[ConservativeDude]

ok, now that we’re on a roll...how about when the doors to the city (Minas Tirith?) are being pounded down, and Gandalf is there with the troops, and says, “Men of Gondor, whatever comes through that door, you will stand and fight!”. And then those Mountain Trolls burst through, and they do stand and fight.

Man, I loved that also!

I think, incidentally, that Return of the King might be the best movie of all time.

[mware]

Okay, how about this line. Can't recall the book it was in but when Sam Wise tells Frodo,

"Mr. Frodo there are some things worth fighting for."

[mware]

It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. . .Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something. . .There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

[Ramius]

Agree... I get shivers at those rousing battle speeches. I think Aragorn's speech at the black gates ranks among the best ever. Brings a tear to my eye, every time:

Hold your ground! Hold your ground! Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come when the courage of men fails. When we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day! An hour of wolves, and shattered shields when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear... on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!

[snif] :-)