The Two Towers Movie Script - Book Three, Chapter IV Treebeard Scenes 1 and 2

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Scene 1:  An Ent Meets Two Hobbits   (Click HERE for the associated images)
	(Merry and Pippin run into the Fangorn, seeking to lose the Orc that has been pursuing them.  They collapse onto the ground, out of breath)
Pippin:	Did we lose him? (He looks around) I think we lost him. (Suddenly, Grishnákh appears from behind the trees, brandishing a blade)
Grishnákh:	I’m gonna rip out your filthy little innards!  Come here! (Merry and Pippin run and hide behind a tree)
Merry:	Trees!  Climb a tree! (Pippin and Merry each scramble quickly up a tree)
Merry:	(He looks around and then sighs with relief) He's gone. (Suddenly, Merry is pulled by his legs and falls to the ground.  Grishnákh leans over him with his menacing blade.  Merry tries to kick him off, but to no avail)
Pippin:	Merry! (Pippin looks down in horror but as he turns his head, he spots a pair of gleaming yellow eyes, blinking, in the tree he’s clinging to.  The tree starts to move and groan)
Treebeard:	Hooooo...
Pippin:	Argh!! (Pippin loses his grip in fright and grabs at the air futilely as he falls.  The tree catches him before he hits the ground)
Grishnákh:	Let’s put a maggot-hole in your belly. (Suddenly he senses something behind him and, as he looks up, the tree stomps and squashes him into the forest floor)
Pippin:	Run, Merry! (Merry tries to run away but he is scooped up by the tree)
Treebeard:	(He looks at the creatures in his hands) Little Orcs!  Burárum...
Pippin:	It’s talking, Merry.  The tree is talking!
Treebeard:	Tree?!  I am no tree.  I am an Ent. (He stomps slowly through the forest)
Merry:	A treeherder!  A shepard of the forest.
Pippin:	Don’t talk to it, Merry.  Don’t encourage it.
Treebeard:	Treebeard, some call me.
Pippin:	And whose side are you on?
Treebeard:	Side?  I am on nobody’s side, because nobody’s on my side, little Orc.  Nobody cares for the woods anymore.
Merry:	We’re not Orcs.  We’re Hobbits!
Treebeard:	Hobbits?  Never heard of a Hobbit before.  Sounds like Orc mischief to me! (He tightens his hold on the Hobbits and squeezes them.  Merry and Pippin whimper in pain) They come with fire, they come with axes.  Gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning!  Destroyers and usurpers, curse them!
Merry:	No, you don’t understand.  We’re Hobbits!  Haflings!  Shirefolk!
Treebeard:	Maybe you are and maybe you aren’t.  The White Wizard will know.
Pippin:	The White Wizard?
Merry:	Saruman. (Treebeard drops them on the ground and the Hobbits look up at a Wizard dressed in white robes) [Cut to other scenes, then back to Fangorn...] (Treebeard is walking through the forest with Merry and Pippin sitting on his shoulders)
Treebeard:	My home.  I sleep in the forest near the roots of the mountain.  I told Gandalf I would keep you safe and safe is where I’ll keep you.  The trees have grown wild and dangerous.  Anger festers in their hearts.  They will harm you if they can.  There are too few of us now.  Too few of us Ents left to manage them.

Scene 2:  Entmoot, the Last March of the Ents, the Flooding of Isengard                (Click HERE for the associated images)
	(Merry and Pippin are traveling through the forest, carried by Treebeard)
Pippin:	Look!  There’s smoke to the south!
Treebeard:	There is always smoke rising from Isengard these days.
Merry:	Isengard? (The two hobbits climb higher up on Treebeard for a better view)
Treebeard:	There was a time when Saruman would walk in my woods.  But now he hasa mind of metal and wheels.  He no longer cares for growing things. (Pippin and Merry are now in Treebeard's top branches and they can see a massive army moving across the land)
Pippin:	What is it?
Merry:	It’s Saruman’s army!  The war has started. [Cut to the scene of Aragorn floating in the river...] (Treebeard is walking through the forest carrying Merry and Pippin.  He comes to a clearing and stops)
Treebeard:	The Ents have not troubled about the wars of Men and Wizards for a very long time.  But now something is about to happen that has not happened for an Age...  Entmoot.
Merry:	What’s that?
Treebeard:	'Tis a gathering.
Merry:	A gathering of what? (Merry and Pippin turn as they hear movement in the forest around them.  They see they are being followed by many more Ents, similar Treebeard in some ways - like the eyes - and yet different, as one kind of tree differs from another)
Treebeard:	Beech, oak, chestnut, ash...  Good, good, good.  Many have come.  Now we must decide if the Ents will go to war. (Merry licks his lips in anticipation) [Cut to the scene of the women and children going into the Glittering Caves...] (The Entmoot is still in progress.  The Ents sway a little as they continue to deliberate.  Merry and Pippin are sitting a distance away.  Suddenly, Treebeard nods and turns to the hobbits)
Pippin:	(He sees Treebeard and gestures) Merry!
Treebeard:	We have just agreed. (He pauses for a long time with his eyes closed)
Merry:	(He tilts his head in query) Yes?
Treebeard:	I have told your names to the Entmoot and we have agreed...  You are not Orcs.
Pippin:	Well, that’s good news.
Merry:	(He is less patient than Pippin) And what about Saruman?  Have you come to a decision about HIM?
Treebeard:	(He waves a hand) Now don’t be hasty, Master Meriadoc.
Merry:	Hasty?  Our friends are out there!  They need our help!  They cannot fight this war on their own.
Treebeard:	War, yes...  It affects us all.  But you must understand, young hobbit.  It takes a looong...  time to say anything in ooold...  Entish. (Merry and Pippin roll their eyes) And we never say annnything...  unless it is worth taking a looong...  time to say. [Cut to Helm's Deep, where Uruks are starting to ram the main gate...] (Meanwhile, the Entmoot has ended)
Treebeard:	The Ents cannot hold back this storm.  We must weather such things as we have always done.
Merry:	How can that be your decision?!
Treebeard:	This is not our war.
Merry:	But you're part of this world!  Aren’t you?! (The Ents look at one another, taken back) You must help, please!  You must do something!
Treebeard:	You are young and brave, Master Merry.  But your part in this tale is over.  Go back to your home. (Merry is putting on his jacket.  Pippins approaches him slowly)
Pippin:	Maybe Treebeard’s right.  We don’t belong here, Merry.  It's too big for us.  What can we do in the end?  We've got the Shire.  Maybe we SHOULD go home.
Merry:	(Looking into the distance) The fires of Isengard will spread.  And the woods of Tuckborough and Buckland will burn.  And all that was once green and good in this world will be gone. (He turns to Pippin and puts a hand on his shoulder) There won't BE a Shire, Pippin. (Pippin looks after Merry as he walks away) [Cut to the scene at Helm's Deep where they are withdrawing into the Keep...] (Treebeard is walking through the forest, carrying Merry and Pippin.  The hobbits look dejected)
Treebeard:	I will leave you at the western borders of the forest.  You can make your way north to your homeland from there. (Pippin suddenly looks up with a gleam in his eye)
Pippin:	Wait!  Stop!  Stop! (Treebeard comes to a halt) Turn around.  Turn around. Take us south!
Treebeard:	South?  But that will lead you past Isengard.
Pippin:	Yes.  Exactly.  If we go south we can slip past Saruman unnoticed.  The closer we are to danger, the farther we are from harm.  It’s the last thing he’ll expect.
Treebeard:	Mmmm.  That doesn’t make sense to me.  But then, you are very small.  Perhaps you’re right.  South it is then.  Hold on, little Shirelings.  I always like going south.  Somehow it feels like going downhill.
Merry:	Are you mad?  We’ll be caught!
Pippin:	No we won’t.  Not this time. [Cut to the scene of Frodo, Faramir and the others leaving for Osgiliath...] (Treebeard, Merry and Pippin come to the southern edge of the forest)
Treebeard:	...and a little family of field mice that climb up sometimes and they tickle me awfully.  They’re always trying to get somewhere  ...  Oh!! (He sees a desolation of tree stumps that used to be a forested hillside) Many of these trees were my friends.  Creatures I had known from nut and acorn.
Pippin:	I’m sorry, Treebeard.
Treebeard:	(He has tears in his eyes) They had voices of their own. (His gaze turns to the treeless Isengard and its smoking caverns) Saruman!  A Wizard should know better! (He lets out a ferocious roar that echoes through the forest)
Treebeard:	There is no curse in Elvish, Entish or the tongues of Men for this treachery. (Merry and Pippin turn around as they hear rumbles from the forest.  They see many Ents emerging and marching towards them)
Treebeard:	My business is with Isengard tonight.  With rock and stone!
Merry:	Yes!
Treebeard:	Hoorarooom...  Come my friends.  The Ents are going to war.  It is likely that we go to our doom.  The Last March of the Ents! [Cut to after the scene of Gandalf's charge...] (The Ents are stomping over Isengard, swinging their huge limbs, throwing and stamping on Orcs and rolling huge boulders over the ground.  An Ent is pulled down with chains by some Orcs, who immediately jump on and hacks away at his wooden limbs.  Saruman rushes out onto the balcony of Orthanc and stares at the pandemonium with incredulity.  Merry and Pippin also throw stones at the Orcs;  their aim is true)
Treebeard:	A hit.  A fine hit! (Two Ents rock a wooden structure and push it over into the caverns below, where it smashes against the rocks.  Some Orcs fire flamed-tipped arrows at an Ent, setting him on fire.  Saruman continues to look out from his balcony, helpless.  Some Ents are now working at destroying a dam, upstream of Isengard, at the foot of the mountains)
Treebeard:	Break the dam!  Release the river! (The dam is broken and Saruman looks up to see the river rushing down the slope towards Isengard, washing away Orcs and wooden structures in its path)
Merry:	Pippin, hold on! (The hobbits tighten their grip on the branches at the top of Treebeard)
Treebeard:	Hold on, little hobbits! (Treebeard braces himself against the flood.  As the water rushes over Isengard, an Ent hurries over and thrusts his burning body into the water, putting out the flames.  The water continues on into the caverns, washing away all the various bridges, mechanisms and structures within) [Cut to Helm's Deep, after Theoden declares victory...] (Isengard is almost completely flooded.  Merry and Pippin look on from their perch atop Treebeard.  On the balcony, Saruman stumbles back into his chamber)
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