1. “The battle of Helm’s Deep is over; the battle for Middle Earth is about to begin.” – Gandalf, ‘The Two Towers’
2. “It’s talking, Merry. The tree is talking.” – Pippin, ‘The Two Towers’
3. “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?” – Galadriel, ‘The Two Towers’
4. “So it begins” – Theoden, ‘The Two Towers’
5. “A red sun rises, blood has been spilled this night.” -Legolas, ‘The Two Towers’
6. “I think we might have made a mistake leaving the Shire, Pippin.” -Merry, ‘The Two Towers’
7. “We be nice to them, if they be nice to us.” –Gollum, ‘The Two Towers’
8. “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.” –Gollum, ‘The Two Towers’
9. “It’s me. It’s your Sam. Don’t you know your Sam?” -Sam, ‘The Two Towers’
10. “When last I looked, Théoden, not Aragorn, was king of Rohan.” – Theoden, ‘The Two Towers’
11. “But, the fat hobbit. He knows. Eyes always watching.” –Gollum, ‘The Two Towers’
12. “Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east.” – Gandalf, ‘The Two Towers’
13. “There is no promise you can make that I can trust.” -Frodo, ‘The Two Towers’
14. “The courtesy of your hall is somewhat lessened of late Théoden, King.” – Gandalf, ‘The Two Towers’
15. “Together, my lord Sauron, we shall rule this Middle-earth. The old world will burn in the fires of industry. 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.” -Saruman, ‘The Two Towers’
16. “The fires of Isengard will spread, and the forests of Tuckborough and Buckland will burn. And all that was once great and good in this world will be gone. There won’t be a Shire, Pippin.” -Merry, ‘The Two Towers’
17. “Bring your pretty face to my axe.” -Gimli, ‘The Two Towers’
18. “Looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys.” -Ugluk, ‘The Two Towers’
19. “Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.” – Theoden, ‘The Two Towers’
20. “Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.” – Gandalf, ‘The Two Towers’
21. “We swears to serve the master of the precious. We swears on… on… on the precious.” –Gollum, ‘The Two Towers’
22. “Don’t follow the lights.” –Gollum, ‘The Two Towers’
23. “The time of the Elves is over. Do we leave Middle-earth to its fate? Do we let them stand alone?” – Galadriel, ‘The Two Towers’
24. “He is drawing all evil to him.” –Gollum, ‘The Two Towers’
25. “There is no way out of that ravine, Théoden is walking into a trap.” – Gandalf, ‘The Two Towers’
26. “Maybe he does deserve to die, but now that I see him I do pity him.” -Frodo, ‘The Two Towers’
27. “Stop! This creature is bound to me and I to him. He is our guide.” -Frodo, ‘The Two Towers’
28. “You must understand young hobbit, 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, ‘The Two Towers’
29. “Rohan, my lord, is ready to fall.” -Saruman, ‘The Two Towers’
30. “My home is deep in the forest near the roots of the mountains.” -Treebeard, ‘The Two Towers’
31. “I promised Gandalf I would keep you safe and safe is where I’ll keep you.” -Treebeard, ‘The Two Towers’
32. “You’ll find more cheer in a graveyard.” -Gimli, ‘The Two Towers’
33. “Dark have been my dreams of late.” – Theoden, ‘The Two Towers’
34. “I know your face, Eowyn.” – Theoden, ‘The Two Towers’
35. “Look for your friends, but do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands.” -Eomer, ‘The Two Towers’
36. “Don’t talk to it, Merry. Don’t encourage it.” -Pippin, ‘The Two Towers’
37. “That doesn’t make sense to me. But, then again, you are very small.” -Treebeard, ‘The Two Towers’
38. “There will be no Dawn… for Men.” -Saruman, ‘The Two Towers’
39. “They run as if the very whips of their masters were behind them.” -Legolas, ‘The Two Towers’
40. “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 mountain side… Darkness took me and I strayed away through 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.” – Gandalf, ‘The Two Towers’
41. “I will draw you, Saruman, as poison is drawn from a wound.” – Gandalf, ‘The Two Towers’
42. “No, my lord – let him go. Enough blood has been split on his account.” -Aragorn, ‘The Two Towers’
43. “The Ring will not save Gondor. It only has the power to destroy. Please, let me go.” -Frodo, ‘The Two Towers’
44. “You want to know what happen to Boromir? Do you want to know why your brother died? He tried to take the Ring from Frodo after swearing an oath to protect him. The Ring drove your brother mad.” -Sam, ‘The Two Towers’
45. “I always like going South, somehow it feels like going downhill.” -Treebeard, ‘The Two Towers’
46. “So this is the answer to all the riddles, here in the wild I have you, two halflings and a host of men at my call, and the ring of power within my grasp.” -Faramir, ‘The Two Towers’
47. “Mordor… the one place in Middle-Earth we don’t want to see any closer… And it’s the one place we’re trying to get to… it’s just where we can’t get.” -Sam, ‘The Two Towers’
48. “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!” -Saruman, ‘The Two Towers’
49. “I found it I did. A way through the marshes. Orcs don’t use it, orcs don’t know it. They go round for miles and miles. Come hobbitses, soft and quick as shadows we must be.” –Gollum, ‘The Two Towers’
50. “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.” -Elrond, ‘The Two Towers’
