Narrator: Having blindfolded
Frodo and Sam, Faramir and the Rangers of Ithilien have taken the hobbits
to their most secret of secret refuges.
Faramir: Explain yourselves! What are you doing so
deep within enemy territory?!
Sam: Uhh—uh... don't hurt us. We're on your side.
We—uhh... we were jus—s—st, um, er, um...
Faramir: Calm down and just tell me why are you here?
Sam: Hm? Oh, "why!" You want to know "why" we are here.
Hah... isn't it a lovely day today?
Faramir: Answer the question.
Sam: Oh, we were just, um—
Frodo: Well, uhh... we—we're traveling through
here because...No, that's not it.
Sam: Uh... we did it for a lark. Part of a spree. High
spirits, you know. Simple as that.
Frodo: Right, nothing more to it. Hah.
Sam: Ha ha.
Frodo: Well, actually, we're on a mission for Rohirrim
Intelligence. Th—th—there's a pro-Sauron Harad Chief, uh—
Sam: No, no. No. No, no.
Frodo: Uh, no. No, no, no. No. No.
Faramir: Now look—
Sam: Alright, alright. We are members of a southern
Eriador animal rights group studying the mating habits of eagles—err—northern
eagles, in particular, because their mating habits are so... umm—
Frodo: No. We're doing it for a bet.
Sam: The Valar told us to do it.
Frodo: To tell the truth, we are completely mad.
Sam: (grimacing) Mahnamahna!
Frodo: We are—we are inmates of a dwarven psychiatric
institution and we escaped by pretending to be elven midget strippers.
Sam: Mhm...
Faramir: That's it! I've heard enough. Men, bag them
up... we are taking them to Osgiliath with us.
Frodo: No, please!
Sam: Look here now! We might not be able to tell you
what we are doing here, but I wasn't lying when I said we are on your
side in this!
Faramir: Well, unless you tell me—
Sam: What I can tell you, as I would say to
any that join in the fight against Sauron, we have nothing to offer
but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Faramir: Yes, noble sentiments, but—
Sam: This is a war of the unknown warriors, but let
all strive without failing in faith or in duty and we may yet have hope
that the foul curse of the Dark Lord will be lifted from our age.
Faramir: Fair enough, though—
Sam: Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties
and so bear ourselves that, if the lineage of hobbits and men last for
another thousand years, our descendants will say this was Middle
Earth's finest hour!
Faramir: Indeed, however—
Sam: We shall fight the enemy in the woods. We shall
fight at the river fords. We shall fight in the fields and in our very
streets. We shall fight in the hills and we shall never surrender! Never
before in the field of conflict will they say that so much was owed
by so many to so few!
Frodo: Sam?
Sam: We must never give in... never, never, never,
never! In nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except
to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never
yield to the apparently overwhelming might of our common enemy!
Frodo: Sam!
[smack]
Sam: Wha—yes, Mr. Frodo?
Frodo: They are letting us go, get your things together.
Sam: Oh, splendid!
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