A cold voice answered: "Come not between the Nazgul and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shriveled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye."
A sword rang as it was drawn. "Do what you will, but I will hinder it, if I may."
"Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!"
Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. "But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Eowyn am I, 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."
Just an aside, looking this up in my 1965 copy of Return of the King, reminds me just how good the writing in LOTR is. People just dont write in this manner anymore, and it makes the products of our modern day "intellectual" class look sophomoric in comparison.
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to."
"They have a cave troll."
"Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!"
"What's... taters, precious?" "You know - PO-TA-TOES. Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew."
"YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" (honorable mention since it was in the book)
This is fun. I managed to get five I hadn't seen others write yet, although a couple of them would probably be considered more obscure.
You have my bow (etc.)
Nobody tosses a dwarf
Your words are poison
My friends, you bow to no one
That still only counts as one
To be fair that part is, sort of, in the book.
Just an aside, looking this up in my 1965 copy of Return of the King, reminds me just how good the writing in LOTR is. People just dont write in this manner anymore, and it makes the products of our modern day "intellectual" class look sophomoric in comparison.
Took me five minutes to clip that out, and it's made my annual re-watch significantly more entertaining.