** The Ride of the Rohirrim

"Now the hour is come, Riders of the Mark, sons of Eorl! Foes and fire are before you, and your homes far behind. Yet, though you fight upon an alien field, the glory that you reap there shall be your own forever. Oaths ye have taken: now fulfill them, all to lord and land and league of friendship."

- ROTK p.110

[ One of the best speeches in the story. ]