The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

David Wenham: Faramir

Photos 

Quotes 

• [from extended version] 

  Pippin : [to himself]  What were you thinking, Peregrin Took? What service could a Hobbit offer such a great lord of men?

  Faramir : [approaching]  It was well done. Generous deeds should not be checked by cold council. You are to join the tower guard?

  Pippin : I didn't think they would find any livery that would fit me.

  Faramir : It once belonged to a boy of the citadel. A very foolish one; who spent many hours slaying dragons instead of attending to his studies.

  Pippin : This was yours?

  Faramir : Yes, it was mine. My father had it made for me.

  Pippin : Well, I'm taller than you were then. Though I'm not likely to grow anymore... except sideways.

  [they laugh] 

  Faramir : Never fitted me either. Boromir was always the soldier. They were so alike, he and my father. Proud... stubborn, even. But strong.

  Pippin : I think you have strength, of a different kind. And one day your father will see it.

• [extended version, the Houses of Healing] 

  Eowyn : The city has fallen silent. There is no warmth left in the sun.

  Faramir : [approaching her]  It is only the damp of the first spring rain.

  [Eowyn looks up at him] 

  Faramir : I do not believe this darkness will endure.

• Gandalf : Faramir!

  [Running after Faramir] 

  Gandalf : Faramir! Your father's will has turned to madness. Do not throw away your life so rashly.

  Faramir : Where does my allegiance lie if not here? This is the city of the men of Numenor. I would gladly give my life to defend her beauty, her memory... her wisdom...

  Gandalf : Your father loves you, Faramir. He will remember it before the end.

• Denethor : Is there a captain here who still has the courage to do his lord's will?

  Faramir : You wish now that our places had been exchanged... that I had died and Boromir had lived.

  Denethor : Yes.

  [whispering] 

  Denethor : I wish that.

  Faramir : Since you are robbed of Boromir... I will do what I can in his stead.

  [Bows and turns to leave] 

  Faramir : If I should return, think better of me, Father.

  Denethor : That will depend on the manner of your return.

• Faramir : Mithrandir! They broke through our defenses! They've taken the bridge and the west bank. Battalions of Orcs are crossing the river.

  Irolas : It is as the Lord Denethor predicted. Long has he forseen this doom.

  Gandalf : Forseen and done nothing!

• Gandalf : Faramir? This is not the first halfing to have crossed your path.

  Faramir : No.

  Pippin : You've seen Frodo and Sam?

  Gandalf : Where? When?

  Faramir : In Ithilien. Not two days ago. Gandalf, they're taking the road to the Morgul Vale.

  Gandalf : And then the pass of Cirith Ungol.

  Pippin : What does that mean? What's wrong?

  Gandalf : Faramir, tell me everything.

• Denethor : [to Faramir, about his loyalty]  Ever you desire to appear lordly and gracious as a king of old. Boromir would have remembered his father's need. He would have brought me a kingly gift.

  Faramir : Boromir would not have brought the Ring. He would have stretched out his hand to this thing, and taking it, he would have fallen.

  Denethor : You know nothing of this matter!

  Faramir : He would have kept it for his own! And when he returned, you would not have known your son.

  Denethor : [jumping up angrily]  Boromir was loyal to me! Not some wizard's pupil!

  [Denethor cries and falls back into his chair; Faramir approaches him] 

  Faramir : Father?

  [Denethor looks over Faramir's shoulder and smiles] 

  Denethor : My son!

  [an image of Boromir appears behind Faramir. Boromir smiles and then the image fades. Denethor is left looking at Faramir. His mood shifts back to anger] 

  Denethor : Leave me!

  [Faramir hesitates and departs]