Eomer Quotes in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Eomer: Now is the hour! Riders of Rohan! Oaths you have taken, now fulfill them all, to lord and land!

Gandalf: He's suffered a defeat, yes, but... behind the walls of Mordor, our enemy is regrouping.

Gimli: Let him stay there. *Let him rot!* Why should we care?

Gandalf: Because ten-thousand Orcs now stand between Frodo and Mount Doom. I've sent him to his death.

Aragorn: No. There is still hope for Frodo. He needs time... and safe passage across the plains of Gorgoroth. We can give him that.

Gimli: How?

Aragorn: Draw out Sauron's armies. Empty his lands. Then we gather our full strength and march on the Black Gate.

Eomer: We cannot achieve victory through strength of arms.

Aragorn: Not for ourselves. But we can give Frodo his chance if we keep Sauron's Eye fixed upon us. Keep him blind to all else that moves.

Legolas: A diversion.

Gimli: Certainty of death, *small* chance of success... What are we waiting for?

Gandalf: Sauron will suspect a trap. He will not take the bait.

Aragorn: [knowingly] No, I think he will.

Eomer: You should not encourage him.

Eowyn: You should not doubt him.

Eomer: I do not doubt his heart, only the reach of his arm.

Gimli: That road there... where does that lead?

Legolas: It is the road to the Dimholt, the door under the mountain.

Eomer: None who venture there ever return. That mountain is evil.

Eomer: What business does an Elf, Man, and a Dwarf have in the Riddermark? Speak quickly.

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

Eomer: [dismounts] I would cut off your head, Dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground.

Legolas: [draws his bow and aims at arrow at Eomer's throat] You would die before your stroke fell.

Eomer: [to Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas]

[whistles]

Eomer: Hasufel! Arod! May these horses bear you to better fortune than their former masters.

Eomer: What business does an Elf, a Man, and a Dwarf have in the Riddermark? Speak quickly!

Gimli: Give me your name, Horse-master, and I shall give you mine.

Eomer: [dismounts his horse] I would cut off your head, Dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground.

Legolas: [fits an arrow to his bow at lightning speed] You would die before your stroke fell.

[Rohirrim point their spears at Legolas]

Aragorn: [signals for Legolas to lower his weapon] I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn. This is Gimli, son of Glóin, and Legolas of the Woodland Realm. We are friends of Rohan, and of Théoden, your King.

Eomer: Théoden no longer recognizes friend from foe. Not even his own kin.

[takes off helmet]

Eomer: Saruman has poisoned the mind of the king and claimed lordship over these lands. My company are those loyal to Rohan, and for that we are banished. The White Wizard is cunning. He walks here and there, they say, as an old man hooded and cloaked. And everywhere his spies slip past our nets.

Aragorn: We are no spies. We track a party of Uruk-Hai, westward across the plain. They have taken two of our friends captive.

Eomer: The Uruks are destroyed. We slaughtered them during the night.

Gimli: But there were two Hobbits! Did you see two Hobbits with 'em?

Aragorn: They would be small. Only children to your eyes.

Eomer: We left none alive. We piled the carcasses and burned them.

Gimli: Dead?

Eomer: I am sorry.

[Éomer whistles a signal]

Eomer: Hasufel! Arod! May these horses bear you to better fortune than their former masters. Farewell.

[puts on helmet, mounts his horse]

Eomer: Look for your friends. But do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands.

Eomer: How long has it been since Saruman bought you? What was the promised price, Grima? When all the Men are dead you would take your share of the treasure?

[Wormtongue looks at Eowyn]

Eomer: Too long have you watched my sister. Too long have you haunted her steps.

[Eomer is seized by two guards]

Wormtongue: You see much, Eomer son of Eomund. Too much.

[Eomer is beaten by the guards]

Wormtongue: You are banished forthwith from the Kingdom of Rohan... under pain of death.

Eomer: You have no authority here! Your orders mean nothing!

Wormtongue: Oh, but this order does not come from me. It comes from the King. He signed it this morning.

[Shows Eomer the banishment order, signed by Theoden's seal]

Eomer: [to Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas] Look for your friends, but do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands.

[Shadowfax rears]

Aragorn: Gandalf.

Gandalf: Théoden King stands alone.

Eomer: Not alone. Rohirrim!

[Rohirrim gather behind him]

Theoden: Eomer!

Eomer: TO THE KING!