"Are you suggesting hobbits migrate?"
[in Shelob's Lair, after Frodo gets poisoned]
Sam: "Oh no!..Frodo!"
Sam: "Frodo! Frodo! Speak to me!
Brave, brave Frodo, I will take the ring, you will not have died in vain!"
Frodo: "Uh, I'm not quite dead, Sam."
Sam: "Well, you
shall not have been mortally wounded in vain!"
Frodo: "I-- I-- I
think I c-- I could pull through, Sam."
Sam: "Oh, I see."
Frodo: "Actually, I think I'm all right to come with you, Sam."
Sam: "No, no, sweet Mister Frodo! Stay here! I will send help as soon
as I have accomplished a daring and heroic attempt to destroy the ring in my own
particular...[sigh]"
Frodo: "Idiom, Sam?"
Sam: "Idiom!"
Frodo: "No, I feel fine, actually, Sam."
Sam: "Farewell,
sweet Mister Frodo!"
Frodo: "I'll, um, I'll just stay here then. Hm,
oh great, that Orc from Legend is coming."
The Tale of Sir Faramir
Denethor: "One day, Faramir, all this will be yours!"
Faramir: "What, the curtains?"
Denethor: "No. Not the
curtains, Faramir. All that you can see, stretched out over the hills and
valleys of Gondor! This'll be your kingdom, lad."
Faramir: "But
Mother--"
Denethor: "Father, lad. Father."
Faramir: "B--
b-- but Father, I don't want any of that."
Denethor: "Listen, lad. I
built this kingdom up from nothing. When I became Steward here, all there was
was a magnificent kingdom. Other lords said I was daft to take control of the
Minas Tirith, but I became Steward all the same, just to show 'em. Then we lost
Ithilien. So, I tried governing a second time. This time we lost Osgiliath. So I
tried a third time being a good Steward. Osgiliath was burned down, fell over,
then sank into the Anduin. But the fourth time ... Boromir got half the ruined
city! And that's what you're gonna get, Faramir: the strongest ruined deserted
city in these lands."
Faramir: "But I don't want any of that. I'd
rather--"
Denethor: "Rather what?!"
Faramir: "I'd
rather..." [music] ...be a Wizard!
Denethor: "Stop that! Stop that!
You're not going into a spell while I'm here. Now listen, Faramir. In twenty
minutes you're getting to go on a suicidal sortie."
[later on after Denethor goes crazy]
Pippin: help! help! Denethor's going to burn Faramir alive!
Denethor: Now, now, now, this is supposed to be a happy occasion.
Let's not bicker and argue about who's burning who.
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