Daily Dialogue — November 11, 2017

Legolas: Final count, forty-two.
Gimli: Forty-two? Oh, that’s not bad for a pointy-eared elvish princeling. Hmph! I myself am sitting pretty on forty-THREE.
Legolas: [takes out an arrow, and shoots the Uruk Gimli is sitting on in the stomach] Forty-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!

— The Lord of the Rings: The Twin Towers (2002), screenplay by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson, novel by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Competition [Non-Sports], suggested by Denise Garcia.

Trivia: As long as we’re keeping count. Body count: four hundred sixty-eight.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This bit of business between Gimli and Legolas is not in the novel, nor the original movie, but rather the extended version.