Churchill was giving that speech after we had just had the crap kicked out of us by Hitler, so it's a completely new take on the quote, assuming it's genuinely related. In the film, Gandalf is saying that Rohan has been won and now Sauron will throw all of his forces into winning it back (plus everything else on the continent). Churchill was saying "We won't be beaten this time".<P>No real similarities at all.<P>In my mind, the Gandalf quote is much more closely related to the generic expression "We've won the battle, not the war".
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