Armies of thousands of Elves, Dwarfs, and Men are marching towards the camp. One of the Elves is TANGADION.
Several hundred arrows launch into the TROLLS. Some of them wobble, and fall over, dead. The others roar, and yank the arrows out of themselves.
Several fiery BALROGS burst out of the ground. The sky turns dark, and a sillouette of MORGOTH, giant, appears. It has a skeleton face. Its legs fade into a single wisp of smoke.
MORGOTH grabs TANGADION. He begins choking the poor elf, when a blade of a SWORD stabs through the horrid monster. He coughs, drops TANGADION, and whirls around. ERUESTAN is standing there with a knife in his hand. MORGOTH explodes.
CAUNWEN
In the Second Age, a war against Morgoth's Servant, Sauron, took place. Sauron had ultimate power, because of The One Ring, having power to destroy more than a thousand soldiers.
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... ISILDUR snatches up the BROKEN BLADE OF NARSIL..The BLADE severs SAURON'S FINGERS... AND THE ONE RING FLIES from his body. 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!
IMAGE: GLADDEN FIELD...ISILDUR leads a small column of men through DARKENING WOODS...the ONE RING glinting on a CHAIN around his neck. 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.
A Figure lies beneath the dappled sunlight of an old tree. White flowers are scattered among the well seeded grasses. An idyllic setting at the end of a long hot summer... the figure is reading a book. ON THE SOUNDTRACK: In the distance, growing louder..over the Gentle clip clop of an approaching cart and horse can be heard the HUMMING OF A DEEP VOICE to the tune of "The Road Goes Ever On and On..." SUDDENLY! The figure in the grass sits up...looking straight at camera is a handsome young HOBBIT, with dark curly hair and deep blue eyes. This is FRODO BAGGINS...his EYES alight with EXCITEMENT! Tossing away the long stem of grass in his mouth, Frodo runs off.
CAUNWEN
Generations later, it passed into the hands of Frodo Baggins... Who took it upon himself to destroy it.
A giant shadow is waiting for something. A ORC (barely taller than the shadow's head) whispers something. The shadow is actually MORGOTH!
A MESSENGER is running from a TROLL. He is nearly at the elvish camp. The troll's GIANT MACE strikes - and the messenger is dead!
CLOSE UP: An envelope falls from the MESSENGER'S hand. An arrow strikes the neck of the TROLL! He falls, coughing, then dead. The arrow is from TANGADION! He looks exactly the same.
ERUAINON
Well, I just recieved word of his near-death. I don't think you should go after him. There was sighting of a troll up ahead. So I set up camp here.
-- TANGADION'S HIDING PLACE: A spear flies out of the bushes and sticks into a tree. TANGADION impersonates a dying animal.
TANGADION runs, dodging the arrows and spears of the ORCS. He steps on woven grass, falling into a pit.
None of the orcs fire. It is because after a loud CRACK, TANGADION has broken into an underground cave.
TANGADION is swimming in the water. He swims to the source, and stabs part of the wall with his knife. It cracks, and water fills the whole cave.
-- PIT: The orcs are puzzled, when a giant geyser erupts from the camp! The orcs are drowned by the tremendous wave that sucks the camp down into the cave. MORGÎL is swimming for his life, when he is drowned by a larger wave of steaming water.
-- UNDERGROUND CAVE: TANGADION washes up farther on an underground slab of rock, then sees MAGMA pouring and the water BOILING! The orcs wash into the boiling water and melt. The ground above the water sinks. TANGADION jumps, and climbs out of the cave.
MORGÛR unsheathes his knife, and almost stabs ERUESTAN - but TANGADION's arrow fires straight through him! Three more fire through TRUGLESH.
TANGADION, carrying ERUESTAN, gapes at the wreckage of the camp. He hears snorting, and jumps out of the way just as a TROLL nearly crushes him with a large metal club.
TANGADION ducks and fires his arrow. SLOW MOTION: The arrow fires, and hits the chest of the TROLL, knocking it off balance. STOP SLOW MOTION. The TROLL falls backwards. TANGADION fires three more arrows, and the TROLL gets hit in the neck. It squeals, then dies. TANGADION looks inside the wreckage of the camp.
An Elf gives CAUNWEN a damp cloth and a small bottle of dark liquid. CAUNWEN starts to dab ERUESTAN'S forehead with the cloth.
