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The Two Towers Movie Script - Book Three, Chapter V The White Rider |
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| Scene 1: The Return of Gandalf
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(The Three Hunters are in Fangorn forest. Gimli fingers a dark stain on a leaf and brings it to his
mouth) | |
| Gimli: |
(He spits) Ptui! Orc blood. |
| Aragorn: |
These are strange tracks. |
| Gimli: |
The air is so close in here. |
| Legolas: |
This forest is old. Very old. Full of memory... and
anger. (Groans reverberate through the forest and Gimli raises his axe) The trees are speaking to each other. |
| Aragorn: |
(He whispers) Gimli! |
| Gimli: |
Huh? |
| Aragorn: |
(He gestures) Lower your axe. |
| Gimli: |
(He lowers his axe slowly) Oh. |
| Legolas: |
Aragorn, nad nâ ennas! [Something is out there!] |
| Aragorn: |
Man cenich? [What do you see?] (The camera gives us a close-up of Legolas’ eyes) |
| Legolas: |
The White Wizard approaches. |
| Aragorn: |
Do not let him speak. He will put a spell on us. (Aragorn wraps his hand around the hilt of his sword, Gimli tightens his hold on his axes, and Legolas notches an arrow to his bow) |
| Aragorn: |
We must be quick. (With a yell, the three swing round to attack. The axe that Gimli throws and the arrow that Legolas shoots are deflected. Aragorn drops his sword, which has become red hot in his grasp. They shield their eyes with their hands from the bright light emanating from the White Wizard) |
| Wizard: |
You are tracking the footsteps of two young hobbits. |
| Aragorn: |
Where are they? |
| Wizard: |
They passed this way the day before yesterday. They met someone
they did not expect. Does that comfort you? |
| Aragorn: |
Who are you? Show yourself! (The bright light dims, revealing Gandalf, dressed all in white. The three are astounded. Legolas and Gimli bow) |
| Aragorn: |
It cannot be. You fell. |
| Gandalf: |
Through fire and water. (Flashback: Gandalf is battling the Balrog on a peak) From the lowest dungeon to the highest peak, I fought him, the Balrog of Morgoth. (Gandalf holds up Glamdring and a flash of lightning strikes it before he plunges the sword into the Balrog. With a final cry, the Balrog falls from the peak and lands, smoking, onto the icy rocks below) Until at last, I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon the mountainside. (On top of the mountain, Gandalf crawls a little ways and then collapses) Darkness took me. And I strayed out of thought and time. (The camera zooms in Gandalf’s eye and enters an amorphous realm of stars and whirling galaxies, ending in a blinding white light) Stars wheeled overhead and every day was as long as a life-age of the earth. But it was not the end. I felt life in me again. (The camera zooms out from Gandalf’s eye; he is lying, naked and very still, in the snow. His hair has turned white and his wounds are completely healed. He suddenly shudders with a deep gasp as life returns to him) I've been sent back until my task is done. |
| Aragorn: |
Gandalf! |
| Gandalf: |
Gandalf? Yes... That's what they used to call me. Gandalf the Grey. That was my name. (He smiles) |
| Gimli: |
Gandalf! |
| Gandalf: |
(He has a twinkle in his eye) I am Gandalf the White. (Aragorn grins) And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide. (They walk through the forest, with Gandalf leading the way, now wearing a grey cloak over his white robes) One stage of the journey is over, another begins. War has come to Rohan. We must ride to Edoras with all speed. (Outside the forest, on the open grasslands again, Gandalf whistles piercingly. Soon an answering neigh is heard and a white horse appears from the plain, answering the call) |
| Legolas: |
That is one of the Mearas, unless my eyes are cheated by some spell. (The horse comes round to stop in front of Gandalf) |
| Gandalf: |
Shadowfax. (Gimli bows in the background) He's the lord of all horses and he's been my friend through many dangers. (The Three Hunters and Gandalf ride swiftly across the plains to Edoras) |
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