"okay - but that still only counts as ONE!" -- Gimli ------------
my daughter's favorite line was when she pulled off her helmet, drew her sword, and said "I'm not any man!"
Farmgirl
Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :
I think it was, "I am no man!" That's my fave, too. Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Yes - I didn't quote it exactly right. But I knew others that watched it would know what I meant..
FG
[ December 22, 2003, 10:55 AM: Message edited by: Farmgirl ]
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
"You bow to no one."
Posted by Javert Hugo (Member # 3980) on :
"...but this is not that day! Today, we fight!"
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Gonna have to go with "I am no man," as well, though I liked the quote in the book a bit better.
quote: But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Eowyn I am, Eomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.
I love Eowyn. Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
"Smite" is a wonderful word. I think I like the "counts as one" line the best too, but I'll have to see it again.
edited for using the phrase "i think" an obnoxious number of times...
[ December 22, 2003, 10:50 AM: Message edited by: MyrddinFyre ]
Posted by Koga (Member # 5646) on :
Smite is indeed a wonderful word.
And my favorit line was probably "that still only counts as one" but since it has already been mentioned I feel I need to add another line. So a close second would be.... "You will suffer me"
Nor mally I would put:
"We suffer no one living to pass" -dead king dude
"You will suffer me" -rightful king dude
but it is the Favorite SINGLE line thread, so I won't put as the line I chose. Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
The speech Theoden gives was great, though that wasn't really a single line. Maybe the end of it I guess.
Something like: "Ride to ruin, and the world's ending. Death!"
Hobbes Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Theoden: (not sure if this quote is exact. Some of us have not downloaded the script and keep it handy for such needs as this) "No, we cannot win. But we will fight."
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
I don't know if it counts as a single line, but I loved Pippin's singing. Probably my favorite part of the entire movie.
That voice is a voice I could drown in and one I would take over Alan Rickmans!
AJ
Posted by Javert Hugo (Member # 3980) on :
I bought the soundtrack on the strength of that voice.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Was that really Pippin (Billy Boyd) singing? Or did they voice-over someone else's voice?
FG
Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
Oh, that was him *swoons*
I, too, asked for the RotK soundtrack on the strength of Billy Boyd's singing Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
This is my favorite line in the book:
"I may not be able to carry the ring, but I can carry you." Said oh so lovingly by my favorite Samwise.
I also love it when Frodo says that he's glad that Sam is with him "at the end of all things."
But I get chills during Aragorn's final battle speech when he says "I see in your eyes fear that would take the heart of me..." OOOoooooo! *Shivers*
Wonderful stuff. I can't pick just one. Posted by Zotto! (Member # 4689) on :
Narn took EXACTLY all of my favorite lines. Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
That's why you're my minion dear.
(((Zotto!)))
Posted by Lime (Member # 1707) on :
Ohh! Ohh! Can I be minion too? *jumps up and down excitedly*
I gotta throw in my vote for "I see in your eyes the fear that would take the heart of me!" It's just amazing how good that line is.
It's also amazing how divergent the quality of the dialogue gets in these movies. I mean, from the above line all the way down to "Fangorn Forest? What madness drove them in there?" - when it's perfectly obvious what drove them in there: an orc with a spear in his shoulder and a sharp sword in his hand!!
[ December 22, 2003, 03:23 PM: Message edited by: Lime ]
Posted by Princess Leah (Member # 6026) on :
Narnia: Yes, yes, you're right. But I have one to add.
"Don't go where I can't follow"
Clichedand sappy, true, but taht doesn't change the fact that I was crying like a baby when Samwise said it!
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
"I move...for no man"
Oh wait, wrong movie.
Posted by suntranafs (Member # 3318) on :
I definitely think I'm with Javert Hugo
Posted by Javert Hugo (Member # 3980) on :
Noe-mon, it figures that's your favorite line.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Actually, it's an Attic Greek name, with the "e" pronounced as an "ay". That's how I pronounce it, anyway. Means "thoughtful"
Posted by Javert Hugo (Member # 3980) on :
No-ay-mon?
I'm going to have to retrain the voices in my head.
Posted by Ron Lambert (Member # 2872) on :
"If I return, I hope you won't think so badly of me." "That depends on how you return!"
"He's still alive! He needs some medicine."
"I hold--that you have fulfilled your vow."
"Now that you're crowned king, you can have my daughter, Mr. Anderson." --Oh wait, that was an ad lib from someone in the audience.
"I've saved the Shire, but not for myself."
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Well, I didn't quite explain it right. I pronounce the "e" as you would the letter "a", with the stress in the name falling on that syllable. I have no idea if that's actually how a speaker of Attic Greek would have pronounced it, though, so feel free to pronounce it however you'd like.
Posted by Javert Hugo (Member # 3980) on :
no-AY-mahn? Like that?
I don't know how to pronouce Attic Greek either.
*sings out* Dante!
Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
All of the above, plus Legolas' "How about a friend?" (in response to Gimli's "I never thought I'd be dying next to an Elf.").
I can't pick just one.
~Jane~
Posted by ana kata (Member # 5666) on :
Why Attic? I prefer Homeric. Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
It is so hard to pick one, and all the ones I remember from one intense viewing have been taken, but I'll second a couple anyway.
I definitely love "You bow to no one." However, I love when Sam says "Don't go where I can't follow." I actually didn't get to hear that in the theater because the sound cut out, and big thanks to whoever talked about that scene in another thread.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Actually, nobody *really* knows how the ancient Greeks pronounced anything, at least not difinitively. For all we know they said everything in a sort of high pitched, keening whine, and every third word was bellowed at the top of their lungs.
Actually, Anne Kate, there's a minor character in The Odyssey named Noemon, so I suppose you could say it was a Homeric name too. I first came across it in something or other in Attic Greek, which is why I think of it as that.
Posted by ana kata (Member # 5666) on :
Yeah, I had some tapes once by someone who thought he knew how. Apparently very different from the received version taught in schools. He used lots of clues from the texts themselves, for instance the fact that sheep said "be be" (beta epsilon), in some place or other. He was fun, one of those very precise scholarly types who are in love with their extremely obscure fields. Sort of how I picture Professor Tolkien.
I like Homeric Greek cause I like Homer, I guess. It's so vivid and full of life. It make you feel that it's more full-blooded and alive than Attic Greek. (I'm sure that is probably blasphemy, and Dante might be apoplectic to hear me say it.) I tried to teach myself Homeric Greek once long ago but didn't get very far. I know that most Greek courses teach Attic.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Leah, you're absolutely right. That one should definitely be on the top of the list.
*sigh* I need to marry someone like Samwise Gamgee. Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
"Well, I'm back."
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
quote: I don't know if it counts as a single line, but I loved Pippin's singing. Probably my favorite part of the entire movie.
That voice is a voice I could drown in and one I would take over Alan Rickmans!
*nods vigorously*
But I can't choose one line. Some of the dialogue was fantastic. I loved Gimli's "That still counts as ONE!" as well as his "I can't believe I'm dying next to an elf!" (to which Legolas' response is "How about a friend?") So, for those of you who mentioned those, I agree.
But I really can't pick just one, so many of them were great!
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
So after seeing it again today, I'm adding a line to my already long list above:
When Aragorn turns to the company at the end, smiles to himself and then says "For Frodo" before he charges the black gate.
Aaaah.
I also love Frodo's voice over speech to Sam at the end as Sam comes home and meets Rosie and the kids. Beautiful script writing.
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
"No, we cannot win, but we will fight nonetheless"
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
The scene at the Black Gate is becoming my favorite of the whole movie.
I'm finding myself always whispering "Elessaaaar" for no reason. My co-workers think I'm bonkers.
Posted by Princess Leah (Member # 6026) on :
"The salted pork is partickularly good"
I love hobbits.
And in "Into the West" (song while credits are rolling).
"(something something) on the horizen Why do the white gulls call"
My friend and I ended up walking home from seeing RotK the 3rd time with that song in our heads. I live in Seattle. On the coast. We were walking on a sort of hill with mountains on either side and Lake Washington in all its glory before us, singing that song, and then a flock of seagulls rose up crying... I'm still not entirely returned to reality...
Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
quote:"(something something) on the horizen Why do the white gulls call"
"What can you see On the horizon? Why do the white gulls call?"
I love that song.
~Jane~
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
The words fit so beautifully as what Sam might be saying to Frodo when they're back in the Shire. I have decided that that's what *I'm* going to think their purpose is. Posted by Jill (Member # 3376) on :
"May the best dwarf win." Gimli to Legolas once they get off the ships.
Posted by BelladonnaOrchid (Member # 188) on :
"And then we will lead them up the stairs" "And then..." "Then they will go into the tunnel." "And after that" "She will eat them, she's always hungry."
Or something of the like, between Gollum and himself.
Posted by ae (Member # 3291) on :
Henceforth to be known, for the sake of convenience, as "Gollum's Infodump".
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I liked the silences. I also liked most of the lines. I can't chose, but the way the second Osgiliath battle (the one where they 'all' died) was done, with just the song, no dialog and silence, was fabulous.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
I can't even remember what he says it in response to, but when Merry says "Yes milady" he had the funniest expression. It's burned on my brain.
The end of Denethor and also Gandalf saying "So ends Denethor" or whatever it is he says. It was just kind of like :shrug: I tried :unshrug:
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Noeman- there is a line from "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" that's "I works for no man". Where is "moves" from?
Posted by Javert Hugo (Member # 3980) on :
I have a friend who consistently calls me "milady" and has for ages. Merry saying it gave me a pang.
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart out of me. There may come a day when the courage of men fails, when the earth shakes as the world of men comes crashing down, But it is not this day, this day... We Fight!
I hope I quoted that right. Not a one liner, but the best part of the movie, and just so you all know, If I could be transported into any movie and have it be real, even though I speak elvish, it would be Last Samurai, their is no better way to die than the way they did.
RTF
Posted by Javert Hugo (Member # 3980) on :
quote: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 time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep... and take hold.
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
No one has mentioned Legolas' classic: "A diversion!" You gotta love Captain Obvious.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
*snort* I actually giggled when I saw him say that the first time. There are also several deliberate closeups on one of his 5 meaningful looks earlier in the movie that were so funny and out of place that I laughed out loud. Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
"Hmm....I'm sensing something!" (Orlando Bloom in the Primetime bit on ROTK, not from the movie.)
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
"Since you are robbed of Boromir, I will do what I can in his stead. If I should return, think better of me, Father."
"Three days' ride, as the Nazgul flies, and you'd better hope we don't have one of those on our tail."
"You smoke too much, Pip."
"Lord Denethor is Boromir's father. It would be very unwise to bring him news of his beloved sons death. Best not to speak of it. And don't mention Frodo either, or the ring. Or Aragorn, say nothing of him. In fact, its best if you don't speak at all, Peregrin Took."
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
pooka- I love that line, I love Denethor's death because of that line.
The whole exchange between Gandalf and Pippin before the battle, when they are in their rooms.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Shigosei, I totally caught that during that special. It made me feel better to realize that's he's very aware of his meaningful looks and overabundance of paraphrase dialogue. Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Farmgirl, I haven't yet seen, but I have read the series dozens of times.
From the book, apropos for an OSC site: "The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make real new things of its own."
From the book, a favorite of mine: "For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach."
And from what I've heard of the movie, who could resist Gimli's "Certain death, small chance of success . . . what are we waitin' for?" Sure to become a classic! Posted by Ryan Hart (Member # 5513) on :
I also bought the soundtrack on the strenght on Pippin's voice. And speaking of voices, I will be playing Javert in a production of Les Miserables!
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Ryan!! It's so good to see you here!! Congrats on your role! That's awesome. Posted by Ryan Hart (Member # 5513) on :
Thanks Narn. I was in that show too. I was Aslan. And now i need to stop talking about myself before my head explodes.
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
You guys have named all my favorites. Here are a few honorable mentions:
Eomer (speaking of Merry): I do not doubt his heart, only the reach of his arm.
Pippin (upon finding out he will become a guard of the Citadel): So I imagine this is just a ceremonial position.
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Posted by Ryan Hart (Member # 5513) on :
The thing Aragorn sings at the end when translated means. " I am come out of the Great Sea here to middle earth. Here I will abide, I and my heirs until the undoing of the world."
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That's why you're my minion dear. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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