Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

[Frodo, Sam and Gollum walk along a stream. Gollum trys to catch a fish.]

Sam: "Hey stinker! Don't go getting too far ahead!"

Frodo: "Why do you do that?"

Sam: "What?"

Frodo: "Call him names? Run him down all the time."

Sam: "Because. Because that's what he is Mister Frodo. There's naught left in him but lies and deceit. It's the Ring he wants. It's all he cares about."

Frodo: "You have no idea what it did to him. What is still doing to him. I want to help him Sam."

Sam: "Why?"

Frodo: "Because I have to believe he can come back."

Sam: "You cannot save him, Mister Frodo."

Frodo (angrily): "What do you know about it? Nothing!"

[Sam walks away from Frodo.]

Frodo: "I'm sorry Sam. I don't know why I said that."

Sam: "I do. It's the Ring. You can't take your eyes off it. I've seen you. You're not eating. You barely sleep. It's taking a hold of you Mister Frodo. You have to fight it."

Frodo: "I know what I must to do Sam. The Ring was entrusted to me. It's my task! Mine! My own!"

Sam: "Can't you hear yourself? Don't you know who you sound like?"


[It's night, and Frodo and Sam are sleeping. Gollum is awake. The Ring is in Frodo's fist.]

Gollum: "We wants it, we needs it. Must have the Precious."

Gollum: "They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!"

Sméagol: "No! No! Master!"

Gollum: "Yes. Precious first. They will cheat you, hurt you, lie!"

Sméagol: "Master's my friend."

Gollum: "You don't have any friends. Nobody likes you."

[He covers his ears.]

Sméagol: "Not listening. Not listening."

Gollum: "You're a liar, and a thief."

Sméagol: "No."

Gollum: "Murderer!"

Sméagol: "Go away."

[He starts to weep.]

Gollum: "Go away?!" (Laughs.)

Sméagol: "I hate you, I hate you!"

Gollum: "Where would you be without me? (gollum gollum). I saved us. It was me. We survived because of me!"

Sméagol: "Not anymore."

Gollum: "What did you say?"

Sméagol: "Master looks after us now. We don't need you."

Gollum: "What?"

Sméagol: "Leave now and never come back."

Gollum: "No!"

Sméagol: "Leave now and never come back!"

Gollum: "Argh!"

Sméagol (emphatically): "Leave now and never come back!"

[Sméagol is panting and looking around and realizes Gollum is gone.]

Sméagol: "We told him to go away! And away he goes Precious. Gone, gone, gone, Sméagol is free!"