- Orcs plunder Moria.. desecrate our sacred halls. The Elves looked on and did nothing. And you ask me to seek out the very people who betrayed my grandfather. Who betrayed my father. - You are neither of them. I did not give you that map and key for you to hold onto the past. - I did not know that they were yours to keep.
Then the heart of Éowyn changed, or else at last she understood it… …‘I will be a shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.’