The Two Towers — Sketch Card Reveal
Part 7: The Battle of the Hornburg – Forth Eorlingas
You could have picked a better spot. Well, lad, whatever luck you live by, let's hope it lasts the night.
Your friends are with you, Aragorn.
Let's hope they last the night.
A Eruchîn, ú-dano i faelas a hyn an uben tanatha le faelas! (Show them no mercy! For you shall receive none!)
What's happening out there?
Shall I describe it to you? Or would you like me to find you a box?
Dartho! (Hold!)
So it begins.
Tangado a chadad! (Prepare to fire!)
Faeg i-varv dîn na lanc a nu ranc. (Their armor is weak at the neck and beneath the arm.)
Leithio i philinn! (Release the arrows!)
Did they hit anything?
Give them a volley.
Fire!
Fire!
Ribed bant! (Full volley!)
Send them to me! Come on!
Pendraith! (Ladders!)
Good!
Swords! Swords!
Legolas! Two already!
I'm on 17!
I'll have no pointy-ear outscoring me!
Nineteen!
Merry.
We have just agreed.
Yes?
I have told your names to the Entmoot ... and we have agreed ... you are not Orcs.
Well, that's good news.
And what about Saruman? Have you come to a decision about him?
Now, don't be hasty, Master Meriadoc.
Hasty? Our friends are out there. They need our help. They cannot fight this war on their own.
War? Yes. It affects us all. Tree, root and twig. But 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.
Seventeen! Eighteen! Nineteen! Twenty! Twenty-one!
Causeway!
Is this it? Is this is all you can conjure, Saruman?
Togo hon dad, Legolas! (Bring him down, Legolas!)
Dago hon! Dago hon! (Kill him! Kill him!)
Brace the gate!
Hold them! Stand firm!
Aragorn!
Gimli!
Hado i philinn! (Release arrows!)
Herio! (Charge!)
The Ents cannot hold back this storm. We must weather such things as we have always done.
How can that be your decision?!
This is not our war.
But you're part of this world! Aren't you?!
You must help. Please. You must do something.
You are young and brave, Master Merry. But your part in this tale is over. Go back to your home.
Maybe Treebeard's right. We don't belong here, Merry. It's too big for us. What can we do in the end? We've got the Shire. Maybe we should go home.
The fires of lsengard will spread ... and the woods of Tuckborough and Buckland will burn. And ... and all that was once green and good in this world will be gone. There won't be a Shire, Pippin.
Aragorn! Fall back to the Keep! Get your men out of there!
Nan Barad! Nan Barad! (To the Keep! Pull back to the Keep!) Haldir, nan Barad! (Haldir, to the Keep!)
What are you doing? What are you stopping for?
Nan Barad! (To the Keep!)
Haldir!
Brace the gate!
Hold them!
To the gate. Draw your swords!
Make way! We cannot hold much longer!
Hold them!
How long do you need?
As long as you can give me.
Gimli!
Timbers! Brace the gate!
Come on. We can take them.
It's a long way.
Toss me.
What?
I cannot jump the distance! You'll have to toss me!
Don't tell the Elf.
Not a word.
Shore up the door!
Make way!
Follow me to the barricade.
Watch our backs!
Throw another one over here!
Higher!
Hold fast the gate!
Gimli! Aragorn! Get out of there!
Aragorn!
Pull everybody back. Pull them back.
Fall back! Fall back!
They have broken through! The castle is breached. Retreat!
Fall back!
Retreat!
Hurry! Inside. Get them inside!
Into the Keep!
I will leave you at the western borders of the forest. You can make your way north to your homeland from there.
Wait! Stop! Stop! Turn around. Turn around. Take us south.
South? But that will lead you past lsengard.
Yes. Exactly. If we go south, we can slip past Saruman unnoticed. The closer we are to danger, the farther we are from harm. It's the last thing he'll expect.
That doesn't make sense to me. But then ... you are very small. Perhaps you're right. South it is, then. Hold on, little Shirelings. I always like going south. Somehow it feels like going downhill.
Are you mad? We'll be caught.
No, we won't. Not this time.
Look! Osgiliath burns!
Mordor has come.
The Ring will not save Gondor. It has only the power to destroy. Please ... let me go.
Hurry.
Faramir! You must let me go!
And those little family of field mice ... that climb up sometimes, and they tickle me awfully. They're always trying to get somewhere where they...
Many of these trees were my friends. Creatures I had known from nut and acorn.
I'm sorry, Treebeard.
They had voices of their own.
Saruman. A wizard should know better!
There is no curse in Elvish ... Entish or the tongues of Men ... for this treachery.
Look! The trees! They're moving!
Where are they going?
They have business with the Orcs. My business is with lsengard tonight......with rock and stone.
Yes!
Come, my friends. The Ents are going to war. It is likely ... that we go to our doom. Last march ... of the Ents.
Faramir! Orcs have taken the eastern shore. Their numbers are too great. By nightfall we will be overrun.
Mr. Frodo?
It's calling to him, Sam. His Eye is almost on me.
Hold on, Mr. Frodo. You'll be all right.
Take them to my father. Tell him Faramir sends a mighty gift. A weapon that will change our fortunes in this war.
Do you want to know what happened to Boromir? You want to know why your brother died? He tried to take the Ring from Frodo after swearing an oath to protect him! He tried to kill him! The Ring drove your brother mad!
Watch out!
Mr. Frodo?
They're here. They've come.
Nazgul!
Stay here. Keep out of sight. Take cover!
The fortress is taken. It is over.
You said this fortress would never fall while your men defend it. They still defend it. They have died defending it.
They are breaking in! They're past the door!
Is there no other way for the women and children to get out of the caves?
Is there no other way?
There is one passage. It leads into the mountains. But they will not get far. The Uruk-hai are too many.
Tell the women and children to make for the mountain pass. And barricade the entrance!
So much death. What can Men do against such reckless hate?
Ride out with me. Ride out and meet them.
For death and glory.
For Rohan. For your people.
The sun is rising.
Look to my coming at first light on the fifth day. At dawn ... look to the east.
Yes ... Yes ... The horn of Helm Hammerhand ... shall sound in the Deep ... one last time.
Yes!
Let this be the hour when we draw swords together.
Fell deeds, awake. Now for wrath ... now for ruin and a red dawn.
Forth Eorlingas!
Gandalf.
Theoden King stands alone.
Not alone. Rohirrim!
Eomer.
To the king!
