The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Page #2

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[They continue trekking through difficult

terrain, often huddling underneath their

cloaks.]

SAM:

[Looks around] This looks strangely

familiar.

FRODO:

[Exasperated] It’s because we’ve been

here before! We’re going in circles.

SAM:

Ah! What's that 'orrid stink? I'll warrant

there's a nasty bog nearby. Can you

smell it?

FRODO:

Yes. I can smell it. [Drops to a whisper]

We’re not alone.

[NIGHTTIME

Frodo and Sam are sleeping. A dark shape

appears on top of the cliff. The creature

Gollum has appeared and is making his

way down to the hobbits.]

GOLLUM:

The thieves! The thieves! The filthy

little thieves! Where is it? Where isss

it? They stole it from us. My preciousss.

[Gollum creeps closer and closer.] Curse

them! We hates them! It’s ours, it is...

and we wantssss it!

[Gollum reaches out his hand towards

the hobbits. Suddenly the hobbits spring

up, grab hold of Gollum’s arms and pull

him down. Amidst the struggle, Gollum

wriggles loose and leaps onto Frodo.

As Frodo falls back, the chain and Ring

around his neck is revealed and Gollum

jumps straight for the Ring. Sam tries

to grab at him but is knocked away.

Gollum now jumps on top of Frodo and

tries to reach for the Ring even as

Frodo grabs his hands and tries to push

him away. Gollum’s cheeks puff with

exertion as he struggles with Frodo,

his enormous eyes fixed on the Ring.

Sam grabs hold of Gollum again and tears

him away from Frodo. Gollum then turns

around and bites Sam on the shoulder,

wriggles around and clasps his arms

around Sam’s neck and legs around his

waist in a death grip. Frodo unsheathes

Sting and holds it to Gollum's throat.]

FRODO:

[menacingly] This is Sting. You’ve seen

it before, haven’t you... Gollum! Release

him or I’ll cut your throat!

[Slowly, Gollum loosens his grip on

Sam and as the latter disentangles himself,

Gollum wails. In the next scene, Gollum

is being dragged with Sam's Elvish rope

around his neck, wailing and writhing

in pain.]

GOLLUM:

It burns! It burns us! It freezes! Nasty

Elves twisted it. Take it off us!

SAM:

Quiet you!

[Sam tugs fiercely at the rope. Gollum

cries some more and collapses onto his

back. Sam turns to Frodo in dismay.]

SAM:

It’s hopeless! Every Orc in Mordor’s

going to hear this racket! Let’s just

tie him up and leave him.

GOLLUM:

No! That would kill us! Kill us!

SAM:

It’s no more than you deserve!

FRODO:

Maybe he does deserve to die, but now

that I see him, I do pity him.

GOLLUM:

[Begging] We be nice to them if they

be nice to us. Take it off us. We swears

to do what you wants. We swears.

FRODO:

There’s no promise you can make that

I can trust.

GOLLUM:

We swears to serve the master of the

preciousss. We swears on... on the precious.

*Gollum. Gollum.*

FRODO:

The Ring is treacherous. It will hold

you to your word.

GOLLUM:

Yes... on the preciousss. On the preciousss.

SAM:

I don’t believe you! [Gollum backs away,

frightened, and climbs onto a boulder]

Get down! I said, down!

[Sam jerks strongly at the rope as Gollum

tries to get away from him. He crashes

onto the ground, choking.]

FRODO:

Sam!

SAM:

He’s trying to trick us! We let him

go he’ll throttle us in our sleep!

[Gollum lies panting and holding his

throat. He backs away, frightened, as

Frodo approaches him.]

FRODO:

You know the way to Mordor?

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