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| At least I didn't lose you, Sting! And, since you're not shining, there aren't any goblins near...only...where have they all gone? There was all that fighting and yelling and now...all of a sudden...nothing! |
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| (Gollum enters, he has been hunting young goblins and fish, and is uncertain, at first, as to whether Bilbo will make an acceptable subsitute. The sight of sting makes Gollum uneasy.) Gollum! Gollum! |
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| (whirling around) What's that? |
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| (peering nervously in Gollum's direction) Who's there? |
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| (in full view now.) Bless us and splash us, my preciousss! Here's something to eat! (guttural.) Gollum! |
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| Stay back! (Brandishes sword) |
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| (swaying his head from side to side as he talks) What's he gots in his handses, hmmm? |
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| A sword! An elvish blade! It came out of Gondolin! |
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| (taken aback, hissing) S-s-s-s-...What iss he, my preciousss? Hic! (More politely) Whom have we the pleasure of meeting? |
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| I am Mr. Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit. I've lost the Dwarves and the Wizard and I don't know where I am -- but then I don't want to know where I am. Please tell me which way they went. |
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| (hissing S-s-s-s-s. S'pose we sits here and chats with it a bitsy, my preciousss --- A bagginsess! (rubs his stomach) It likes riddles, p'raps it does, does it? S-s-s-s... |
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| Well, I'd love to, but I'm expected somewhere else... (To himself) I hope... (To Gollum) So if you'd kindly direct me to where the dwarfs went --- |
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| (cutting in) S-s-s-s stop...First a riddle, yesss? |
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| (resigned) Very well, if you insissst! After you- |
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S-s-s-s-s-s say,
What has roots as nobody sees,
is taller than trees,
up, up it goes,
and yet never grows? |
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| Easy! Mountain. Now, if you'll kindly---- |
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| (cutting in) S-s-s-s-s..so does it guess easy? It must have a competition with us, my precioussss. If we wins we eats it -- it tastes better if we earns it. If it wins, we shows it the way to the DWARFS...Yesss... |
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| Well -- all right. Only, how many of them are you? Who's this "Precious" you keep talking to? Aren't you alone in this dreadful place? |
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| We likes it! We passes the time feasting on fishesss and gobbling goblins. S-s-s. |
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| Goblins! Ick! I didn't think anyone at them! |
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It's an acquired taste...Hic! S-s-s..
Your turn! Riddle! Riddle! |
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Just a minute...Ah!-
Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they champ,
then they stamp,
then they stand still. |
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Easy! Teethes! Teethes! S-s-s...but we has only six! Now! S-s-s...
Voiceless it cries,
Wingless glutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters. |
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| Half a moment! Wind! Wind, of course! |
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Uh-
A Box without hinges, key or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid. |
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| S-s-s-s-...What isss it? Ssssss... (Takes fish from pocket and wipes his brow with it) |
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| Well -- What is it? The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think from the noise you are making! |
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| Give us a chance; let it give us a chance, my preciousss... |
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| (wiping his brow with the fish...suddenly) EGGSES! Eggses it is! Ssss.....Here's a choice one!
Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail, never clinking! |
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| (Stumped) Ahem...ahem...well now, just a minute... |
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| Wait! I gave you a long time to guess! |
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| (Settling back away from Bilbo) Is it nice, my preciouss? Is it juicy? Is it crunchable? |
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| Actually, I never gave a thought to how I'd taste cooked until I set out on this horrid adventure. But I'm sure I'd be terribly indigestible. Ha..ha? |
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| S-s-s-s-s. The riddle...answer it! It must make haste! We is hungry! (wipes his brow with the fish) |
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| FISH! That's the answer! Fish! |
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| S-sss-s. Rotten luckses! It's got to ask us a question, my preciousss, yes, yess, just one more, yess, ASK USS! |
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| Oh dear...I can't think...(confused) What have I got in my pocket? |
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| (taking this for the question) Ssss...not fair! Not fair, my preciouss, to ask us what it's got in it's nassty little pocketses! |
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| (explaining)But I...(Thinks better of it) Well, why not? What have I got in my pocket? |
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| S-S-S-s-s. It must give us three guesseses, my precious, three! |
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| Come on! 1-2-3...time's up! |
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| Wrong! I win. Show me the way the dwarves went. |
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| Did we say we'd do that? Did we promise to show the nassty Bagginsess, my precious? |
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| Stop! And who's this precious you keep talking to? |
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| Duss it want to see my precious? Suppose it sits there and waitses? I'll show him my precious Ring I talks to...(Searches his fingers with concern, and then his pockets with mounting frenzy, pulling contents out and dropping them wildly.) Where iss it? My precious, precious ring! Losst! My ring! (starts for Bilbo) |
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| Well, if you must know, I found a Ring. Maybe it's your precious...Is this it? |
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| My RING! (Gollum is confused, for Bilbo is invisible to him) Where are you? I don't see you! |
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| Don't be mad...I'll give it--- |
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| I'll get you! I'll squeeze you until I finds the Ring and then I'll eat you! |
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| Not fair! You're a cheater! I won...And furthermore, I won't give back the Ring. It's not really yours. You stole it. So you can just say good bye to it! (turns, trips, and falls) Ouch! |
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| (Cupping his ear.) I hear his footses. |
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| Take off the ring, just for a few minuteses! |
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| Take off my ring of Invisibility...I think maybe it's a ring of invisibility... |
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| Keep talking...Where are you!? |
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| This way! I'm leaving! (Throws stone) |
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| Gollum exits in the direction of the stone's noise. |
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| He really can't see me! But can I see myself? No I can't see my hand befor emy face. (Takes off ring) Watch out Bilbo, here he comes! |
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| (Gollum re-enters) Gone... (Sees Bilbo, who puts on ring and ducks away) There! No...gone again...
The Baggins dussen't know what's happening to it's friends...it dussen't know the goblins are torturing them... |
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| We'll wait for it by the tunnel where the dwarves went... |
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| They -are- torturing the dwarves! Gandalf, too! And that's the way they went! Help me and I'll give you back the Ring! I've got to save them! |
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| Ssss---first, shake handses on it. Jusst come a little near and shake handses. (holds out right hand and picks up a rock with left) |
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| You don't need a stone to shake hands! Please help me...I'll play fair... |
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| Take off the Ring first...(crouches, ready to leap) |
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| No---no...let the dwarves look after themselves. So you can just sit there and wave your arms until you starve to death, for all I care. It's time I went home. (Pretends to stumble) Oh! Ouch! My ankle! Help me, Gollum! I'm fainting! |
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| Maybe it's another trick...We'll have to chance it, precious...(Gollum leaves the tunnel entrance and moves forward.) Now, only if it would groan once more --- |
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| (Rushes for Bilbo, grabs at him, but misses.) Too late! Lost! Lost! LOSSSST! |
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