The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Page #9

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FRODO:

Go on, Sam, ask Rosie for a dance.

SAM:

(horrified)

I think I'll just have myself another

ale.

FRODO:

Oh, no you don't. Go on.

Sam goes to drain his glass... suddenly it is snatched out of

his hands as Frodo thrusts him into the middle of a passing

throng of dancers.

15.

ANGLE ON:
SAM'S HORRIFIED FACE

as he is Swept away. Frodo laughs and finishes Sam's beer.

ANGLE ON:

Gandalf as he sets alight a particularly spectacular firework

that draws gasps of admiration from the party guests.

Close on:
Bilbo is relating stories of his adventure to a

group of young hobbit children.

BILBO:

(melodramatic)

So, there I was...at the mercy of three

monstrous trolls...Have you ever heard of

a troll? Do you know what a Troll is?

Great big nasty twenty foot high smelly

things..and they're arguing...arguing

about how they were going to cook us!

ANGLE ON:
A LITTLE HOBBIT GIRL'S

upturned face...her eyes growing larger and larger.

BILBO:

Whether it be turned on a spit or minced

in a pie or whether they were going to

sit on us one by one and squash us into

jelly! But they spent so long arguing

the whether-to's and why-for's that the

sun's first light crept over the top of

the trees...and turned them all to stone!

STUNNED GASPS from his young Audience greet his astonishing

feat! Close on:
MERRY AND PIPPIN, two mischievous Young

Hobbits in their late teens. Pippin scrambles on to the back

of Gandalf's wagon, snatching up a small firework

MERRY:

(urgent whisper)

No, no..the big one...the big one! Pippin

grabs a huge rocket. CLOSE ON: FIREWORK

FUSE crackles with flame!

Merry is holding out the big rocket...he looks aghast at the

fizzing fuse that Pippin has just lit.

MERRY (CONT'D)

(worried whisper)

You're supposed to stick it in the

ground!

(CONTINUED)

16.

CONTINUED:

PIPPIN:

It is in the ground.

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