Your Favorite Battle Cry...
 

There are a many battle cries and laments in Tolkien's writings. I'm interested, what are your favorites... Elendil, Aiya Earendil Elenion Ancalima, Forth Eorlingas?
Your own would be cool too.

I love Gimli's at Helm's Deep.

Baruk Khazud! Khazud Ai-menu!

[ March 19, 2003: Message edited by: Beren87 ]

'Aure entuluva! Day shall come again!' - Húrin at Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

"Buruk Khazad! Khazad Ai-menu!" is of course, the best.

Not exactly a war-cry, but "You shall not pass!" is excellent as well.

"Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising
I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope's end I rode, and to heart's breaking;
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!"

--King Eomer of Rohan

"For Gondor!" of course! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Also Éomer's cry that mark posted before me.

[ March 18, 2003: Message edited by: Rynoah, the Overly-Happy ]

I second Turin, most heartily. "'Aure entuluva" is the most moving, stirring battle cry ever.

Theodens red nightfall speech. Or the rubber ducky chant. Whichever you prefere.

battle cries...

anything gondorian.

and rohirric, i spose...

is this only books? cos in two towers eomer yells "Rohirrim", and that gets me every time

[ March 19, 2003: Message edited by: Meela ]

I am one for the battle cries of Rohan.

Arise now, arise, Riders of Theoden!
Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward.
Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded!
Forth Eorlingas!

as well as...

Our King and the White Rider! Forth Eorlingas!

And of course Eomer's cry that was already posted :-D

Amroth for Gondor! Amroth to Faramir!

Arise, arise, Riders of Theoden!
Fell deeds awake; fire and slaughter!
spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,
a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!

-Lily

it depends on my mood. usually i use baruk khazad, khazad ai menu. when im feeling taller i use elendil, sometimes i use ecthelion. i also love aure entuluva, but it only really works against creatures of darkness, which i have never met.

This is one I just thought up -

Elva cotumo lantaluva!
Our enemy shall fall!

~Scott

Couldn't think of a better one. My eyes were glued to the pages of my book during that part.

No kidding Meela! I love it when Eomer shouts "Rohirrim"! "Forth Eorlingas" is pretty cool too, but I think those tears in my eyes during that part are from the music.

i start crying the moment the Rohirrim are riding down the slope, and you cant hear anything but the music over the top. I think its generally the music that contributes to the moment. I find that i cry more only when listening to the soundtrack.

My favorite war cry?

Uh...what, you wanted something from Tolkien? *grumbles*

Seriously, actually. I love all the one's already mentioned, but my most favoritest is definitely:

This has to be the best. There's no greater glory than fighting to the bitter end(even though Húrin did not die. Well, his fate was even more terrible than death..) And of course, the quote is great, too [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

does anybody please know how to say

dagger of the dwarf, the dwarf is upon you in khuzdul?

if not, how about sword instead of dagger? or even just the dwarf is upon you? plzzzzz

i think that would be "khazad ai-menu"
but i think that's the dwarfs are among you or sth like that.

My favourite war cry: "Charge" by any unknown and forgotten captain at the battle of the Pelennor-Fields.

[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

"Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai menu!" means "The axes of the dwarves! The axes of the dwarves are upon you!"

That's cool, but my favorite is "Death, death," upon the Pellenor fields, after Eomer sees Eowyn. That gives me chills.
My personal battle cry would be "Agh! Help!"


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My favorite battle cry is already in my sig, so there's no need to repeat it.

but i think the one i'd be most likely to say would be "The Battle is at hand"
i'm sure all of you Icewind Dale fans recognize that one.

is definetly one of the best as well as
Another one I really really like is- that almost always brings a lump to my throat.

[ May 06, 2003: Message edited by: Lady Alasse ]

[ May 06, 2003: Message edited by: Lady Alasse ]

I like Gimli`s too (Baruk khazad! Khazad ai-menu!)

I just like yelling 'A Elbereth, Gilthoniel!'

I don't know if this counts as a battle-cry, but I love the spirit it shows. This one is from Sam when he is in the Tower of Cirith Ungol.
I love Sam's great heart shown in that, and his good humour! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
Peace

"Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising
I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope's end I rode, and to heart's breaking;
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!" is definitely my favorite. I don't know why, but I guess it seems sad and hopeful and 'fell' at the same time.

~Menelien

Well if I really came upon a deadly foe I think I would just scream, "AAAAAAA!" and run the opposite way, but if I actually was a noble warrior, I would yell an elven cry before bravely plunging into battle.

I would run towards the foe, but still screaming "AAAAAAAAA!" Or maybe something more along the lines of "!@#$ AAAAA *&^%" but that's besides the point. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

~Menelien

I second that. It is always good to swear at a foe, it will get him mad. And madness is a bad advisor in battle.

Gimli's Baruk Khazud! Khazud Ai-menu!is cool. But I forgot what it meant. Part of it means the dwarves have come I believe. Someone explain please.

The best cry is always from The Tick: SPOON!!!

And a good JIHAAAA is always good.

I can't help but wonder if anyone's country's army has a real cry other than

"AAAAAAARRRRRRRRR"

or something of the sort....


And still not Tolkien but moving is the Rebel's Yell from the Civil War.

Helkahothion,
The translation for the battle cry of the dwarves you seek is:
The axes of the dwarves! The axes of the dwarves are upon you.!
(Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai menu!).

Suilad,
Scott

Thanks man. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

My favorites have already been posted, but I'll repeat them:

(I use that one a lot).

Not a battle cry, but really good all the same.

Wow! That was a long list! As you can see, every Tolkien battle cry is my favorite. But some good non-Tolkien ones include The Song That Never Ends, evil laughter, "The metallic blue rats are upon you!", "Stand and fight!" (in a duel), and something along the lines of "Kill them!"

do the elves have battle cries or are they their own cool selves in battle? That's what Dwarves do better than elves. They let go in battle. Elves never smile.

Buruk Khazad! Khazad Ai-menu!
&
ELENDIL!!!!!
both very cool
There are a few in the Silm that are cool, but haven't got it to hand so i can't quote them [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

Again in response to Helkahothion,
I think Elves can go a bit crazy in battle. Just look at Hurin. Running around killing (what, seventy?) trolls screaming "Day shall come again" doesn't really seem too calm and collected to me.
Then again, in the movies the elves do seem pretty under control during the battle scenes. Tangado haid. Hado i philinn. (Hold your positions. Fire the arrows) Doesn't really seem to strike too much fear into my heart.

Hurin was a man not an elf, although I think elves can go crazy in battle, just look at Feanor when he arrived in Middle Earth and killed all those orcs and gave the balrogs a run for their money.

My favourite battle cry is either:
'Baruk-Khazad. Khazad-ai-menu' or
'Aure entuluva.'

[ May 12, 2003: Message edited by: Voralphion ]

My fault Voralphion,
That's what I get for trying to post intelligently so late.

TO DEATH!!

Eomer king at the charge of the Rohirrim