Actually, all my favorite scene/moments are speeches of some villain, primarily because I'm obssessed with villains
1: Saruman - The Voice of Saruman
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"Gibbets and crows!" he hissed, and they shuddered at the hideous change, "Dotard! What is the house of Eorl but a thatched barn where brigands drink in the reek, and their brats roll on the floor among the dogs? Too long have they escaped the gibbet themselves. But the noose comes, slow in the drawing, tight and hard in the end!"
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2: Ugluk - The Uruk-hai
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"Then you can wish again!" said the growling voice, "I am Ugluk! I command!
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3: Witch-King - The Battle of Pelennor Fields
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A cold voice answered: "Come not between the Nazgul and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn! He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shrivelled mind be left naked for the Lidless Eye!"
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"What mortal feels not awe/Nor trembles at our name,
Hearing our fate-appointed power sublime/Fixed by the eternal law.
For old our office, and our fame,"
-Aeschylus, Song of the Furies
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