Frodo: I am Frodo Baggins, and this is Samwise Gamgee.
Faramir: Your bodyguard?
Sam: His gardener.
Frodo: I can't do this Sam.
Sam: I know, 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? 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. 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.
Gollum: So bright... so beautiful... my precious.
Frodo: What did you say?
Gollum: Master should be resting, Master needs to keep up his strength.
Frodo: [standing up] Who are you?
Gollum: Mustn't ask us. Mustn't answer.
Frodo: Gandalf told me you were one of the River-folk.
Gollum: Cold be heart and hand and bone. Cold be travelers far from home.
Frodo: [next to Gollum] He said your life was a sad story.
Gollum: They do not see what lies ahead, when Sun has failed and Moon is dead.
Frodo: [in front of Gollum] You were not so very different from a Hobbit once, were you?
[Gollum looks up at him]
Frodo: Smeagol.
Gollum: What did you call me?
Frodo: That was your name once, wasn't it?
Gollum: My name? My name... Smeagol.
Sam: Hey Stinker don't go gettin' too far ahead.
Frodo: Why do you do that?
Sam: What?
Frodo: Call him names. Run him down all the time.
Sam: Because... because that's what he is Mr. Frodo. There's naught left in him but lies and deceit. It's the ring he wants. That's all he cares about.
Frodo: You have no idea what it did to him... what it's still doing to him. I want to help him Sam.
[following Gollum, walking down the path]
Sam: I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales.
Frodo: [turns around] What?
Sam: I wonder if people will ever say, 'let's hear about Frodo and the Ring.' And they'll say 'yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?' 'Yes, my boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that's saying alot.'
Frodo: [continue walking] You left out one of the chief characters - Samwise the Brave. I want to hear more about Sam.
[Frodo stops and turns to Sam]
Frodo: Frodo wouldn't got far without Sam.
Sam: Now Mr. Frodo, you shouldn't make fun; I was being serious.
Frodo: So was I.
[they continue to walk]
Sam: Samwise the Brave...
Sam: Mr. Frodo, put the ring on; just this once, disappear.
Frodo: I can't... you were right Sam, it has taken over me. If I put it on he will find me.
Sam: It's the Ring...
Frodo: It's getting heavier.
Sam: This place looks oddly familiar.
Frodo: That's because we've been here before, we're going in circles.
Frodo: Maybe he deserves to die, but now that I see him I do pity him.
Frodo: Stop. He is our guide, this creature is bound to me as I'm as bound to him.
- When Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) are in Osgiliath, Sam says, "By rights we shouldn't even be here." In the original novel, Frodo and Sam never go to Osgiliath as prisoners of Faramir.