Legolas Quotes in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Legolas: Lembas!

[nibbles a corner]

Legolas: One small bite is enough to fill the stomach of a grown man!

Merry: [to Pippin] How many did you eat?

Pippin: Four.

[burps]

Aragorn: [to Frodo] If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. You have my sword...

Legolas: And you have my bow.

Gimli: And *my* axe.

Boromir: You carry the fate of us all, little one. If this is indeed the will of the Council, then Gondor will see it done.

[Gandalf picks up a book that the skeleton of a Dwarf was holding]

Legolas: [to Aragorn] We must move on, we cannot linger.

Gandalf: [starts reading from the book] They have taken the bridge and the second hall. We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes, drums... drums in the deep. We cannot get out. A shadow lurks in the dark. We can not get out... they are coming.

Legolas: Hurry! Frodo and Sam have reached the eastern shore.

[Aragorn does not move]

Legolas: You mean not to follow them.

Aragorn: Frodo's fate is no longer in our hands.

Gimli: Then it has all been in vain. The fellowship has failed.

Aragorn: Not if we hold true to each other.

[pause]

Aragorn: We will not abandon Merry and Pippin to torment and death. Not while we have strength left. Leave all that can be spared behind. We travel light. Let's hunt some Orc.

Gimli: YES!

Gimli: [upon leaving Lorien and Galadriel] I have been dealt a wound beyond all healing, for I have looked the last... upon that which was fairest.

[sighs]

Gimli: Henceforth I will call nothing fair unless it be her gift to me.

Legolas: What was it?

Gimli: I asked for one hair from her golden head... she gave me three.

Elrond: Strangers from distant lands, friends of old, you have been summoned here to answer the threat of Mordor. Middle Earth stands upon the brink of destruction; none can escape it. You will unite or you will fall. Each race is bound to this fate, this one doom. Bring forth the ring, Frodo.

Boromir: [Frodo puts the ring on a stand for all to see] So it is true. In a dream, I saw the Eastern sky grow dark. But in the West, a pale light lingered. A voice was crying, "The doom is near at hand, Isildur's Bane is found."

[reaches for the Ring]

Boromir: Isildur's Bane...

Aragorn: Boromir!

Gandalf: [speaking the words engraved on the Ring] Ash Nazg Durbatuluk, Ash Nazg Gimbatul, Ash Nazg Thrakatuluk, Agh Burzum-ishi Krimpatul.

[the light darkens and the air rumbles; Boromir backs away from the Ring]

Elrond: Never before has anyone dared utter words of that tongue here, in Imladris.

Gandalf: I do not ask for pardon, Master Elrond, for the Black Speech of Mordor may yet be heard in every corner of the West! The Ring is altogether evil.

Boromir: is a gift. A gift to the foes of Mordor. Why not use this ring? Long has my father, the Steward of Gondor, kept the forces of Mordor at bay. By the blood of our people are your lands kept safe. Give Gondor the weapon of the enemy. Let us use it against him.

Aragorn: You cannot wield it. None of us can. The One Ring answers to Sauron alone. It has no other master.

Boromir: And what would a Ranger know of this matter?

Legolas: This is no mere Ranger. He is Aragorn, son of Arathorn. You owe him your allegiance.

Boromir: Aragorn? This is Isildur's heir?

Legolas: And heir to the throne of Gondor

Aragorn: [Elvish] Sit down, Legolas.

Boromir: Gondor has no King. Gondor needs no King.

Gandalf: Aragorn is right. We cannot use it.

Elrond: You have only one choice. The Ring must be destroyed.

Gimli: Then what are we waiting for?

[He strikes the ring with his axe; the axe breaks, leaving the ring intact]

Elrond: The ring cannot be destroyed, Gimli, son of Gloin, by any craft that we here possess. The ring was made in the fires of Mount Doom. Only there can it be unmade. The ring must be taken deep into Mordor and cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came. One of you must do this.

Boromir: One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its black gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep. The great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire, ash, and dust. The very air you breathe is a poisonous fume. Not with ten-thousand men could you do this. It is folly.

Legolas: Have you heard nothing Lord Elrond has said? The ring must be destroyed!

Gimli: And I suppose you think you're the one to do it?

Boromir: And if we fail, what then? What happens when Sauron takes back what is his?

Gimli: I will be dead before I see the Ring in the hands of an Elf! Never trust an Elf!

Gimli: Dwarf doors are invisible when closed.

Gandalf: Yes, Gimli, their own masters cannot find them, if their secrets are forgotten.

Legolas: Why doesn't that surprise me?

Legolas: A lament for Gandalf...

[heard in the background]

Merry: What do they say about him?

Legolas: I have not the heart to tell you. For me the grief is still too near.

[on the mountain]

Legolas: There is a fell voice on the air.

Gandalf: It's Saruman!

[avalanches start]

Aragorn: He's trying to bring down the mountain! Gandalf, we must turn back!

Gandalf: No!

Legolas: Something draws near. I can feel it.

[Horn blowing in distance]

Legolas: The Horn of Gondor.

Aragorn: Boromir!

Legolas: We must move on. We cannot linger.

Legolas: We should leave now.

Aragorn: No. Orcs patrol the eastern shore. We must wait for cover of darkness.

Legolas: It is not the eastern shore that worries me. A shadow and a threat have been growing in my mind. Something draws near, I can feel it.

Legolas: I can not go back.

Thranduil: Where will you go?

Legolas: I do not know.

[pause]

Thranduil: Go to the North. Meet with the Dunedain. There is a young Ranger among them. His father, Arathorn, was a good man. His son may grow to be a great one.

Legolas: What is his name?

Thranduil: He is known in the wild as Strider. His true name, you must discover for yourself.

Legolas: [at Gundabad] My mother died here. There is no grave nor memory. My father never speaks of her.

Legolas: [sees a flock of giant bats] These bats are bred for one purpose... for war!

Kili: [as Tauriel is looking at the mass of Laketowners on the shores of the city, Kili approaches her] Tauriel...

Fili: [pushing a boat into the lake in order to reach Erebor] Kili, come on. We're leaving!

Tauriel: They are your people. You must go.

[She begins to walk away when Kili stops her]

Kili: Come with me. I know how I feel, I'm not afraid. You make me feel alive.

Tauriel: No, I can't.

Kili: [She again turns to leave, but Kili grabs her arm] Tauriel... amralimne.

['My love' in Khuzdul]

Tauriel: [Tauriel gives Kili a sharp look] I don't know what that means.

Kili: I think you do.

Tauriel: [Tauriel looks at him with curiosity in her eyes, but suddenly straightens up, sensing someone behind her. She begins speaking in Sindarin or Silvan Elvish] My Lord Legolas.

Legolas: [Also speaking in Elvish] Take your leave of the Dwarf. You are needed elsewhere.

Kili: [Kili and Tauriel turn away from each other, but both turn back as Kili takes her hand and gives her the rune stone his mother gave him. He closes his hands around hers and holds their hands between their hearts] Keep it... as a promise.

[He heads to the boat as Tauriel looks down at the stone, her eyes suddenly filling with tears as Kili, Fili, Bofur and Oin begin rowing towards Erebor]

Gimli: Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with an Elf.

Legolas: What about side by side with a friend?

Gimli: Aye. I could do that.

[in a drinking game]

Gimli: It's the Dwarves that go swimming with little, hairy woman.

[he burps]

Legolas: I feel something. A slight tingle in my fingers. I think it's affecting me.

Gimli: What did I say? He can't hold his liquor.

[Gimli passes out]

Legolas: [to Eomer who is watching] Game over.

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.

Legolas: The way is shut. It was made by those who are dead, and the dead keep it. The way is shut.

[Aragorn readies to take the Paths of the Dead. He leads his horse towards the entrance and passes by Gimli, who stops him]

Gimli: Where do you think you're going?

Aragorn: Not this time, Gimli. This time you must stay.

[Legolas walks up to them, leading his horse]

Legolas: Have you learned nothing of the stubbornness of Dwarves?

Gimli: You may as well accept it. We're going with you, laddy.

Gimli: What kind of army would linger in such a place?

Legolas: One that is cursed. Long ago the men of the mountain swore an oath to the last king of Gondor, to come to his aid, to fight. But when the time came, when Gondor's need was dire, they fled, vanishing into the darkness of the mountain. And so Isildur cursed them, never to rest until they had fulfilled their pledge. Who shall call them from the gray twilight, the forgotten people?

Legolas: The stars are veiled. Something stirs in the East. A sleepless malice. The eye of the enemy is moving. He is HERE.

Legolas: The horses are restless, and the men are quiet.

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.

[from extended version]

Legolas: Final count, forty-two.

Gimli: Forty-two? Oh, that's not bad for a pointy-eared elvish princeling. Hmph! I myself am sitting pretty on forty-THREE.

Legolas: [takes out an arrow, and shoots the Uruk Gimli is sitting on in the stomach] Forty-three.

Gimli: He was already dead!

Legolas: He was twitching.

Gimli: He was *twitching* because he's got my axe EMBEDDED IN HIS NERVOUS SYSTEM!

[rattles the handle of his ax; the Uruk's arms and legs twitch]

Gimli: [failing to see over the wall] What's happening out there?

Legolas: Shall I describe it to you?

Gimli: [turns] Hmm?

Legolas: Or would you like me to find you a box?

[Gimli laughs]

[during the Battle of Helm's Deep, Gimli has killed an Uruk-Hai warrior]

Gimli: Legolas! Two already!

Legolas: I'm on seventeen!

Gimli: Huh? I'll have no pointy-ear outscoring me!

[kills another one]

Legolas: [shoots two more arrows] Nineteen!

Legolas: A red sun rises, blood has been spilled this night.

Legolas: They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard.

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.

[sounds of trees 'speaking' is heard]

Aragorn: Gimli, lower your axe.

Legolas: They have feelings, my friend. The elves began it, waking up the trees, teaching them to speak.

Gimli: Talking trees. What do trees have to talk about, hmm... except the consistency of squirrel droppings?

Legolas: [in Elvish] You're late.

[takes a good look at Aragorn]

Legolas: [in English] You look terrible.

Gimli: Whatever luck you live by... let's hope it lasts the night.

Legolas: Your friends are with you, Aragorn.

Gimli: Let's hope they last the night...

Legolas: Look at them. They're frightened. You can see it in their eyes.

[All the men turn to look at him]

Legolas: [in Elvish] And they should be. Three hundred... against ten thousand!

Aragorn: [in Elvish] They have a better chance defending themselves here than at Edoras...

Legolas: [in Elvish] Aragorn... they cannot win this fight. They are all going to die!

Aragorn: [in English] Then I shall die as one of them!

Aragorn: [looking at defenders of Helm's Deep] Farmers, ferriers, stable boys. These are no soldiers.

Gimli: Most have seen too many winters.

Legolas: Or too few.

[Gandalf the White whistles and a white horse appears]

Legolas: That is one of the Mearas, unless my eyes are cheated by some spell.

Gandalf: Shadowfax. He is the lord of all horses and has been my friend through many dangers.

Legolas: Forgive me. I mistook you for Saruman.

Gandalf: I am Saruman. Or rather, Saruman as he should have been.

Aragorn: [of Orcs] Their pace has quickened. They must have caught our scent. Hurry!

Legolas: Come on, Gimli!

Gimli: Three days and nights pursuit. No food, no rest. No sign of our quarry, but what bare rock can tell!

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.

Aragorn: Legolas! What do your Elf eyes see?

Legolas: The Uruks turn Northeast. They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard!

Aragorn: Sauraman.

Legolas: [of the Uruk-hai] They run as if the very whips of their masters were behind them.

Aragorn: Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall.

Legolas: [of Merry and Pippin] They may yet be alive.

Legolas: [Looking at two pictures in a locket that he has confiscated from Gloin. The picture on the left has a long thick beard] Who is this? Your brother?

Gloin: That is my wife!

Legolas: [Looking at the infant in the other picture] And who is this horrid creature? A goblin mutant?

Gloin: That is my wee lad, Gimli!

Legolas: [In Elvish]

[speaking about Kíli]

Legolas: Why does the Dwarf stare at you, Tauriel?

Tauriel: [In Elvish] Who can say? He's quite tall for a Dwarf. Do you not think?

Legolas: [In Elvish] Taller than some...

[pause]

Legolas: but no less ugly.

Legolas: Tauriel, you cannot hunt thirty Orcs on your own.

Tauriel: [smiling] But I'm not on my own.

Legolas: You knew I would come.

Legolas: [after Thranduil decapitates Narzug] Why did you do that? You promised to set him free.

Thranduil: And I did. I freed his wretched head from his miserable shoulders.

Legolas: It is not our fight.

Tauriel: [reluctant] It is our fight. It will not end here. With every victory this evil will grow. If your father has his way, we will do nothing. We will hide within our walls, live our lives away from the light and let darkness descend. Are we are not part of this world? Tell me, Mellon, when did we let evil become stronger than us?

[from trailer]

Legolas: Do not think I won't kill you, dwarf!

Narzug: [to Legolas and Thranduil] Your world will burn.

Legolas: What are you talking about? Speak!

Narzug: Our time has come again. My master serves the one. Do you understand now, Elfling? Death is upon you! The flames of war are upon you.

[from trailer]

Legolas: There is no King Under the Mountain, nor will there ever be!

Legolas: You were tracking a company of thirteen dwarves. Why?

Narzug: Not thirteen, not anymore.

[after Gandalf opens the door to Moria]

Legolas: So all you had to do was say friend... and enter.

Gilmi: Those were happier times...

Aragorn: [as Boromir's funeral boat floats away] Either we take the last boat and follow Frodo, or we follow the orcs on foot.

Legolas: Pippin and Merry may be dead by now, we don't know.

Aragorn: We cannot forsake them... the fate of the ringbearer is my hands no longer, the company of the Ring has played it's part.

Aragorn: We follow the orcs!