History TearJerker / TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers

** To make matters worse, Gollum then proceeds to taunt Smeagol, effectively trying to get a reaction out of him. He starts by calling a liar and a thief, which Smeagol calmly brushes aside as if saying "No that is you!" But then Gollum says the one thing Smeagol cannot refute; he's a murderer. Smeagol immediately breaks down. Even after five hundred years and his attempts to convince himself otherwise, he is still clearly traumatised by what he did to poor Deagol.

* Faramir, believing the Ring to be Gondor's salvation (and the only way to win his father's approval) refuses to see reason and let Frodo go. Then Sam berates him with a devastating but brutally honest statement, almost bringing himself to tears as he lays the awful truth at Faramir's feet. The Nazgul attack before Faramir can respond, but the look on his face is pure MyGodWhatHaveIDone.

** Particularly the shot of the little boy being handed an axe and having a far too large helmet placed on his head...it both made quite clear the true horror of war, and wrenched at the heart as you realized his likely fate well in advance, even if they never did show it. And the mother sobbing in protest while they pull her early-teenage-looking son away from her to be kitted out.
*** It's also a depressing reflection of the last years of UsefulNotes/WW1-by 1918, Britain, France and most of the other Allied countries, as well as the Central Powers, had lost so much young men that they started conscripting teenagers alongside the elderly.
*** Just at the end of that shot: although the soldiers pull the teenager away to arm him, you can see one of the soldiers lay a hand on the boy's shoulder, as if to say: "It'll be all right, son. Be brave."
*** Later on, when the battle's nearly lost and the Uruk-Hai are breaking in, we cut to the terrified women and children under the fortress, breaking into despairing tears or clinging to each other in fear and dread.
*** "Who am I, Gamling?"

-->'''Treebeard''': We lost the Entwives.\\

* The Extended Edition [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U_GYYSpeaU has a scene]] which sets up the relationship between Boromir, [[TheUnFavorite Faramir]] and Denethor. To wit, Denethor has always treated Faramir as TheUnfavourite, but Boromir and Faramir were the best brothers there could be and loved each other, so Boromir [[CallingTheOldManOut actually lays into Denethor for being so harsh on his baby brother]]... yet the tearjerking continues, as Denethor quickly brushes Boromir's complaint aside to ''set up the mission to Rivendell that will ultimately cost Boromir his life''.

'''Treebeard''': I...don't remember, now.\\

-->'''Treebeard''': We lost the Entwives.
'''Pippin''': Oh, I'm sorry. How did they die?
'''Treebeard''': Die, no. We lost them. And now we cannot find them. I don't suppose you've seen Entwives in the Shire?
'''Merry''': Can't say that I have. You Pip?
'''Pippin''': What do they look like?
'''Treebeard''': I...don't remember, now.

-->'''Treebeard:''' We lost the Entwives.
'''Pippin:''' Oh, I'm sorry. How did they die?
'''Treebeard:''' Die, no. We lost them. And now we cannot find them. I don't suppose you've seen Entwives in the Shire?
'''Merry:''' Can't say that I have. You Pip?
'''Pippin:''' What do they look like?
'''Treebeard:''' I...don't remember, now.

-->'''Sam:''' Do you want to know what happened to Boromir? Do you want to know why your brother died?! He tried to ''take'' the Ring from Frodo, after ''swearing'' an oath to protect him! He tried to kill him! The Ring drove your brother mad!

-->'''Treebeard:''' We lost the Entwives.\\
'''Pippin:''' Oh, I'm sorry. How did they die?\\
'''Treebeard:''' Die, no. We lost them. And now we cannot find them. I don't suppose you've seen Entwives in the Shire?\\
'''Merry:''' Can't say that I have. You Pip?\\
'''Pippin:''' What do they look like?\\
'''Treebeard:''' I...don't remember, now.\\

** "I hate you...I hate you..."
* When Aragorn falls from the cliff and everyone assumes he's dead Legolas looks actually grief stricken without the confusion he had with Gandalf or Boromir. If it's him finally understanding what death actually means or if it's because it's his ''Aragorn'' specifically is up for debate but it still tugs at heartstrings.

** It's even worse if you've read the books. Then you'd know that every word Elrond says is true, that she will spend her time with Aragorn, bear a son and at least two daughters, and then her husband will voluntarily lay down his life. Arwen returns to Lothlórien, where she used to live with her mother and grandmother, and finds it completely empty, abandoned and silent, all her people having returned to Valinor, lies down on the grass of Cerin Amroth and effectively dies of a broken heart. Her true tragedy is that she ''knew'' this would happen when she gave up immortality for her husband, and for love, she chose a path that guaranteed widowhood and isolation from her people, culture and family forever until the end of the world.

'''Faramir:''' The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem...I wonder what his name is? Where he came from? If he was really evil at heart? What lies or threats lead him on this long march from home? Would he not rather have stayed there, at peace? [[WarIsHell War will make corpes of us all.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Here you will dwell, bound to your grief under the fading trees, until all the world is changed, and the long years of your life are utterly spent."'']]

** Another sad one in terms of the Ents in the Extended Edition. During their earlier travels in Fangorn, Treebeard states outright that there have been no Entings (Ent children) for ages because they lost the Entwives. As in, literally lost them. Treebeard states outright that he no longer remembers what they look like or where they have gone. In universe, the Entwives disappeared in the Second Age. [[spoiler: Even sadder given WordOfGod from Tolkien, that the Entwives were never found again, as they and their gardens were destroyed in the crossfire of the War of The Last Alliance (where Sauron was first defeated and the ring cut from his hand). It means that these Ents, however long lived, are the last of their kind.]]

-->'''Treebeard:'''We lost the Entwives.\\
'''Pippin:'''Oh, I'm sorry.How did they die?\\

'''Merry:'''Can't say that I have. You Pip?\\

'''Treebeard:'''I...don't remember, now.\\