# You Have No Power Here! "You Have No Power Here!" is a dismissive catchphrase lifted from a 2002 scene in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, where King Theoden rebuffs the exorcised spirit of Saruman. Starting in late 2012, Redditors turned the line into an image macro template used to mock anyone or anything deemed irrelevant, spawning a run of political and pop-culture remixes across r/AdviceAnimals, r/f7u12, and r/atheism. ## Origin The line comes from Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002). In the scene, Gandalf confronts a possessed Theoden in Edoras, and after the spirit of Saruman is driven out the king roars "you have no power here, Saruman son of none" at his exorcised adversary[1]. The phrase has an older cinematic echo in The Wizard of Oz (1939), where Glinda the Good Witch tells the Wicked Witch of the West the same thing to force her retreat from Munchkinland[7]. The meme form dates to December 5, 2012, when a Theoden screen capture was uploaded to Meme Generator with text mocking people who type hashtags on sites that don't parse them[2]. That image macro template, more than the film quote itself, is what the Reddit remix wave in 2013 built on[6]. - **Platform:** Meme Generator / Reddit (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2012 ## Overview The format pairs a screen grab of Bernard Hill as King Theoden, mid-shout from the Two Towers exorcism scene, with top-and-bottom Impact text declaring whatever the poster wants to belittle powerless[1]. The joke works because Theoden's delivery is theatrical and genuinely menacing, so slapping it over trivial subjects like unsupported hashtags, a sibling asking for computer time, or a holy book flips the gravitas into mockery[2][4]. Variants swap the target rather than the image. Some posts keep the line verbatim, others tweak it into forms like "Your book has no power here" when the target is a specific object or institution[5]. The template is a one-panel reaction, though it also shows up as the punchline frame in rage comics and multi-panel setups[4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is You Have No Power Here!? It's an image macro built from a screen grab of King Theoden in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, used online to dismiss someone or something as irrelevant[1][2]. ### Where did You Have No Power Here! come from? The line is from the 2002 film The Two Towers; the meme itself began with a December 5, 2012 upload to Meme Generator and spread through Reddit in early 2013[2][3]. ### What does You Have No Power Here! mean? Posters use it to tell a target that their influence, argument, or claim doesn't apply in the current setting, often with mock seriousness borrowed from Theoden's delivery[6]. ### How do you use You Have No Power Here!? The common setup pairs the Theoden still with top-and-bottom caption text naming the thing being declared powerless, as in the "Your book has no power here" Supreme Court variant on r/atheism[5]. ### Is You Have No Power Here! still popular? It's a classic Reddit-era macro that still gets pulled out as a dismissive reaction, though its heaviest documented traffic was the 2013 Reddit run across r/AdviceAnimals, r/f7u12, and r/atheism[3][4]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuKsnsrQxVo]() 2. [https://memegenerator.net/instance/37725755/you-have-no-power-here-you-have-no-power-here]() 3. [https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/18evy9/you_have_no_power_here_us_government/]() 4. [https://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/19rx4n/you_have_no_power_here_lil_bro/]() 5. [https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/1b3rne/you_book_has_no_power_here/]() 6. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-have-no-power-here]() 7. [http://www.wendyswizardofoz.com/printablescript.htm]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/you-have-no-power-here Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library