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[00:00:30.020 --> 00:00:34.020]   "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien.
[00:00:34.020 --> 00:00:38.020]   Prepared for radio in 13 episodes by Brian Sibley.
[00:00:38.020 --> 00:00:46.020]   With Ian Holm, Michael Horton, Robert Stevens, Peter Woodthorpe and William Nye.
[00:00:46.020 --> 00:00:51.020]   Episode 12. Adapted by Brian Sibley. "Mount Doom."
[00:00:51.020 --> 00:00:54.020]   ♪♪
[00:00:54.020 --> 00:00:59.020]   "Now! On! On!"
[00:00:59.020 --> 00:01:01.020]   "All hope has gone on!"
[00:01:01.020 --> 00:01:03.020]   "I'd say die, Mr. Crow, sir."
[00:01:03.020 --> 00:01:05.020]   "So my old gaffer would say if he were here."
[00:01:05.020 --> 00:01:09.020]   "Silence, slugs! On! On!"
[00:01:09.020 --> 00:01:12.020]   "Come on, Mr. Crow. Take my arm."
[00:01:12.020 --> 00:01:13.020]   "I'll help you along."
[00:01:13.020 --> 00:01:15.020]   "I really can't take another step, sir."
[00:01:15.020 --> 00:01:17.020]   "There's no need to, Mr. Crow. We're almost there."
[00:01:17.020 --> 00:01:18.020]   "Oh, yeah."
[00:01:18.020 --> 00:01:21.020]   "Oh, I don't know. Wherever it is, we won't be walking."
[00:01:21.020 --> 00:01:28.020]   "Halt! I said halt, you slugs!"
[00:01:28.020 --> 00:01:33.020]   "Now then, this here is Udull."
[00:01:33.020 --> 00:01:36.020]   "And when we get inside the camp, you'll--"
[00:01:36.020 --> 00:01:38.020]   [yelling]
[00:01:38.020 --> 00:01:42.020]   "Now then! Now then! What's all this?"
[00:01:42.020 --> 00:01:45.020]   "It's them other oaks trying to push in frat."
[00:01:45.020 --> 00:01:47.020]   "Wait, your turn!"
[00:01:47.020 --> 00:01:49.020]   "Get on and stop holding us up."
[00:01:49.020 --> 00:01:54.020]   "Don't you tell me what to do! You maggot-ridden bag of bile!"
[00:01:54.020 --> 00:01:58.020]   "Who do you think you're talking to, you filthy, fleabitten doggy?"
[00:01:58.020 --> 00:02:01.020]   [yelling]
[00:02:01.020 --> 00:02:03.020]   "Hello, Mr. Crow. Get down."
[00:02:03.020 --> 00:02:07.020]   "Crow! Come on, Mr. Crow. We've got to crawl."
[00:02:07.020 --> 00:02:09.020]   [yelling]
[00:02:09.020 --> 00:02:11.020]   "Come on, Mr. Crow, now. Come on."
[00:02:11.020 --> 00:02:14.020]   "Yes, you can. One more crawl, then we'll get on the road."
[00:02:14.020 --> 00:02:17.020]   "No, Sam, please, just let me be."
[00:02:17.020 --> 00:02:21.020]   "No! Just a bit further, and then you can lie."
[00:02:21.020 --> 00:02:23.020]   [grunting]
[00:02:23.020 --> 00:02:28.020]   When the gray light of morning came,
[00:02:28.020 --> 00:02:32.020]   Sam woke first and looked out upon the land.
[00:02:32.020 --> 00:02:37.020]   All was dreary, flat, and drab-hued.
[00:02:37.020 --> 00:02:44.020]   Far off, like a dark standing shadow, loomed the mountain.
[00:02:44.020 --> 00:02:46.020]   Smoke was pouring from it
[00:02:46.020 --> 00:02:50.020]   and floating in great rolling clouds down its sides
[00:02:50.020 --> 00:02:53.020]   to spread over the land.
[00:02:53.020 --> 00:02:58.020]   "It looks every step of 50 miles.
[00:02:58.020 --> 00:03:03.020]   And that'll take a week if it takes a day when Mr. Frodo is here."
[00:03:06.020 --> 00:03:08.020]   "Well, it's got to be faced, Sam Gamgee.
[00:03:08.020 --> 00:03:11.020]   We'll never come back.
[00:03:11.020 --> 00:03:13.020]   At best, our food will take us to our goal.
[00:03:13.020 --> 00:03:16.020]   When we get there, we'll be alone, houseless, foodless,
[00:03:16.020 --> 00:03:19.020]   in the middle of a terrible desert.
[00:03:19.020 --> 00:03:23.020]   That was the job I felt I had to do when I started,
[00:03:23.020 --> 00:03:26.020]   to help Mr. Frodo to the last step and then die with him.
[00:03:26.020 --> 00:03:29.020]   Well, if that is the job, then I must do it.
[00:03:29.020 --> 00:03:33.020]   I wish Gandalf hadn't fallen in Moria.
[00:03:33.020 --> 00:03:36.020]   He would have done something."
[00:03:36.020 --> 00:03:40.020]   "Hello, Sam."
[00:03:40.020 --> 00:03:42.020]   "So?"
[00:03:42.020 --> 00:03:44.020]   "Talking to yourself now?"
[00:03:44.020 --> 00:03:47.020]   "Well, just thinking out loud, as you might say, Mr. Frodo.
[00:03:47.020 --> 00:03:49.020]   I've been having a look round.
[00:03:49.020 --> 00:03:50.020]   There's nothing on the roads,
[00:03:50.020 --> 00:03:53.020]   and we'd best be getting away while there's a chance.
[00:03:53.020 --> 00:03:55.020]   Can you manage it?"
[00:03:55.020 --> 00:03:57.020]   "I must."
[00:03:57.020 --> 00:04:02.020]   An ever-approaching threat beat upon them as they went.
[00:04:03.020 --> 00:04:07.020]   The dreadful menace of the power that waited,
[00:04:07.020 --> 00:04:10.020]   brooding in deep thought and sleepless malice
[00:04:10.020 --> 00:04:13.020]   behind the dark veil about its throne.
[00:04:13.020 --> 00:04:19.020]   Over the city of Gondor, there hung a great dread.
[00:04:19.020 --> 00:04:22.020]   There, alone in the garden of the Houses of Healing,
[00:04:22.020 --> 00:04:25.020]   walked Faramir with a heavy heart,
[00:04:25.020 --> 00:04:28.020]   looking out over the walls eastward.
[00:04:28.020 --> 00:04:31.020]   "My lord? My lord Faramir?"
[00:04:31.020 --> 00:04:35.020]   "Lady Eowyn, why do you stir abroad?
[00:04:35.020 --> 00:04:37.020]   Should you not be resting?
[00:04:37.020 --> 00:04:39.020]   Is there something that you lack?"
[00:04:39.020 --> 00:04:41.020]   "It is not lack of care that brings me to you.
[00:04:41.020 --> 00:04:45.020]   No houses could be fairer for those who desire to be healed.
[00:04:45.020 --> 00:04:49.020]   But I cannot lie in sloth, idle and caged.
[00:04:49.020 --> 00:04:51.020]   I looked for death in battle, but I have not died,
[00:04:51.020 --> 00:04:53.020]   and battle still goes on."
[00:04:53.020 --> 00:04:55.020]   "What would you have me do, lady?"
[00:04:55.020 --> 00:04:57.020]   "I would have you bid them let me go."
[00:04:57.020 --> 00:05:00.020]   "I am myself in the keeping of the healers.
[00:05:00.020 --> 00:05:03.020]   Nor have I yet taken up my authority in the city.
[00:05:03.020 --> 00:05:06.020]   But had I done so, I should still listen to their counsel
[00:05:06.020 --> 00:05:08.020]   and not cross their will in matters of healing."
[00:05:08.020 --> 00:05:10.020]   "But I do not desire healing.
[00:05:10.020 --> 00:05:14.020]   I wish to ride to war like my brother Eowmyr,
[00:05:14.020 --> 00:05:16.020]   or better like Theoden the king,
[00:05:16.020 --> 00:05:19.020]   for he has both honor and peace."
[00:05:19.020 --> 00:05:21.020]   "It is too late, lady, to follow the captains,
[00:05:21.020 --> 00:05:23.020]   even if you had the strength.
[00:05:23.020 --> 00:05:26.020]   But death in battle may come to us all yet,
[00:05:26.020 --> 00:05:28.020]   willing or unwilling.
[00:05:28.020 --> 00:05:30.020]   You are better prepared to face it in your own manner
[00:05:30.020 --> 00:05:33.020]   if, while there is still time, you do as the healers command."
[00:05:33.020 --> 00:05:36.020]   "But the healers would have me still lie abed,
[00:05:36.020 --> 00:05:39.020]   and my window does not look eastward."
[00:05:39.020 --> 00:05:41.020]   "That can be amended.
[00:05:41.020 --> 00:05:44.020]   If you will stay in this house in our care, lady,
[00:05:44.020 --> 00:05:46.020]   and take your rest,
[00:05:46.020 --> 00:05:49.020]   then you shall walk in this garden in the sun as you will,
[00:05:49.020 --> 00:05:53.020]   and you shall look east, where all our hopes have gone.
[00:05:53.020 --> 00:05:56.020]   It would ease my care
[00:05:56.020 --> 00:06:00.020]   if you would speak to me or walk at wiles with me."
[00:06:00.020 --> 00:06:03.020]   "How should I ease your care, my lord?"
[00:06:03.020 --> 00:06:05.020]   "Would you have my plain answer?"
[00:06:05.020 --> 00:06:07.020]   "I would."
[00:06:07.020 --> 00:06:10.020]   "Then, Eowyn of Rohan,
[00:06:10.020 --> 00:06:14.020]   I say to you that you are beautiful.
[00:06:14.020 --> 00:06:19.020]   In the valleys of our hills there are flowers fair and bright,
[00:06:19.020 --> 00:06:21.020]   and the maidens fairer still,
[00:06:21.020 --> 00:06:24.020]   but neither flower nor lady have I seen till now in Gondor
[00:06:24.020 --> 00:06:28.020]   so lovely and so sorrowful.
[00:06:28.020 --> 00:06:31.020]   It may be that only a few days are left
[00:06:31.020 --> 00:06:33.020]   ere darkness falls upon our world,
[00:06:33.020 --> 00:06:37.020]   and when it comes, I hope to face it steadily.
[00:06:37.020 --> 00:06:40.020]   But it would ease my heart
[00:06:40.020 --> 00:06:44.020]   if, while the sun yet shines, I could see you still.
[00:06:44.020 --> 00:06:47.020]   For you and I have both passed under the wings of the shadow,
[00:06:47.020 --> 00:06:50.020]   and the same hand drew us back."
[00:06:50.020 --> 00:06:52.020]   "Alas, not me, lord.
[00:06:52.020 --> 00:06:55.020]   Shadow lies on me still.
[00:06:55.020 --> 00:06:57.020]   Look not to me for healing.
[00:06:57.020 --> 00:07:01.020]   I am a shieldmaiden, and my hand is ungentle.
[00:07:01.020 --> 00:07:03.020]   But I thank you for this, at least,
[00:07:03.020 --> 00:07:05.020]   that I need not keep to my chamber.
[00:07:05.020 --> 00:07:09.020]   I will walk abroad by the grace of the steward of the city."
[00:07:09.020 --> 00:07:12.020]   Eowyn walked back to the house,
[00:07:12.020 --> 00:07:16.020]   but Faramir for a long while walked alone in the garden,
[00:07:16.020 --> 00:07:19.020]   and his glance now strayed rather to the house
[00:07:19.020 --> 00:07:21.020]   than to the eastward walls.
[00:07:22.020 --> 00:07:27.020]   Frodo and Sam struggled on towards the mountain.
[00:07:27.020 --> 00:07:33.020]   Nearer and nearer it drew,
[00:07:33.020 --> 00:07:36.020]   looming blacker,
[00:07:36.020 --> 00:07:41.020]   like the oncoming wall of night at the last end of the world.
[00:07:41.020 --> 00:07:46.020]   In this way, four days passed
[00:07:46.020 --> 00:07:51.020]   until dream and waking mingled uneasily.
[00:07:53.020 --> 00:07:56.020]   The air was ever murky,
[00:07:56.020 --> 00:08:01.020]   while out from the dark tower that crept the veils of shadow
[00:08:01.020 --> 00:08:04.020]   that Sauron wove about himself.
[00:08:04.020 --> 00:08:08.020]   Wake up, master.
[00:08:08.020 --> 00:08:11.020]   Wake up, master. It's time for another start.
[00:08:11.020 --> 00:08:21.020]   I can't manage it, Sam.
[00:08:21.020 --> 00:08:24.020]   Such a weight to carry.
[00:08:24.020 --> 00:08:26.020]   Such a weight.
[00:08:26.020 --> 00:08:29.020]   Then let me carry it a bit for you, master.
[00:08:29.020 --> 00:08:32.020]   You know I would, and gladly, as long as I have it straight.
[00:08:32.020 --> 00:08:34.020]   Get away from me!
[00:08:34.020 --> 00:08:37.020]   Don't touch me!
[00:08:37.020 --> 00:08:39.020]   It's mine!
[00:08:39.020 --> 00:08:41.020]   - Mr Frodo. - No!
[00:08:41.020 --> 00:08:45.020]   No, Sam.
[00:08:47.020 --> 00:08:51.020]   You must understand it is my burden
[00:08:51.020 --> 00:08:54.020]   that no one else can bear it.
[00:08:54.020 --> 00:08:59.020]   It's too late now, Sam.
[00:08:59.020 --> 00:09:01.020]   Dear Sam.
[00:09:01.020 --> 00:09:06.020]   You can't help me in that way again.
[00:09:06.020 --> 00:09:11.020]   I'm almost in its power now.
[00:09:11.020 --> 00:09:14.020]   I couldn't give it up.
[00:09:14.020 --> 00:09:18.020]   And if you tried to take it, I should go mad.
[00:09:18.020 --> 00:09:21.020]   I understand.
[00:09:21.020 --> 00:09:24.020]   But I've been thinking, Mr Frodo,
[00:09:24.020 --> 00:09:26.020]   there's other things we might do without it.
[00:09:26.020 --> 00:09:28.020]   Well, why not lighten the load a bit?
[00:09:28.020 --> 00:09:30.020]   We're going to the mountain now, as straight as we can make it.
[00:09:30.020 --> 00:09:33.020]   It's no good taking anything we're not sure to need.
[00:09:33.020 --> 00:09:38.020]   No. No, we shan't need much on that road.
[00:09:38.020 --> 00:09:41.020]   And at its end, nothing.
[00:09:43.020 --> 00:09:46.020]   I shall be glad to be rid of all this.
[00:09:46.020 --> 00:09:48.020]   There.
[00:09:48.020 --> 00:09:50.020]   I'll be an orc no more.
[00:09:50.020 --> 00:09:54.020]   I want to wear their armour and I'll bear no weapon, fair or foul.
[00:09:54.020 --> 00:09:56.020]   Let them take me if they will.
[00:09:56.020 --> 00:10:00.020]   I don't know where I'm to part with, other than this orc stuff and my cooking.
[00:10:00.020 --> 00:10:03.020]   I've carried it so far and through so much.
[00:10:03.020 --> 00:10:05.020]   Do you remember that bit of rubbish I cooked for us, Mr Frodo?
[00:10:05.020 --> 00:10:08.020]   Just before we met Captain Farrowman.
[00:10:08.020 --> 00:10:10.020]   No.
[00:10:10.020 --> 00:10:12.020]   No.
[00:10:12.020 --> 00:10:14.020]   I'm afraid not, sir.
[00:10:14.020 --> 00:10:20.020]   At least I know that such things happen, but I cannot see them now.
[00:10:20.020 --> 00:10:23.020]   No taste of food.
[00:10:23.020 --> 00:10:26.020]   No feel of water.
[00:10:26.020 --> 00:10:28.020]   No sound of wind.
[00:10:28.020 --> 00:10:31.020]   No memory of grass or flower.
[00:10:31.020 --> 00:10:35.020]   No image of moon or star are left to me.
[00:10:35.020 --> 00:10:40.020]   I am naked in the dark, Sam.
[00:10:40.020 --> 00:10:45.020]   And there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire.
[00:10:45.020 --> 00:10:51.020]   I begin to see it even with my waking eyes.
[00:10:51.020 --> 00:10:54.020]   And all else fades.
[00:10:54.020 --> 00:10:58.020]   Well, then the sooner we're rid of it, the sooner to rest.
[00:10:58.020 --> 00:11:01.020]   Then talking won't mean nothing.
[00:11:01.020 --> 00:11:03.020]   Where are you going, Sam?
[00:11:03.020 --> 00:11:06.020]   Well, I'm not leaving a sword around for Stinker to find.
[00:11:06.020 --> 00:11:08.020]   And he isn't going to mess with my pans.
[00:11:08.020 --> 00:11:12.020]   If it's all got to go, then it's going down one of these crevices.
[00:11:12.020 --> 00:11:21.020]   Bless you, Sam.
[00:11:21.020 --> 00:11:24.020]   Hobbit of hobbits.
[00:11:24.020 --> 00:11:37.020]   Are you asleep, Mr Frodo?
[00:11:38.020 --> 00:11:40.020]   Mr Frodo?
[00:11:40.020 --> 00:11:46.020]   Oh, well, Sam, we've done better than you expected.
[00:11:46.020 --> 00:11:48.020]   We've begun well, anyway.
[00:11:48.020 --> 00:11:50.020]   I reckon we crossed half the distance before we stopped.
[00:11:50.020 --> 00:11:52.020]   One more day will do it.
[00:11:52.020 --> 00:11:54.020]   Don't be a fool, Sam Gumgee.
[00:11:54.020 --> 00:11:57.020]   He won't go another day like that if he moves at all.
[00:11:57.020 --> 00:12:00.020]   You can't go on much longer giving him all the water and most of the food.
[00:12:00.020 --> 00:12:04.020]   I can go on a good way, though, and I will.
[00:12:04.020 --> 00:12:06.020]   Where to?
[00:12:06.020 --> 00:12:09.020]   Well, the mountain, of course.
[00:12:09.020 --> 00:12:12.020]   But what then, Sam Gumgee? What then?
[00:12:12.020 --> 00:12:15.020]   When you get there, what are you going to do?
[00:12:15.020 --> 00:12:18.020]   The cracks of doom.
[00:12:18.020 --> 00:12:20.020]   That is, if the master knows how to find them, because I don't...
[00:12:20.020 --> 00:12:22.020]   There you are.
[00:12:22.020 --> 00:12:24.020]   It's all quite useless. He said so himself.
[00:12:24.020 --> 00:12:27.020]   And you were a fool going on hoping and toiling.
[00:12:27.020 --> 00:12:30.020]   You could both have lain down and gone to sleep days ago.
[00:12:30.020 --> 00:12:33.020]   You'll die just the same, or worse.
[00:12:33.020 --> 00:12:35.020]   You might just as well lie down now and give it up.
[00:12:35.020 --> 00:12:37.020]   I'll never get to the top anyway.
[00:12:37.020 --> 00:12:39.020]   I'll get there.
[00:12:39.020 --> 00:12:42.020]   And if I leave everything but my bones behind, I'll get there.
[00:12:42.020 --> 00:12:45.020]   And I'll carry Mr Frodo up myself if it breaks my back and heart.
[00:12:45.020 --> 00:12:48.020]   So stop arguing.
[00:12:48.020 --> 00:12:52.020]   Oh, Mr Frodo.
[00:12:52.020 --> 00:12:56.020]   What's going to become of us?
[00:12:56.020 --> 00:13:00.020]   The last stage of their journey to Mount Doom came.
[00:13:00.020 --> 00:13:05.020]   And it was a torment greater than Sam had ever thought that he could bear.
[00:13:05.020 --> 00:13:07.020]   The air was full of fumes.
[00:13:07.020 --> 00:13:10.020]   Breathing was painful and difficult.
[00:13:10.020 --> 00:13:14.020]   And a dizziness came over them.
[00:13:14.020 --> 00:13:20.020]   It's all right, Mr Frodo.
[00:13:20.020 --> 00:13:23.020]   I'll get you up again.
[00:13:23.020 --> 00:13:28.020]   And see, Mr Frodo, we're at the mountain's foot at last.
[00:13:28.020 --> 00:13:30.020]   Oh, you're cold, sir.
[00:13:30.020 --> 00:13:33.020]   I didn't ought to have left my blanket behind.
[00:13:33.020 --> 00:13:35.020]   Would you like some elf bread?
[00:13:35.020 --> 00:13:38.020]   There's still some left.
[00:13:38.020 --> 00:13:41.020]   I'm so parched, Sam.
[00:13:41.020 --> 00:13:44.020]   I couldn't even swallow it.
[00:13:44.020 --> 00:13:48.020]   Well, we'll rest now and go on up in the morning.
[00:13:48.020 --> 00:13:50.020]   Yes.
[00:13:50.020 --> 00:13:55.020]   All the hazards and perils are drawing together to a point now.
[00:13:55.020 --> 00:13:58.020]   Tomorrow will be a day of doom.
[00:13:58.020 --> 00:14:02.020]   A day of final effort or disaster.
[00:14:02.020 --> 00:14:07.020]   The last gasp.
[00:14:07.020 --> 00:14:11.020]   Now for it.
[00:14:11.020 --> 00:14:14.020]   Now for the last gasp.
[00:14:14.020 --> 00:14:17.020]   What are you doing, Mr Frodo?
[00:14:17.020 --> 00:14:23.020]   I must crawl there.
[00:14:23.020 --> 00:14:25.020]   No! No!
[00:14:25.020 --> 00:14:28.020]   I said I'd carry him if he broke my back and I will.
[00:14:28.020 --> 00:14:30.020]   Come on, Mr Frodo.
[00:14:30.020 --> 00:14:33.020]   I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well.
[00:14:33.020 --> 00:14:35.020]   So up you get.
[00:14:35.020 --> 00:14:38.020]   Mr Frodo, dear. Sam will give you a ride.
[00:14:38.020 --> 00:14:41.020]   Put your arms around my neck. That's the way.
[00:14:41.020 --> 00:14:44.020]   And now up with you. There.
[00:14:44.020 --> 00:14:48.020]   It's all right now.
[00:14:48.020 --> 00:14:50.020]   Why, bless me, Mr Frodo, if you waste no more than the Hobbit child,
[00:14:50.020 --> 00:14:53.020]   I might give a piggy back to. Back home in the Shire.
[00:14:53.020 --> 00:14:55.020]   Who's there?
[00:14:55.020 --> 00:14:57.020]   How far is there to go?
[00:14:57.020 --> 00:15:00.020]   I don't know, Mr Frodo, because I don't know where we're going.
[00:15:00.020 --> 00:15:03.020]   Except up. And up we go.
[00:15:03.020 --> 00:15:18.020]   Well, Sam, that wasn't a bad effort.
[00:15:18.020 --> 00:15:21.020]   We've still got a good way to go.
[00:15:21.020 --> 00:15:25.020]   It's all all right, Mr Frodo.
[00:15:25.020 --> 00:15:28.020]   I'm just getting second wind.
[00:15:28.020 --> 00:15:32.020]   Look.
[00:15:32.020 --> 00:15:34.020]   What is it?
[00:15:34.020 --> 00:15:37.020]   It's a path. See?
[00:15:37.020 --> 00:15:40.020]   It's winding round the mountain.
[00:15:40.020 --> 00:15:42.020]   Why, it might have been put there a purpose.
[00:15:42.020 --> 00:15:45.020]   If it wasn't there, I'd have to say I was beaten in the end.
[00:15:45.020 --> 00:15:49.020]   But as it is, I think we'll conquer this mountain yet.
[00:15:49.020 --> 00:15:53.020]   I'll crawl there, Sam.
[00:15:53.020 --> 00:15:55.020]   It's not far.
[00:15:55.020 --> 00:15:57.020]   Are you sure, Mr Frodo?
[00:15:57.020 --> 00:15:59.020]   Yes, Sam.
[00:15:59.020 --> 00:16:03.020]   I think I can crawl that far.
[00:16:03.020 --> 00:16:10.020]   So, foot by foot, like small grey insects,
[00:16:10.020 --> 00:16:15.020]   they crawled up the slope, until they came to the path,
[00:16:15.020 --> 00:16:20.020]   and found that it was broad and paved with broken rubble and beaten ash.
[00:16:20.020 --> 00:16:25.020]   Frodo clambered onto it, and then, as if by some compulsion,
[00:16:25.020 --> 00:16:31.020]   turned to face the east, where he saw, rising black,
[00:16:31.020 --> 00:16:35.020]   blacker and darker than the vast shades among which it stood,
[00:16:35.020 --> 00:16:41.020]   the cruel pinnacles and iron crown of the topmost tower of Barad-dur.
[00:16:41.020 --> 00:16:45.020]   And from some great window, immeasurably high,
[00:16:45.020 --> 00:16:49.020]   there stabbed forth a flame of red,
[00:16:49.020 --> 00:16:53.020]   the flicker of a piercing eye.
[00:16:53.020 --> 00:17:01.020]   The eye.
[00:17:02.020 --> 00:17:05.020]   The eye.
[00:17:05.020 --> 00:17:10.020]   Help me, Sam. Help me, help me, Sam.
[00:17:10.020 --> 00:17:12.020]   Oh, oh, oh, man.
[00:17:12.020 --> 00:17:15.020]   It will make me take out the ring.
[00:17:15.020 --> 00:17:17.020]   Can't stop it.
[00:17:17.020 --> 00:17:19.020]   It's all right, it's all right.
[00:17:19.020 --> 00:17:24.020]   He's spotted us.
[00:17:24.020 --> 00:17:26.020]   It's all up, presumably.
[00:17:26.020 --> 00:17:30.020]   Well, Sam, this is the end of the end, sir.
[00:17:32.020 --> 00:17:36.020]   But the eye was not turned to them.
[00:17:36.020 --> 00:17:38.020]   It was gazing north,
[00:17:38.020 --> 00:17:42.020]   to where the captains of the west stood at bay.
[00:17:42.020 --> 00:17:48.020]   Still, the enemy makes no sign, Gandalf.
[00:17:48.020 --> 00:17:51.020]   No, Aragorn.
[00:17:51.020 --> 00:17:53.020]   And we will wait no longer.
[00:17:53.020 --> 00:17:57.020]   We will go to the Black Gate, and we will summon him.
[00:17:57.020 --> 00:17:59.020]   You and I will go together, Aragorn, and with us
[00:17:59.020 --> 00:18:02.020]   we shall come Eormir of Rohan, Legolas the elf, Gimli the dwarf,
[00:18:02.020 --> 00:18:04.020]   and Peregrin the halfling.
[00:18:04.020 --> 00:18:08.020]   For all the enemies of Mordor should have a witness.
[00:18:08.020 --> 00:18:10.020]   Come.
[00:18:10.020 --> 00:18:20.020]   If only I might do something brave enough to draw level with Old Mary.
[00:18:20.020 --> 00:18:25.020]   Still, I would rather he had been well enough to have come.
[00:18:25.020 --> 00:18:27.020]   It's very lonely being the only hobbit
[00:18:27.020 --> 00:18:30.020]   among so many fine and brave people.
[00:18:30.020 --> 00:18:33.020]   Come forth.
[00:18:33.020 --> 00:18:37.020]   Let the Lord of the Black Land come forth.
[00:18:37.020 --> 00:18:41.020]   The King of Gondor calls you forth.
[00:18:41.020 --> 00:18:54.020]   I am the month of Sauron.
[00:18:58.020 --> 00:19:02.020]   Is there any in this rout with authority to treat with me,
[00:19:02.020 --> 00:19:05.020]   or indeed with which to understand me?
[00:19:05.020 --> 00:19:09.020]   Not thou, at least, self-styled King of Gondor.
[00:19:09.020 --> 00:19:11.020]   I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn,
[00:19:11.020 --> 00:19:14.020]   and wear the blade once born by Isildur
[00:19:14.020 --> 00:19:17.020]   against the Dark Lord you claim to speak for.
[00:19:17.020 --> 00:19:20.020]   I am a herald and ambassador, and may not be assailed.
[00:19:20.020 --> 00:19:22.020]   Where such laws hold,
[00:19:22.020 --> 00:19:26.020]   it is also the custom for ambassadors to use less insolence.
[00:19:26.020 --> 00:19:31.020]   So, then thou art the spokesman, old Greybeard.
[00:19:31.020 --> 00:19:33.020]   Have ye not heard of thee at Wilds?
[00:19:33.020 --> 00:19:38.020]   What are thy wanderings, ever hatching plots and mischief at a safe distance?
[00:19:38.020 --> 00:19:40.020]   I am Gandalf the White.
[00:19:40.020 --> 00:19:45.020]   Well, Master Gandalf, this time thou hast stuck out thy nose too far,
[00:19:45.020 --> 00:19:48.020]   and thou shalt see what comes to him who sets his foolish webs
[00:19:48.020 --> 00:19:50.020]   before the feet of Sauron the Great.
[00:19:50.020 --> 00:19:53.020]   Come to your message, if message you have for us.
[00:19:53.020 --> 00:19:56.020]   I have tokens that I was bidden to show to thee,
[00:19:56.020 --> 00:20:00.020]   to thee in especial, if thou shouldst dare to come.
[00:20:00.020 --> 00:20:01.020]   What tokens?
[00:20:01.020 --> 00:20:03.020]   Allow me to show them to you.
[00:20:03.020 --> 00:20:09.020]   A sword, a grey cloak with an elvish brooch,
[00:20:09.020 --> 00:20:13.020]   and a coat of silver mail.
[00:20:13.020 --> 00:20:14.020]   Oh, not this.
[00:20:14.020 --> 00:20:15.020]   Silence.
[00:20:15.020 --> 00:20:19.020]   So, you have yet another of these imps with you.
[00:20:19.020 --> 00:20:22.020]   What use do you find in them, I cannot guess.
[00:20:22.020 --> 00:20:27.020]   But to send them as spies into Mordor is beyond even your accustomed folly.
[00:20:27.020 --> 00:20:30.020]   Still, I thank him,
[00:20:30.020 --> 00:20:34.020]   for it is plain that this brat at least has seen these tokens before,
[00:20:34.020 --> 00:20:36.020]   and it would be vain for you to deny them now.
[00:20:36.020 --> 00:20:38.020]   I do not wish to deny them.
[00:20:38.020 --> 00:20:41.020]   Indeed, I know them all and all their history,
[00:20:41.020 --> 00:20:47.020]   and despite your scorn, foul mouth of Sauron, you cannot say as much.
[00:20:47.020 --> 00:20:51.020]   Dwarf coat, elf cloak, blade of the Downfallen West,
[00:20:51.020 --> 00:20:54.020]   and spy from a little ratland of the Shire.
[00:20:54.020 --> 00:20:57.020]   These are the marks of a conspiracy.
[00:20:57.020 --> 00:20:59.020]   Why do you bring them here?
[00:20:59.020 --> 00:21:03.020]   Maybe he that bore these things was a creature that you would not grieve to lose.
[00:21:03.020 --> 00:21:05.020]   And maybe otherwise.
[00:21:05.020 --> 00:21:10.020]   One dear to you, perhaps.
[00:21:10.020 --> 00:21:11.020]   Good.
[00:21:11.020 --> 00:21:15.020]   Good, he was dear to you, I see.
[00:21:15.020 --> 00:21:18.020]   Or else his errand was one that you did not wish to fail.
[00:21:20.020 --> 00:21:22.020]   It has.
[00:21:22.020 --> 00:21:25.020]   And now he shall endure the slow torment of years,
[00:21:25.020 --> 00:21:29.020]   as long and slow as our arts in the Great Tower can contrive,
[00:21:29.020 --> 00:21:31.020]   and never be released.
[00:21:31.020 --> 00:21:35.020]   Unless, maybe, when he is changed and broken,
[00:21:35.020 --> 00:21:39.020]   so that he may come to you and you shall see what you have done.
[00:21:39.020 --> 00:21:44.020]   This shall surely be unless you accept my Lord's terms.
[00:21:44.020 --> 00:21:48.020]   Name the terms.
[00:21:48.020 --> 00:21:50.020]   These are the terms.
[00:21:50.020 --> 00:21:56.020]   The rabble of Gondor and its deluded allies shall withdraw at once beyond the River Anduin,
[00:21:56.020 --> 00:22:02.020]   first taking oaths never again to assail Sauron the Great in arms, open or secret.
[00:22:02.020 --> 00:22:07.020]   All lands east of the river shall be Sauron's forever, solely.
[00:22:07.020 --> 00:22:11.020]   West of the Anduin, as far as the Misty Mountains and the Gap of Rohan,
[00:22:11.020 --> 00:22:16.020]   shall be tributary to Mordor, and men there shall bear no weapons,
[00:22:16.020 --> 00:22:19.020]   but shall have leave to govern their own affairs.
[00:22:19.020 --> 00:22:24.020]   But they shall help to rebuild Isengard, which they have wantonly destroyed.
[00:22:24.020 --> 00:22:27.020]   And that shall be Sauron's.
[00:22:27.020 --> 00:22:30.020]   And there his lieutenant shall dwell.
[00:22:30.020 --> 00:22:35.020]   Not Saruman, but one more worthy of trust.
[00:22:35.020 --> 00:22:39.020]   Is it Sauron's new lieutenant that speaks with me now?
[00:22:39.020 --> 00:22:42.020]   That is not a matter which concerns you, Greybeard.
[00:22:42.020 --> 00:22:47.020]   If you are to be the new tyrant of Isengard, and we your slaves, it concerns us greatly.
[00:22:47.020 --> 00:22:50.020]   I have named the terms.
[00:22:50.020 --> 00:22:54.020]   If indeed we rated this prisoner so high,
[00:22:54.020 --> 00:23:00.020]   what surety have we that Sauron, the base master of treachery, will keep his part?
[00:23:00.020 --> 00:23:02.020]   Where is the prisoner?
[00:23:02.020 --> 00:23:08.020]   Let him be brought forth and yielded to us, and then we will consider these demands.
[00:23:11.020 --> 00:23:16.020]   Do not bandy words in your insolence with the mouth of Sauron.
[00:23:16.020 --> 00:23:20.020]   Surety you crave? Sauron gives none.
[00:23:20.020 --> 00:23:24.020]   If you sue for his clemency, you must first do his bidding.
[00:23:24.020 --> 00:23:29.020]   These are his terms. Take them, or leave them.
[00:23:29.020 --> 00:23:35.020]   These tokens we will take. These we will take in memory of our friend.
[00:23:35.020 --> 00:23:41.020]   But as for your terms, we reject them utterly.
[00:23:41.020 --> 00:23:48.020]   Get you gone, for your embassy is over and death is near to you.
[00:23:48.020 --> 00:23:52.020]   We did not come here to waste words in treating with Sauron,
[00:23:52.020 --> 00:23:57.020]   faithless and accursed, still less with one of his slaves. Be gone!
[00:23:57.020 --> 00:23:59.020]   But can the Frodo...
[00:23:59.020 --> 00:24:03.020]   The mouth of Sauron may lie.
[00:24:03.020 --> 00:24:06.020]   Uruk-hay!
[00:24:06.020 --> 00:24:11.020]   The trap is sprung.
[00:24:11.020 --> 00:24:16.020]   We are surrounded by the whole host of Mordor, and we must fight!
[00:24:33.020 --> 00:24:37.020]   Come, master. We're here. Let us try and finish our task.
[00:24:37.020 --> 00:24:39.020]   Yes.
[00:24:39.020 --> 00:24:43.020]   Yes, Sam, it's all right now. The eye has looked away.
[00:24:43.020 --> 00:24:47.020]   But for a moment, I almost took out the ring and...
[00:24:47.020 --> 00:24:50.020]   Sam, look out!
[00:24:50.020 --> 00:24:53.020]   Take that, Smee-hay!
[00:24:53.020 --> 00:24:55.020]   Now! Now!
[00:24:55.020 --> 00:24:58.020]   Wicked master!
[00:24:58.020 --> 00:25:00.020]   Wicked master!
[00:25:00.020 --> 00:25:03.020]   Chases! Chases!
[00:25:03.020 --> 00:25:06.020]   Call him!
[00:25:06.020 --> 00:25:08.020]   He mustn't go that way!
[00:25:08.020 --> 00:25:10.020]   He mustn't!
[00:25:10.020 --> 00:25:12.020]   Precious!
[00:25:12.020 --> 00:25:15.020]   Give it to Smee-hay!
[00:25:15.020 --> 00:25:22.020]   Give it to us!
[00:25:22.020 --> 00:25:25.020]   Never, Smeagol! Never!
[00:25:25.020 --> 00:25:28.020]   Never is it master!
[00:25:30.020 --> 00:25:37.020]   Nasty hobbitses doesn't realize how long never is it!
[00:25:37.020 --> 00:25:43.020]   Down! Down!
[00:25:43.020 --> 00:25:48.020]   Down, you creeping thing!
[00:25:48.020 --> 00:25:52.020]   And out of my path! Be gone!
[00:25:52.020 --> 00:25:54.020]   And trouble me no more!
[00:25:54.020 --> 00:26:01.020]   If you touch me ever again, you will be cast into the fire of doom yourself!
[00:26:01.020 --> 00:26:10.020]   Go out, master! You'll be fine!
[00:26:10.020 --> 00:26:13.020]   Quick, mister, go on! There's no time to lose!
[00:26:13.020 --> 00:26:15.020]   I'll deal with them!
[00:26:15.020 --> 00:26:19.020]   Farewell, Sam! This is the end of end!
[00:26:19.020 --> 00:26:23.020]   On mount doom, doom shall fall!
[00:26:23.020 --> 00:26:25.020]   Farewell!
[00:26:25.020 --> 00:26:29.020]   At last, I can deal with you!
[00:26:29.020 --> 00:26:31.020]   Down! Down! Kill us!
[00:26:31.020 --> 00:26:33.020]   Let us sleep!
[00:26:33.020 --> 00:26:35.020]   Remember Gandalf's words.
[00:26:35.020 --> 00:26:39.020]   Gollum may yet have some part to play for good, Oreor.
[00:26:39.020 --> 00:26:44.020]   I'll curse you, you stinking thing!
[00:26:44.020 --> 00:26:46.020]   Go away! Be off!
[00:26:46.020 --> 00:26:49.020]   I don't trust you, not as far as I can kick you!
[00:26:49.020 --> 00:26:51.020]   Be off! Or I shall hurt you, yes!
[00:26:51.020 --> 00:26:53.020]   With nasty, cruel steel!
[00:26:53.020 --> 00:26:54.020]   Good hobbits!
[00:26:54.020 --> 00:26:55.020]   Nice hobbits!
[00:26:55.020 --> 00:26:56.020]   Go on!
[00:26:56.020 --> 00:26:57.020]   Yes! Yes! Yes!
[00:26:57.020 --> 00:26:59.020]   We go! We do!
[00:26:59.020 --> 00:27:03.020]   Frodo! Master!
[00:27:03.020 --> 00:27:06.020]   Mr. Frodo! Wait for me!
[00:27:21.020 --> 00:27:23.020]   [silence]
[00:27:52.020 --> 00:27:54.020]   [silence]
[00:28:22.020 --> 00:28:24.020]   [silence]
[00:28:52.020 --> 00:28:54.020]   [silence]
[00:29:22.020 --> 00:29:24.020]   [silence]
[00:29:52.020 --> 00:29:54.020]   [silence]
[00:30:22.020 --> 00:30:24.020]   [silence]
[00:30:52.020 --> 00:30:54.020]   [silence]
[00:31:22.020 --> 00:31:24.020]   [silence]