Orlando Bloom
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Orlando Bloom began reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy as a teenager before abandoning the books in favor of sports and girls. He did not complete the three volumes until his early twenties: first in print, and then on camera as one of a handful of actors carefully selected for New Line Cinema's highly anticipated, $270 million, three-film screen adaptation of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The international success of the trilogy's first installment, The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), made Bloom a sought-after young actor. The talented Brit works the talk show circuit, mugs in magazines, and appears at every important award show -- always with a playful demeanor and an uncorrupted smile that suggest he could still be just as easily fulfilled by rugby and romance. Bloom was raised in Canterbury, Kent, with his sister, Samantha. Their mother taught them to enjoy the arts and encouraged them to participate in the local Kent Festival. Bloom began by reciting poetry and prose, displaying an advanced sensitivity to tone and modulation. Yet, it wasn't this precociousness or his frequent trips to the theater that influenced Bloom to become a professional actor. He was in awe of larger-than-life characters -- from Superman to the members of the A-Team -- and knew the only way to become one was to play one on the screen. At 16, Bloom relocated to London and performed with the National Youth Theatre for two seasons before winning a scholarship to train with the British American Drama Academy. At the conclusion of his term with the group, he played the lead in A Walk in the Vienna Woods, and secured an agent. This led to small roles on British television and an appearance in Brian Gilbert's Wilde (1997). Wishing to further his education, Bloom then enrolled at London's prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama (the alma mater of Ewan McGregor, Joseph Fiennes, and Ben Chaplin, among others). There, he acted in several plays, including Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Chekov's Three Sisters, and Sophocles' Antigone. While still in school, Bloom was trying to make it onto a friend's rooftop terrace when he fell three stories and broke his back. The accident almost paralyzed the actor, but surgery let him walk out of the hospital on crutches. Soon afterward, all his peers auditioned for coveted roles in the upcoming The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The extensive and selective casting process took place in every English-speaking country. Bloom good-naturedly tried out for the role of Faramir, a character introduced in the second film, The Two Towers (2002). After meeting with the project's director, Peter Jackson, Bloom was not cast as Faramir. Instead, Jackson asked that he read for the part of Legolas Greenleaf, a much more prominent figure who is featured in all three films. The director offered Bloom the role a few weeks later, only two days before the burgeoning star graduated from drama school. Legolas, Tolkien's warrior elf, has super-human strength, swift reflexes, and heightened sensory awareness. To play him, Bloom trained in archery, swordplay, and horseback riding for two months prior to shooting. He developed a graceful style of combat based on the characters in Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai and worked to manage his posture, poise, and composure. As Legolas, Bloom is immortal, and at 2,931 years old, is a tall, athletic, and skilled fighter of evil -- he truly is larger than life. After finishing The Lord of the Rings -- all three films, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, were shot simultaneously over 18 months in New Zealand -- Bloom headed to Morocco for a role in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down. The film chronicles the horrific Battle of Mogadishu in 1993, in which a "simple" mission left 18 U.S. soldiers dead and 73 wounded. Debuting his American accent, Bloom plays a neophyte ranger who breaks his back after falling 70 feet from a helicopter. This combat film ope
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
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93% | The Outpost |
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No Score Yet | S.M.A.R.T. Chase |
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No Score Yet | Needle in a Timestack |
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26% | Unlocked |
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29% | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales |
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$172.6M | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Pharmacy Road |
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90% | Tour De Pharmacy |
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64% | Digging For Fire |
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$0.2M | 2015 |
59% | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies |
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$187.8M | 2014 |
71% | Romeo And Juliet (Broadway Hd) |
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74% | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug |
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$180.5M | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Zulu |
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66% | The Good Doctor |
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$3.7k | 2012 |
26% | The Three Musketeers |
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$20.4M | 2011 |
13% | Main Street |
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$2.1k | 2011 |
33% | Sympathy for Delicious |
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$13.6k | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Fight For Your Right Revisited |
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No Score Yet | The Cross |
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37% | New York, I Love You |
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$1.6M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Everest: A Climb for Peace |
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44% | Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End |
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$309.5M | 2007 |
13% | Haven |
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$0.2M | 2006 |
20% | Love and Other Disasters |
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53% | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest |
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$423.1M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | The Path to Redemption |
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28% | Elizabethtown |
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$26.9M | 2005 |
39% | Kingdom of Heaven |
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$47.3M | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Ringers - Lord of the Fans |
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54% | Troy |
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$132.6M | 2004 |
0% | The Calcium Kid |
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93% | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
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$364.1M | 2003 |
79% | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl |
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$305.4M | 2003 |
55% | Ned Kelly |
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95% | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
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$339.8M | 2002 |
76% | Black Hawk Down |
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$108.6M | 2001 |
91% | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring |
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$314.1M | 2001 |
71% | Wilde |
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The Graham Norton Show
2007
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Carnival Row
2019
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The Late Late Show With James Corden
2015
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Easy
2016-2019
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
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Conan
2010
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The View
1997
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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Colbert Report
2005-2014
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Sunday Morning
2011-2018
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Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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Chelsea Lately
2007-2014
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Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
2009-2014
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2005-2007
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The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
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Midsomer Murders
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Quotes from Orlando Bloom's Characters
Will Turner: | This is either madness... or brilliance. |
Jack Sparrow: | It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide. |
Priest: | Convert to Islam today and beg Gods Forgiveness Tomorrow |
Priest: | Convert to Islam today and beg Gods forgiveness tomorrow. |
Balian: | You Have Taught Me A lot About Religion Your Eminence |
Balian: | You have taught me a lot about religion your eminence. |
Alicia: | I don't even know you. |
Ben: | That's very liberating. |
Drew Baylor: | I'm fine. |
Will Turner: | If you want pain, try wearing a corset! |
Elizabeth Swann: | If you want pain, try wearing a corset! |
Balian: | You go to certain death. |
Hospitaler: | All death is certain. |
Legolas: | These bats have been bred for one purpose. |
Tauriel: | For what? |
Legolas: | For war. |
Priest: | Does making a man a knight make him a better fighter? |
Balian: | Yes. |
Legolas: | He maybe my King, but he does not command my heart. |
Legolas: | And who's this? Your brother? |
Gloin: | That's my wife! |
Legolas: | There is no King under the Mountain nor will there ever be. |
Balian: | How could you be in hell, when you are in my heart. |
Legolas: | Such is the nature of evil. In time all foul things come forth. |
Thranduil: | Such is the nature of evil. In time all foul things come forth. |
Tauriel: | When did we allow evil to become stronger than us? |
Legolas: | It is not our fight. |
Tauriel: | it is our fight. |
Legolas: | Do not think I won't kill you dwarf. |
Legolas: | Lembas! Elvish waybread. One small bite is enough to fill a stomach of a grown man. |
Meriadoc 'Merry' Brandybuck: | Merry: How many did you eat? |
Pippin: | Four. |
Gimli: | Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with an elf. |
Legolas: | What about side by side with a friend? |
Gimli: | I could do that. |
Legolas: | They're taking the hobbits to Isengard. |
Boromir: | It 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. |
Bilbo Baggins: | I have never used a sword in my life. |
Legolas: | I have never used a sword in my life. |
Balin: | I'm not sure it is a sword, more like a letter opener. |
Legolas: | We must move on, we cannot linger. |
Legolas: | Have you heard nothing what Lord Elrond has said? The ring must be destroyed! |
Gimli: | And I suppose you think you are the one to do it! |
Will Turner: | You Cheated! |
Jack Sparrow: | Pirate!? |
Legolas: | Legolas: Lembas! Elvish waybread. One small? bite is enough to fill a stomach of a grown man. Merry: How many did you eat? Pippin: Four. |
Legolas: | Legolas: Lembas! Elvish waybread. One small bite is enough to fill a stomach of a grown man. Merry: How many did you eat? Pippin: Four. |
Meriadoc 'Merry' Brandybuck: | How many did you eat? |
Meriadoc 'Merry' Brandybuck: | How many did you eat? |
Pippin: | Four. |
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. And 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! |
Gandalf: | You'll have a tale to two to tell when you come back. |
Gandalf: | You'll have a tale or two to tell when you come back. |
Bilbo Baggins: | Can you promise that I will come back? |
Legolas: | Can you promise that I will come back? |
Gandalf: | No. And if you do, you will not be the same. |
Martin Blake: | I never meant it to happen... it just got out of control. |
Gimli: | I never thought I'd die side-by-side with an elf.. |
Legolas: | How about side-by-side with a friend? |
Gimli: | I could do that. |
Legolas: | (Lands after killing an Oliphaunt) |
Legolas: | [lands after killing an Oliphaunt] |
Gimli: | ....That still only counts as one! |
Gimli: | That still only counts as one! |
Gimli: | (Decapitating an urukai) Legolas! two already! |
Gimli: | [decapitating an urukai] Legolas! Two already! |
Legolas: | I'm on 17! |
Gimli: | What! Ain't no pointy eared elf outscoring me!! raaaahrr |
Gimli: | What! Ain't no pointy eared elf outscoring me! |
Legolas: | You have my bow. |
Gimli: | And my axe! |
Will Turner: | Elizabeth! Will you marry me? |
Elizabeth Swann: | I don't think now's the best time! |
Will Turner: | Now may be the only time |
Will Turner: | Now may be the only time. |
Elizabeth Swann: | From the sweat of a man's brows, and the strength of his back and the courage of our hearts...Gentlemen, hoist the colors. |
Will Turner: | Hoist the colors. |
Ragetti: | Hoist the colors. |
Pintel: | Hoist the colors! |
Gibbs: | Aye, the winds are on our side boys, that's all we need! |
Éomer: | What business does an elf, a man and a dwarf have in the Riddlemark?Speak quickly!! |
Éomer: | What business does an elf, a man and a dwarf have in the Riddlemark? Speak quickly! |
Gimli: | Give me your name horse-master, and I shall give you mine |
Gimli: | Give me your name horse-master, and I shall give you mine. |
Éomer: | I would cut off your head, master dwarf, if it only stood a little higher from the ground |
Éomer: | I would cut off your head, master dwarf, if it only stood a little higher from the ground. |
Legolas: | [notches an arrow and points it at Eomer] You would die before your sword fell |
Legolas: | [notches an arrow and points it at Eomer] You would die before your sword fell. |
Gimli: | **Steps away slowly** |
Gimli: | [steps away slowly] |
Jack Sparrow: | Anamaria! |
Anamaria: | (Slaps him) |
Anamaria: | [slaps him] |
Will Turner: | I'm guessing you didn't deserve that. |
Jack Sparrow: | (Clutching face) Oh no, I deserved that one. |
Jack Sparrow: | [clutching face] Oh no, I deserved that one. |
Legolas: | I will not hesitate to kill you, Dwarf! |
Legolas: | They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard! |
Aragorn: | Saruman! |
Éomer: | 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 . |
Gimli: | Give me your name horse-master, and I shall give you mine. |
Éomer: | I would cut off your head, dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground.... |
Éomer: | I would cut off your head, dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground... |
Legolas: | (notches an arrow and points at Eomer) You would die before your stroke fell!!! |
Legolas: | [notches an arrow and points at Eomer] You would die before your stroke fell! |
Claire Colborn: | You want to be really great? Then have the courage to fail big and stick around! Make them wonder why your still smiling.. That's true greatness to me. But, don't listen to me, I'm a Claire. |
Drew Baylor: | Well, Thank you Claire.. |
Claire Colborn: | You're welcome. If you quit trying to break up with me. You're always trying to break up with me. And we're not even together. |
Drew Baylor: | I know. Wait, we're not? |
Claire Colborn: | Of course not. We're the substitute people remember? |
Gimli: | What's going on out there? |
Legolas: | Shall I describe it to you? Or will you like me to find you a box? |
Gimli: | What's happening out there? |
Legolas: | Shall I describe it to you? Or would you like me to find you a box? |
Gimli: | What's happening out there? Legolas: Shall I describe it to you? Or would you like me to find you a box? Gimil laughs. |
Gimli: | What's happening out there? |
Legolas: | Shall I describe it to you? Or would you like me to find you a box? |
Will Turner: | This is either brilliance, or insanity! |
Jack Sparrow: | It's amazing how often those two traits coincide. |
Jack Sparrow: | How far are you willing to go to save your fair lady? |
Will Turner: | I'd die for her! |
Jack Sparrow: | Oh good! Let's go! |
Will Turner: | I'll get you out of here! |
Jack Sparrow: | How're you gonna do that? The key's run off. |
Will Turner: | I made these doors. These are half pin barrel hinges. With the right amount of leverage and the proper application of strength, the door will lift free! |
Jack Sparrow: | Get me out! |
Captain Barbossa: | Who are you? |
Jack Sparrow: | He's nobody! A distant relation of my aunt's second cousin's nephew twice removed. [pointing back at Will] Eunuch. |
Will Turner: | I am William Turner! The son of William Turner! His blood runs in my veins! |
Ragetti: | He's the spitting image of old Bootstrap! |
Captain Barbossa: | Name your terms Mr. Turner. |
Will Turner: | Elizabeth goes free! |
Captain Barbossa: | Yes, we know that one. Anything else? |
Will Turner: | Norrington: (to Elizabeth) One good deed cannot redeem a man for a lifetime of wickedness. Jack Sparrow: Though it seems enough to condemn him. |
Norrington: | [to Elizabeth] One good deed cannot redeem a man for a lifetime of wickedness. |
Jack Sparrow: | Though it seems enough to condemn him. |
Balian: | What could a king ask of a man like me? |
Godfrey: | A better world than has ever been seen. A kingdom of conscience. A kingdom of heaven. |
Balian: | You go to where the men speak Italian, and then continue until they speak something else. |
Claire Colborn: | Do you ever just think I'm fooling everybody? |
Drew Baylor: | You have no idea. |
Legolas: | Final count: fourty-two. |
Gimli: | Fourty-two?! That's not bad for a pointy-eared Elvish princeling. I myself am sitting pretty on fourty-three. |
Legolas: | [Legolas frowns. He draws his bow and shoots Gimli's Uruk.] Fourty-three. |
Legolas: | [legolas frowns. He draws his bow and shoots Gimli's Uruk.] Fourty-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! |
Gimli: | "Never thought I'd die side by side with an elf." |
Gimli: | Never thought I'd die side by side with an elf. |
Legolas: | "And what about side by side with a friend?" |
Legolas: | And what about side by side with a friend? |
Gimli: | "...Aye. I could do that." |
Gimli: | ...Aye. I could do that. |
Gimli: | Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with an elf. |
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. |
Gimli: | Aye. I could do that. |
Will Turner: | You cheated. |
Jack Sparrow: | Pirate. |
Hospitaler: | Hospitaller: I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of god. I have seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. What god desires is here [points to head] Hospitaller: and here [points to heart] Hospitaller: and what you decide to do every day, you will be a good man - or not. |
Hospitaler: | I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of god. I have seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. What god desires is here [points to head] |
Hospitaler: | ...and here [points to heart] |
Balian: | ...and what you decide to do every day, you will be a good man - or not. |
Jack Sparrow: | I love weddings! Drinks all around! |
Anamaria: | You stole. My. BOAT! |
Will Turner: | That's not good enough! |
Prince Paris of Troy: | You would have Troy burned for this women!? |
Prince Hector of Troy: | You would have Troy burned for this women!? |
Balian: | "What is Jerusalem worth?" |
Balian: | What is Jerusalem worth to you? |
Saladin: | " Nothing, Everything." |
Saladin: | Nothing. Everything! |
Balian: | Be without fear in the face of your enemys Be brave and upright so that God love you Speak the truth, always, even if it leads to your death Safe guard the helpless, do no wrong. That is your Oath (slap) And that is so you remember it. Rise a Knight |
Balian: | Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright so that God loves you. Speak the truth, always, even if it leads to your death. Safe guard the helpless, do no wrong. That is your Oath (slap) And that is so you remember it. Rise a Knight |
Gimli: | I have been dealt a wound beyond all healing, for I have looked the last... upon that which was fairest. 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. |
Gimli: | I asked for one hair from her golden head... she gave me three. |
Will Turner: | Elizabeth, I should have told you every day from the moment I met you. I love you. |
Will Turner: | Elizabeth, I should have told you. Every day from the moment I met you. I love you. |
Gimli: | "Whats happening out there?". |
Gimli: | What's happening out there? |
Legolas: | "Shall I describe it to you, or would you like me to find you a box?" |
Legolas: | Shall I describe it to you? Or would you like me to find you a box? |
Gimli: | "We dwarves are natural sprinters! Very dangerous over short distances" |
Gimli: | We dwarves are natural sprinters! Very dangerous over short distances. |
Legolas: | "I feel something, a slight tingle in my fingers, I think its affecting me!" |
Legolas: | I feel something, a slight tingle in my fingers, I think its affecting me! |
Legolas: | "Game Over" |
Legolas: | Game Over. |
Gimli: | "Its the dwarfs that go swimming, with little hairy women" |
Gimli: | It's the dwarfs that go swimming, with little hairy women. |
�?omer: | "But do not trust to hope, it is forsaken in these lands" |
�?omer: | But do not trust to hope, it is forsaken in these lands. |
�?omer: | "TO THE KING!!" |
�?omer: | To the King! |
Théoden: | "Let this me th hour, when we draw swords together" |
Théoden: | Let this me the hour, when we draw swords together. |
David (Shunji Iwai segment): | Does this mean we're getting married? |
Legolas: | A red sun rises, blood has been spilled this night. |