All of those are great, especially the speech by Aragorn at the black gates and Theoden at helms deep, but I must say that this is my favorite.
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken:
The crownless again shall be king.

But this one is a close second
You think you are wise Mithrandir. Yet for all your subtleties you have not wisdom. Do you think the eyes of the White Tower are blind? I have seen more than you know. With your left hand you would use me as a shield against Mordor and with your right you would seek to supplant me. I know who rides with Theoden of Rohan. Oh yes, word has reached my ears of this Aragorn, son of Arathorn. And I tell you now. I will not bow to this Ranger from the North. Last of a ragged house long bereft of Lordship

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“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” -Romans 5:8

Guys, I think we are forgetting somthing -

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

last march of the ents:
We come, we come with roll of drum: ta-runda runda runda rom!
We come, we come with horn and drum: ta-runa runa runa rom!
To Isengard! Though Isengard be ringed and barred with doors of stone;
Though Isengard be strong and hard, as cold as stone and bare as bone,
We go, we go, we go to war, to hew the stone and break the door;
For bole and bough are burning now, the furnace roars - we go to war!
To land of gloom with tramp of doom, with roll of drum, we come, we come;
To Isengard with doom we come!
With doom we come, with doom we come!

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One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

From the films, probably Into the West and Pippin's song that accompanies Denethor's dinner. . .

Yeah, it was pretty good. Billy Boyd even has a band called Beecake. Never listened to them though...

The Lay of Nimrodel sung by Legolas upon the Fellowship's entrance into Lorien.


The Lay of Nimrodel

An elven maid there was of old
A shining star by day
Her mantle white was hemmed with gold
Her shoes of silver grey

A star was bound upon her brows
A light was on her hair
As sun upon the golden boughs
In Lorien the fair

Her hair was long, her limbs were white
And fair she was and free
And in the wind she went as light
As leaf of linden tree

Beside the falls of Nimrodel
By water clear and cool
Her voice as falling silver fell
Into the shining pool

Where now she wanders none can tell
In sunlight or in shade
For lost of yore was Nimrodel
And in the mountains strayed

The elven ship in haven grey
Beneath the mountain-lee
Awaited her for many a day
Beside the roaring sea

A wind by night in Northern lands
Arose and loud it cried
And drove the ship from elven strands
Across the streaming tide

When dawn came dim the land was lost
The mountains sinking grey
Beneath the heaving waves that tossed
Their plumes of blinding spray

Amroth beheld the fading shore
Now low beyond the swell
And cursed the faithless ship that bore
Him far from Nimrodel

Amroth was an elven-king
A lord of tree and glen
When golden were the boughs in spring
In fair Lothlorien

From helm to sea they saw him leap
As arrow from the string
And dive into the water deep
As mew upon the wing

But from the West has come no word
And on the hither shore
No tidings elven folk have heard
Of Amroth ever more.

Saruman: "You have fought many wars and slain many men, Théoden King, and made peace afterwards. Can we not have peace, you and I?"
Théoden: "When you hang from a gibbet, for the sport of your own crows, we shall have peace."

Not expecting that, were you Saruman?

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Better, though difficult, the right way to go, than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe. John Bunyan - Pilgrim's Progress

Its not really a speech but my favorite passage is from the appendices, for the plain beauty of the wording.

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"Journey’s end

In western lands beneath the Sun
The flowers may rise in Spring,
The trees may bud, the waters run,
The merry finches sing.
Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night,
And swaying branches bear
The Elven-stars as jewels white
Amid their branching hair.

Though here at journey's end I lie
In darkness buried deep,
Beyond all towers strong and high,
Beyond all mountains steep,
Above all shadows rides the Sun
And Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
Nor bid the Stars farewell.J."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

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"Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter!
spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,
a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!"
- Théoden before the Charge of the Rohirrim

I think this version is far more epic than the one in the movie! As they are already in Gondor, the "Ride to Gondor!" can be seen as "Ride to the aid of Gondor!". Oh, the heroism! It gives me goosebumps everytime I read it. "With that he took a great horn from Guthláf his banner-bearer, and he blew such a blast upon it that it burst asunder. And straight away all the horns in the host were lifted up in music, and the blowing of the horns of Rohan in that hour was like a storm upon the plain and a thunder in the mountains. Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!" Just... wow!

"Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day's rising
I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking:
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!"
- Éomer

These are my favorite lines in the entire book! Éomer rules!

Also, the reason I'm building a High Elf army:

"Gil-galad was an Elven-king.
Of him the harpers sadly sing:
the last whose realm was fair and free
between the Mountains and the Sea.

His sword was long, his lance was keen,
his shining helm afar was seen;
the countless stars of heaven's field
were mirrored in his silver shield.

But long ago he rode away,
and where he dwelleth none can say;
for into darkness fell his star
in Mordor where the shadows are."
- The Fall of Gil-galad

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Rohan - as it should have been. A house rule project.

Seventeen!
Eighteen!
Nineteen!
Twenty!
Twentyone!
Twentytwo!

Gimli, son of Gloin, while defenestrating uruks on the Deeping Wall, The Two Towers (movie).

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Galadriel's speech, in FOTR:
I amar prestar aen…
Han mathon ne nen…
Han mathon ne chae…
A han noston ned gwilith… (The world is changing. I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, I smell it in the air)

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In my opinion, it's this.

Sam: I know… it's all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t be here. But we are. It’s like in all the great stories—the ones that really matter, full of darkness and danger. Sometimes you don’t want them to end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was after all the bad things happened? But even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will be clear. They kept going because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That's there's still good in this world - and it's worth fighting for.

That's my favourite variation of it, as I'm sure many of you know it was rewritten many times.
I memorised the speech at the Black Gates.

Death Song to Boromir

Aragorn:
Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grass
grows
The West Wind comes walking, and about the walls it
goes.
'What news from the West, O wandering wind, do you
bring to me tonight?
Have you seen Boromir the Tall by moon or by starlight?'
'I saw him ride over seven streams, over waters wide
and grey;
I saw him walk in empty lands, until he passed away
Into the shadows of the North. I saw him then no more.
The North Wind may have heard the horn of the son of
Denethor.'
'O Boromir! From the high walls westward I looked
afar,
But you came not from the empty lands where no men
are.'

Legolas:
From the mouths of the Sea the South Wind flies, from
the sandhills and the stones;
The wailing of the gulls it bears, and at the gate it
moans.
'What news from the South, O sighing wind, do you bring
to me at eve?
Where now is Boromir the Fair? He tarries and I grieve.'
'Ask not of me where he doth dwell -- so many bones
there lie
On the white shores and the dark shores under the
stormy sky;
So many have passed down Anduin to find the flowing
Sea.
Ask of the North Wind news of them the North Wind
sends to me!'
'O Boromir! Beyond the gate the seaward road runs
south,
But you came not with the ailing gulls from the grey
sea's mouth.'

Aragorn:
From the Gate of Kings the North Wind rides, and past
the roaring falls;
And clear and cold about the tower its loud horn calls.
'What news from the North, O mighty wind, do you
bring to me today?
What news of Boromir the Bold? For he is long away.'
'Beneath Amon Hen I heard his cry. There many foes he
fought.
His cloven shield, his broken sword, they do the water
brought.
His head so proud, his face so fair, his limbs they laid
to rest;
And Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, bore him upon its
breast.'
'O Boromir! The Tower of Guard shall ever northward
gaze
To Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, until the end of days.'

^Interesting......

Lament for Boromir

Enjoy

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Sons of Gondor, of Rohan! 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!!"
—Aragorn encouraging the Men of Rohan and Gondor
Frodo:I will take it,I will take it.I will take the rign to mordor... Though. I don't know the way.
Gandalf: I will help you bear this burden Frodo Baggings as logn as it is yours to bear.
Aragorn:If by my life or death i can protect you I will. You have my sword.
Legolas: And you have my bow.
Gimli: And my axe.
Boromir: You carry the fate os us all, little one. If this is indeed the will of the council then gondor will see it done.
Sam: Frodo's not going anywhere without me.
Elrond: It hardly possible to seperate you even when he is summoned to a secret council and you are not.
Merry:We're coming too.You will have to send us home tied up in a sack to stop us.
Pippni;Anyway you need people with intelligent in this sort of...mission...quest...thing.
Merry:Then that is why you are out Pippin.
Elrond:Nine companions,you should be the felloswip of the ring.
Pippin:Great. Where are we going?
-Elrond's council.
"Ride! Ride to ruin and the world's ending."
-Eomer to his riders
"Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They had pass like rain in the mountains.
Like wind in the meadow, the days have gone dark in the West ove rthe hills into the shadow.
-Theoden.

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I am a ranger of the north.

Out of doubt, Out of dark to the days rising,
I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking:
Now for wrath, Now for ruin and a red nightfall!

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"a box without hinges key or a lid yet golden treasure inside is hid"
Bilbo to gollum underneath the misty mountains

Talking trees!? What have trees to talk about besides the consistency of squirrel droppings?- Gimli