<Frodo and Sam are walking through the woods, away from Osgiliath.>
Sam: I wonder if we’ll ever be put into songs or tales.
Frodo: What?
Sam: I wonder if people will ever say, ‘let’s hear about Frodo and the Ring.’ And they’ll say ‘yes, that’s one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn’t he, dad.’ ‘Yes, my boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that’s saying alot.’
Frodo: Huh, you left out one of the chief characters – Samwise the Brave. I want to hear more about Sam.
<Frodo turns to look at Sam.>
Frodo: Frodo wouldn’t have got far without Sam.
Sam: Now Mr. Frodo, you shouldn’t make fun. I was being serious.
Frodo: <smiling> So was I. <He turns to walk on>
Sam: <Dreamily> Samwise the Brave. <He gives his backpack a heave and follows Frodo>
<Gollum is crouching a short distance away>
Frodo: Sméagol!
Sam: We’re not gonna wait for you. Come on!
Sméagol: Master... Master looks after us. Master wouldn’t hurt us.
Gollum: Master broke his promise.
Sméagol: Don’t ask Sméagol. Poor, poor Sméagol.
Gollum: Master betrayed us! Wicked, tricksy, false. We ought to wring his filthy little neck. <Twists the branch of a tree> Kill him! Kill him! Kill them both. And then we take the precious and we be the master.
Sméagol: <Scuttles and hides behind a tree> The fat hobbit, he knows. Eyes always watching.
Gollum: Then we stabs them out. Put out his eyeses. And make HIM crawl.
Sméagol: <Bites on his finger and nods eagerly> Yes! Yes! Yes!
Gollum: Kill them both.
Sméagol: Yes! No no! <Backs away against a tree> It’s too risky, it’s too risky.
<He looks in the direction of the hobbits>
Sam: Where’s he gone? Hey Gollum, where are you?
Frodo: Sméagol?
Gollum: <Softly and sinisterly> We could let HER do it.
Sméagol: Yes. She could do it.
Gollum: Yes, precious she could. And then we takes it once they’re dead.
Sméagol: Once they’re dead…
Gollum: Shh… <He pops out from hiding in front of the hobbits.>
Sméagol: Come on, hobbits. Long ways to go yet. Sméagol will show you the way.
<He turns to walk on, with Frodo and Sam following behind.>
Gollum: Follow me.
< Camera pans up over the forest and Ephel Dúath to reveal the desolation of Mordor. To the left of the frame is the glowing Eye of Sauron atop Barad-dûr, and to the right of the frame is the fiery Mount Doom. Three Fell Beasts circle the dark skies. Lightning flashes as the scene fades to black.>
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