Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
In Isengard, the mines are deep. The Crebain circle around inside them, until they find Saruman.
SARUMAN: So Gandalf, you try to lead them over Caradhras. And if that fails, where then will you go ?
The Fellowship struggle around the side of the mountain, through deep snow, strong winds and heavy snowfall
SARUMAN VOICEOVER:
If the mountain defeats you will you risk a more dangerous road
As the Fellowship struggle on, the hobbits being carried by Aragorn and Boromir who are thigh deep in the snow, Legolas lightly walks across the snow past them to the head of the line. He listens as he hears echos on the wind
SARUMAN: Cuiva nwalca Carnirasse; nai yarvaxea rasselya! (Wake up cruel Redhorn! May your horn be bloodstained!)
LEGOLAS: There is a fell voice on the air
GANDALF: It's Saruman!
A mighty crack is heard overhead, and great chunks of rock fall down from the mountain top, narrowly missing them
ARAGORN: He's trying to bring down the mountain! Gandalf! We must turn back!
GANDALF: No! (he steps out to the edge of the path) Losto Caradhras, sedho, hodo, nuitho i 'ruith! (Sleep, Caradhras, be still, lie still, hold your wrath!)
SARUMAN: (standing on top of Isengard drowns him out) Cuiva nwalca Carnirasse; Nai yarvaxea rasselya; taltuva notto-carinnar! (Wake up cruel Redhorn! May your bloodstained horn fall upon enemy heads!)
A great streak of lightning hits the top of the mountain above the Fellowship and an avalanche of snow rains down on top of them, burying them underneath it. Moments later Legolas emerges from the snow. He looks around to see the others emerge
BOROMIR: We must get off the mountain! Make for the Gap of Rohan and take the west road to my city!
ARAGORN: The Gap of Rohan takes us too close to Isengard!
GIMLI: If we cannot pass over the mountain, let us go under it! Let us go through the Mines of Moria
Gandalf pauses thinking
SARUMAN VOICEOVER: Moria... you fear to go into those mines.
SARUMAN: (in Isengard flicking through a book, stops at a page showing Moria Gate) the dwarves delved too greadily and too deep
SARUMAN VOICEOVER: (as Gandalf hears him knowingly) You know what they woke in the dark of Khazad-dum
SARUMAN: (turning over another page to show a firey balrog) Shadow, flame
GANDALF: Let the Ringbearer decide
Frodo looks confused and turns to Sam
BOROMIR: We cannot stay here! (Merry and Pippin look frozen and scared next to him) This will be the death of the hobbits!
GANDALF: Frodo ?
FRODO: (hesitating) We will go through the Mines
GANDALF: So be it
The Fellowship walk through a misty, rocky valley
GANDALF: Frodo, come and help an old man (he puts his arm around Frodo and continues walking) How's your shoulder?
FRODO: (looking up at Gandalf concerned) Better than it was
GANDALF: and the Ring ? (he pauses and Frodo looks up at him) You feel its power growing don't you. I've felt it too. You must be careful now. Evil will be drawn to you from outside the Fellowship and I fear from within. (one of the Fellowship walks past and Gandalf looks up, Frodo looks worried)
FRODO: Who then do I trust ?
GANDALF: You must trust to yourself. Trust your own strength.
FRODO: What do you mean ?
GANDALF: There are many powers in this world for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am and against some I have not yet been tested
GIMLI: (pauses and points) Ah! The walls of Moria!
In front of them a great sheer flat cliff face appears
GIMLI: Dwarf doors are invisible when closed (he taps the wall with his axe)
GANDALF: Yes Gimli! Their own masters cannot find them, if their secrets are forgotten!
LEGOLAS: Why doesn't that surprise me!
GIMLI: Ach!
Frodo stumbles and his foot slips into the edge of a lake. He looks around worried.
In Isengard, the mines are deep. The Crebain circle around inside them, until they find Saruman.
SARUMAN: So Gandalf, you try to lead them over Caradhras. And if that fails, where then will you go ?
The Fellowship struggle around the side of the mountain, through deep snow, strong winds and heavy snowfall
SARUMAN VOICEOVER:
If the mountain defeats you will you risk a more dangerous road
As the Fellowship struggle on, the hobbits being carried by Aragorn and Boromir who are thigh deep in the snow, Legolas lightly walks across the snow past them to the head of the line. He listens as he hears echos on the wind
SARUMAN: Cuiva nwalca Carnirasse; nai yarvaxea rasselya! (Wake up cruel Redhorn! May your horn be bloodstained!)
LEGOLAS: There is a fell voice on the air
GANDALF: It's Saruman!
A mighty crack is heard overhead, and great chunks of rock fall down from the mountain top, narrowly missing them
ARAGORN: He's trying to bring down the mountain! Gandalf! We must turn back!
GANDALF: No! (he steps out to the edge of the path) Losto Caradhras, sedho, hodo, nuitho i 'ruith! (Sleep, Caradhras, be still, lie still, hold your wrath!)
SARUMAN: (standing on top of Isengard drowns him out) Cuiva nwalca Carnirasse; Nai yarvaxea rasselya; taltuva notto-carinnar! (Wake up cruel Redhorn! May your bloodstained horn fall upon enemy heads!)
A great streak of lightning hits the top of the mountain above the Fellowship and an avalanche of snow rains down on top of them, burying them underneath it. Moments later Legolas emerges from the snow. He looks around to see the others emerge
BOROMIR: We must get off the mountain! Make for the Gap of Rohan and take the west road to my city!
ARAGORN: The Gap of Rohan takes us too close to Isengard!
GIMLI: If we cannot pass over the mountain, let us go under it! Let us go through the Mines of Moria
Gandalf pauses thinking
SARUMAN VOICEOVER: Moria... you fear to go into those mines.
SARUMAN: (in Isengard flicking through a book, stops at a page showing Moria Gate) the dwarves delved too greadily and too deep
SARUMAN VOICEOVER: (as Gandalf hears him knowingly) You know what they woke in the dark of Khazad-dum
SARUMAN: (turning over another page to show a firey balrog) Shadow, flame
GANDALF: Let the Ringbearer decide
Frodo looks confused and turns to Sam
BOROMIR: We cannot stay here! (Merry and Pippin look frozen and scared next to him) This will be the death of the hobbits!
GANDALF: Frodo ?
FRODO: (hesitating) We will go through the Mines
GANDALF: So be it
The Fellowship walk through a misty, rocky valley
GANDALF: Frodo, come and help an old man (he puts his arm around Frodo and continues walking) How's your shoulder?
FRODO: (looking up at Gandalf concerned) Better than it was
GANDALF: and the Ring ? (he pauses and Frodo looks up at him) You feel its power growing don't you. I've felt it too. You must be careful now. Evil will be drawn to you from outside the Fellowship and I fear from within. (one of the Fellowship walks past and Gandalf looks up, Frodo looks worried)
FRODO: Who then do I trust ?
GANDALF: You must trust to yourself. Trust your own strength.
FRODO: What do you mean ?
GANDALF: There are many powers in this world for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am and against some I have not yet been tested
GIMLI: (pauses and points) Ah! The walls of Moria!
In front of them a great sheer flat cliff face appears
GIMLI: Dwarf doors are invisible when closed (he taps the wall with his axe)
GANDALF: Yes Gimli! Their own masters cannot find them, if their secrets are forgotten!
LEGOLAS: Why doesn't that surprise me!
GIMLI: Ach!
Frodo stumbles and his foot slips into the edge of a lake. He looks around worried.
