Sam’s speech in Osgiliath, at the end of the Two Towers. (HD Blu-ray)

Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam.

Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. 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.

Sam: How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.

Sam: Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

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  8. I love how this scene is relatable for all generations who watch this film.

    We have seen so much bad but in the end "it is only a passing thing and when the sun shines out it will shine out the clearer"

  10. You know what I hate? Everytime I come to one of these videos there's an idiot talking politics. I don't care about your filthy politics, keep that for yourself. I get it, you didn't get your way, get whatever meaning you want out of this, but please, as someone who disagree with all that is mainstream, I come here to watch this everytime I feel down, and everytime I leave angry. Stop bringin shit into one of the most amazing speeches of movie history. Just STOP!

    end rant

  16. 2:24 Best. Shot. In. Cinematic. History! its simply genius! To have a character like Gollum, who only lives because of his endless love/hate relationship with the ring, a character with such a tragic backstory, a character who is filled with pure hate, a character that has lost all hope, to hear Sams speech and realise what his life has come to is emotionally captivating on so many levels! This really is the most emotional movie series of all time!

  27. This is why cinema is the 7th art. Oh Sam! great character! 🙏🙏
    Everything seems possible while watching Lotr. Lotr is hope. There is indeed some good in this world!!!

  29. There are few scenes in film history that are more relevant to today than this. As this world gets more chaotic, more disturbing and more evil, it is all too easy to believe the lie that life can never be better. But we have to understand the truth that we are so often blind to: There is good in the world worth fighting for. Hiding away and watching the world burn while we stay in our little shells is not the answer. It's time we started fighting for all we hold dear.

  35. 'Yes, that's so,' said Sam. `And we shouldn't be here at all, if we'd known more about it before we started. But I suppose it's often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. But that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually – their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on – and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end. You know, coming home, and finding things all right, though not quite the same – like old Mr. Bilbo. But those aren't always the best tales to hear, though they may be the best tales to get landed in! I wonder what sort of a tale we've fallen into? '
    `I wonder,' said Frodo. 'But I don't know. And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad ending, but the people in it don't know. And you don't want them to.'

    'No, sir, of course not. Beren now, he never thought he was going to get that Silmaril from the Iron Crown in Thangorodrim, and yet he did, and that was a worse place and a blacker danger than ours. But that's a long tale, of course, and goes on past the happiness and into grief and beyond it – and the Silmaril went on and came to Eärendil. And why, sir, I never thought of that before! We've got – you've got some of the light of it in that star-glass that the Lady gave you! Why, to think of it, we're in the same tale still! It's going on. Don't the great tales never end? '
    'No, they never end as tales,' said Frodo. `But the people in them come and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.'
    'And then we can have some rest and some sleep,' said Sam. He laughed grimly. 'And I mean just that, Mr. Frodo. I mean plain ordinary rest and sleep, and waking up to a morning's work in the garden. I'm afraid that's all I'm hoping for all the time. All the big important plans are not for my sort. Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, or course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterward. And people will say: "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring! " And they'll say: "Yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was very brave. wasn't he, dad?" "Yes, my boy, the famousest of the hobbits, and that's saying a lot."'

    `It's saying a lot too much,' said Frodo, and he laughed, a long clear laugh from his heart. Such a sound had not been heard in those places since Sauron came to Middle-earth. To Sam suddenly it seemed as if all the stones were listening and the tall rocks leaning over them. But Frodo did not heed them; he laughed again. 'Why, Sam,' he said, 'to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the story was already written. But you've left out one of the chief characters: Samwise the stouthearted. "I want to hear more about Sam, dad. Why didn't they put in more of his talk, dad? That's what I like, it makes me laugh. And Frodo wouldn't have got far without Sam, would he, dad? " '
    `Now, Mr. Frodo,' said Sam, 'you shouldn't make fun. I was serious. '
    `So was I,' said Frodo, 'and so I am. We're going on a bit too fast. You and I, Sam, are still stuck in the worst places of the story, and it is all too likely that some will say at this point: "Shut the book now, dad; we don't want to read anymore." '

  37. Even Gollum gets emotional. Maybe for a little second it didnt matter who people were. The only thing that mattered is that there is something good in this world and its worth fighting for.

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