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Fellowship Of The Ring

Screenplay by Frances Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson.

Based on the book “The Fellowship of the Ring”

by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Scanned and OCR`ed by Bazooka Joe for

“Screenplays For You” site

BLACK SCREEN

SUPER: New Line Cinema Presents

SUPER: A Wingnut Films Production

BLACK CONTINUES...

ELVISH SINGING....A WOMAN'S VOICE IS whispering, tinged with

SADNESS and REGRET:

GALADRIEL (V.O.)

(Elvish: subtitled)

"I amar prestar sen: han mathon ne
nen, han mathon ne chae...a han noston
ned wilith."

(English:)

The world is changed: I feel it in
the water, I feel it in the earth, I
smell it in the air...Much that once
was is lost, for none now live who
remember it.

SUPER: THE LORD OF THE RINGS

EXT. PROLOGUE -- DAY

IMAGE: FLICKERING FIRELIGHT.  The NOLDORIN FORGE in EREGION.
MOLTEN GOLD POURS from the lip of an IRON LADLE.

GALADRIEL (V.O.)

It began with the forging of the
Great Rings.

IMAGE: THREE RINGS, each set with a single GEM, are received
by the HIGH ELVES-GALADRIEL, GIL-GALAD and CIRDAN.

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
Three were given to the Elves,
immortal, wisest...fairest of all
beings.

IMAGE: SEVEN RINGS held aloft in triumph by the DWARF LORDS.

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
Seven to the Dwarf Lords, great miners
and craftsmen of the mountain halls.

IMAGE: NINE RINGS clutched tightly by the KINGS OF MEN...as
if holding-close a precious secret.

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
And Nine...nine rings were gifted to
the race of Men who, above all else,
desire power.  For within these rings
was bound the strength and will to
govern each race.

2.
FADE TO BLACK

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
But they were all of them deceived.

FADE UP: An ancient PARCHMENT MAP of MIDDLE EARTH...moving
slowly across the MAP as if drawn by an unseen force the
CAMERA closes in on a PLACE NAME...MORDOR.

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
...for another ring was made.

TEASING SHOTS: SAURON forging the ONE RING in the CHAMBERS
of SAMMATH NAUR.

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
In the land of Mordor, in the fires
of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron
forged in secret a Master Ring to
control all others.

IMAGE: The ONE RING reflecting FIERY LAVA!  FIRE WRITING
emerges on the plain BAND OF GOLD.

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
...and into this Ring he poured his
cruelty, his malice and his will to
dominate all life.

IMAGE: THE ONE RING falls through SPACE and into flames...

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
One Ring to rule them all...

IMAGE: A GREAT SHADOW falls across the MAP...closing in around
the realm of GONDOR...

IMAGE: SCREAMING VILLAGERS, MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN, RUN
from their homes, pursued by ARMIES OF HIDEOUS ORCS.

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
One by one the Free lands of Middle
earth fell to the power of the ring.

FADE TO BLACK

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
But there were some...who resisted.

FADE UP: ISILDUR, son of the KING OF GONDOR, leads an ARMY
ACROSS the PLAINS OF DAGORLAD...

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
A last alliance of Men and Elves
marched against the armies of Mordor.
(MORE)

3.

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
On the slopes of Mount Doom they
fought for the freedom of Middle-
Earth.

TEASING SHOTS: THE BATTLE OF DAGORLAD...THE ELF LORD, ELROND,
commands rank after rank of ELVEN ARCHERS...ORCS RETREATING
before the ARMY of the LAST ALLIANCE...ELENDIL holds aloft
the great sword....NARSIL!

GALADRIEL (V.O.) (CONT'D)
Victory was near!

IMAGES: THE HUGE, DARK FIGURE OF SARURON, bearing the ONE
RING on his finger, looms over the field of battle...

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
But the power of the Ring could not
be undone.

IMAGE: SAURON lays waste to the armies of the LAST ALLIANCE.
With desperate courage, ELENDIL leads a charge...THE BLACK
MACE OF SAURON LASHES OUT!!

IMAGE: ELENDIL'S body falls like a crumpled rag doll...

IMAGE: ISILDUR cradles the body of his father in his arms.
The SHADOW OF SAURON falls over him...

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
It was in this moment..when all hope
had faded, that Isildur, son of the
king, took up his father's sword.

ISILDUR snatches up the BROKEN BLADE OF NARSIL..The BLADE
severs SAURON'S FINGERS... AND THE ONE RING FLIES from his
body.

GALADRIEL (V.O.) (CONT'D)
Sauron, the enemy of the Free Peoples
of Middle Earth, was defeated.

SAURON'S ARMOR clatters to the ground.  His body
GONE....VAPORIZED!

CLOSE ON: ISILDUR picks up the SEVERED FINGER and removes
the ONE RING...transfixed!

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
The Ring passed to Isildur...who had
this one chance to destroy evil
forever.

IMAGE: GLADDEN FIELD...ISILDUR leads a small column of men
through DARKENING WOODS...the ONE RING glinting on a CHAIN
around his neck.

4.

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
But the hearts of Men are easily
corrupted.  And the Ring of Power
has a will of its own.

SUDDENLY!  ARROWS FLY!  They are ambushed by ORCS...ISILDUR
SCREAMS!

FADE TO BLACK

FADE UP: ISILDUR MATERIALIZES UNDER WATER...as THE RING slips
slowly from his finger.  Ripples of LIGHT play across
ISILDUR'S PALE FACE...he is DEAD.

GALADRIEL (V.O.) (CONT'D)
It betrayed Isildur to his death.

IMAGE: THE RING falls through the MURKY WATERS of the RIVER
ANDUIN.

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
And some things that should not have
been forgotten...were lost.

FADE TO BLACK

GALADRIEL (V.O.) (CONT'D)
History became legend...legend became
myth.

FADE UP: The waters of the ANDUIN RIVER lie dark and
undisturbed.

GALADRIEL (V.O.) (CONT'D)
And for two and a half thousand years
the Ring passed out of all knowledge.

IMAGE: SILT SWIRLS...A THIN WHITE HAND reaches down...grasping
the RING...

GALADRIEL (V.O.) (CONT'D)
Until, when chance came, it ensnared
a new bearer!

IMAGE: THE THIN WHITE HAND opens to reveal one ring.

GOLLUM (V.O.)
My Precious...

IMAGE: MIST SHROUDED MOUNTAINS...

GALADRIEL (V.O.)

The Ring came to the creature Gollum,
who took it deep into the tunnels of
the Misty Mountains.

5.

IMAGE: THE GLOOM of a MOUNTAIN CAVERN..a MURKY POOL of
WATER...in the DARKNESS the SHADOWY OUTLINE of an EMACIATED
FIGURE.

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
And there, it consumed him.

A RASPY VOICE mutters in the half light...

GOLLUM
It came to me.  My own.  My love...

(ecstatic whisper)
My preciousness.

GALADRIEL (V.O.)

The Ring brought to Gollum unnatural
long life.  For five hundred years
it poisoned his mind.  And in the
gloom of Gollum's cave...

FADE TO BLACK

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
It waited.

FADE UP: Bathed in COLD MOONLIGHT, the WORLD lies DARK and
STILL...the unsettled quiet before the storm...

GALADRIEL (V.O.)              (CONT'D)

Darkness crept back into the forests

of the world.  Rumor grew of a Shadow
in the East...whispers of a nameless
fear.  And the Ring of Power

perceived...its time had now come.
It abandoned Gollum.

SLOW MOTION:  unseen by its KEEPER..THE RING falls to the
MUDDY FLOOR of a MOUNTAIN TUNNEL...

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
But something happened then the Ring
did not intend...

FADE TO BLACK

IMAGE: FUMBLING in the dark, a SMALL HAND closes over the
RING.

GALADRIEL (V.O.)  (CONT'D)
It was picked up by the most unlikely
creature...