
Time is not spent, roses has no scent.
At nothing you can marvel without me.

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens

Gorbag: "Stop your squealing, you dunghill rat! I'm gonna bleed you like a stuck pig."
Sam: "Not if I stick you first!"

Gimli: "I 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."

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.

Éowyn: "Do what you will; but I will hinder it, if I may."
Witch-king of Angmar: "Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!"
Éowyn: "But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Eomund's daughter."