Gandalf : "We must hold to this course west of the Misty Mountains for forty days. If our luck holds, the Gap of Rohan will still be open to us, and from there our road turns east toward Mordor."

 

They stop for lunch, Merry and Pippin practice swordfighting with Boromir.
Boromir : "Very good. Again!"

Gimli : "If anyone were to ask my opinion, which I note they have not, I would say we're taking the long way around! Gandalf, we could go through the Mines of Moria. My cousin Balin would give us a royal welcome!"
Gimli : "No, Gimli, I would not take the road through Moria unless I had no other choice."

Aragorn adds comments.
Strider : "Move your feet!"
Boromir accidentally hurts Pippin.
Pippin : "Ow!"
Boromir : "Sorry!"
Pippin drops his sword, kicks Boromir in the shins and tackles him. Merry joins in, and the two of them wrestle Boromir to the ground.

 

Legolas notices something on the horizon.

Sam : "What's that?"

Gimli : "It's nothing, just a wisp of cloud."
Everyone looks.
Boromir : "It's moving fast, against the wind."

Legolas : "Crebain from Dunland! Hide!"

Everyone gathers possessions, they put out the fire and take cover. When crows leave, they come out again.

Gandalf : "Spies for Saruman. The passage south is being watched. We will have to go over the pass of Caradhras."

Climbing a snowy mountain, Frodo falls and rolls down. Strider catches him, but the ring is missing.

Boromir picks it up.
Aragorn : "Boromir."
Boromir : "It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing. Such a little thing."

Aragorn : "Boromir! Give the ring to Frodo."
Boromir : "As you wish. I care not."

But he too obviously does care, and when Boromir turns away, Strider takes his hand off his sword.

The crows return to Isengard, report to Saruman.
Saruman : "So, you tried to lead them over Caradhras. And if that fails? Where will you go? If the mountain defeats you, will you risk a more dangerous road?"

Legolas runs atop the snow while the others struggle through it. Stands at the edge of a cliff, listening.
Legolas : "There is a fell voice on the air!"

Gandalf : "It's Saruman!"

Rocks fall from the side of the mountain, followed by snow.
Aragorn : "He's trying to bring down the mountain! We must turn back!"
Gandalf : "No!"

The wizard's voice is drowned out by a more terrible cry in the maelstrom. Saruman stands on the Pinnacle of Orthanc and continues to command Caradhras. Away above him where he stands, a great black wall-cloud towers over Redhorn. Gandalf tries to stop the storm, but Saruman is reinforcing it from Isengard.

Saruman : "Cuiva nwalca Carnirasse; Nai yarvaxea rasselya; taltuva notto-carinnar!" Wake up cruel Redhorn! May your bloodstained horn fall upon enemy heads!

Lightning strikes the mountain, and Legolas pulls Gandalf back from the edge just before snow falls and buries them all. One by one, they dig out or shake the snow off.

Aragorn : "We must get off the mountain!"
Boromir : "We must take the Pass of Rohan, or take the road west to my city!"
Aragorn : "Rohan takes us too close to Isengard!"

Gimli : "If we cannot go over the mountain, I say let us go under it!"

Saruman : 'Moria. You fear to go into those mines. The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-Dum. Shadow and flame.'

Gandalf : "Let the Ringbearer decide!"
Frodo : "We will go through the mines!"

Gandalf : "So be it."

 

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