Sean Astin’s Lord of the Rings character, Sam, gave one of the more memorable speeches in the entire trilogy at the end of The Two Towers. With its hopeful themes, it’s one of the franchise’s most-quoted speeches, and now Astin has performed it again amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Astin delivered the lines again for an appearance on the Cameo platform. You can watch it again through the embed below. He doesn’t bring the same passion as you might recall from the film, which of course is to be expected, but it’s still good enough to possibly give you chills and transport you back to 2002.
By popular demand! More @SeanAstin reading from #LOTR. Sam’s Osgiliath speech from The Two Towers. #JRRTolkien pic.twitter.com/SbfLBKV7tm
— Linda Iroff (@LindaofNote) April 11, 2020
The speech, which was adapted by Peter Jackson and his writing team based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s own work, was not originally in the Two Towers script. According to Astin, Jackson added it in a direct response to the 9/11 attacks in New York.
Source: GameSpot