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Excerpts from the HBO Special Eddie Izzard: Dress in Mithril....(in which Eddie plays all the characters, of course)...

by amy attorney

Gandalf (stern parent voice): Bilbo, what have you got in your hand?

Bilbo (little kid voice): Nothing...okay, it's the Ring...with power over a number of countries....

Gandalf: give it back...

Bilbo: Ohhhh all right....(kicks the floor with his heel)

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Eddie (just narrating without a character): Sauron's the big bad guy...but Saruman used to be nice. So maybe Saruman's interrogators would be somewhat more lenient, eh? Starts you thinking, doesn't it? You get captured, and they make you choose...lembas or death! I mean, Lembas or death, that's a pretty easy choice, eh? Anyone can answer that question....

Unknown Interrogator Character: You! Lembas or death?

Sam: Um...Lembas please.

Interrogator: All right then! Give him Lembas!... YOU! Lembas or death?

Merry: Um.. I'd like lembas too.

Interrogator: Very well! Give him lembas too! At this rate, we're going to run out of lembas...YOU! Lembas or death?

Pippin: Death please...I mean lembas!

Interrogator: Ohhh, you said death first!

Pippin: I meant lembas!

Interrogator: Ohh, all right. You're lucky I work for Saruman...

(and so on)