A diversion!

A couple more from me that I think are worth including after re-watching The Two Towers recently... "Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow." I think this is a wonderfully emotional piece of dialogue said by Theoden before the battle of Helm's Deep. The way the words are combined with the montage of scenes showing the effect that Saruman's plans are having on Middle Earth is a part of the film that seems to go largely unnoticed. "My business is with Isengard tonight, with a rock and stone. Rarum-rum! Come, my friends. The ents are going to war. It is likely that we go to our doom: The last march of the ents!" Treebeard's finest hour in both the book and the film. His lines in the film combined with Howard Shore's music are excellent and one of my favourite parts of the movie (even more so in the extended cut). Excellent choices. In Theodens speech, I love the way the brilliant white light is shining from behind him. With Treebeard, I always cry at that scene. I've always wondered why it should bother me so, but I think thats one of the reasons why I love the films so much, they get me so deeply involved in even the most fantastical situations.

This one is for K.B., I think she will appeciate this... "Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered. It is a sword-day; a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now! Ride now! Ride for ruin, and the world's ending! Forth Eorlingas!"

I love it! No matter how often I read that it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. And of course it makes me want to shout Forth Eorlingas and ride forward on a horse. Thankfully the latter urge is easy to suppress as I don't happen to have a horse about my person, and I'm on my own in the house so it doesn't matter if I shout enthusiatic battle cries. :D "Frodo: I can't do this, Sam. Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. 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. Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam? Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for. "

The Secret Diary of Legolas, son of Weenus Isn't Legolas son of Thranduil? I'll get me coat...

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