haha I HATED that scene in LOTR. Well, I didn't care for the movie but that seemed like a WTF gibberish spouting moment. Blanchett did it well though.
"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow." Frankenstein