Talking About Tolkien

Aragorn	Not idly do the leaves of Lórien fall. (movie=book)

Aragorn	Riders of Rohan! What news from the Mark? (movie)
	What news from the North, Riders of Rohan? (book)

Gimli	Give me your name, horse-master, and I will give you mine.

Éomer	I would cut off your head, Dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground.
	I would cut off your head, beard and all, Master Dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground.

Legolas	You would die before your stroke fell.

Aragorn	They would be small, only children to your eyes.

Legolas	This forest is old. Very old. Full of memories.
	It is old, very old. It is old and full of memory.

Aragorn	Do not let him speak. He will put a spell on us.
	Do not let him speak, or put a spell upon us!

Gandalf	You are tracking the footsteps of two young hobbits.

Gandalf	They passed this way the day before yesterday. They met someone they did not expect. Does that comfort you?
	They climbed up here the day before yesterday; and they met someone that they did not expect. Does that comfort you?

Gandalf	Gandalf? Oh yes. That's what they used to call me. Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
	Gandalf...Yes, that was the name. I was Gandalf.

Gandalf	Darkness took me. And I strayed out of thought and time.

Théoden	Why should I welcome you, Gandalf Stormcrow?

Grima	Láthspell I name you, Ill-news; and ill news is an ill guest.

Gandalf	Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.

Gandalf	Breathe the free air again.

Théoden	Dark have been my dreams of late.

Gandalf	Your fingers would remember their old strength better, if they grasped your sword.
	Your fingers would remember their old strength better, if they grasped a sword-hilt.

Éowyn	I fear neither death nor pain.
	I do not fear either pain or death.

Aragorn	What do you fear, my lady?
	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.
	A cage. To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

Gimli	...that there are no dwarf-women, and the dwarves just spring out of holes in the ground!
	...that there are no dwarf-women, and that the dwarves grow out of stones.

Sam	Mordor. The one place in Middle-earth we don't want to see any closer. It's the one place we are trying to get to. It's just where we can't get.
	That's the one place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get.

Frodo	This is Sting. You've seen it before, haven't you, Gollum? Release him or I'll cut your throat.
	This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you'll feel it this time! I'll cut your throat.

Gollum	Orcs don't use it. Orcs don't know it. They go round for miles and miles.

Sam	There are dead things! Dead faces in the water!

Gollum	All dead, all rotten. Elves and Men and Orcs. A great battle long ago.
	All dead, all rotten. Elves and Men and Orcs. There was a great battle long ago.

Gollum	The Dead Marshes, yes, yes: that is their names.

Gollum	Careful now! Or hobbits go down to join the dead ones, and light little candles of their own.
	Very carefully! Or hobbits go down to join the Dead ones and light little candles.

Gollum	They are young, they are tender, they are nice. Eat them, eat them!

Gollum	What's taters? Preciousss, what's taters? Huh?
	What's taters, precious, eh, what's taters?

Sam	Even you couldn't say no to that. You're hopeless.
	You couldn't say no to that. Oh you're hopeless.

Sam	It's an Oliphant! No one at home will believe this.
	So there are Oliphaunts. But no one at home will ever believe me.

Faraimr	And where is your skulking friend? That gangrel creature. He had an ill-favoured look.
	The skulking fellow that we saw with his nose in the pool down yonder. He had an ill-favoured look.

Frodo	We set out from Rivendell with seven companions. One we lost in Moria. Two were my kin. A dwarf there was also. And an elf. And two men. Aragorn, son of Arathorn and Boromir of Gondor.
	Seven companions we had: one we lost at Moria, the others we left at Parth Galen above Rauros: two of my kin; a Dwarf there was also, and an Elf, and two Men. They were Aragorn; and Boromir.

Faramir	You were friend of Boromir?
	Were you a friend of Boromir?

Frodo	Yes, for my part.
	Yes, I was his friend, for my part.

Faramir	It would grieve you then to learn that he is dead?
	Then you would grieve to learn that Boromir is dead?

Faramir	As one of his companions, I had hoped you would tell me.
	I had hoped that his friend and companion would tell me how it was.

Faramir	So, this is the answer to all the riddles! Here in the wild I have you. Two haflings and a host of men at my call. And the Ring of Power within my grasp. A chance for Faramir, Captain of Gondor, to show his quality.
	So that is the answer to all the riddles! And here in the wild I have you: two halflings, and a host of men at my call, and the Ring of Rings. A pretty stroke of fortune! A chance for Faramir, Captain of Gondor, to show his quality!

Faramir	They wait for my command. Shall they shoot?
	"We wait only for your command to shoot, Captain." Shall we shoot?

Frodo	Please, let me go down to him.
	Let me go down quietly to him.

Frodo	Sméagol. Master is here. Come, Sméagol.

Faramir	I think at last we understand one another, Frodo Baggins.
	Well, Frodo, now at last we understand one another.

Frodo	You've left out one of the chief characters: Samwise the stouthearted. "I want to hear more about Sam, dad."
Sam	Now, Mr. Frodo, you shouldn't make fun. I was serious.
Frodo	So was I.