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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 Stephens, Peter Woodthorpe and William Nye
00:30Episode 12, adapted by Brian Sibley, Mount Doom
00:35Now! On! On! On!
00:45I never say die, Mr. Furrow, sir.
00:48That's what my old gaffer would say if he were here.
00:49Silence, slugs! On!
00:53On!
00:54Come on, Mr. Furrow. Take my arm. I'll help you along.
00:58I really can't take another step.
01:01There's no need to, Mr. Furrow. We're almost there.
01:03Where?
01:04Oh, I don't know. Wherever it is, we won't be walking.
01:07Halt! I said halt, you slugs!
01:14Now then, this here is Udun.
01:18And when we get inside the camp, you're two...
01:22Now then! Now then!
01:26What's all this?
01:28It's their mother-old trying to push in front.
01:30Wait, you turn!
01:32Get on and stumble with us, sir.
01:34Don't you tell me what to do!
01:36You maggot-ridden bag of vile!
01:39Oh, do you think you're talking to, you filthy, flea-bidden duggies?
01:43Come on!
01:45Get down, Mr. Furrow. Get down.
01:48Now, crawl. Come on, Mr. Furrow. We've got to crawl.
01:54Come on, Mr. Furrow. Come on.
01:56Yes, you can. One more crawl so we can get off the road.
01:59Sam, please, just let me be.
02:02No! Just a bit further, and then you... you can lie still.
02:08There.
02:11When the grey light of morning came, Sam woke first and looked out upon the land.
02:17All was dreary, flat, and drab-hued.
02:21Far off, like a dark standing shadow, loomed the mountain.
02:30Smoke was pouring from it and floating in great rolling clouds down its sides to spread over the land.
02:39It looks every step of fifty miles.
02:43That'll take a week if it takes a day with Mr. Frodo as he is.
02:47Well, it's got to be faced, Sam, Galgie. We'll never come back.
02:56At best, our food will take us to our goal, and when we get there, we'll be alone, houseless, foodless, in the middle of a terrible desert.
03:06That was the job I felt I had to do when I started, to help Mr. Frodo to the last step and then die with him.
03:11Well, if that is the job, then I must do it.
03:13Well, I wish Gandalf hadn't fallen in Moria.
03:18He would have done something.
03:23Oh, Sam.
03:26So, talking to yourself now?
03:30Just thinking out loud, as you might say, Mr. Frodo.
03:33I've been having a look round, and there's nothing on the roads, and we'd best be getting away while there's a chance.
03:38Can you manage it?
03:41I must.
03:43An ever-approaching threat beat upon them as they went.
03:49The dreadful menace of the power that waited, brooding in deep thought and sleepless malice behind the dark veil about its throne.
03:59Over the city of Gondor there hung a great dread.
04:03There, alone in the garden of the houses of healing, walked Faramir with a heavy heart, looking out over the walls, eastward.
04:12My lord?
04:15My lord?
04:15My lord Faramir?
04:17Lady Eowyn?
04:19Why do you stir abroad?
04:21Should you not be resting?
04:22Is there something that you lack?
04:24It is not lack of care that brings me to you.
04:27No houses could be fairer for those who desire to be healed.
04:31But I cannot lie in sloth, idle and caged.
04:34I looked for death in battle, but I have not died, and battle still goes on.
04:38What would you have me do, lady?
04:40I would have you bid them let me go.
04:42I am myself in the keeping of the healers, nor have I yet taken up my authority in the city.
04:48But had I done so, I should still listen to their counsel and not cross their will in matters of healing.
04:53But I do not desire healing.
04:56I wish to ride to war like my brother Eomer, or better like Théoden the king, for he has both honour and peace.
05:04It is too late, lady, to follow the captains, even if you had the strength.
05:08But death in battle may come to us all yet, willing or unwilling.
05:13You will be better prepared to face it in your own manner, if while there is still time, you do as the healers command.
05:19But the healers would have me still lie abed, and my window does not look eastward.
05:25That can be amended.
05:26If you will stay in this house in our care, lady, and take your rest, then you shall walk in this garden in the sun as you will, and you shall look east, whither all our hopes have gone.
05:39It would ease my care if you would speak to me, or walk at wiles with me.
05:45How should I ease your care, my lord?
05:48Would you have my plain answer?
05:51I would.
05:53Then, Eowyn of Rohan, I say to you that you are beautiful.
06:00In the valleys of our hills there are flowers fair and bright, and the maidens fairer still.
06:06But neither flower nor lady have I seen till now in Gondor, so lovely and so sorrowful.
06:14It may be that only a few days are left ere darkness falls upon our world, and when it comes I hope to face it steadily.
06:23But it would ease my heart if while the sun yet shines I could see you still.
06:29For you and I have both passed under the wings of the shadow, and the same hand drew us back.
06:36Alas, not me, lord.
06:38Shadow lies on me still.
06:41Look not to me for healing.
06:43I am a shield maiden, and my hand is ungentle.
06:47But I thank you for this at least that I need not keep to my chamber.
06:52I will walk abroad by the grace of the steward of the city.
06:56Eowyn walked back to the house.
06:57But Faramir, for a long while, walked alone in the garden.
07:03And his glance now strayed rather to the house than to the eastward wall eastwards.
07:09Frodo and Sam struggled on towards the mountain.
07:16Nearer and nearer it drew.
07:19Looming blacker, looming blacker, like the oncoming wall of night at the last end of the world.
07:29In this way, four days passed, until dream and waking mingled uneasily.
07:37The air was ever murky.
07:43While out from the dark tower there crept the veils of shadow that Sauron wove about himself.
07:52Wake up, master.
07:55Wake up, master.
07:56It's time for another start.
07:57Come on.
08:01I can't manage it, Sam.
08:08It's such a weight to carry.
08:12Such a weight.
08:13Well, then let me carry it a bit for you, master.
08:17You know I would, and gladly, as long as I have any strength.
08:20Get away from me!
08:21Sir, don't touch me!
08:25It's mine!
08:26Mr. Frodo.
08:28No!
08:28No!
08:31No, Sam.
08:34You must understand that it's my burden and no one else can bear it.
08:42It's too late now, Sam.
08:47Dear Sam.
08:48You can't help me in that way again.
08:55I'm almost in its power now.
08:59I couldn't give it up.
09:02And if you try to take it, I should go mad.
09:07I understand.
09:10But I've been thinking, Mr. Frodo.
09:11There's other things we might do without it.
09:13Why not lighten the load a bit, Sam?
09:15We're going to the mountain now, as straight as we can make it.
09:17It's no good taking anything we're not sure to need.
09:22No.
09:23No, we shan't need much on that road.
09:26And at its end, nothing.
09:31I shall be glad to be rid of all this.
09:34There.
09:36I'll be an orc no more.
09:37I won't wear their armor, and I'll bear no weapon, fair or foul.
09:42Let them take me if they will.
09:44Well, I don't know what I'm to part with other than this orc stuff and my cooking gun.
09:48I've carried it so far and through so much.
09:51Do you remember that bit of rabbit I cooked for us, Mr. Frodo?
09:53Just before we met Captain Faramay.
09:55No.
09:58No.
09:59I'm afraid not, Sam.
10:04At least I know that such things happen, but I cannot see them now.
10:08No taste of food.
10:11No feel of water.
10:13No sound of wind.
10:14No memory of grass or flower.
10:19No image of moon or star are left to me.
10:24I am naked in the dark, Sam.
10:28And there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire.
10:35I begin to see it even with my waking eyes.
10:39And all else fades.
10:41Well, then the sooner we're rid of it, the sooner to rest.
10:47And talking won't mean nothing.
10:49Where are you going, Sam?
10:51Well, I'm not leaving a sword around for a stinker to find.
10:54And he isn't going to mess with my pans.
10:57And if it's all got to go, then it's going down one of these crevices.
11:06Bless you, Sam.
11:09Hobbit of Hobbits.
11:11Are you asleep, Mr. Frogo?
11:27Mr. Frogo?
11:31Oh, well, Sam, we've done better than you expected.
11:34We've begun well, anyway.
11:37I reckon we crossed half the distance before we stopped.
11:39One more day will do it.
11:40Well, don't be a fool, Sam Gamgee.
11:43He won't go another day like that if he moves at all.
11:45You can't go on much longer giving him all the water and most of the food.
11:50I can go on a good way, though.
11:52And I will.
11:53Where to?
11:55The mountain, of course.
11:58But what then, Sam Gamgee?
12:00What then?
12:01When you get there, what are you going to do?
12:02The cracks of doom.
12:05That is, if the Master knows how to find them, because I don't...
12:09There you are.
12:10It's all quite useless.
12:12He said so himself.
12:13And you were a fool going on hoping and toiling.
12:16You could both have lain down and gone to sleep days ago.
12:19You'll die just the same, or worse.
12:21You might just as well lie down now and give it up.
12:23You'll never get to the top anyway.
12:25I'll get there, and if I leave everything but my bones behind, I'll get there.
12:30And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up myself if it breaks my back and heart.
12:34So stop arguing.
12:37Oh, Mr. Frodo.
12:41What's going to become of this?
12:45The last stage of their journey to Mount Doom came.
12:49And it was a torment greater than Sam had ever thought that he could bear.
12:53The air was full of fumes.
12:56Breathing was painful and difficult.
12:59And a dizziness came over them.
13:07It's all right, Mr. Frodo.
13:09I'll get you up again.
13:11Up and see, Mr. Frodo.
13:14We're at the mountain's foot last day.
13:18You're cold, sir.
13:19I didn't know what to have left my blanket behind.
13:21Would you like some elf bread?
13:25There's still some left.
13:27I'm so parched, Sam.
13:30I couldn't even swallow it.
13:33Well, we'll rest now and go on up in the morning.
13:38Yes, sir.
13:39All the hazards and perils are drawing together to a point now.
13:43Tomorrow will be a day of doom.
13:47A day of final effort.
13:50Or disaster.
13:53The last gasp.
13:59Now for it.
14:01Now for the last gasp.
14:02What are you doing, Mr. Frodo?
14:06I must crawl there.
14:13No.
14:14No.
14:15I said I'd carry him.
14:16If it broke my back, then I will.
14:18Come on, Mr. Frodo.
14:19I can't carry it for you.
14:21But I can carry you and it as well.
14:23So up you get.
14:24Mr. Frodo, dear.
14:26Sam will give you a ride.
14:27Put your arms around my neck.
14:29That's the way.
14:30No.
14:31Up, will you?
14:32There.
14:36It's all right now.
14:38Why, bless me, Mr. Frodo.
14:39If you ways no more than the hobbit child, I might give a piggyback to him.
14:41Back home in the shire.
14:43Yes.
14:45How far is there to go?
14:47I don't know, Mr. Frodo, because I don't know where we're going.
14:50Except up.
14:51And up we go.
14:57Well, Sam, that wasn't a bad effort.
15:08We've still got a good way to go.
15:12It's all right, Mr. Frodo.
15:15I'm just getting second wind.
15:19Look.
15:21What is it?
15:23It's a pass.
15:25See?
15:25Winding round the mountain.
15:29Why, it might have been put there for purpose.
15:31If it wasn't there, I'd have to say I was beaten in the end.
15:35But as it is, I think we'll conquer this mountain, yeah.
15:40I'll crawl there, Sam.
15:43It's not far.
15:44Are you sure, Mr. Frodo?
15:46Yes, Sam.
15:48I think I can crawl that far.
15:52So, foot by foot, like small grey insects, they crawled up the slope until they came to the path
16:04and found that it was broad and paved with broken rubble and beaten ash.
16:09Frodo clambered onto it, and then, as if by some compulsion, turned to face the east,
16:18where he saw, rising black, blacker and darker than the vast shades among which it stood,
16:25the cruel pinnacles and iron crown of the topmost tower of Barad-dur.
16:30And from some great window, immeasurably high, there stabbed forth a flame of red,
16:40the flicker of a piercing eye.
16:43The eye.
16:52The eye.
16:57Help me, Sam.
16:58Help me, help me, Sam.
17:00Hold my hand.
17:02It will make me take out of the ring.
17:06I can't stop it.
17:07Well, there, there.
17:08It's all right.
17:08Oh, so, he's spotted us.
17:13It's all up.
17:15I'll assume we'll be.
17:16Well, Sam, lad, this is the end of the ends.
17:21But the eye was not turned to them.
17:26It was gazing north, to where the captains of the west stood at bay.
17:34Still, the enemy makes no sign, Gandalf.
17:37No, Aragorn.
17:41And we will wait no longer.
17:43We will go to the Black Gate, and we will summon him.
17:47You and I will go together, Aragorn, and with us shall come Eomer of Rohan,
17:50Legolas the elf, Gimli the dwarf, and Peregrin the halfling.
17:54For all the enemies of Mordor should have a witness.
17:59Come.
17:59If only I might do something brave enough to draw level with old Mary.
18:11Still, I would rather he had been well enough to have come.
18:15It's very lonely being the only hobbit among so many fine and brave people.
18:19Come forth.
18:23Let the lord of the Black Land come forth.
18:28The king of Gondor calls you forth.
18:31I am the mouth of Sauron.
18:47Is there any in this route with authority to treat with me, or indeed with which to understand me?
18:56Not thou, at least, self-styled king of Gondor.
18:59I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and wear the blade once borne by Isildur against the Dark Lord you claim to speak for.
19:08I am a herald and ambassador, and may not be assailed.
19:11Where such laws hold, it is also the custom for ambassadors to use less insolence.
19:17So, then thou art the spokesman, old Greybeard.
19:23Have we not heard of thee at wiles, and of thy wanderings, ever hatching plots and mischief, at a safe distance?
19:29I am Gandalf the White.
19:31Well, Master Gandalf, this time thou hast stuck out thy nose too far, and thou shalt see what comes to him who sets his foolish webs before the feet of Sauron the Great.
19:41Come to your message, if message you have for us.
19:44I have tokens that I was bidden to show to thee, to thee in especial, if thou shouldst dare to come.
19:51What tokens?
19:52Allow me to show them to you.
19:53A sword, a grey cloak with an elvish brooch, and a coat of silver mail.
20:04Look, that's...
20:05Silence!
20:05So, you have yet another of these imps with you.
20:11What use do you find in them, I cannot guess.
20:13But to send them as spies into Mordor is beyond even your accustomed folly.
20:19Still, I thank him, for it is plain that this brat at least has seen these tokens before, and it would be vain for you to deny them now.
20:27I do not wish to deny them. Indeed, I know them all, and all their history, and despite your scorn, foul mouth of Sauron, you cannot say as much.
20:38Dwarf coat, elf cloak, blade of the downfallen west, and spy from the little rat land of the Shire.
20:46These are the marks of a conspiracy.
20:49Why do you bring them here?
20:51Maybe he that bore these things was a creature that you would not grieve to lose.
20:55And maybe otherwise.
20:56One dear to you, perhaps?
21:02Good.
21:04Good. He was dear to you, I see.
21:07Or else his errand was one that you did not wish to fail.
21:12It has.
21:14And now he shall endure the slow torment of years,
21:17as long and slow as our arts in the great tower can contrive,
21:21and never be released.
21:22Unless, maybe, when he is changed and broken, so that he may come to you, and you shall see what you have done.
21:31This shall surely be, unless you accept my lord's terms.
21:35Name the terms.
21:39These are the terms.
21:41The rabble of Gondor and its deluded allies shall withdraw at once beyond the river Anduin,
21:48first taking oaths never again to assail Sauron the Great in arms, open or secret.
21:53All lands east of the river shall be Saurons forever, solely.
21:58West of the Anduin, as far as the Misty Mountains and the Gap of Rohan, shall be tributary to Mordor.
22:04And men there shall bear no weapons, but shall have leave to govern their own affairs.
22:11But they shall help to rebuild Isengard, which they have wantonly destroyed.
22:16And that shall be Sauron's.
22:19And there his lieutenant shall dwell.
22:22Not Saruman, but one more worthy of trust.
22:27Is it Sauron's new lieutenant that speaks with me now?
22:31That is not a matter which concerns you, Greybeard.
22:33If you are to be the new tyrant of Isengard, and we your slaves, it concerns us greatly.
22:39I have named the terms.
22:42If indeed we rated this prisoner so high,
22:47what surety have we that Sauron, the base master of treachery, will keep his part?
22:52Where is the prisoner?
22:54Let him be brought forth and yielded to us, and then we will consider these demands.
23:03Do not bandy words in your insolence with the mouth of Sauron.
23:09Surety you crave?
23:10Sauron gives none.
23:12If you sue for his clemency, you must first do his bidding.
23:16These are his terms.
23:18Take them, or leave them.
23:21These tokens we will take.
23:23These we will take in memory of our friend.
23:27But as for your terms, we reject them utterly.
23:33Shh!
23:35Get you gone.
23:36For your embassy is over and death is near to you.
23:39We did not come here to waste words in treating with Sauron, faithless and accursed.
23:46Still less with one of his slaves.
23:48Be gone.
23:49But Gandalf, Frodo...
23:51The mouth of Sauron may lie.
23:56Urukari!
24:00The trap is sprung.
24:03We are surrounded by the whole host of Mordor, and we must fight.
24:08Come, master.
24:26We're here.
24:28Let us try and finish your task.
24:30Yes.
24:32Yes, Sam, it's all right now.
24:33The eye has looked away.
24:34But for a moment, I almost took out the ring and...
24:38Sam, look out!
24:41Take that!
24:43Sme-hey!
24:45Now, now, wicked master!
24:50Wicked master!
24:52Cheats his...
24:53Cheats his...
24:54Sme-ball column.
24:56No!
24:57He mustn't go that way.
25:00He mustn't...
25:01He mustn't...
25:02Precious...
25:03Give it to...
25:05Sme...
25:06Oh, it is...
25:08Give it to us...
25:14Never, Smeagol!
25:16Never!
25:17Never!
25:18Is it...
25:19Monster...
25:20Nasty abbotis doesn't realize how long never is it...
25:28No!
25:31Down!
25:33Down!
25:34Down, you creeping thing!
25:40Enter out of my path.
25:43Be gone.
25:45And trouble me no more.
25:46If you touch me ever again, you will be cast into the fire of doom yourself.
26:00Get out, master!
26:01Feel the pain!
26:03Quick, quick, mister!
26:04Go on!
26:04There's no time to lose!
26:05Yes!
26:06I'll deal with him!
26:06I must go on!
26:07Go on!
26:08Sam, this is the end of ends.
26:11On Mount Doom...
26:13Doom shall fall...
26:16Farewell!
26:17Yeah!
26:18Now!
26:19At last I can deal with you!
26:21Don't!
26:22Don't kill us!
26:23Oh, let us sleep!
26:25Remember Gandalf's words.
26:28Gollum may yet have some part to play for good or ill.
26:34I'll curse you, you stinking thing!
26:36Go away!
26:38Be off!
26:38I don't trust you, not as far as I get to kick you with be off!
26:42Or I shall hurt you, yes!
26:44With nasty, cruel steel!
26:46Go on, Hobbit!
26:47Nice, Hobbit!
26:48Go on!
26:48Yes, yes, yes!
26:50We go!
26:51We go!
26:53Frodo!
26:54Master!
26:56Mr. Frodo!
26:57Wait for me!
27:00Frodo!
27:01Frodo!
27:02From the master!
27:07Frodo!
27:08Where, sir?
27:12Where are you?
27:15Mr. Frodo!
27:17Mr. Frodo!
27:18Frodo!
27:19Frodo!
27:32I have come.
27:33But I do not choose now, to do what I came to do.
27:43I will not do this deed.
27:51The ring is mine.
27:52Mr. Frodo!
28:01Mr. Frodo!
28:02Master!
28:03Where are you?
28:06Where are you?
28:07Snake!
28:08Who is so...
28:16The precious...
28:17The precious...
28:18So now the eye can see me...
28:26Give us the precious...
28:28The precious...
28:29Yes!
28:30The precious...
28:32The precious...
28:33We want, sirs...
28:36Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
28:40Yes, we will, sirs...
28:43Where is it saying...
28:44Where is it saying...
28:45Where is it saying...
28:47It says...
28:48Ha, ha, ha, ha...
28:50Don't eat...
28:53Stop!
28:54Stop!
28:55Give us the precious...
29:00No, Smeagol, it is mine.
29:10Well, if it won't give it the scissors, then we'll bite it and take it.
29:19It's lost fingers, silly habit.
29:39Oh, now, we've got precious, precious, precious, precious, my precious, oh, my precious.
30:05Now, we have scissors, yes, Smeagol's got the precious.
30:15Smeagol's got the precious.
30:21Chicks the opposite.
30:24Couldn't take Smeagol now.
30:29Smeagol's got the precious.
30:35Smeagol!
30:36THE END
31:06THE END
31:36THE END
31:38THE END
31:40Oh, but your poor hand
31:43And I have nothing to bind it with or comfort in
31:45I would have spared him a whole hand of mine, rather
31:48He's gone forever
31:50Fallen into the cracks of doom
31:53No, Sam
31:54But for him I could not have destroyed the ring
31:58The quest would have been in vain
32:01Even at the bitter end
32:03So let us
32:05Let us forgive him
32:09For the quest he's achieved
32:12Now all is over
32:17Oh, Sam
32:22Gamgee
32:23I am glad you are here with me
32:28Here at the end
32:31Of all things
32:33Yes, I am with you, Master
32:35And you're with me
32:37And the journey's finished
32:39But after coming all that way
32:42I'd only give up yet
32:43It's not like me somehow
32:45Maybe not, Sam
32:48But it is like things are in the world
32:53You see
32:55Hopes fail
32:57An end
32:59Comes
33:01We have only a little time to wait now
33:05Soon
33:07We shall be engulfed in these rivers of fire
33:12We are lost in ruin and downfall
33:16And there is no escape
33:20Well, Master
33:22We could at least go further from this dangerous place here
33:25Now, couldn't we?
33:26Well, come on, Mr. Frodo
33:27Let's go down the path, at any rate
33:29Very well, Sam
33:33If you wish to go
33:36I'll come
33:38Well, what a tale we've been in, Mr. Frodo, haven't we?
33:44I wish I could hear it told
33:45Do you think they'll say
33:47Now comes the story of nine-fingered Frodo and the Ring of Doom
33:51And then everyone will hush and listen
33:54I wish I could hear it
33:55I wonder how it will go after our part
33:58I can go no further, Sam
34:04So the smoke and the fumes
34:07Let us stay here
34:13Very well, Mr. Frodo
34:16Here we stay
34:18That's strange, Mr. Frodo
34:27I thought I had eagles
34:30Very strange
34:35Eagle
34:36Eagles
34:40It was Gwaihir, the eagle, and his brothers who came to them out of the north
34:48Bearing Gandalf across the ruin of Mordor to the aid of Frodo and Samwise
34:54Bless me
34:59Oh
35:01Oh, how long have I been asleep?
35:06What a dream I had
35:07Oh, I'm glad to wait
35:09No
35:11No, it wasn't a dream
35:12Where are we?
35:15In the land of Ithilien
35:17And in the keeping of the king who awaits you
35:21What?
35:22Gandalf?
35:23Gandalf?
35:23I thought you were dead
35:24Yeah
35:25Well, I thought I was dead myself
35:28Was everything sad going to come untrue?
35:31What's happened in the world?
35:32A great shadow has departed
35:34Oh, is it?
35:36Well, Master Samwise, how do you feel?
35:38Oh, how do I feel?
35:41Well, I don't know how to say it
35:43I feel
35:43Like spring after winter
35:46Sun on the leaves
35:47Like trumpets and harps
35:48And all the songs I ever heard
35:50Oh, but how's Mr. Frodo?
35:53Wasn't it a shame about his poor hand?
35:54I hope he's all right otherwise
35:55He had a cruel time
35:57Yes, I'm all right otherwise, Sam
36:02I fell asleep again waiting for you
36:04You sleepyhead
36:06I was awake early this morning
36:07But now it must be nearly noon
36:10Noon?
36:11Noon of what day?
36:12The 14th of the new year
36:14Or, if you like, the 8th day of April in the Shire reckoning
36:18But in Gondor, the new year will always begin
36:22Upon the 25th of March when Sauron fell
36:25And when the eagles brought you out of the fire to the king
36:30The king?
36:32What king?
36:33The king of Gondor
36:34And lord of the western lands
36:36Who has taken back all his ancient realm
36:39He will ride soon to his crowning
36:42He awaits only
36:43To do honour to the ring-bearers
36:46The 14th of the new year
36:55A day of the new year
37:00The king of Gondor
37:00Look, Mr. Frodo, look here.
37:30It's Pippin and Merry.
37:32How they've grown.
37:34Bless me.
37:35I can see there's more tales to tell in hours.
37:37There are indeed.
37:38And we'll begin telling them as soon as we may, for it will take weeks.
37:42And then Frodo will have to be locked up in a tower in Minas Tirith and write it all down.
37:46Otherwise he will forget half of it and poor old Bilbo will be dreadfully disappointed.
37:50Dear, dear hobbits.
37:54I never thought to see you again.
37:55But Gimli and Legolas.
37:57Hail Frodo.
37:58Oh, hail Samwise.
38:00The first and second born of the races of Middle Earth salute you.
38:03It's a joy to see you both again.
38:06Come.
38:07The king is waiting.
38:10There'll be time enough later for reunions.
38:12Hail Frodo.
38:25Sam.
38:27Well, if that isn't the crown of all.
38:30Strider!
38:31Or I'm still asleep.
38:32Yes.
38:33Strider.
38:35It is a long way, is it not, from Bree, where you did not like the look of me, Paul.
38:40A long way for all of us.
38:43But yours has been the darkest road.
38:46I bend my knee in acknowledgement of that.
38:49No, Strider.
38:50You must not bow.
38:52Not to us.
38:53Come.
38:54You shall sit upon my throne.
38:58There.
39:01Praise them!
39:03With great praise!
39:06Praise them!
39:07Praise them!
39:09Let the minstrel sing to us.
39:13Now listen to my lay.
39:15For I will sing to you of Frodo of the Nine Fingers and the Ring of Doom.
39:20What about us?
39:21Will we be let too?
39:23Oh, great glory and splendor.
39:25All my wishes have come true.
39:26Dear, dear Sam.
39:31Frodo went forth on a fateful journey.
39:34As the minstrel sang to them, away in the west, upon the walls of Gondor, stood Faramir
39:43and Eowyn.
39:45A great wind rose, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out, mingling in the air.
39:54The sun was unveiled.
39:57The light leapt forth, and the waters of the river Anduin shone like silver.
40:05See, Eowyn, the darkness has passed.
40:08And look how a mighty eagle comes to us from out the east.
40:12Sing, ye people of the town of heaven For the realm of Sauron is ended forever
40:27And the dark tower is thrown down And the dark tower is thrown down
40:31Now you will wish to go and meet your brother And share in the celebration of this victory.
40:55No, Lord, I will tarry here.
40:58Why?
40:59Do you not know?
41:03Two reasons there may be, but which it is I do not know.
41:08Either you still fear to see the Lord Aragorn, or you wish to stay with me.
41:13Eowyn, do you not love me, or will you not?
41:20I had wished to be loved by another, but I desire no man's pity.
41:26Look at me, Eowyn.
41:28I love you.
41:31Once I pitied your sorrow, but now were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack?
41:37Were you the blissful queen of Gondor?
41:38Still, I would love you.
41:41Eowyn, do you not love me?
41:44I stand in Minas Anor, the tower of the sun, and behold, the shadow has departed.
41:56No longer do I desire to be a queen.
42:00That is well, for I am not a king.
42:03Yet I will wed with the white lady of Rohan, if it be her will.
42:08Then let it be as my good lord wishes.
42:12Eowyn.
42:12The last steward of Gondor begs leave to surrender his office.
42:32The office is not ended, and it shall be thine and thy heirs as long as my line shall last.
42:39And the princeton of Ithilien shall be thine also.
42:44Now, steward, do your office.
42:48Men of Gondor, hear now the steward of the realm.
42:53Behold, one has come to claim the kingship again at last.
42:57Here is Aragorn, son of Arathorn, chieftain of the Dunedain of Arnor, captain of the host of the west, bearer of the star of the north, wielder of the sword that was broken, victorious in battle, whose hands bring healing.
43:14The elf stone, the elf stone, Elessar of the line of Volandil, Isildur's son, Alendil's son of Númenor.
43:23Shall he be king, and enter into the city, and dwell there?
43:31Yea.
43:33Men of Gondor, using the authority of the steward, I have today brought hither the crown of Aearnur, the last king, whose days passed in the time of our longfathers of old.
43:44Lord, take it now, Lord.
43:48Eterello, Endoreno, Utulien, Simoni, Maruvan, Arhildin, Yarten, Amba, Metta.
44:00By the labour and valour of many I have come into my inheritance.
44:04In token of this, I would have the ring-bearer bring the crown to me, and let Mithrandia set it upon my head, if he will.
44:14For he has been the mover of all that has been accomplished, and this is his victory.
44:22Go on, Frodo, take the crown from Faramir, and bring it to me.
44:27Yes.
44:31Aragorn, son of Arathorn, I crown you king of Gondor and Arnor.
44:38Now come the days of the king, and may they be blessed while the thrones of the Valar endure.
44:48Behold, the king.
44:51And the tree that was withered shall be renewed, and he shall plunge it in the high places,
45:07and the city shall be blessed.
45:13So the glad days passed.
45:26Then one night, Gandalf took Aragorn out from the city, and brought him to Mount Mindaluan.
45:33And there, below the snows that clad the lofty peaks, they looked down over the precipice that stood behind the city of Gondor.
45:43Do you still look for a sign, Aragorn?
45:46Yes, Gandalf.
45:48The tree in the court of the fountain which grew from the fruit which Isidore brought out from the west is still withered and barren.
45:56Turn your face from the green world, and look where all seems barren and cold.
46:04Now what do you see there?
46:07A young tree.
46:10Why, Gandalf, it is in flower.
46:13Yea, Utuvienyes, I have found it.
46:18Lo, here is a sign of the eldest of trees.
46:23But how comes it here?
46:26For it is itself not seven years old.
46:31Verily, this is a sapling of the line of Nimloth the Fair, the white tree of Numenor.
46:38The sign has been given.
46:41The line of Gondor will be restored and will flourish and flower anew.
46:47Then Aragorn took the sapling and bore it back to the citadel, and the withered tree was uprooted, but with reverence.
47:05And they did not burn it, but laid it to rest with the dead.
47:10And Aragorn planted the new tree in the court of the fountain, and swiftly and gladly it began to grow.
47:20And when the month of June entered in, it was laden with blossom.
47:25Then Midsomer came, and with it came news.
47:32Gandalf, messengers say that a company of fair folk are approaching the city.
47:38What does this mean?
47:38It is Elrond, coming from Rivendell with his daughter Arwen.
47:42But why are they coming to Gondor?
47:44Arwen comes to wed with Aragorn.
47:46The cost of this union is great, for Aragorn has waited many years for this day,
47:52and could not hope to marry her until he sat in Minas Tirith as the king of Gondor.
47:57And in deciding to cleave to Aragorn, the lady Arwen has made a costly choice,
48:02for she must renounce the twilight and become, like him, mortal, who must one day die.
48:09Just as Luthien Tenuvial chose to become mortal for the sake of burial.
48:12Indeed. And when Aragorn first saw Arwen, he believed her to be Luthien Tenuvial,
48:18for in her beauty she resembles her.
48:20I had forgotten.
48:22But Bilbo spoke of this to me long ago in Rivendell.
48:25Well, Frodo, shall we go out and greet their arrival?
48:28Yes.
48:41There she is, Frodo.
48:42Arwen Undomiel, Lady Evenstarr.
48:49Oh, she is beautiful, Gandalf.
48:56At last I understand why we have waited.
49:00This is the ending.
49:02Now not only day shall be beloved, but night, too, shall be beautiful and blessed,
49:12and all its fear pass away.
49:15Then the king welcomed his guests, and Elrond laid the hand of his daughter in the hand of
49:25the king, and together they went up into the high city, and all the stars flowered in the sky.
49:33And Aragorn, the king of Alessar, wedded Arwen Undomiel in the city of the kings upon the day of midsummer,
49:43and the tale of their long waiting and labours was come to fulfilment.
49:49When the days of rejoicing were over at last, Frodo went to the king, as he was sitting with the queen Arwen by the fountain.
49:57My lord, and most fairest of queens...
50:03I know what you come to say, Frodo.
50:05You wish to return to your own home.
50:08It is true that I wish to go back to the shire, but first I must go to Rivendell.
50:13For if there could be anything wanting in a time so blessed...
50:17I miss Bilbo, and I was grieved when among all the household of Elrond, I saw that he was not come.
50:25Do you wonder at that, ring-bearer?
50:28For you know the power of that thing which is now destroyed,
50:32and all that was done by that power is now passing away.
50:37But your kinsman possessed this thing longer than you.
50:40He is ancient in years now, according to his kind, and he awaits you.
50:46For he will not again make any long journey, save one.
50:51What journey is that?
50:53Age and weariness will now fall on many,
50:56and they will yearn to cross the sundering seas to the deathless lands of the west.
51:02That is the journey which lies yet before Bilbo and my father, Elrond.
51:07Then I beg leave to depart soon, Queen Arwen.
51:10In seven days we will go.
51:12For we shall ride with you far on the road, even as far as the country of Rohan.
51:18For we must bear Theoden back to rest in the moth.
51:21But before you depart, a gift I give to you.
51:25For I am the daughter of Elrond, and I shall not go with him now when he departs to the havens.
51:31For mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she, so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter.
51:39But in my stead, you shall go, ring-bearer, when the time comes, and if you then desire it.
51:47If your hurt grieve you still, and the memory of your burden is heavy,
51:51then you may pass into the west until all your wounds and weariness are healed.
51:56But wear this white gem about your neck, in memory of Elfstone and Evenstar, with whom your life has been woven.
52:07Lady.
52:08There.
52:10When the memory of the fear and the darkness troubles you, this will bring you aid.
52:16At last the day of departure came, and a great and fair company made ready to ride north from the city
52:29and bear King Theoden upon a golden bier back to his realm of Rohan.
52:35There they laid Theoden in a house of stone with his arms and many other fair things,
52:42and over him raised a great mound, covered with green turfs of grass.
52:49Out of doubt, out of doubt, to the day is rising
52:55He rose singing in the sunlight, soul unsheaning
53:03O weary king, though landed hope he ended
53:10Over death, over dread, over doom lifted
53:16Out of loss, out of life, unto your glory
53:25Farewell, Theoden, king of the mark
53:30As a father you were to me for a little while
53:35Farewell
53:37Hail, Hail there, king of the mark
53:44This is the funeral of Theoden the king
53:47But I will speak ere we go of tidings of joy
53:51He would not grudge that I should do so since he was ever a father to Eowyn, my sister
53:58Here then, all my guests, fair folk of many realms
54:04Faramir, steward of Gondor and prince of Ithilien, asks that Eowyn, lady of Rohan, should be his wife
54:14And she grants it full willing
54:17Therefore they shall be troth-plighted before you all
54:21Thus is the friendship of the mark and Gondor bound with a new bond
54:28And the more do I rejoice
54:31As do I, Lord Eowyn
54:33Well, Eowyn, you give thus to Gondor the fairest thing in your realm
54:38Wish me joy, my liege lord and healer
54:42I have wished thee joy ever since first I saw thee
54:45It heals my heart to see thee now in bliss
54:49Now, though it grieves us to leave, we must be parted from you all
54:59Farewell, ring-bearer
55:01Farewell, King Eomer
55:03May you live long in the golden hall of Rohan
55:06And may your people long know peace
55:10Farewell, Samwise
55:12Goodbye
55:12Goodbye
55:13Legolas
55:14Farewell
55:15Gimli
55:16Farewell, lady
55:17And Pippin
55:18Goodbye
55:19And farewell, merry addock of the shire
55:22Hold wine of the mark
55:25Ride to good fortune
55:27And ride back soon to our welcome
55:30I will, my lord
55:31Kings of old would have laden you with gifts
55:35Yet I have no gift that is worthy
55:37But this I beg you to receive
55:40Tis an ancient horn of silver
55:42Take it as a memorial of the horns of the mark
55:45At the coming of morning
55:46Thank you, lady
55:47It will serve thus
55:49And as a memorial of Dernhelm
55:52The knight of the mark who carried me to battle
55:55Now we must part
55:57All speed to you, ring-bearer
56:00And companions all
56:04We thank you, Faramir
56:06Steward of Gondor
56:08What about you, Gandalf?
56:10I shall ride yet a while longer with you
56:13For we must go with Elrond to Rivendell
56:16And what about you, Strider?
56:18I mean, Lord Aragorn
56:20I will ride with you as far as Isengard, Sam
56:24Oh, good news
56:26Yes, we shall go to Isengard
56:29Though I am uneasy
56:32As to what we shall find
56:34When we come to the Tower of Saruman
56:37In episode 12 of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
56:56Adapted by Brian Sibley
56:57The part of Frodo was played by Ian Holm
57:00Gandalf by Michael Horden
57:03And Aragorn by Robert Stevens
57:06Sam, William Nye
57:08Gollum, Peter Woodthorpe
57:11Legolas, David Collings
57:14Gimli, Douglas Livingstone
57:16Mary, Richard O'Callaghan
57:18Pippin, John McAndrew
57:21Faramir, Andrew Sear
57:24Eowyn, Ellen Jenkins
57:26Eomer, Anthony Hyde
57:29Arwen, Sonia Fraser
57:31The voice of Sauron
57:34John Ryle
57:35With Graham Faulkner
57:38Martin Reed
57:39Christopher Scott
57:40And Michael Spice
57:41The narrator was Gerard Murphy
57:44The music was composed
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