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I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE PROGRAMMES I UPLOAD. CREDIT GOES TO THE ORIGINAL POSTERS. I AM SHARING THEM CAUSE I LOVE LISTENING TO RADIO PLAYS AND I HOPE OTHERS WILL ENJOY THEM TOO.Adapted by BRIAN SIBLEY.In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.From his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, Sauron's power spread far and wide. He gathered all the Great Rings to him, but ever he searched far and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.On his eleventy-first birthday Bilbo disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest -- to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard, the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam, Gimli the Dwarf, Legolas the Elf, Boromir of Gondor, and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.
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00:00The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
00:18Prepared for radio in 13 episodes by Brian Sibley
00:23With Ian Holm, Michael Horden, Robert Stevens, Peter Vaughan, Peter Woodthorpe, and William Nye
00:33Episode 10, adapted by Michael Bakewell
00:37The Choices of Master Samwise
00:40Gandalf! Gandalf, Denethor sent for me! It sounded terribly urgent. Has something happened?
00:47His son Faramir has returned, and he has tidings which you should hear.
00:51What tidings?
00:52You will know in good time, Peregrine Took. Come, we must not keep them waiting.
01:02A halfling? And in the livery of the tower?
01:06You are not the first halfling that I have seen walking out of northern legends into the southlands?
01:10You mean Frodo and Slythera?
01:11Yes!
01:12Sit down at my left hand, my son. Take bread and wine, and tell us what has befallen you.
01:18And Faramir told his tale, and of Frodo's desperate errand, with his eye for the most part on Gandalf, though now and again his glance strayed to Pippin, as if to refresh his memory of others he had seen.
01:32As the dark drew on, I knew that haste was needed, so I rode hence with three others.
01:45The rest of my company I sent south to strengthen the garrison at the fords of Osgiliath.
01:50I hope that I have not done ill.
01:55Ill? Why do you ask? The men were under your command.
01:59Or do you ask for my judgment on all your deeds? Alas, alas, for Boromir! He would not have squandered what fortune put in his way. He would have brought me this mighty gift.
02:13You deceive yourself. He would have stretched out his hand to this thing, and taking it, he would have fallen.
02:19He would have kept it for his own, and when he returned, you would not have known your son.
02:24You found Boromir less apt to your hand than Faramir, who always seeks for approval in your eyes.
02:29But I, who was his father, say that he would have brought this thing to me.
02:35You are wise, maybe, Mithrandir, yet with all your subtleties you have not all wisdom.
02:41I have in this matter more law and wisdom than you deem.
02:45Then what is your wisdom?
02:47Enough to perceive that there are two follies to avoid.
02:50To use this thing is perilous.
02:54At this hour to send it in the hands of a witless halfling into the land of the enemy himself, as you have done, and this son of mine, that is madness.
03:02And what would you have done?
03:04It should have been kept here, hidden dark and deep, not used, unless at the uttermost end of need.
03:11If I had this thing now in the deep vaults of this citadel, we should not shake with dread under this gloom, fearing the worst.
03:20Denethor, if you had received this thing, it would have overthrown you.
03:24Were it buried in the depths of Mendelewyn, still it would burn your mind away.
03:29If I had received it, such words are in vain.
03:33It has gone into the shadow, and only time will show what fate awaits it, or us.
03:40Only time will show.
03:42What road did Frodo take when you parted, Tharamyr?
03:47A road of ill omen.
03:49But I could not deflect him from his purpose.
03:53He sought the pass of Cirith Ungol.
03:54Why should he choose that way?
04:01When did you part with them?
04:02When would they reach that accursed valley?
04:05I parted with them in the morning two days ago.
04:08At swiftest, they could not come there before today.
04:10I fear treachery.
04:12Treachery of that miserable creature, Gollum.
04:14But so it must be.
04:19Yet, a traitor may betray himself, and do good that he does not intend.
04:26You see it, Master.
04:32Minas Morgul.
04:34The city of the ring races.
04:38I can scarcely bring myself to look on it.
04:43And this was once the Tower of the Moon?
04:50Minas Ithil.
04:51Yes.
04:52But not nice now.
04:54Not beautiful.
04:55Not nice at all.
04:56We must go.
04:58Mustn't stand here.
05:00Make haste.
05:01Follow me, Gollum.
05:02Follow me.
05:03No.
05:04No.
05:05This is the end of my journey.
05:08I must come to the Tower.
05:11No, Master.
05:11The ring must find the Lord of the NazgÃģl.
05:16Minas Morgul.
05:19Tower of the magic of darkness.
05:22No.
05:22Not that way.
05:23Not cross the bridge.
05:25No.
05:25Come on, Mr. Frodo.
05:26Steady on.
05:27Not that way.
05:28Gollum says not.
05:29And for once, I agree with him.
05:30Make haste.
05:30Hop it.
05:31Hop it.
05:31Hop it.
05:31Hop it.
05:31Hop it.
05:32Away from the nasty tower.
05:33Along the path.
05:35Quickly.
05:35Quickly.
05:35Follow me.
05:36No.
05:36I must stop.
05:39I must rest.
05:41It's the ring, Sam.
05:47Grows heavier with every step I take towards Mordor.
05:53Straining.
05:54Oh, strength from me.
05:57Don't know how far I'm going to be able to carry it.
06:02Mustn't rest here.
06:03Oh, no.
06:04No, not here.
06:05Eyes can see us.
06:06When they come to the bridge, they will see us.
06:09Come away.
06:09Come.
06:10He's right.
06:11You can't stay here.
06:13All right.
06:14I will try.
06:16Too late.
06:23Gate opens.
06:26And out of the gate of Minas Morgul, an army came.
06:35All the host was clad in sable, dark as the night.
06:39Small black figures in rank upon rank, marching swiftly and silently, passing outwards in an endless stream.
06:49Before them went a great cavalry of horsemen, moving like ordered shadows, and at their head was one greater than all the rest, a rider all in black.
07:04The Morgul king.
07:06The Morgul king.
07:07The Lord of the Nine Riders.
07:13My wound.
07:14I can feel it.
07:15The ring.
07:20He can see me.
07:25Or does the ring call out to him?
07:27But it will betray me, as it did on Weathertop.
07:40The ring.
07:41I must resist with what strength remains.
07:52I must conquer my fear and the pain of my wound.
07:58At that moment, the wraith king turned and spurred his horse and rode across the bridge, and all his dark host followed him.
08:12At his dark master's bidding, he must march with war into the west.
08:19And who can now hold the fords when the king of the nine riders comes?
08:24And other armies will come.
08:26I'm too late.
08:28All is lost.
08:31Even if my errand is performed, no one will ever know.
08:35And there will be no one I can tell.
08:37Mr. Frodo, wake up.
08:39They've gone.
08:41The gates have closed.
08:43They've gone, and we'd better go, too.
08:45There's something still alive in that tower.
08:48Something with eyes and a seeing mind.
08:50And the longer we stay in one place, the sooner it'll get on to us.
08:53So come on, Mr. Frodo.
08:54Make haste, hobbitses.
08:56Mustn't think.
08:57Danger has passed.
08:58If it hasn't, make haste.
09:00We must get to the stepses.
09:02Lots of stepses.
09:03Follow us, mate.
09:04The steps, when they reached them, were narrow and often treacherous.
09:12Careful.
09:14The hobbitses must be careful.
09:19Steps.
09:20It's more like a ladder.
09:21Steady goes it, Mr. Frodo.
09:22Yes.
09:23Don't look down.
09:23It's a long black fall behind you.
09:26Up we go.
09:27What's that?
09:27Careful, hobbitses.
09:29Careful.
09:33Up we go.
09:35There we are.
09:43We're up.
09:44First stairs is past.
09:47Clever hobbitses to climb so high.
09:50Very clever hobbitses.
09:53My poor knees.
09:54My poor fingers.
09:55Now, no time to rest now, master samurais.
09:58What?
09:59We've got to have a rest.
10:00There's another stair still.
10:03Much longer stair.
10:05Rest.
10:05Rest when we get to the top of the next stair.
10:08Not yet.
10:08Longer, did you say?
10:09Yes.
10:11Longer.
10:11Longer.
10:11But not so difficult.
10:14Hobbitses have climbed the straight stair.
10:17Next comes the winding stair.
10:20And after that?
10:22We shall see.
10:24Oh, yes, yes.
10:26We shall see.
10:27I thought you said there was a tunnel.
10:28Hobbitses can rest before they try that.
10:32If they get through that, they'll be nearly at the top.
10:36Very nearly.
10:38If they get through.
10:40Oh, yes.
10:42I'm cold.
10:43Let's go on.
10:44This is no place to rest.
10:46Follow?
10:47Sleep?
10:47Whoa.
10:50It was a long and weary ascent.
10:53But this stairway did not delve into the mountainside.
10:57Here, the huge cliff face sloped backwards, and the path like a snake wound to and fro about it.
11:04A red light grew in the sky beyond.
11:07Though they could not tell whether a dreadful morning were indeed coming to this place of shadow,
11:12or whether they saw only the flame of some great violence of Sauron in the torment of Gorgoroth beyond.
11:21There is a black tower over the outer path, and the red light burning there.
11:30Oh, I don't like the look of that.
11:33So this secret way of yours is guarded after all.
11:35Hmm?
11:36As you knew all along, I suppose.
11:38Well, all ways are watching, yes.
11:39Of course they are.
11:40But hobbitses must try some way.
11:43This way, maybe least watched.
11:45Hmm?
11:46Hmm?
11:47Perhaps they've all gone away to the big battle.
11:50Hmm?
11:50Perhaps.
11:51Perhaps.
11:52Well, it still seems a long way off, and a long way up before we get there.
11:55And there's still the tunnel.
11:57Well, I think you ought to rest now, Mr. Frodo.
12:01Yes.
12:03Yes, we must rest.
12:04All right, let's find some corner out of this wind and gather our strength for the last lap.
12:10In a dark crevice between two great piers of rock, they sat down and took what they expected
12:18would be their last meal before they went into the nameless land.
12:23Maybe the last meal they would ever eat together.
12:30There's a wicked feeling about this place.
12:32And a smell.
12:35Do you notice it?
12:36Hmm.
12:36It's a queer kind of smell.
12:38Stuffy.
12:38I don't like it.
12:41I don't like anything here at all, Sam.
12:46But, to our path is laid.
12:48Yes, that's so.
12:50And we shouldn't be here at all if we'd known more about it before we started.
12:53Hmm.
12:54But I suppose it's often that way.
12:56The brave things in old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo.
12:59Yes.
12:59I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and
13:03looked for because his life was a bit dull.
13:06But folks seemed to have been just landed in them, really.
13:09A bit like us.
13:10Hmm.
13:10I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales, told by the fireside or read out
13:18of a great book years and years afterwards.
13:20And people will say, let's hear about Frodo in the ring.
13:23And they'll say, yes, that's one of my favourite stories.
13:27Frodo was very brave, wasn't he, Dad?
13:29Yes, my boy.
13:30The famousest of the Hobbits.
13:31Oh, Sam.
13:34Oh, Sam.
13:36To hear you somehow makes me as happy as if the story was already written.
13:41But you've left out one of the chief characters.
13:43Hmm?
13:44Hmm.
13:45Samwise, the stout-hearted.
13:47Oh.
13:48I want to hear more about Sam, Dad.
13:50Oh.
13:50Why didn't they put in more of his talk, Dad?
13:53It makes me laugh, Dad.
13:56And Frodo wouldn't have gotten far without Sam, would he, Dad?
13:59No, no, Mr. Frodo.
14:01You shouldn't make fun.
14:02I was serious.
14:03Oh.
14:06So was I, Sam.
14:09And so I am.
14:12We're going on a bit too fast.
14:14You and I, Sam, are still stuck in the worst place in the story.
14:19Hmm.
14:20And it is all too likely that some will say at this point,
14:23but shut the book now, Dad.
14:27We don't want to read any more.
14:29Maybe.
14:30But I wouldn't be one to say that.
14:32Why?
14:33Even Gollum might be good in a tale.
14:35He used to like tales once.
14:37I wonder if he thinks he's the hero or the villain.
14:40Well, Gollum, would you like to be the hero?
14:43Oh, now where has he got off to again?
14:46I don't like him sneaking off without saying.
14:48No.
14:49We can't be looking for food up here.
14:51It's no good worrying about him, Sam.
14:53After all, we couldn't have got here without him.
14:57If he's false, he's false.
14:59Still, we'd better keep our eyes skinned.
15:01But it would be safe for you to have a sleep now, Master.
15:05Oh, sleep.
15:06Oh.
15:07Yes.
15:10Even here I could sleep.
15:12Well, sleep then, Master.
15:13Lay your head in my lap.
15:15All right.
15:15The next day came with a morning like a brown dusk, and the hearts of men lifted for a while by the return of Faramir sank low.
15:28The winged shadows were not seen again that day, yet ever and anon high above the city a faint cry would come, and many who heard it would stand stricken with a passing dread, while the less stout-hearted quailed and wept.
15:47Denethor summoned his son before him.
15:50I have resolved that we should make no stroke of war, lest perchance the riders of Rohan should still come.
15:59The threat from the south is too great.
16:01We can only man the walls and wait.
16:03I am certain that the Rohirrim will come to our aid.
16:06I wish I shared your certainty.
16:08In the meantime, we should not abandon the outer defences the Rammus made with so great a labour.
16:13And the enemy must pay dearly for the crossing of the river.
16:17He cannot cross either north of Caia Andos because of the marshes, nor southward towards Lebenin because of the breadth of the river.
16:25It is at Osgiliath that the first blow will fall.
16:29How is the garrison there?
16:30It is not strong.
16:31I sent the company of Ithilion to strengthen it.
16:34Not enough, I deem.
16:36They will have need of some stout captain there.
16:39It was there that Boromir denied the enemy the passage.
16:42That was but a trial.
16:44Today we may make the enemy pay ten times our loss at the passage and yet rue the exchange,
16:49for he can afford to lose a host better than we to lose a company.
16:52And the retreat of those we put out so far afield as Osgiliath will be perilous indeed if the enemy wins a cross in force.
16:58Much must be risked in war.
17:00But I will not yield the river and the fair fields of the Pelennor unfought.
17:05Not if there is a captain who has still the courage to do his lord's will.
17:10I do not oppose your will, sire.
17:18Since you are robbed of Boromir, I will go and do what I can in his stead, if you command it.
17:25I do so.
17:27Then farewell.
17:28But if I should return, think better of me.
17:40That depends upon the manner of your return.
17:42Faramir?
17:52Gandalf.
17:53Do not throw your life away rashly or in bitterness.
17:57You will be needed here for other things than war.
18:01Your father loves you, Faramir, and will remember it ere the end.
18:07Farewell.
18:08Farewell.
18:18For four days and nights, and into a fifth, the shadow host of the dead rode towards Pelagia on Anduin, with Aragorn at their head.
18:28They moved with a terrible speed.
18:33Silent they were, but there was a gleam in their eyes.
18:38Everywhere men flew before them, crying out that the king of the dead was upon them.
18:45They crossed the river Gilraen, driving the allies of Mordor in a route before them.
18:50And there, for a while, they rested.
18:59Our respite must needs be short.
19:02Already Minas Tirith is assailed.
19:05I fear that it will fall ere we come to its aid.
19:08So, they mounted again before night had passed, and went with all the speed their horses could endure across the plains of Lebenin, until they came to the great river.
19:25Wide seems the water in this darkness.
19:34Alas, for the wailing of the gulls.
19:36Heed them not.
19:37There is a great battle ahead.
19:39The men of Haradrim have fled before us without wielding a stroke.
19:43Now, with the river at their backs, they must stand and fight.
19:48Some are already in flight.
19:51Do you see there?
19:53Ships moving away down the dark river.
19:55But those that remain are fierce in their despair.
19:59Shades of Dunharrow.
20:02By the black stone of Erech, I summon you.
20:13The swords of the dead are pale.
20:16Will they still bite?
20:17They need no other weapon but fear.
20:21None will withstand them.
20:24And so it proved.
20:27To every ship they came that was drawn up.
20:30And all the mariners were filled with a madness of terror and leapt overboard, save the slaves chained to the oars.
20:38Strange and wonderful it is that the designs of Mordor should be overthrown by such rays of fear and darkness.
20:48With its own weapons is it worsted?
20:51Strange indeed.
20:53Not for naught does Mordor fear Aragorn.
20:58How great and terrible a lord he might have become had he taken the ring to himself.
21:03Hear now the words of the heir of Isildur.
21:06Mordor, your oath is fulfilled.
21:10Go back and trouble not the valleys ever again.
21:15Depart.
21:16Depart.
21:17And be at rest.
21:18Swiftly the whole grey host drew off and vanished like a mist that is driven back by a sudden wind.
21:31And yet there was no wind.
21:35No wind.
21:36No wind.
21:37No wind to freshen our sails.
21:40And it is forty-two leagues from Pelagia to the landings of Harland below Minas Tirith.
21:47But at midnight there came a fresh wind from the sea.
21:51And long ere day the mastered ships hoisted sail and speeded up the great river towards the beleaguered city of Minas Tirith.
22:00And on the stairs of Tirith Ungol, Gollum crawled back down the path from the gloom ahead and found Sam and Frodo still sleeping.
22:12Peace was in both their faces.
22:16Peace.
22:17Peace.
22:18Peace.
22:19Peace.
22:20Peace.
22:21Peace.
22:22Peace.
22:23Peace.
22:24Peace.
22:25Peace.
22:26Peace.
22:27Peace.
22:28Peace.
22:29Peace.
22:30Peace.
22:31Peace.
22:32Peace.
22:33Peace.
22:34Peace.
22:35Peace.
22:36Peace.
22:37Peace.
22:38Peace.
22:39Peace.
22:40Peace.
22:41Peace.
22:42Peace.
22:43Peace.
22:44Peace.
22:45But when she throws away the bonuses and the empty garments, we shall find it, we shall get it, our precious, a reward for poor Smagel, who brings nice food, and we'll save the precious as we promised.
23:12Oh, yes. And when we've got it safe, then she'll know it. Oh, yes. We'll pay her back, my precious. We'll pay everyone's back.
23:33Oh, poor master. Sleeve him so peacefully. Poor little hobbitses.
23:48What are you up to? Toying at Mr. Frodo?
23:55Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nice. Nice, master.
23:57I don't say. Where have you been to sneaking off and sneaking back, you villain?
24:02Sneaking? Sneaking?
24:04Hobbitses? Almost so polite, yes. Oh, nice hobbitses. Sneaking all brings them up secret ways that nobody else could find.
24:15Tyries, thirsties, and he guides them, and he searches for paths, yes, and they say, sneak.
24:25Sneak?
24:25Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but you startled me out of my sleep. And I shouldn't have been sleeping, and that made me a bit sharp. I'm sorry. Where have you been?
24:36Sneaking.
24:36Oh, very well. Have it your own way. I don't suppose it's so far from the truth. And now, we'd better all be sneaking along together. What's the time? Is it today or tomorrow?
24:46It's tomorrow. Oh, this was tomorrow, when the hobbitses went to sleep. Very foolish. Very dangerous. If poor Smeagol wasn't sneaking about to watch.
24:56I think we should get tired of that word very soon. Never mind. I'll wake the master up. Wake up, Mr. Frodo.
25:03Sir?
25:03Mr. Frodo, wake up.
25:05Oh, what?
25:09Oh, dear.
25:11Calling me early, aren't you, Sam? It's still dark.
25:13It was always dark here. But Gollum's come back, and he says it's tomorrow. So we must be walking on. Last lap.
25:22Ah, the last lap. Hello, Smeagol.
25:26No.
25:27Have we found any food? Have you had any rest?
25:30No food. No rest. Nothing for Smeagol. He's a snake.
25:35Now, Smeagol, don't take names to yourself.
25:37Smeagol has to take what's given to him. He was given that name by kind Master Samwell.
25:43Ah, it's the Hobbit that knows that so much.
25:46I did use the word, sir, waking up and I went out of my sleep.
25:49Yes.
25:50I said I was sorry, but I soon won't...
25:52Let it pass, then.
25:58But now, we seem to have come to the point, don't we, you and I, Smeagol?
26:03Master?
26:05Can we find the rest of the way ourselves?
26:08Hmm?
26:08I mean, you've done what you promised.
26:11And you are free.
26:13Free to go back to food and rest, wherever you wish to go, except to the servants of the enemy.
26:19And one day I may reward you.
26:23I or those that remember me.
26:26Hmm?
26:27No, not yet.
26:33No, no, no, no.
26:35Hobbits just can't find the way themselves, can we?
26:37No, no, indeed, no.
26:39There's the tunnel to coming.
26:42No rest.
26:43No food.
26:45Not yet.
26:48Follow, Smeagol.
26:49Smeagol.
26:53Ooh, that smell.
26:56It's getting stronger and stronger.
26:57There's the cave.
26:58There it is.
26:59This is the way in.
27:01This is the entrance to the tunnel.
27:05I've never known so far as the tension.
27:09Is this the only way, Smeagol?
27:11Yes, yes, yes.
27:12We must go this way.
27:14Now, now.
27:15You mean to say you've been through this hole?
27:16Well, perhaps you don't mind bad smells.
27:19He doesn't know what he minds, does he?
27:22Precious.
27:22Oh, no, he doesn't know.
27:23He doesn't.
27:23But Smeagol can bear things as yes.
27:27Yes, he's been through.
27:28Oh, yes.
27:29Right through.
27:31It's the only way.
27:33And what makes the smell, I wonder?
27:35It's like, well, I wouldn't like to say,
27:37some beastly hole of the orcs, I'll warrant,
27:40with a hundred years of their filth in it.
27:42Well, orcs or no.
27:43Well, if it's the only way, we must take it.
27:53I've never known such darkness.
27:56Not even in the mines of Moria.
27:59Feel your way along the wall.
28:01Come along, little hobbitses.
28:03Come along.
28:05There's more than one passage here.
28:08It's as orc-like a place as ever there could be.
28:10Yes, but there's only one main way.
28:15Only I don't know how much of this I can stand.
28:19Something is brushing against us.
28:21There's some kind of hanging growth.
28:23And that smell's getting worse.
28:26If ever it can be worse.
28:27It feels as if we've been in here for hours.
28:31Sam, there's a great opening in the rock on the side here.
28:35And I nearly fell, don't it?
28:40This is where it all comes from.
28:42Stench.
28:43At the peril.
28:45You come.
28:46Now, let's get past it.
28:47Quick.
28:51Wait.
28:53The path forks.
28:56For the life of me, I can't tell which is the wider way.
28:59Which way has Gollum gone?
29:00And why didn't he wait?
29:05Smeagol?
29:09Smeagol?
29:11He's really gone this time, I fancy.
29:15We'll take the left-hand way.
29:16Come on.
29:19I guess this is just exactly where he meant to bring us.
29:22If I ever lay hands on you again, Gollum, you'll be sorry for it.
29:26Oh, the way's blocked.
29:31Something's fallen across it.
29:34We must take the other.
29:36I'm quick.
29:37There's something looking at us.
29:38Let's get back to the other turn.
29:43Listen.
29:47What is it?
29:49We're trapped.
29:51In this aggressive darkness.
29:53What are we going to do?
29:54And you, Ring-Bearer, for you I have prepared this.
30:00A light when all other lights go out.
30:03Master.
30:04Master.
30:04The lady's gift.
30:05The star glass.
30:07A light to guide you in dark places.
30:09The star glass.
30:10Why, yes.
30:11And now alone light can help us.
30:14The phial of Galadriel.
30:15The light of the star of Aearendi set amid the waters of my fountain.
30:24Look.
30:25Oh, look, Mr. Frodo.
30:27Look there.
30:29Eyes.
30:30Hundreds of them.
30:32Two great dots to surprise me.
30:36What is it?
30:37There, age-long, had she dwelt.
30:44An evil thing in spider form.
30:47Shelob the great.
30:48Last child of Ungoliant to trouble the unhappy world.
30:52All living things were her food.
30:54And her vomit, darkness.
30:56Oh, quick, Mr. Frodo, quick.
31:03Stand.
31:03Stand.
31:04Running is no use.
31:06I shall advance to meet it.
31:09Galadriel.
31:11I am Aearendi.
31:16Eelenium.
31:18And Kalima.
31:22They're going away.
31:24The eyes are coming away.
31:26Star as the glory.
31:27Then the elves would make a song of that if they ever heard it.
31:30And then I live to tell them and hear them sing.
31:34It's gone wherever it was.
31:36But don't go on, Master.
31:38Well, don't go down that foul den.
31:39Now's our only chance.
31:41Now let's get out of this foul hole.
31:43Then make for the right-hand path.
31:47Do you feel it, Sam?
31:49Do you smell it?
31:50Air.
31:55There's something in the way.
31:56I can't get through.
31:59It yields to the touch.
32:01Hold the file up again, Mr. Frodo.
32:03Here.
32:04Ooh.
32:05It's cobwebs.
32:07Thick as ropes, but cobwebs nonetheless.
32:14Trapped like gnats in a net.
32:16Come.
32:17Let us see what Sting can do.
32:19It is an elven blade.
32:21But you must be the guard and hold back the eyes.
32:23Here.
32:23Take the starglass.
32:24Do not be afraid.
32:25Hold it up and watch.
32:30That's the way, Mr. Frodo.
32:31That's the way?
32:32Like a sight through grass.
32:35We'll soon be through at this rate.
32:37We are, please.
32:37Come on.
32:39There's the end of the tunnel.
32:40Out.
32:41Out.
32:41Into the air.
32:42Make sure I miss Frodo.
32:43I'm coming.
32:44The pass.
32:45There it is.
32:46Run.
32:46Run.
32:46And we'll be through.
32:47Through before anyone can stop us.
32:49But too little did they know the craft of Shelob.
32:54She had many exits from her lair.
33:00Look out, master.
33:02Look out behind.
33:03Look out, Mr. Frodo.
33:05Got him.
33:07At last.
33:08My precious.
33:09He's got him.
33:11Yes.
33:12The nasty habit.
33:14We takes this one.
33:16She'll get the other one.
33:17All the news.
33:20Shelob will get him.
33:25She has.
33:27Smeagol promised, precious, he wouldn't hurt master.
33:31But he's got you.
33:32What?
33:33You nasty, filthy little snake.
33:38Make him drops his sword, precious.
33:43Make him drop.
33:47His sword.
33:55Now I'll show you.
34:01I'll cut you.
34:02You.
34:02You.
34:03You.
34:04You.
34:05You.
34:07Master.
34:09Master.
34:11Master.
34:12Get away from him, you dirty, great horror.
34:14That's for Frodo.
34:18And that's for me.
34:21And that's one-eyed less that shine in your den.
34:27Now, Sam Ganji, hold fast.
34:30Her height's thick as stone on the outside.
34:32If she tries to crush me with her underbelly,
34:35I'll make up for you my sword.
34:37She felt that.
34:45But what do I do if she comes at me now?
34:49Galadriel.
34:50The phial.
34:52Let it shine out.
34:53Now, come, you filth.
35:15You've heard my master, you brute.
35:18Come on.
35:20And taste my sword again.
35:23Come on, you brute.
35:25Come on.
35:26No.
35:27No.
35:27No.
35:28No.
35:28No.
35:28No.
35:28No.
35:28No.
35:28No.
35:29No.
35:30No.
35:31No.
35:32No.
35:32No.
35:33No.
35:34No.
35:35And Shelob, cowed at last, shrunken in defeat, jerked and quivered as she tried to hasten from him.
35:43She reached the hole, and, squeezing down, leaving a trail of green-yellow slime, she slipped in.
35:51Shelob was gone.
35:54And whether she lay long in her lair, nursing her malice and her misery,
35:58and in slow years of darkness healed herself from within, this tale does not tell.
36:06Oh, master.
36:08Oh, dear master.
36:10She's bound him round with her filthy webs.
36:13Oh, gosh.
36:14I'll cut him away.
36:25It's cold.
36:28It's cold as ice.
36:30Frodo.
36:32Mr. Frodo.
36:34Well, don't leave me here alone.
36:37Well, don't go where I can't follow.
36:38Oh, no.
36:39Oh, no.
36:40Wake up, Mr. Frodo.
36:42Oh, wake up, Mr. Frodo.
36:44Dear, my...
36:47He's dead.
36:51He's dead?
36:53That's what I saw in Galadriel's mirror.
36:55It's not sleeping, but dead.
36:59What should I do?
37:02What should I do?
37:03Well, did I come all this way with him with nothing?
37:07What can I do?
37:09Well, not leave Mr. Frodo dead, and he's unburied on top of mountains, and go home.
37:17Well, go on.
37:19Go on.
37:20Is that what I'm going to do?
37:23Well, go on and leave him.
37:26Well, if I'm to go on, then I must take your sword, Mr. Frodo.
37:31Yeah, and I'll...
37:33I'll put this one to lie by you.
37:36And you've got your mithril coat from Mr. Boombo.
37:38And your star...
37:40Your star glass.
37:42I'll need that.
37:44I'll be always in the dark now.
37:47The lady gave it to you.
37:50Maybe she'd understand.
37:52There.
37:56Where now?
38:00To the crack of doom?
38:02With the ring?
38:05Me take the ring from him?
38:06Well, the council gave it to him.
38:10But the council gave him companions so that the errand should not fail, and I'm the last to company.
38:14I wish I weren't alive.
38:16I wish old Gandalf were here.
38:18Why am I left all alone to...
38:21Why am I left all alone to make up my mind?
38:28Make it up, I must.
38:30If we're found here, or Mr. Frodo's found, and that thing's on him, well...
38:36Well, the enemy will get it.
38:37And that's the end of all of us.
38:40Lorien, and Rivendell, and the Shire, and all.
38:48There's no time to loot, or it'll be the end anyway.
38:50The war's begun, and more than likely things are going the enemy's way already.
38:53And there's no chance to go back and get advice or permission.
38:58It's sit here till they come and get me.
39:00Or take it and go.
39:01Take it.
39:07Ah, more.
39:09Oh, the weight of it.
39:12It's like a great stone around my neck.
39:16How Mr. Frodo got this far with it, I'll never know.
39:20Well, goodbye, dear master.
39:24And forgive you, Sam.
39:27Now rest you quiet till I come back again.
39:30And then may no fell creature come near you.
39:35Goodbye.
39:38And he turned and stumbled on into the growing dark.
39:44The cleft with its orc tower loomed ahead.
39:47Orcs, and coming right at me.
39:52You're caught, Sam Gamgee.
39:55The ring.
39:56Put on the ring.
40:00It's gone dark.
40:02And I can feel something searching for me.
40:04I know.
40:05Am I really invisible?
40:08Well, they didn't see me at any rate.
40:10Here's two more coming.
40:12What's all the noise about?
40:13What's going on?
40:14Someone has slipped.
40:15We had a message from down below.
40:17Spies peered on stairs, patrolled ahead of stairs.
40:20I thought you were supposed to keep watch, shag rat.
40:22Don't try to teach me my job, gore bag.
40:25We knew there were funny things going on.
40:27She-lob was on the go.
40:28My lad saw her and her sneak.
40:30Her sneak?
40:31What's that?
40:32Little thin fella like a starved frog.
40:34Oi!
40:35Oi!
40:35A ten and nine in the row!
40:37A spy!
40:38A spy!
40:39Oh, master.
40:40They got the best of his buddy.
40:42They should have stood by it.
40:43They should have offended.
40:45How many can I kill before you get me?
40:47Is to go to Barad-Daw?
40:48What does the Dark Tower want with him?
40:51How should I know?
40:52I have my orders.
40:53Any trespasser found is to be held at the tower.
40:56Prisoner is to be stripped.
40:57Full description of every article found on the body is to be sent to Barad-Daw at once.
41:01Right.
41:02We got him.
41:03What do we do with him?
41:04Take him up to the tower.
41:05I'll come and inspect him.
41:06Off you go, lads.
41:07You heard Captain Shagrat.
41:09What got him?
41:10She-lob.
41:10She-lob?
41:11Nothing gets past her.
41:13At least, I hope not.
41:15How do you mean?
41:16She'd bound him up with her cords.
41:18Somebody had cut him loose.
41:20And somebody had stuck a pin into her ladyship.
41:23Slime everywhere.
41:25I'd say there's a large warrior loose.
41:27An elf, most likely.
41:29Right.
41:29We'll deal with him later.
41:31Let's go and look at the prisoner.
41:32I shouldn't think there'd be much to look at after She-lob had finished with him.
41:36Is that all you know of her ladyship?
41:39You heard what he said?
41:41It was bound with her cords.
41:43When she does that, she's after meat.
41:45She doesn't eat dead meat nor suck cold blood.
41:48This fellow's alive.
41:49Oh no, when I let him take him.
41:51She just gives him a dab in the neck.
41:53They wake up in a few hours feeling a bit sick, but they're all right.
41:57Come on, let's have a look at him and report to Baradol.
41:59If I were you, I'd catch the big one that's loose before you're sending your report.
42:04It won't sound too pretty to say you caught the kitten.
42:06They got it all wrong.
42:08I knew I would.
42:10Now they've got him.
42:11Devil.
42:12Oh, fulg.
42:13Never leave you, master.
42:15Never, never.
42:16That was my right rule.
42:17Oh, I knew it in my heart.
42:19Oh, so may I be my god.
42:27Come on, Sam Gamgee.
42:29There's no time for you to be blubbing like a baby.
42:35But how am I to get Mr. Frodo out of a tower bristling with orcs arm to the teeth?
42:40The ring?
42:41Will we use the ring against them?
42:47Samwise, the strong.
42:51Hero of the age.
42:54Armies flocking to my call.
42:57Marching to the overthrow of Barad-Dur.
43:02But what were you thinking about, Sam?
43:04You're no hero.
43:06A gardener.
43:07That's what you were meant to be.
43:08And all these notions are only a trick of Sauron's.
43:11He'd spot me pretty quick if I put the ring on in Mordor.
43:13All I can say is that things look about as hopeless as a frost in spring.
43:21Just when being invisible would be useful, I can't lose the ring.
43:24It's mine inside!
43:26Angel, don't get it!
43:28The coat?
43:30Mr. Frodo's mithril coat?
43:31That's what the trouble's about?
43:33Well, come on, you miserable slugger.
43:36There's nothing for it.
43:37The front door will have to be.
43:38Off we go.
43:39Come on.
43:43Something won't let me through.
43:53It's like she loves nasty webs, but invisible.
43:58What is it?
44:02And what are those things?
44:04They were the two watchers, like great figures seated upon thrones.
44:12Each had three vulture heads facing outward and inward and across the gateway.
44:18They knew an enemy and could forbid his entry or his escape.
44:26Starglass!
44:28Let's see if that'll get us through.
44:29Oh, the lady must be power against these creatures.
44:34Yeah, huh?
44:37It's done it.
44:39I'm through.
44:42Oh, that's done it.
44:45Now I've rung the front door bell.
44:50Well?
44:52Come on, somebody!
44:54Tell Captain Shadrach
44:56The great elf warrior is called!
45:00And with his elf sword, too!
45:03In Gondor, the lord of the city sat in a high chamber above the hall of the white tower with Pippin at his side.
45:12And through the dim windows north and south and east, he bent his dark eyes as if to pierce the shadows of doom that ringed him round.
45:22You should rest yourself, my lord.
45:28You are weary with much watching.
45:30There will be a time for rest, Peregrine.
45:32Is there news of ThÊoden and the Rohirrim?
45:35The watchmen have seen nothing.
45:38Will he come, do you think?
45:39He'll remember our old alliance.
45:41He will come.
45:42But he will come too late.
45:46Well, my friend, dear.
45:48And what bad news have you to bring us?
45:51Whence come you?
45:53From the wreck of Osgiliath, the passage of the Anduin is lost.
45:57The enemies swarm across us like beetles.
46:00And Faramir has failed.
46:02Has he returned?
46:04He still lived when I left him.
46:06Yet he is resolved to stay with the rearguard, lest the retreat over the Pelennor become a rout.
46:12He may perhaps hold his men together long enough, but I doubt it.
46:15He is pitted against a foe too great.
46:19For one has come that I feared.
46:22Few will stand and abide even the rumour of his coming.
46:25His own folk quail at him and they would slay themselves at his bidding.
46:29Not, not the Dark Lord.
46:33Nay, not yet, Master Peregrine.
46:37He will not come save only to triumph over me when all is one.
46:41He uses others as his weapons.
46:43So do all great lords, if they are wise, Master Halfling.
46:47Oh, why should I sit here in my tower and think and watch and wait, spending even my sons?
46:55Yet now the most fell of all the captains of Sauron is already master of your outer walls.
47:01King of Angmar long ago.
47:03Sorcerer.
47:04Ringwraith.
47:05Lord of the Nazgul.
47:07Shadow of Despair.
47:09Then, Mithran dear, you have a foe to match you.
47:12For myself, I have long known who is the chief captain of the hosts of the Dark Tower.
47:18Is this all that you have returned to say?
47:21Or can it be that you have withdrawn because you are worsted?
47:25It might be so.
47:28But I come rather to secure the safe return of the wounded men that can still be rescued.
47:34Soon there will be battle on the fields.
47:36A sortie must be made ready to bring the hurt men back.
47:40Let it be a mounted men.
47:41In them lies our brief hope.
47:43For in one thing only is the enemy still poorly provided.
47:46He has few horsemen.
47:47And we also have few.
47:50Now, would the coming of Rohan be in the nick of time?
47:54We are likely to see other newcomers first.
47:58Another army has come from the Black Gate, crossing from the northeast.
48:02Some have accused you, Mithran dear, of delighting to bear ill news.
48:06But to me this is no longer news.
48:09It was known to me ere nightfall yesterday.
48:11As for the sortie, I have already given thought to it.
48:18All the mounted men that are left in the city shall ride forth, but only to bring back what men of ours remain alive.
48:25We are too few to give battle before such an enemy.
48:28Oh, Mithran dear, if only you had not sent the ring into the dark lands, in the hands of a witless fool.
48:38It drew now to evening by the hour, and the light was so dim that even farsighted men upon the citadel could discern little clearly out on the fields.
48:50Denethor at last released the sortie, but he did not permit the cavalry to go far.
48:55Once they had formed a screen against the hosts of Morgul, the companies, who had been fighting in the field, came marching back, bearing with them the body of Faramir, son of Denethor, found upon the stricken field.
49:11Your son has returned, Denethor, after great deeds.
49:18Is he alive?
49:19He lives, but he is sorely wounded.
49:22Peregrine.
49:23My lord.
49:24See that a bed is made for him in my chamber, and then give orders that I am to be left alone with him.
49:31My lord.
49:33And there is still no news of the Rohirrim?
49:35None.
49:36Even if they could come, they would not avail us now.
49:39The enemy holds all the ways to the city.
49:41The walls are strong.
49:43They will withstand the enemy while there are men left alive to defend them.
49:47Left alive?
49:48The enemy has a weapon that has brought low many strong places since the world began.
49:53Hunger.
49:55The roads are cut.
49:56And as for our walls, the enemy has built great engines of war.
50:00Siege towers.
50:01Our walls will not prevail against them.
50:06Leave me, wizard.
50:08Leave me alone.
50:09Come to lament.
50:10The son I sent unthanked, unblessed, into needless peril.
50:15Whatever may be tied in war.
50:18My line, too, is ending.
50:20Even the house of stewards has failed.
50:24And your fool's hope, too, has failed.
50:27The enemy has found the ring, and his power waxes.
50:31He sees our very thoughts, and all we do is ruin us.
50:36Leave me, Mithrandi.
50:39The defense of the city is in your hands.
50:42Not a sound.
50:49There's nothing but dead orcs.
50:53Everywhere.
50:54Have they all killed one another?
50:56Is there nobody left alive at all?
51:01It looks as if Shagrat and Gorbeck have done my job for me.
51:05Oh, where's the master?
51:07What have they done with him?
51:09I'm not going down.
51:11Oh, there's somebody still left alive up there at any rate.
51:13You little maggot.
51:14I'll squeeze your eyes out like I did in Radbug, and send you to Shelob.
51:18News must get through to Baradun, or we'll both be for the Black Pits.
51:22Yes, you too.
51:23It's that Shagrat.
51:24I'm not going down those stairs again, be you captain or no.
51:28And you won't be captain long when I hear all about these goings on.
51:31A nice mess you two precious captains have made of things, fighting over the swag.
51:35That's enough from you.
51:36It was Gorbeck that started it, trying to pinch that pretty shirt in.
51:40Well, he's more sensitive anyway.
51:42We told you more than once that somebody got past the watcher.
51:45One of those bloody-handed elves.
51:47He's on the stairs now, and until he's off them, I'm not going down.
51:51So that's it, is it.
51:52And when he does come, you'll bolt and leave me.
51:55I'll put red maggot holes in your belly first.
51:57Get out!
51:59Come back, you dumb...
52:01Now for it.
52:05He's run off up the stairs.
52:07But what about Shagrat?
52:11He's coming down.
52:12He's wounded.
52:13He's carrying a bundle.
52:14It must be the Mithril coat.
52:16Now, Sam Garvey.
52:18Yes!
52:19Well, here's for you, you filth!
52:22Well, there's no time to go after him now.
52:28I must look for the master.
52:30But where is A?
52:32Well, how am I ever going to find him?
52:36Well, if I can't find him,
52:40maybe I can make him know I'm here.
52:41In western lands beneath the sun The flowers may rise in spring
52:51The trees may bud, the waters run The merry finches sing
53:00Or there may be tis cloudless night And swaying beaches bear The elven stars as jewels white Amid their branching hair
53:18Shut that row, you dunghill rat!
53:22Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep
53:28Beyond all towers strong and high
53:32Stop your squeaking Or I'll come and deal with you, do you hear?
53:35He thinks I'm Mr. Frodo Well, perhaps you'll lead me to him
53:38Beyond all towers strong and high Beyond all mountains steep
53:45Above all shadows rides the sun And stars forever dwell
53:52I will not say the day is done Nor bid the stars farewell
54:01You lie quiet or you'll pay for it
54:13You've not got long to live in peace Now that Shagrat's run off
54:17But if you don't want the fun to begin right now Keep your trap shut, see?
54:22There's a reminder for you
54:23And another!
54:26Oh, no, you don't!
54:28That's for the sire!
54:35Frodo! Mr. Frodo! It's Sam! I've come!
54:39I was still dreaming
54:44The other dreams were horrible
54:48No, you're not dreaming at all, Master
54:50It's real! I've come!
54:51There was an orc with a whip and a...
54:53He danced into sand
54:56I wasn't dreaming when I heard that singing down below
55:05Was it you?
55:07It was indeed, Mr. Frodo!
55:08I'd given up hope almost
55:10I couldn't find you
55:11I woke and I found myself here with orcs all round me
55:16And they'd stripped me of everything
55:17And they kept questioning me
55:19And I thought I'd go back
55:20Then they left me alone
55:24There was nothing, Sam, nothing
55:26And the yelling and fighting began
55:29And then they...
55:29I think they quarrelled
55:31And then over me and my things
55:35Yeah
55:36There must have been a couple of hundred of the dirty creatures in this place
55:39It was a bit of a tall order for Sam Gandy
55:42But they've done all the killing of themselves
55:44Now what's to be done?
55:48Can you walk, Mr. Burrow?
55:50I walk...
55:51I...
55:52Yes
55:55I can
55:57I can walk
55:59I'm not
56:01hurt, Sam
56:02Only very tired
56:05We must find you some clothes
56:08Well, you can't go walking in the black land and not break your skin
56:10Sam
56:12They've taken everything
56:17Do you understand?
56:20Everything
56:21The quest has failed, Sam
56:26Even if we get out of here, we can't escape
56:29Only elves can escape
56:33Away, away, out of Middle Earth
56:36Far away over the sea
56:38Mr. Frodo
56:38If even that is wide enough to keep the shadow out
56:43Mr. Frodo, no
56:44Not everything
56:46It hasn't failed
56:48Not yet
56:49I took it, Mr. Frodo
56:50Well, I'm begging your pardon
56:51And I've kept it safe
56:53Wish round my neck now
56:55A terrible burden it is, too
56:57But I suppose
56:59You must take it back
57:01You've got it
57:04You've got it here, Sam
57:08Yes
57:09You're a marvel
57:11Give it to me
57:14Give it to me at once
57:16You can't have it
57:18All right, Mr. Frodo
57:19But you're in the land of Mordor now, sir
57:21And when you get out
57:23You'll see the fiery mountain
57:24And all
57:25And you'll find the ring very dangerous now
57:27And it's very hard to bear
57:28And if, no
57:29If it's too hard a job
57:31I could share it with you, maybe
57:32No
57:33Huh?
57:33No
57:34What?
57:35Give it to me
57:36Chief, chief
57:38It's mine
57:39My head
57:40Ah!
57:41Ah!
57:41Ah!
57:41Ah!
57:42Ah!
57:42Ah!
57:42Ah!
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57:50In episode 10 of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, adapted by Michael Bakewell,
58:03the part of Frodo was played by Ian Holm, Gandalf by Michael Horden, Aragorn by Robert Stephens,
58:11and Denethor by Peter Vaughan. Sam, William Nye, Gollum, Peter Woodthorpe, Pippin, Pippin,
58:20John McAndrew, Legolas, David Collings, Gimli, Douglas Livingstone, Faramir, Andrew Sear,
58:30The Lord of the Nazgul, Philip Voss, Galadriel, Marion Diamond, Shagrat, Chris Fairbank, Gorbag,
58:40David Sinclair, Snager, Gordon Reed, Ork, Sean Arnold, and Shelob, Jenny Lee.
58:50With Alan Dudley, Alexander John, John Livesey, and Christopher Scott.
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