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I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE PROGRAMMES I UPLOAD. CREDIT GOES TO THE ORIGINAL POSTERS. I AM SHARING THEM CAUSE I LOVE LISTENING TO RADIO PLAYS AND I HOPE OTHERS WILL ENJOY THEM TOO.Adapted by BRIAN SIBLEY.In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.From his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, Sauron's power spread far and wide. He gathered all the Great Rings to him, but ever he searched far and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.On his eleventy-first birthday Bilbo disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest -- to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard, the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam, Gimli the Dwarf, Legolas the Elf, Boromir of Gondor, and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.
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00:00The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
00:18Prepared for radio in 13 episodes by Brian Sibley
00:22With Ian Holm, Michael Horden, Robert Stevens, Peter Vaughan and Jack May
00:29Episode 11, adapted by Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell
00:34The Battle of Pelennor Fields
00:36No! No! Give it to me!
00:41You can't have the precious!
00:43Keep! Keep! It's mine!
00:45The precious mine!
00:46Mine!
00:53Sam! Sam! What have I said?
00:57What have I done?
01:00Oh! After all you've done for me, forgive me!
01:04It's the terrible power of the ring!
01:08I wish it had never, never been found!
01:11Sam!
01:18But don't mind me, Sam.
01:22I must carry the burden to the end.
01:25It can't be altered.
01:29You can't come between me and this doom.
01:34That's all right, Mr. Frodo.
01:36I understand.
01:37But I can still help, can't I?
01:38Oh, yes.
01:40I've got to get you out of here at once, see.
01:42But first you'll want some clothes and gear.
01:45Oh, yes.
01:46As we're in Mordor, we'd best dress up Mordor fashion.
01:49And anyway, there is no choice.
01:51It'll have to be orc stuff for you, Mr. Frodo, I'm afraid.
01:53I'll scout round and see what I can lay my hands on.
01:56After all that killing, there shouldn't be any shortage of gear.
01:58All right, Sam.
01:58Sam, this is disgusting, dirty stuff.
02:05There's nothing else for it, Mr. Frodo.
02:07Now, put this black cap on.
02:11It's got the evil eye on it.
02:13You see, it fits.
02:14Perfect little orc.
02:15At least you would be if we could cover your face with a mask.
02:18We'll give you longer arms and make you bow-legged.
02:21But this cloak will cover some of the tell-tales.
02:25Now, you're ready.
02:27Yes.
02:28But what about you, Sam?
02:30Well, Mr. Frodo, I'd best not leave any of my stuff behind.
02:34And we can't destroy it.
02:35I'll just have to cover up.
02:37An orc helm and a cloak will serve my purpose well enough, I reckon.
02:42But how are we going to get out?
02:44Well, I reckon the orcs have taken care of themselves.
02:47And as for the watchers at the gate, the lady's starglass got me in.
02:51So I guess it'll get us out.
02:53And then it's the road from Mount Doom.
02:56They passed through the gate.
02:58And again, it gave its terrible warning.
03:03In the far distance, still many leagues away, lay Oredruon, the Mountain of Fire.
03:09There, Sauron had once had his dwelling place.
03:13And there, in the fire that welled from the heart of the earth, he had forged the one ring.
03:20The ruling ring.
03:21Well, there it is, Mr. Frodo.
03:24We'd best be on our way there.
03:25Oh, run, Mr. Frodo.
03:29It must have heard the alarm from the watchers.
03:34Oh, the hunt will be up now and no mistake.
03:36Well, let's get on.
03:37No, this won't do, Sam.
03:39If we were real orcs, we ought to be dashing back to the tower, not running away.
03:42The first enemy we meet will know us.
03:45We must get off this road somehow.
03:47With a cliff on one side and a precipice on the other, we'd need wings.
03:50Not quite.
03:52Look, do you see?
03:53There's a bridge a little way ahead.
03:55We'll slip off the road there, then down into the valley and turn northward as soon as we can.
04:16Oh, Sam.
04:17Sam, we cannot hope to go much further.
04:21Well, now, now, Mr. Frodo.
04:22Don't you go despairing.
04:23We'll manage.
04:25Will we, Sam?
04:27I wish I felt so sure.
04:30I wonder how long it'll be before we are caught and all the toiling and the slinking will be over and in vain.
04:35We really ought to press on, Mr. Frodo.
04:38Yes, Sam, we ought.
04:41Oh, and you must keep the Lady Galadriel's glass.
04:43Yes, I have nowhere to hold it now, except in my hand, and I shall need both hands in this blind knight.
04:50Very well, Mr. Frodo.
04:52I'll keep it safe.
04:54Sam, will you take Sting as well?
04:56No, no, I give it to you.
04:58I have an orc blade.
05:00But I don't think it'll be my part to strike any blow again.
05:05Mr. Frodo, have you any notion how far there is still to go?
05:08No, I haven't.
05:12Sam, in Rivendell, before we set out, I was shown a map of Mordor that was made before the enemy came back here, but I only remember it vaguely.
05:22Even if all goes well, we could hardly reach the mountain in a week.
05:26I am afraid, Sam, that the burden will get very heavy, and I shall go still slower as we get nearer.
05:34Well, that's just as I feared.
05:37Well, to say nothing about water, we've got to eat less, or else move a bit quicker.
05:41At any rate, while we're still in this valley, one more bite and all the food's ended, save the elves' way bread.
05:46I'll try and be a bit quicker, Sam!
05:48Oh, come on, then.
05:56Let's start another march.
05:59In the chamber of the White Tower of Gondor, Faramir lay upon his bed, wandering in a desperate fever.
06:07And by him his father sat and said nothing, but watched, and gave no longer any heed to the defense.
06:16My lord!
06:20My lord!
06:23My lord Denethor!
06:25I gave orders that none should disturb me.
06:28The first circle of the city is burning, lord.
06:31Men cry out for the lord of the city.
06:34I will not come down.
06:35I must stay beside my son.
06:38He might still speak before the end.
06:40But what are your commands?
06:42Ask of Mithrandir.
06:43But you are still the lord and steward.
06:45Not all will follow, Mithrandir.
06:48Men are flying from the walls and leaving them unmanned.
06:51Why?
06:52Why do the fools fly?
06:54Better to burn sooner than late.
06:56For burn we must.
06:58Go back to your bonfire.
07:00And you, my lord.
07:02I will go now to my pyre.
07:05To my pyre.
07:06No tomb for Denethor and Faramir.
07:11No tomb.
07:12No long, slow sleep of death embalmed.
07:16We will burn like heathen kings before ever a ship sailed hither from the west.
07:23The west has failed.
07:25Go back and burn.
07:26Leave me!
07:28My lord.
07:29Faramir's hand is fevered.
07:34He is burning, already burning.
07:37The house of his spirit crumbles.
07:41Come hither, Peregrine.
07:44My lord.
07:46Farewell, Peregrine, son of Paladin.
07:48Your service has been short and now it is drawing to its end.
07:53I release you from the little that remains.
07:57Go now and die in what way seems best to you.
08:01And with whom you will, even that wizard friend whose folly brought you to this death.
08:09Send for my servants and then go.
08:12Farewell.
08:13I will not say farewell, my lord.
08:16I will take your leave, for I want to see Gandalf very much indeed.
08:22But he is no fool and I will not think of dying until he despairs of life.
08:28But from my word and your service, I do not wish to be released as long as I live.
08:34And if the enemy comes at last to the citadel,
08:37I hope to be here and stand beside you and earn, perhaps, the arms that you have given me.
08:44Do as you will, Master Halfling.
08:47But my life is broken.
08:50Send for my servants.
08:52They shall bear my son to the vaults of my ancestors.
08:56There we shall perish together on a single pile.
09:02Farewell.
09:03By your leave, Lord.
09:07By your leave, Lord.
09:22Poor Faramir.
09:24Where can I find Gandalf?
09:29In the thick of things, I suppose.
09:31Oh, and he will have no time to spare for dying men or madmen.
09:36But find him I must.
09:39Ever since the middle night, the great assault had gone on.
09:43To the north and to the south, company upon company of the enemy pressed to the walls.
09:48It was against the gate that they would throw their heaviest weight.
09:54Very strong, it might be, wrought of steel and iron and guarded with towers and bastions of indomitable stone.
10:00Yet it was the key, the weakest point in all that high and impenetrable wall.
10:06In the first faint light of dawn, great engines crawled across the field.
10:16And in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains.
10:24Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor.
10:28And its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf.
10:34Grond, they named it, in memory of the hammer of the underworld of old.
10:42Great beasts drew it.
10:44Orcs surrounded it.
10:46And behind walked mountain trolls to wield it.
10:49Over the hills of Slane, a hideous shape appeared.
11:01A horseman, tall, hooded, cloaked in black.
11:05He halted and held up a long, pale sword.
11:08With a vast rush, Grond was hurled forward by huge hands.
11:19It reached the gate.
11:24Again.
11:30Again.
11:31In road, the lord of the Nazgul.
11:49A great black shape against the fires beyond, he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair.
11:56In road, the lord of the Nazgul, under the archway that no enemy yet had passed.
12:03And all fled before his face.
12:06All.
12:07Save one.
12:09You cannot enter here.
12:12Do you not see the dawn is at hand?
12:15Go back to the abyss prepared for you.
12:18Go back.
12:20Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your master.
12:23Go.
12:27Old fool.
12:29Old fool.
12:31This is my hour.
12:34Do you not know death when you see it?
12:37Die now and curse in vain.
12:43The horns of the Rohirrim.
12:46Theoden is come at last.
12:48Ha!
12:48The darkness was breaking too soon, before the date that his master had set for it.
12:56Victory was slipping from his grasp even as he stretched out his hand to seize it.
13:00But his arm was long.
13:03King, Ringwraith, lord of the Nazgul, he had many weapons.
13:08He left the gate and vanished.
13:10Turn back, lord of darkness.
13:14Flee from the gate of the city whose gates you were never destined to enter.
13:19The riders of Rohan are come.
13:22Gandalf!
13:23Gandalf!
13:24What are you doing here?
13:26Your place is with Denethor.
13:28He sent me away.
13:29But I'm frightened.
13:30Something terrible may happen up there.
13:33Denethor's out of his mind, I think.
13:34I'm afraid he will kill himself and kill Faramir too.
13:38Oh, can't you do something?
13:39I must go.
13:40The Black Rider is abroad.
13:42And he will yet bring ruin on us.
13:44I have no time.
13:44But Faramir!
13:46He's not dead and they'll burn him alive if someone doesn't stop them.
13:49Burn him alive?
13:50What is this tale?
13:51Be quick.
13:52Denethor has gone to the tombs.
13:54And he has taken Faramir.
13:55And he says we're all to burn and he will not wait.
13:58And they are to make a pyre and burn him on it.
14:00And Faramir as well.
14:01Oh, can't you save Faramir?
14:03Maybe I can.
14:06But if I do, then others will die, I fear.
14:09Well, I must come since no other help can reach him.
14:12But evil and sorrow will come of this.
14:16Even in the heart of our stronghold, the enemy has power to strike us.
14:20For his will it is that is at work.
14:23Let us go.
14:24And quickly.
14:25And so King Thurden and the last of the Rohirrim came to Minas Tirith, to the Pelennor Fields.
14:36It was a great battle, afterwards told in many a song in the Feast Hall of Medusa.
14:44He heard of the horns in the hills ringing, the sword shining in the South Kingdom.
14:58Steed went striding to the stoning land, as wind in the morning war was kindled.
15:10The gate is broken, but the enemy has fallen back.
15:20There is not a moment to lose.
15:23Elmer, lead your company to the gate to secure its defense and destroy the siege engines.
15:29I go, my lord.
15:30Where is the captain of the enemy?
15:34There, where the banner with its black serpent flies in the wind.
15:38He's seen you.
15:39He spurs towards you.
15:41And we shall advance to meet him.
15:43Now, snowmane, you have ridden hard and long.
15:48But bear me now against the adversary.
15:51Ride with me, Durnhelm.
15:54Like fire in a forest, they drove through the forebend.
16:02Filled and fangled sun, where the press was thickest.
16:07Shivered his spear as he strung down the throne floor.
16:13Die, treacherous Heradrim.
16:20Captain of the host of Mordor.
16:22Beware, my lord.
16:24This is not their captain.
16:27Behold, he comes.
16:33Keep like a cloud the creature of darkness.
16:40Nazgulbert naked with neither quill nor feather.
16:45Steed of the Morgul king, wisiest in rule.
16:50Yield, dootard king.
16:57The hour of thy doom has come.
17:00Throw down your sword.
17:02To me, to me, to me, up there in gas.
17:09Fear no darkness.
17:18Snowmane, the king's steed started and reared high.
17:23Crashed to the ground with the king crushed beneath.
17:27Help me, if I am dying.
17:35Merry, on your feet.
17:38I must defend the king.
17:39I will stand by you, Durnhelm.
17:40But I am very frightened, the king's man or no king's man.
17:46Oh, no, that terrible thing is coming again.
17:51Begone, foul Dwimelech, lord of Carrion.
17:55Leave the dead in peace.
17:57Come not between the Nazgul and his prey, or he will not slay thee in thy turn.
18:04He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured,
18:13and thy shriveled mind be left naked to the lidless eye.
18:18Do what you will, but I will hinder it, if I may.
18:23Hinder me, thou fool.
18:27No living man may hinder me.
18:32Behold my face, lord of darkness.
18:36No living man am I.
18:39You look upon a woman.
18:41Eowyn I am, Eowyn's daughter.
18:44You stand between me and the king, my kinsman.
18:47Be gone, if you be not deathless.
18:51For living or dark undead, I will smite you if you touch him.
18:57Eowyn!
18:58She must not die.
19:00At least she will not die unaided.
19:05Die, beast of anger!
19:07You have killed my steed.
19:21Then prepare to feel my anger, woman of Roan.
19:27Die!
19:29Mary, help me!
19:31You who fight in battle like a man, die like a man.
19:35No!
19:36A halfling, you sting like a gnat.
19:40Eowyn, strike now!
19:42Then die!
19:43He's gone!
19:56There is nothing there but a crown and an empty cloak.
20:02The Nazgul king is destroyed.
20:05Mary, look to the king, your master.
20:09Théoden, my lord!
20:13Farewell, Master Holbertler.
20:17My body is broken.
20:21I go to my father's.
20:23And even in their mighty company, I shall not be ashamed.
20:29A grim morn, and a glad day, and a golden sunset.
20:37Oh, forgive me, lord, if I broke your command, and yet have done no more in your service than to weep at our parting.
20:45Do not grieve.
20:47It is forgiven.
20:50Great heart will not be denied.
20:53Live now in blessedness.
20:58And when you sit in peace with your pipe, think of me.
21:05For never now shall I sit with you in Meduseld as I promised, or listen to your herb lore.
21:12Where is Elmer?
21:18For my eyes darken, and I would see him ere I go.
21:25He must be king after me.
21:28And I would send word to Elwyn.
21:32She would not have me leave her behind.
21:35And now I see her not again, dearer than daughter.
21:41Lord, Lord, she...
21:43How is it with the king?
21:45You come in good time, my lord.
21:47Oh, still then.
21:49My king.
21:51King, no longer Elmer.
21:55Take thou my standard.
21:59Hail, Elmer, king.
22:06Elmer, king.
22:08Let his knights remain here.
22:11And bear his body in honour from the field.
22:14Lest the battle ride over it.
22:19When Sarah there mourned, not yet.
22:25Mighty was the fallen, meat was his ending.
22:30When his grave mound is raised, great shall be the weeping.
22:35My lord, Elmer.
22:42Your sister, Elwyn.
22:46Elwyn.
22:48Elwyn, how came you here?
22:51What madness or devilry is this?
22:55Death.
22:56Death.
22:57Death.
22:58Death.
22:58Death.
22:58Death.
22:59Death.
23:00Death take us all.
23:03Death.
23:04Ride.
23:06Ride to ruin.
23:08And the world's ending.
23:13Peace.
23:15Peace.
23:15Dark was the doom that fell upon Benethor.
23:23The end of his house and the high host of Gondor.
23:29Fortune had failed him and fighting was made now.
23:34So in despair he runs to destruction.
23:41Heaves of a pyre for his son and himself.
23:45Longs to destroy the last of the steward.
23:49What is this, my lord Benethor?
23:56The houses of the dead are no places for the living.
23:59Put out your torches.
24:00Since when has the lord of Gondor been answerable to thee, Mithrandir?
24:05And may I not command my own servants?
24:08You may.
24:09But others may contest your will when it is turned to madness and evil.
24:15Where is your son, Faramir?
24:17He lies within, burning, already burning.
24:19They have set a fire in his flesh.
24:22But soon all shall be burned.
24:25The west has failed.
24:26It shall all go up in a great fire and all shall be ended.
24:30Ash, ash and smoke blown away on the wind.
24:34Where is Faramir?
24:36In the room beyond on the pyre of death.
24:39Stand aside, steward of Gondor.
24:42There they found Faramir still dreaming in his fever, lying upon a table.
24:47Wood was piled under it, and all was drenched with oil, even the garments of Faramir.
24:54But as yet, no fire had been set to the fuel.
25:00Faramir.
25:02Father, did I do right?
25:06Do not take my son from me.
25:08He calls for me.
25:10He calls, but you cannot come to him yet.
25:13For he must seek healing on the threshold of death, and maybe find it not.
25:18Take him from the pyre.
25:20Whereas your part, Lord Steward, is to go out to the battle of your city,
25:25where maybe death awaits you.
25:27This you know in your heart.
25:30He will not wake again.
25:33Battle is vain.
25:35Why should we wish to live longer?
25:37Why should we not go to death side by side?
25:40Authority is not given to you, steward of Gondor, to order the hour of your death.
25:46And only the heathen kings under the authority of the dark power did thus,
25:50slaying themselves in pride and despair,
25:53murdering their kin to ease their own days there.
25:56Pride and despair?
25:58Do you see this, Mithrandir?
26:02The stone!
26:04The stone!
26:05The stone of Aenor!
26:08Galantir!
26:09Didst thou think that the eyes of the white tower were blind?
26:13Nay, I have seen more than thou knowest, grey fool,
26:16for thy hope is but ignorance.
26:19Go then, and labour in healing.
26:22Go forth and fight vanity,
26:24for a little space you may triumph on the field for a day,
26:28but against the power that now arises there is no victory.
26:33To this city only the first finger of its hand has yet been stretched.
26:37All the east is moving,
26:39and even now the wind of thy hope cheats thee,
26:43and wafts up and you in a fleet with black sails.
26:46The west has failed.
26:48It is time for all to depart who would not be slaves.
26:52Such counsels will make the enemy's victory certain indeed.
26:56Hope on then!
26:58Do I not know thee, Mithrandir?
27:01Thy hope is to rule in my stead,
27:03to stand behind every throne, north, south, or west.
27:07I have read thy mind and its policies.
27:09Do I not know that you commanded this halfling here to be silent,
27:14that you brought him hither to be a spy in my very chamber?
27:17And yet in our speech together I have learned the names and purpose of all thy companions.
27:23So, with the left hand thou wouldst use me as a shield against Mordor,
27:29and with the right bring up this ranger of the north,
27:33who claims the kingship to supplant me.
27:36He is the king.
27:38I say to thee, Gandalf Mithrandir,
27:42I will not be thy tool.
27:44I am steward of the house of an Aryan.
27:47I will not step down to be the doted chamberlain of an upstart.
27:52Even were his claim proved to me,
27:55still he comes but of the line of Isildur.
27:58I will not now bow to such a one,
28:01last of a ragged house long bereft of lordship and dignity.
28:06What then would you have if your will could have its way?
28:09I would have things as they were in all the days of my life
28:13and in the days of my long fathers before me,
28:16to be the lord of this city in peace,
28:19and leave my chair to a son after me,
28:21who would be his own master and no wizard's pupil.
28:25But if doom denies this to me,
28:29then I will have naught,
28:32neither life diminished,
28:34nor love halved,
28:35nor honour abated.
28:37To me, it would not seem that a steward
28:40who faithfully surrenders his charge
28:42is diminished in love or honour.
28:45And at the least, you shall not rob your son of his choice,
28:49while his death is still in doubt.
28:51A choice is not thine, Mithrandir.
28:53Come hither, my servants, hold still.
28:56I are not yours to command,
28:59nor is the palantir of Minas Tirith
29:02in which I have seen our doom.
29:05Bring me fire,
29:07light the pyre of Denethor.
29:13Denethor,
29:14you have robbed me of my son, Yen.
29:17But in this at least,
29:19thou shalt not prevent my will.
29:23I will rule my own end.
29:26Wreathed in fire and smoke,
29:28he took up the staff of stewardship
29:30and broke it on his knee
29:32and perished in the flames,
29:35clutching the palantir to his breast.
29:38And it was said that ever after,
29:41if any man looked into that stone,
29:44unless he had great strength of will
29:46to turn it to other purpose,
29:48he saw only two aged hands
29:52withering in flame.
29:54French were burning brightly in Gondor,
30:04left him to tell death
30:06for his doomful feeling.
30:09And a mere broadway forth from the fire
30:13to the house of healing
30:16for help of his wounds.
30:22In the field of Phelan,
30:25our fates turned against them.
30:29Gondor's fortune failed in the morning.
30:35Monster ships in the middle distance
30:39wonder and fierce
30:41and the warriors cried.
30:44The Corsairs of Amber!
30:46The Corsairs of Amber!
30:48Look!
30:49The black sails of the Corsairs!
30:52Another enemy is upon us!
30:53The pirates from the south are coming!
30:56The pirates of Amber
30:57have joined the Corsairs of Mordor!
30:59We're lost!
31:00This is the last stroke of doom!
31:02Back to the walls!
31:04Back to the walls!
31:05Come back to the city
31:06before all are overwhelmed!
31:08Rally, men of Lohan!
31:10Rally to me!
31:14Out of doubts,
31:16out of dark
31:16to the days rising,
31:18I came singing out of the sun,
31:21sword unsheathing.
31:24To hope's end I rode
31:26and to hearts breaking.
31:28Now for wrath,
31:30now for ruin
31:31and a red nightfall!
31:34The pirates,
31:35Lord Eomir!
31:36See the black sails
31:37ships of Amber!
31:38Let them come!
31:40Let all who are against us come!
31:43That we might know them
31:44face to face!
31:46See,
31:46my Lord Eomir!
31:48Their banner!
31:49They bear not the banner
31:50of the Corsairs!
31:52Take heart,
31:53men of Gondor!
31:56Take heart,
31:57men of Lohan!
31:59Hope beyond hope
32:01comes to us now
32:03in the hour of doom!
32:05It is Aragorn,
32:06son of Parathol,
32:08returned from the
32:09paths of the dead!
32:11On the wind of the sea,
32:13I have...
32:14It is Aragorn,
32:16return!
32:17And with it,
32:18dimly,
32:19glowing sun!
32:21And level as the elf
32:22with bow and axe
32:24we come!
32:25And your name is
32:26drawn for Gondor!
32:28Thoth we meet again,
32:39Eomir!
32:39Twice blessed is help
32:40unlooked for,
32:42and never was a meeting
32:43of friends more joyful
32:44nor indeed more timely,
32:45for you come none too soon,
32:47Lord Aragorn.
32:47Much loss and sorrow
32:48has befallen us.
32:50Then let us avenge it
32:51ere we speak of it.
32:52That day's ending,
33:06lords took and low leave.
33:13Long now they sleep
33:16on the grass in Gondor,
33:19By the great river
33:22Grey now is tears
33:24Gleaming silver
33:27Red then it rolled
33:31Roaring water
33:33Foam dyed with blood
33:36Aflame that had sunset
33:38As beacons, mountains
33:41Burned at evening
33:43Red fell adieu
33:49In ramas her home
33:53Mary!
34:01Mary, oh thank goodness
34:02I have found you!
34:04Oh, Pippin!
34:06Pippin!
34:06Yes, it's all right, Mary.
34:10But where are King Theoden and Eowyn?
34:12They have been taken up into the citadel
34:14I think you must have fallen asleep on your feet
34:16And taken the wrong turning
34:17When we found that you were not with them
34:19Gandalf sent me to look for you
34:21Oh, how glad I am to see you again
34:24But you are worn out
34:26And I won't bother you with any talk
34:27But tell me
34:29Are you hurt or wounded?
34:31No, well no, I don't think so
34:33But I can't use my right arm, Pippin
34:35Not since I stabbed
34:36Since I stabbed the Nazgoth
34:39My sword burned all away like wood
34:43Well, you had better come with me as quick as you can
34:46Oh, I wish I could carry you
34:48You aren't fit to walk any further
34:50They shouldn't have let you walk at all
34:52But you must forgive them
34:54So many dreadful things have happened in the city, Mary
34:57That one poor hobbit is easily overlooked
35:00Oh, it's not always a misfortune being overlooked
35:02I was overlooked just now by
35:04No
35:06No, I can't speak any more of it
35:08Help me, Pippin
35:10It's going all dark again
35:13And my arm is so cold
35:16Lean on me, merry lad
35:18Come on now
35:19Foot by foot
35:20It's not far
35:21Are you going to bury me?
35:24No
35:24Indeed, no
35:26We are going to the houses of healing
35:29It grieves me, Master Gandalf
35:33That our leechcraft cannot withstand this evil
35:36Evil indeed it is, Yorath
35:38And the malady lies heavily on the halfling and the lady of Rohan
35:42For they are fast falling down into the darkness
35:46And a grey shadow is creeping upon their faces
35:49And poor Lord Faramir
35:51He burns so with fever
35:54Alas, if he should die
35:56Oh, would that there were kings in Gondor
36:00As there were once upon a time, they say
36:02For it is said in old law
36:04The hands of the king are the hands of a healer
36:08And so the rightful king could ever be known
36:11Men may long remember your words, Yorath
36:15For there is hope in them
36:17Oh?
36:18Maybe a king has indeed returned to Gondor
36:21As the sun went down
36:24Aragorn and Aemir drew near to the city
36:27With their captains and their knights
36:30Behold the sun setting in a great fire
36:34It is a sign of the end and fall
36:36Of many things and a change in the tides of the world
36:40Go we into the city now
36:42The city and realm was rested in the charge of the stewards
36:46For many long years
36:47So I will not enter in
36:49Nor make any claim
36:51Until it be seen whether we or Mordor shall prevail
36:54But already you have raised the banner of the kings of Gondor
36:58On the fields of Pelennor
36:59And defeated our adversaries
37:01No, Aemir
37:02I deem the time unripe
37:04For although we have won a victory
37:07It is not yet the final one
37:09Men shall pitch my tents upon the field
37:12And here I will await the welcome of the lord of the city
37:15Then with your leave, Aragorn
37:17I will go and pay tribute to the fallen
37:20And look once more upon the faces of King Zeoden
37:24And my sister, Eowyn
37:26Go, Aemir
37:28And find ease for the burden on your heart
37:30Gandalf
37:34I seek the lady Eowyn
37:35Where is she?
37:37She lies within
37:38And is not dead
37:39But she is near to death
37:42So too is Meriadoc
37:44The halfling
37:45And the steward of Gondor
37:47What aileth the lord Denethor
37:49For he did not fight in the battle
37:50Denethor has departed
37:52And his house is in ashes
37:53Faramir is now steward of Gondor
37:57But has taken grievous hurt
37:59Should we not send for the lord Aragorn?
38:01He is come
38:02I have come because Gandalf begs me to do so
38:08I did so because it is only in your coming
38:10That any hope remains for the sick that lie in this house
38:13Thus spake Eoreth, wise woman of Gondor
38:16The hands of the king are the hands of a healer
38:21And so shall the rightful king be known
38:24Good woman
38:27You have store in this house of the herbs of healing
38:30Yes, lord, though
38:31Not enough, I reckon, for all that will need them
38:34But we do our best in this house with what we have
38:36As I am sure your lordship will see
38:38I will judge that Eoreth when I see
38:40One thing is short
38:41Time for speech
38:43Have you Athelas?
38:46I do not know it, lord
38:47At least not by that name
38:48But I will go and ask the herb master
38:50He knows all the old names
38:51It is called Kingsfoyle
38:54And maybe you know it by that name
38:55For so the country folk called it in these latter days
38:58That?
38:59Well, if your lordship had named it at first
39:01I could have told you
39:02No weave, none of it, I am sure
39:04Why, I have never heard that it had any great virtue
39:07And indeed I have often said to my sisters
39:09When we came upon it growing in the woods
39:10Kingsfoyle, I said, is a strange name
39:13And I wonder why it is called so
39:15For if I were king
39:16I would have plants more bright in my garden
39:19Still it smells sweet when bruised, does it not?
39:22If sweet is the right word
39:24Wholesome, maybe, is nearer
39:26Wholesome, verily
39:27And now, dame
39:28If you love the lord Faramir
39:30Run as quick as your tongue
39:31And get me Kingsfoyle
39:33If there be a leaf in the city
39:34I have it, sir
39:38Kingsfoyle
39:39Six leaves
39:40But not fresh, I fear
39:41It must have been culled two weeks ago at least
39:44I hope it will serve, sir
39:46It will serve, Yoreth
39:47It will serve
39:48Pour the hot water
39:50Now, I take the leaves
39:56And breathe upon them
39:58When the black breath blows
40:03And death's shadow grows
40:05And all lights pass
40:07Come Athalas, come Athalas
40:11Life to the dying
40:13In the king's hand lying
40:16And then
40:18I crush them
40:20And cast them upon the water
40:25Faramir
40:31Faramir
40:35My lord
40:37You called me
40:39I come
40:41What does the king command?
40:45Walk no more in the shadows
40:46But awake
40:47You are weary
40:49Rest a while
40:51And take food
40:52And be ready when I return
40:53I will, lord
40:55For who would lie idle
40:57When the king has returned?
40:59Farewell, then, for a while
41:00I must go to others who need me
41:04There
41:06So it is the king
41:08What did I say?
41:10The hands of a healer
41:12I said
41:13Here is a heavy blow indeed
41:16For, alas, the lady Eowyn
41:18Was pitted against a foe
41:19Beyond the strength
41:20Of her mind and body
41:22She is a fair maiden
41:25Fairest lady
41:26Of a house of queens
41:27And yet I know not
41:28How I should speak to her
41:30What mean you, Aragorn?
41:31When first I looked on her
41:32And perceived her unhappiness
41:34It seemed to me that
41:35I saw a white flower
41:37Standing straight and proud
41:39Shaped as a lily
41:41And yet I knew that it was hard
41:44As if maybe a frost
41:46Had turned its sap to ice
41:47Her malady begins
41:50Far back before this day
41:51Does it not, Eomer?
41:53I marvel that you should ask me, Lord
41:56For though I hold you blameless
41:58In this matter
41:59I knew not that Eowyn
42:00Was touched by any frost
42:01Until she first looked on you
42:04I saw also what you saw, Eomer
42:05Few other griefs
42:07Amid the ill chances of this world
42:09Have more bitterness and shame
42:11For a man's heart
42:12Than to behold the love of a lady
42:14So fair and brave
42:16That cannot be returned
42:17Hmm
42:18But what can be done for her now?
42:22I have maybe the power
42:23To heal her body
42:24And to recall her
42:25From the dark valley
42:26But to what
42:28Will she awake?
42:30Hope or forgetfulness?
42:33Or despair?
42:34I do not know
42:35And if to despair
42:37Then she will die
42:39Unless other healing comes
42:42Which I cannot bring
42:43Awake, Eowyn
42:47Eowyn's daughter
42:49Lady of Rohan
42:53Awake
42:55For your enemy has passed away
42:58The shadow is gone
43:00And all darkness is washed clean
43:02You must call her Eomer
43:08For she loves you more truly than me
43:11For you she loves and knows
43:13A sisterless brother
43:15But in me she loves only a shadow
43:18And a thought
43:19With you I leave her
43:22And you must call her
43:25Eowyn
43:28Eowyn
43:32Eowyn
43:32Eomer
43:37Oh
43:37Oh, what joy is this?
43:42How long have I been dreaming?
43:43Not long, my sister
43:44But think no more on it
43:47Oh, I'm strangely weary
43:50I must rest a little
43:53But tell me
43:55What of the Lord of the Mark?
43:58He is dead
43:58But he bade me say farewell
44:00To Eowyn
44:01Dearer than daughter
44:02He lies now in great honour
44:04In the citadel of Gondor
44:06And what of the king's esquire?
44:09The halfling
44:10He lies nearby, lady
44:12And I will go to him
44:15Eomer
44:15You shall make him a knight of the Riddermark
44:18For he is valiant
44:20Indeed he is
44:21And the valiant shall receive his reward
44:24Eomer shall stay here for a while
44:26But do not speak yet of war or woe
44:29Until you are made whole again
44:31Great gladness it is
44:34To see you awake again
44:35To health
44:36And to hope
44:37To health
44:38It may be so
44:40At least while there is an empty saddle
44:42Of some fallen rider that I can fill
44:44And there are deeds to do
44:46But to hope
44:48I do not know
44:50Come, Pippin
44:54Let us see how your friend fares
44:56Poor Mary
44:58Aragorn
45:00Is he
45:00Going to die?
45:02Do not be afraid
45:03I came in time
45:04And I have called him back
45:06He is weary now
45:07And grieved
45:08And he has taken a hurt
45:10Like the lady Eowyn
45:11By daring to smite
45:12That deadly thing
45:13But these evils
45:15Can be amended
45:15So strong
45:17And so
45:18Gay a spirit
45:19Is in him
45:20His grief
45:22He will not forget
45:23But it will not
45:23Darken his heart
45:25It will teach him
45:27Wisdom
45:27Awake
45:29Mary our dog
45:31Oh
45:36Oh
45:40Oh, I'm hungry
45:44What time is it?
45:45Past supper time now
45:46Though I dare say
45:47I could bring you something
45:48If they'll let me
45:49They will indeed
45:50And anything else
45:52That this rider of Roan
45:53May desire
45:54If it can be found
45:55In Minas Tirith
45:56Where his name
45:57Is in honour
45:58Good
45:59Then I would like
46:01Supper first
46:02And after that
46:03A pipe
46:03And when you sit
46:04In peace
46:05With your pipe
46:06Think of me
46:09No
46:10No
46:10Not a pipe
46:11Never now
46:13Shall I sit with you
46:14In Medusel
46:15As I promised
46:16Or listen to your herb
46:18I don't think
46:19I'll smoke again
46:20Why not
46:21Well, he is dead
46:23King Theoden
46:24It has brought it all
46:25Back to me
46:25I shan't ever be able
46:27To smoke again
46:28Without thinking of him
46:29Smoke then
46:31And think of him
46:32For he was a gentle heart
46:33And a great king
46:34And kept his oaths
46:36And he rose
46:37Out of the shadows
46:38To a last
46:39Fair morning
46:40Though your service
46:41To him was brief
46:42It should be a memory
46:44Glad and honourable
46:45To the end of your days
46:46Very well then
46:48I will smoke
46:49And think of him
46:50If Strider
46:51Will provide
46:51What is needed
46:52I had some
46:53Of Saruman's best
46:54In my pack
46:54But what became
46:55Of it in the battle
46:56I'm sure I don't know
46:57Master Maria, Doc
46:58If you think
46:58That I have passed
46:59Through the mountains
47:00And the realm of Gondor
47:02With fire and sword
47:03Just to bring herbs
47:05To a careless soldier
47:06Who throws away his gear
47:07You are mistaken
47:08Besides
47:11I must leave you now
47:12I have not slept
47:14Since I rode from Dunharrow
47:15Nor eaten
47:16Since the dark
47:17Before dawn
47:18Oh Strider
47:19Forgive me
47:19I'm frightfully sorry
47:20Oh go at once
47:21Oh ever since
47:23That night at Bree
47:23We have been
47:24Such a nuisance to you
47:25But it is the way
47:26Of my people
47:26To use light words
47:27At such times
47:28And say less
47:29Than they mean
47:30We fear to say
47:32Too much
47:32I know that well
47:33Or I should not
47:35Deal with you
47:35In the same way
47:36May the Shire
47:41Live forever
47:42Unwithered
47:43Now
47:44Rest
47:46Come Gandalf
47:49Goodbye for the present
47:51Merry
47:51And well done
47:54Yes
47:55Thank you
47:56Was there ever
48:00Anyone like Aragorn
48:01Except Gandalf
48:03Of course
48:03I think they must be
48:05Related
48:05And as for you
48:07My dear ass
48:08Your pack is lying
48:09By your bed
48:09And you had it
48:10On your back
48:10When I met you
48:11Of course Aragorn
48:13Saw it there all along
48:14So come along
48:15And fill up with
48:16Long bottom leaf
48:16While I run
48:17And see about some food
48:18And then let's be
48:19Easy for a bit
48:20Dear me
48:22We took some
48:24Brandybuck
48:24So we can't live
48:25Long on the heights
48:25No
48:26Not yet anyway
48:27But at least
48:28Pippin we can now
48:29See them
48:30And honour them
48:30It is best to love
48:32First
48:32What you were fitted
48:33To love I suppose
48:34You must start
48:34Somewhere
48:35And have some roots
48:36And the soil
48:37Of the Shire
48:37Is deep
48:38Still there are
48:39Things deeper
48:40And higher
48:41And I
48:42I am glad
48:43That I now
48:44Know a little
48:45About them
48:45Oh but I don't
48:47Know why I'm
48:48Talking like this
48:49Where is that leaf
48:50Sorry Mary
48:51Yes of course
48:52And get my pipe
48:54Out of my pack
48:55If it isn't broken
48:56Pippin what is it
49:01Well
49:03I was just wondering
49:05About Sam
49:06And cousin Frodo
49:07And whether they've
49:09Got a pipe
49:09To comfort them
49:10Wherever they are now
49:19We seem to have
49:22Come to a dead end
49:23Sam
49:24If we go on
49:27We should only
49:29Come up to that
49:29Orc Tower
49:30But the only road
49:32To take
49:32Is that road
49:33That comes down
49:34From it
49:34Unless we go back
49:37We can't climb up
49:39Westward
49:40Or climb down
49:41Eastward
49:41Then we must take
49:42The road
49:43Mr Frodo
49:43We must take it
49:44And chance our luck
49:45If there is any
49:46Luck in Mordor
49:47We might as well
49:48Give ourselves up
49:49As wander about anymore
49:50Or try to go back
49:51Our food won't last
49:52We've got to make
49:53A dash for it
49:54All right Sam
49:54You lead me
49:56As long as you've
49:58Got any hope left
49:58Mine is gone
49:59But I'm afraid
50:03I can't
50:03Dash
50:04Sam
50:05I'll just
50:07Plod along
50:08After you
50:08Well before you
50:09Start plodding
50:10You need sleep
50:11And food
50:12Mr Frodo
50:12Come and take
50:13What you can of them
50:13And I'll have to
50:15Leave you for a bit
50:15And trust to luck
50:16We must have water
50:18Or we'll get no further
50:19Sam
50:20Be careful
50:22I will
50:22Mr Frodo
50:27Mr Frodo
50:28What is it Sam
50:31What is it
50:32Easy Mr Frodo
50:33Sir
50:34It's all right
50:34But I'm going to
50:35Have to take a little sleep
50:36And I can't hold
50:37My eyelids up
50:38Much longer
50:39But it's not safe
50:40For both of us to sleep
50:41Why Sam
50:42What's up
50:42Well that Gollum's
50:43About again
50:43Well leastways
50:44If it wasn't him
50:45I spied nosing around
50:46Well then there's two of them
50:47So he's still following us
50:51Oh yes
50:52As if it isn't enough
50:54To have orcs
50:55But a thousand
50:55We've still got that
50:56Stinking villain
50:57Sneaking about
50:58But I wish Faramir's
50:59Men had shot him
51:00Don't say that Sam
51:01Please
51:03Remember Gandalf's words
51:06Gollum may yet have
51:09Some part to play
51:10For good or ill
51:11Oh yeah
51:12That's just what I fear sir
51:13That the part he'll play
51:14Will be for ill
51:15This is madness Sam
51:29We're right out in the open now
51:31Well no matter
51:32There's nothing to hide from
51:33Yet a while
51:33And one good thing at least
51:35We've seen no more of Gollum
51:36Sam
51:39What Mr. Frodo
51:41Look
51:41There
51:43Ahead
51:44On the road
51:45Torches
51:47Coming towards us
51:48I knew it Sam
51:50We've trusted to luck
51:52And it has failed us
51:54We're trapped
51:57It seems so
51:59Well
52:00We can but wait and see
52:01If only they are in a hurry
52:04And we'll let a couple of tired soldiers alone
52:06And pass by
52:07Hey you
52:09Get up
52:10Come on you slugs
52:13This is no time for slouching
52:14Deserting eh
52:16No
52:16You're thinking of it
52:17Up you get and fall in
52:19I'll have your numbers
52:20Then report you
52:20No
52:22No
52:22Not at the rear
52:23Three miles up
52:24And stay there
52:26Or you'll know it
52:28When I come down the line
52:29Now
52:30On
52:32On
52:33On
52:35As Frodo and Sam
52:39Faced this new peril
52:41The captains of the west
52:43Met in Aragorn's tent
52:45On the field of Gondor
52:46My lords
52:48You may triumph
52:48On the fields of the Pelennor
52:50For a day
52:51But victory against the Dark Lord
52:53Cannot be achieved
52:54By arms
52:55Whether you sit here
52:57To endure
52:57Siege after siege
52:58Or march out
52:59To be overwhelmed
53:00Beyond the river
53:01You have only a choice
53:04Of evil
53:04Then you would have us
53:05Retreat to Minas Tirith
53:06Or Dunharrow
53:07And there sit like
53:08Children on sand castles
53:10When the tide is flowing
53:11No
53:11I still hope for victory
53:14But not by arms
53:16For in the midst of all
53:17These policies
53:18Comes the ring of power
53:20And if that is destroyed
53:21Then Sauron will fall
53:23His power will crumble
53:25And he will be maimed forever
53:26He knows that the ring
53:28Has been found again
53:29And he knows too
53:31That if we have found
53:32This precious thing
53:32There are among us
53:34Some with strength
53:35Enough to wield it
53:36For do I not guess
53:38Rightly Aragorn
53:39That you have shown
53:41Yourself to Sauron
53:42In the seeing stone
53:43Of Orthanc
53:44I have
53:45I thought the eye of Sauron
53:47Should be drawn out
53:48From his own land
53:49That you have done
53:50And now he is
53:52In great doubt
53:53And his doubt
53:54Will be growing
53:55Even while we speak here
53:56His eye is now
53:58Straining towards us
53:59Blind almost to all else
54:01That is moving
54:01So we must keep it
54:03For therein lies our hope
54:05In wisdom
54:06Or great folly
54:08The ring has been sent away
54:10To be destroyed
54:11Lest it destroy us
54:13This then is my counsel
54:15Make war on Sauron
54:17So that we can keep his eye
54:18From finding the ring-bearer
54:20Until his quest is done
54:22Or he fails in the attempt
54:24What say the captains
54:27Of the west
54:27As I have begun
54:29So I will go on
54:30We come now
54:31To the very brink
54:32Where hope
54:32And despair are akin
54:34To waver
54:35Is to fall
54:36Aragorn speaks wisely
54:37I have little knowledge
54:39Of these deep matters
54:40But I too
54:40Will accept this counsel
54:41What force could we muster
54:43And lead out
54:44In two days' time
54:45At the latest
54:46I judge
54:46That we could lead out
54:47Seven thousand
54:48Of horse and foot
54:49And yet leave the city
54:50In better defence
54:51Than it was
54:51When the assault began
54:52Then make preparations
54:53To do so
54:54For we must push Sauron
54:56To his last throw
54:57We must call out
54:59His hidden strength
55:00So that he shall
55:01Empty his land
55:02We must make ourselves
55:04The bait
55:04Though his jaws
55:05Should close on us
55:06We must walk open-eyed
55:08Into that trap
55:09With courage
55:10But small hope
55:12For ourselves
55:13You shall not be
55:15Sheathed again
55:16Anduril
55:17Until the last battle
55:18Has been fought
55:19So say the men
55:20Of Gondor
55:21And so too
55:23Say the men
55:24Of Rohan
55:24Then let us
55:25March out
55:26To meet the enemy
55:26Before the black gates
55:28Of the land of shadow
55:28For it is there
55:30We must attack
55:31Furthest from where
55:33The ring-bearer
55:33Was known to be
55:34And thither
55:35Draw the eye
55:36Of Mordor
55:37That Frodo
55:39May yet bear
55:40Our hopes
55:41And fears
55:42Towards the crack of doom
55:45In episode 11
56:02Of J.R.R. Tolkien's
56:04The Lord of the Rings
56:05Adapted by Brian Sibley
56:07And Michael Bakewell
56:08The part of Frodo
56:09Was played by Ian Holm
56:11Gandalf by Michael Horden
56:13Aragorn by Robert Stevens
56:16Denethor by Peter Vaughan
56:18And Theoden by Jack May
56:21Sam William Nye
56:24Merry Richard O'Callaghan
56:26Pippin John McAndrew
56:28Legolas David Collings
56:31Gimli Douglas Livingstone
56:34Faramir Andrew Sear
56:37Eowyn Ellen Jenkins
56:39Eomair Anthony Hyde
56:42Yorif Pauline Lace
56:45Beragond Christopher Scott
56:47And the Lord of the Nazgul
56:49Philip Voss
56:51With Sean Arnold
56:52Graham Faulkner
56:53John Webb
56:54And Hayden Wood
56:56George Smith
57:08O'Callaghan
57:12And Theoden
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