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Merry: I think we might have made a mistake leaving the Shire, Pippin.
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Saruman: If the wall is breached, Helm's Deep will fall.
Wormtongue: Even if it is breached, it will take a number beyond reckoning, thousands, to storm the keep.
Saruman: Tens of thousands.
Wormtongue: But, my lord, there is no such force.
[they go out onto the balcony, and see an army of ten thousand Uruk-hai]
Olivia Tennet
Extended Reading
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers quotes
