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

Pippin: I feel like I'm back at the Green Dragon.

Merry: [through a mouthful of food] Mm. Green Dragon.

Pippin: A mug of ale in my hand, putting my feet up on a settle after a hard day's work.

Merry: Only, you've never done a hard day's work.

[They laugh; Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli ride up. Merry stands and gives an exaggerated bow]

Merry: Welcome, my lords, to Isengard!

Gimli: You young rascals! A merry hunt you've led us on, and now we find you... feasting and... and *smoking.*

Pippin: We are sitting on a field of victory enjoying a few well-earned comforts.

[Merry blows a smoke ring]

Pippin: The salted pork is particularly good.

Gimli: [eagerly] Salted pork?

Gandalf: [exasperated] Hobbits.

Merry: We're under orders from Treebeard, who has taken over management of Isengard.

Treebeard: [as they walk toward the tower] Hroom, young Master Gandalf! I'm relieved that you've come. Wood and water, stock and stone I can master, but there's a wizard to manage here. Locked his tower.

Treebeard: [after seeing the torn-down forest around Isengard] Saruman! A wizard should know better!

[loud yell]

Treebeard: There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery.

Pippin: Look, the trees! They're moving!

Merry: Where are they going?

Treebeard: They have business with the Orcs. My business is with Isengard tonight, with rock and stone.

[Ents emerge from the woods, following Treebeard]

Treebeard: Hroom, hm, 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: We have just agreed...

[Merry and Pippin lean in]

Merry: Yes?

Treebeard: I have told your names to the Entmoot, and we have agreed you are not Orcs.

Pippin: Well, that's good news.

Treebeard: Many of these trees were my friends. Creatures I had known from nut or acorn.

Pippin: I'm sorry, Treebeard.

Treebeard: They had voices of their own. Saruman! A wizard should know better!

[Treebeard is is walking through the forest, carrying Merry and Pippin]

Treebeard: I believe you will enjoy this next one, too. It is one of my own compositions. Ahem. 'Beneath the roof of sleeping... leaves and dreams of trees untold, When woodland halls are... green... and cool, and the wind is in the west, Come back to me... Come... back... to me, And say my land is... best.'

Merry: Why are there so few of you, when you live so long? Are there Ent children?

Treebeard: [Sadly] Burárum. There have been no Entlings for a terrible long count of years.

Merry: Why is that?

Treebeard: We lost the Entwives.

Pippin: Oh, I'm sorry. How did they die?

Treebeard: Die? No. We *lost* them. And now, we cannot *find* them. I don't suppose you've seen Entwives in the Shire?

Merry: Can't say that I have. You, Pip?

Pippin: What do they look like?

Treebeard: Hrrooom... I... don't... remember... now.

Merry: [of the Entmoot] It's been going for hours.

Pippin: They must have decided something by now.

Treebeard: Decided? No, we have just finished saying "Good Morning".

Merry: But it's night time already! You can't take forever!

Treebeard: Now, don't be hasty, master Meriadoc.

Merry: We're running out of time!

Treebeard: We Ents cannot hold back this storm. We must weather such things as we have always done.

Merry: How can that be your decision?

Treebeard: This is not our war.

Merry: But you're part of this world, aren't you?... You must help... please.

Treebeard: [reacting to Pippin's plan] That doesn't make sense to me. But, then again, you are very small.

Treebeard: I always like going South; somehow, it feels like going downhill.

Treebeard: You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.

Treebeard: [of Orcs] They come with fire, they come with axes... gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning! Destroyers and usurpers, curse them!

Treebeard: [to Merry and Pippin] I promised Gandalf I would keep you safe and safe is where I'll keep you.

Pippin: And whose side are you on?

Treebeard: Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little Orc.

Treebeard: My home is deep in the forest near the roots of the mountains.

Treebeard: The Ents are going to war.