(Scene shifts to Gollum and the hobbits, Gollum is racing ahead on all fours.)

Gollum : See, see, we’ve led you out. Hurry, hobbitses, hurry! Very lucky we find you. (to Sam) Nice hobbit.

(They move on with Gollum leading. Sam looses his footing in the bog.)

Sam : Ooh! It’s a bog. He’s led us into a swamp!

Gollum : Swamp. Yes, yes. Come master, we will take you on safe paths through the mist. Come hobbits come. Real quickly. I found it, I did. The way through the marshes. Orcs don’t use it, orcs don’t know it. They go round for miles and miles, come quickly, swift and quick as shadows we must be.

(The hobbits are struggling their way through the swamp. Sam sees faces in the water.)

Sam : There are dead things, dead faces in the water.

Gollum : All dead. All rotten. Elves and men and orcses. A great battle long ago. The Dead Marshes. Yes, yes that is their name. This way. Don’t follow the lights. (Sam falls through another hole)

Gollum : Careful now, or hobbits go down to join the dead ones and light little candles of their own.

(Frodo starts to go off in another direction, he comes to the water and stares blankly at an elf corpse in the water, he starts to waver.)

Sam : Frodo!

(The corpse’s eyes open and Frodo falls into the water. Underneath the water, white ghostly forms start to surround him, grabbing him. They reach for him. A hand reaches down and pulls Frodo to the surface. Gollum drags him back up onto the land.)

Frodo : Unh. Unh. Gollum?

Gollum : Don’t follow the lights.

(Gollum leaves. Sam comes up.)

Frodo : Gollum.

Sam : Mr. Frodo, are you all right?

(Mordor is seen storming, red, orange and black. Sam sleeps. Frodo lies on his side stroking the ring.)

Gollum : So bright. So beautiful. Our Precioussssss.

(Frodo gets halfway up and looks at Gollum.)

Frodo : What did you say?

Gollum : Master should be resting. Master needs to keep up his strength.

Frodo : (Going over to Gollum) Who are you?

Gollum : Mustn’t ask us, not its business. *gollum, gollum.*

Frodo: Gandalf told me you were one of the river folk.

Gollum : (Singing) Cold be heart and hand and bone, cold be travelers far from home.

Frodo : He said your life was a sad story.

Gollum : (Singing) They do not see what lies ahead, when sun has failed and moon is dead.

Frodo : You were not so very different from a hobbit once. Were you? Sméagol.

Gollum : What did you call me?

Frodo : That was your name once, wasn’t it? A long time ago.

Gollum : My name? My name? Ss... Ss... Sméagol.

(A Nazgûl screech fills the air. Sam jumps up. Gollum screams.)

Sam : Black Riders.

Gollum : Hide! Hide!

(Frodo screams and grasps the spot where he was wounded by the Nazgûl blade. He sees the white faces of the Nine and relives the stabbing. Sam runs over to Frodo, and drags him into cover.)

Sam : Come on Frodo, come on!

Gollum : Hurry, they will see us, they will see us.

Sam : I thought they were dead.

Gollum : Dead? No, you cannot kill them. No.

(A black Nazgul rider is riding upon a flying beast. The Nazgul rider sniffs the air, and the beast roars as they go lower. The Nazgul rider passes over their heads.)

Gollum : Ahhh! Wraiths, wraiths on wings!

(Frodo reaches for the ring)

Gollum : They are calling for it, they are calling for the Precious.

(Sam grabs Frodo’s hand away from the ring and puts it in his own.)

Sam : It’s all right. I'm here.

(The Nazgul flies away.)

Gollum : Hurry hobbits, the Black Gate is very close.

 

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