We wept, precious. We wept to be so alone.

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In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), this line is spoken by Gollum during a quiet, unsettling moment. He delivers it while shifting between voices, talking to himself and the Ring, which shows his fractured mind. The line is memorable because of the broken, mournful delivery and the close-up performance that makes the character's loneliness palpable.