Ian McKellen: Gandalf
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Gandalf : You've changed, Bilbo Baggins. You're not the same Hobbit as the one who left the Shire...
Bilbo Baggins : I was going to tell you... I found something in the Goblin tunnels.
Gandalf : Found what? What did you find?
Bilbo Baggins : [pause]
Bilbo Baggins : My courage.
Gandalf : Good... well, that's good. You'll need it.
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Radagast the Brown : What if it's a trap?
Gandalf : Turn around and don't come back.
[Radagast leaves]
Gandalf : It's undoubtedly a trap.
[draws his sword]
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Gandalf : [talking inside The Prancing Pony] I ran into some unsavory characters whilst traveling along the Greenway. They mistook me for a vagabond.
Thorin Oakenshield : I imagine they regretted that.
Gandalf : One of them was carrying a message.
[Gandalf puts the message on the table]
Gandalf : It is Black Speech. A promise of payment.
Thorin Oakenshield : [looking at the message] For what?
Gandalf : [looking at Thorin] Your head.
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[Thorin and Co run into Beorn's house, and barely escape from a gigantic bear]
Thorin Oakenshield : What is that?
Gandalf : That is our host!
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Gandalf : Oh, it's you.
Radagast the Brown : Why am I here, Gandalf?
Gandalf : Trust me, Radagast. I would not have called you here without good reason.
Radagast the Brown : [Radagast removes his hat to allow the birds to hide underneath] This is not a nice place to meet.
Gandalf : No, it is not.
[They exit the tomb]
Radagast the Brown : These are dark spells, Gandalf. Old, and full of hate. Who's buried here?
Gandalf : If he had a name, it's long since been lost. He would have been known only as a servant of evil. One of a number.
[He shines his staff into the chasm, revealing the doors of the tombs, all with the bars broken open]
Gandalf : One of nine.
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[Gandalf has realized that Thorin's company is at risk]
Gandalf : I started this. I cannot forsake them! They are in grave danger!
Radagast the Brown : If what you say is true, the world is in grave danger! The power in that fortress - will only grow stronger.
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Gandalf : What have they done to you?
Thrain : I never told them! They tried to make me, but I never said a word...! Have you kept them safe, Gandalf? The map and the key?
Gandalf : I gave them to Thorin. You would be proud of him. He's taken up the quest to reclaim Erebor...
Thrain : [shocked] Erebor?
Gandalf : To retrieve the Arkenstone! Soon all the armies of the Dwarves will answer to a new king!
Thrain : No! NO! Thorin must not go near Erebor! No one must enter that mountain...! He is waiting for them. They are in league, the dragon and the One!
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Radagast the Brown : [looking the symbols around the tomb's door in the High Fells] These are dark spells, Gandalf. Old and full of hate. Who's buried here?
Gandalf : If he had a name, it's long since been lost. He would've been known only as a servant of evil. One of a number. One of nine.
Radagast the Brown : [after leaving the cave] Why now, Gandalf? I don't understand.
Gandalf : The Ringwraiths have been summoned to Dol Guldur.
Radagast the Brown : But it cannot be the Necromancer. A human sorcerer could not summon such evil.
Gandalf : [suspicious] Who said it was human?
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Thorin Oakenshield : The Arkenstone is half a world away, at the foot of a fire-breathing dragon!
Gandalf : Which is why we are going to need... a burglar.
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Thorin Oakenshield : [on his father, Thrain] You're like the others. You think he's dead.
Gandalf : I was not at the Battle of Moria...
Thorin Oakenshield : No. I was.
[flashback to the Battle of Moria; Thorin sees Azog decapitate King Thror and throw his head to the ground]
Thorin Oakenshield : NO!
[Thrain charges forward]
Thorin Oakenshield : Father...!
Thrain : Stay back!
Thorin Oakenshield : No, I will fight with you!
Thrain : Azog means to kill us all! One by one, he will destroy the line of Durin! But by my life, he shall not take my son! You will stay here!
Thorin Oakenshield : [voice-over] My father led a charge towards the Dimrill Gate. He never returned.
[Thrain charges into the orks' ranks with his bodyguard, and Thorin loses sight of him]
Thorin Oakenshield : [screams] Father!
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Thorin Oakenshield : The Arkenstone lies half a world away, buried beneath the feet of a fire-breathing dragon.
Gandalf : Yes, it does, which is why we are going to need a burglar.
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Gandalf : What did I tell you? Quiet as a mouse. Excellent burglar material.
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Gandalf : You must stay on the path; do not leave it. If you do, you will never find it again. No matter what may come, stay on the path!
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Gandalf : There is a house, it's not far from here, where we might take refuge.
Thorin Oakenshield : Whose house? Are they friend or foe?
Gandalf : Neither. He will help us, or he will kill us.
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Gandalf : We've been blind, Radagast, and in our blindness, the Enemy has returned
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Gandalf : A spell of concealment lies over this place, which means our enemy is not yet ready to reveal himself. He has not regained his full strength.
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Gandalf : The evil that is hidden here - I command it come forth! I command it reveal itself!
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[Gandalf and Radagast walk along a cliffside path after leaving the High Fells]
Radagast the Brown : Why now, Gandalf? I don't understand.
Gandalf : The Ringwraiths have been summoned to Dol Guldur.
Radagast the Brown : But it cannot be the Necromancer. A human sorcerer could not summon such evil.
Gandalf : Who said it was human?
[Radagast stops dead in his tracks and turns back; they face distant mountains]
Gandalf : The Nine only answer to *one* master. We've been blind, Radagast. And in our blindness, the enemy has returned.
[Radagast looks horrified]
Gandalf : He is summoning his servants.
[faces Radagast]
Gandalf : Azog the Defiler is no ordinary hunter. He is a commander. A commander of legions! The enemy is preparing for war... which will begin in the East. His mind is set upon that mountain.
[starts to leave]
Radagast the Brown : Where are you going?
Gandalf : To rejoin the others.
Radagast the Brown : Gandalf!
[Gandalf stops and looks back]
Gandalf : I started this! I cannot forsake them! They are in grave danger.
Radagast the Brown : If what you say is true, the *world* is in grave danger. The power in that fortress will only grow stronger.
Gandalf : [looks off into the distance] You want me to cast my friends aside.
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Bilbo Baggins : This forest... feels... sick, as if a disease lies upon it. Is there no way around?
Gandalf : Not unless we go two hundred miles north or twice that distance... south.
