MEANWHILE… on the Paths of the Dead…

King of the Cursed Undead:

(Who bears a strange resemblance to Geoffrey Rush and has a skeletal monkey on his shoulder… *bwu-ha-ha*)

Here comes a man in Ranger garb

What brings you to this place?

Aragorn:

I come here to revoke your curse.

King:

Approach and show your face.

Undead Soldier:

You bear the Sword that Was Reforged.

Aragorn:

That's why they let me through.

Undead Soldier:

You've got some years behind you sir.

Aragorn:

I could say the same for you.

King:

You see those corpses over there?

Soldier:

"Isildur's Heirs" like you!

Aragorn:

Their corpses do not myself scare -

My heir-dom is in fact true...

King:

We'll get ready to attack -

Take us and use fear well!

But if our curse is not undone,

You'll never live to tell…

Back at the Pelannor Fields…

Random Gondorian Whose Sole Purpose is to Sum Up the Plot:

A group of ships with black sails, sailing up the Anduin!

His Friend:

But it's really Aragorn, and his company!

Aragorn: Charge!

Aragorn and Company have arrived just when needed, and clear a path of Orcs out of the way to the White City to fight alongside Éomer, the Rohirrim, and the Gondorian warriors. 

Legolas:

See how they run away!

Gimli:

By God we've won the day!

Éomer:

They will be back again,

Make an attack again.

For your presence of mind

For the deed you have done

I will thank you, Aragorn,

When our battle is won.

Aragorn:

Give me no thanks Éomer

There is something you can do.

Éomer:

If it is in my power.

Aragorn:

Give me the Gondorians

Let me take care of them!

Gondorian Soldiers Nearby:

Our world is inside out

But our King has come again.

Éomer:

Do what you have to do,

The men belongs to you.

The enemy may be regrouping. Hold yourself in readiness.

Come my friends, back to your positions.

The night is falling fast.

MEANWHILE… (I seem to be using that a lot) At the tombs, Denethor has set Faramir inside and is preparing to set the tombs ablaze. In the chaos, however, Gandalf steps forward.

Gandalf:

We meet again.

Denethor:

You've hungered for this all your life;

Take your revenge!

How right you arrive and cause strife!

Gandalf:

You talk too much,

Your life is safe in my hands.

Denethor:

Don't understand

Gandalf:

Get out of here.

Denethor:

Gandalf, take care!

I'm warning you...

Gandalf:

Clear out of here.

Denethor:

Once a thief, forever a thief

What you want you always steal!

You would trade Faramir's love to thine -

Yes, Gandalf, you want a deal!

Let me die for all I care!

If you let me go, beware,

You still must answer Sauron's dare!

Gandalf:

You are wrong, and always have been wrong.

I'm a maia, no worse than any maia.

You are free, and there are no conditions,

No bargains or petitions.

Sauron's army will not win this fray.

The new King will come, the dawning of the day.

(Gandalf has Faramir removed from the building)

If you come out of this alive, you'll find Faramir

At your own Houses of Healing.

No doubt our paths will cross again.

Go.

Denethor, however, refuses to leave and runs back into the tombs, dying in a horrific blaze. Gandalf, saddened, returns to the men.

Gandalf:

(to Aragorn and the Council, after the Battle of Pelannor has been finished, and they plot their next move)

Aragorn, you take the men

Your chance has come to be their liege

Everybody prepare for war

We must put Mordor under siege

This is the final fight

Let no one sleep tonight.

Aragorn:

Merry, rest.

Drink with me to days gone by

Sing with me the songs we knew

Pippin:

Here's to pretty girls who went to our heads.

Merry:

Here's to witty girls who went to our beds.

All:

Here's to them and here's to you!

Legolas:

Drink with me to days gone by

Can it be you fear to die?

Will the world remember you

When you fall?

Could it be your death

Means nothing at all?

Is your life just one more lie?

All:

Drink with me to days gone by

To the life that used to be

Women:

At the shrine of friendship, never say die

Men:

Let the wine of friendship never run dry

All:

Here's to you and here's to me

Aragorn:

Do I care if I should die

Now she goes across the sea?

Life without Arwen

Means nothing at all.

Would you weep, Arwen,

Should Aragorn fall?

Will you weep, Arwen,

For me?

Aragorn settles down to sleep in preparation for the Siege of Mordor – MEANWHILE…Frodo gets a solo since The Author can't bear to go too much longer without some Frodo angst… Mmmmm… Frodo angst…

Frodo:

(Watching a sleeping Sam)

God on high

Hear my prayer

In my need

You have always been there

He is young

He's afraid

Let him rest

Heaven blessed.

Bring him home

Bring him home

Bring him home.

He's like the son I might have known

If God had granted me a son.

The summers die

One by one

How soon they fly

On and on

And I am old

And will be gone.

Bring him peace

Bring him joy

He is young

He is only a boy

You can take

You can give

Let him be

Let him live

If I die, let me die

Let him live

Bring him home

Bring him home

Bring him home.

Dawn breaks.

Aragorn:

(As the men prepare to leave for the final battle at the Black Gates)

Our people must now stir

We are abandoned by those who still live in fear.

Our people must now hear

For we will not abandon those who cannot hear.

Let us not waste lives

Let all the women and fathers of children

Go from here.

Legolas:

Drink with me to days gone by

Sing with me the songs we knew

Gimli:

At the shrine of friendship

Raise your glass high

Let the wine of friendship

Never run dry

Legolas & Gimli:

If I die, I die with you!

The soldiers arrive at the Black Gates, and the expected slaughter begins.

Gandalf:

How do we stand, Aragorn? Make your report.

Aragorn:

We've arms enough, but living men are getting short

Merry:

(Still stuck at the Houses of Healing – begging to The Author)

Let me go into the fight

There are bodies all around

Ammunition to be had

Lots of arrows to be found!

The Author:

I won't let you go, it's too much of a chance!

Aragorn:

The same is true for any man here!

Éowyn:

Let me go. He's no more than a boy.

I am sad, I have nothing to fear.

Pippin:

You need somebody quicker and I volunteer!

Legolas:

Come back Pippin, don't you dare!

Gimli:

Someone pull him down at once!

Pippin:

Look at me, I'm almost there!

(An arrow flies by Pippin's head)

Pippin:

Little people know, when

Little people fight, we

(A sword slash – Pippin is wounded.)

May look easy pickings

But we've got some bite!

(He is hit again.)

So never kick a dog

Because he's just a pup

We'll fight like twenty armies

And we won't give up

So you'd better run for cover

When the pup grows....

Pippin falls to the ground, silent and unconscious. The Author screeches "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" and falls to the ground, crying. Between her inane babblings and sobs is heard, "You just don't hurt Billy Boyd! What don't you get about that?!?"

The Mouth of Sauron:

You at the Black Gates listen to this

The spies you have sent here sleep in their graves

You have no chance

No chance at all

Why throw your lives away?

Gandalf:

Let us die facing our foes

Make them bleed while we can

Legolas:

Make 'em pay through the nose

Gimli:

 Make 'em pay for every man!

Aragorn:

Let others rise

To take our place

Until Middle-Earth is free!

Increasingly heavy fighting – the battle rages on frantically with the odds strongly in favor of Sauron and his legions of evil.