The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

"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!"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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!"

"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."

"Elijah Wood - Frodo Baggins"

"Ian McKellen - Gandalf the White"

"Liv Tyler - Arwen Undómiel"

"Viggo Mortensen - Aragorn"

"Sean Astin - Samwise "Sam" Gamgee"

"Cate Blanchett - Galadriel"

"John Rhys-Davies - Gimli / Treebeard (voice)"

"Bernard Hill - King Théoden"

"Christopher Lee - Saruman the White"

"Billy Boyd - Pippin Took"

"Dominic Monaghan - Merry Brandybuck"

"Orlando Bloom - Legolas Greenleaf"

"Miranda Otto - Éowyn"

"David Wenham - Faramir"

"Andy Serkis - Sméagol / Gollum (voice)"

"Sean Bean - Boromir"

"Karl Urban - Eomer"

"Craig Parker - Haldir"

"John Noble - Denethor"

"John Bach - Madril"

"MTV Award speech by Andy Serkis and Gollum/Sméagol (May 2003)"