Sam's Strange Sentence - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Rinfanawen · 08-17-2004, 06:12 PM

I was browsing through a movie script today and came across something quite odd in the process. I was looking at the FOTR script near the part where Frodo meets Aragorn at Bree. Here is a line, said by Sam, and this is how it was written...

Quote:

Sam: Stand off! /Let him go! Or I’ll have you Longshanks! [Note to reader: these are the two different versions heard by audiences everywhere]

Has anyone came across an edition where the line is said, "Stand off! Or I'll have you Longshanks!" ? I was just curious if the version was made for countries foreign to the US, or if there is a separate version out there somewhere in my own country. Any help?

Morsul the Dark · 08-17-2004, 10:19 PM

hmmm...i must now check....yes he says Let 'im go....but it could be a...these are the options do whichever sounds better thing

Sapphire_Flame · 08-18-2004, 12:08 AM

I've always heard it as "Let him go". A copy of that page from the actual script would definitely come in useful here. ^ ^

Oh, and it's "sentence", not "sentance".

Abedithon le,

~ Saphy, the bane of spelling errors ~

Rinfanawen · 08-18-2004, 02:19 PM

Sapphire, you can find the script here.

P.S. Oh, and sorry for the bad spelling, that happens once in a while, you know? But for some reason, though I edited the title to its right spelling, the changes did not appear on the thread title...just the post title. Any ideas?

Sapphire_Flame · 08-18-2004, 02:42 PM

It's all good.

Everyone slips sometimes. And I think changing the actual title is a mod thing. Maybe you could ask Estelyn.

Thanks for the script link, BTW! ^ ^

Abedithon le,

~ Saphy ~

The Perky Ent · 09-05-2004, 12:00 PM

Hmm...nope! I've always heard and liked it as "Let em go!"

ninlaith · 09-06-2004, 08:42 PM

Whoever wrote the script you're reading probably just messed up a bit. Going by there own incorrect memory instead of consulting the movie.

Elianna · 09-11-2004, 06:41 PM

WhatI don't understand about that line is that "Longshanks" was Bill Ferny's name for Aragorn. How'd Sam learn it?

Rinfanawen · 09-11-2004, 08:30 PM

I think it was one of those times that PJ takes one character's line in the book and gives it to another character in the movie. Like at the Moria gate, Frodo in the movie says that whole line about the riddle, but in the books it was Merry. There wasn't really a Bill Ferny in the movie, so they gave the line to Sam.

08-17-2004, 10:19 PM	#2
Morsul the Dark Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 3,448	hmmm...i must now check....yes he says Let 'im go....but it could be a...these are the options do whichever sounds better thing __________________ Morsul the Resurrected

08-18-2004, 12:08 AM	#3
Sapphire_Flame Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: The World That Never Was Posts: 1,232	I've always heard it as "Let him go". A copy of that page from the actual script would definitely come in useful here. ^ ^ Oh, and it's "sentence", not "sentance". Abedithon le, ~ Saphy, the bane of spelling errors ~ __________________ The Hitchhiking Ghost

08-18-2004, 02:19 PM	#4
Rinfanawen Wight Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: On my knees... Posts: 136	Sapphire, you can find the script here. P.S. Oh, and sorry for the bad spelling, that happens once in a while, you know? But for some reason, though I edited the title to its right spelling, the changes did not appear on the thread title...just the post title. Any ideas? __________________ "The price for freedom is far more than the greatest amount of gold or jewels, yet it is rarely prized among those who have it." "Do what you can, while you can, and make it last forever." ~Rinfan~ Last edited by Rinfanawen; 08-18-2004 at 02:23 PM.

08-18-2004, 02:42 PM	#5
Sapphire_Flame Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: The World That Never Was Posts: 1,232	It's all good. Everyone slips sometimes. And I think changing the actual title is a mod thing. Maybe you could ask Estelyn. Thanks for the script link, BTW! ^ ^ Abedithon le, ~ Saphy ~ __________________ The Hitchhiking Ghost

09-05-2004, 12:00 PM	#6
The Perky Ent Maniacal Mage Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Setting sail for Umbar, with Firefoot at my side! Posts: 3,297	Hmm...nope! I've always heard and liked it as "Let em go!" __________________ 'But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.'

09-06-2004, 08:42 PM	#7
ninlaith Wight Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: in my hobbit hole Posts: 204	Whoever wrote the script you're reading probably just messed up a bit. Going by there own incorrect memory instead of consulting the movie. __________________ "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve!"-Bilbo Baggins

09-11-2004, 06:41 PM	#8
Elianna Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Ad finem itineris Posts: 384	WhatI don't understand about that line is that "Longshanks" was Bill Ferny's name for Aragorn. How'd Sam learn it? __________________ Enyale cuilenya, ú-enyale mandenya.

09-11-2004, 08:30 PM	#9
Rinfanawen Wight Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: On my knees... Posts: 136	I think it was one of those times that PJ takes one character's line in the book and gives it to another character in the movie. Like at the Moria gate, Frodo in the movie says that whole line about the riddle, but in the books it was Merry. There wasn't really a Bill Ferny in the movie, so they gave the line to Sam. __________________ "The price for freedom is far more than the greatest amount of gold or jewels, yet it is rarely prized among those who have it." "Do what you can, while you can, and make it last forever." ~Rinfan~