The ring... theringtheringtheringtheringtheringtheringtheringtheringtheringtheringtheringtheringthering... .... ... "...Myyeee... Prrresssciousssse...." "Mr Frodo!! Look out Mr. Frodo!!" "It is a dark language of the dark lords that few know, and fewer still would utter its accursed words." "Sméagol this! Sméagol that! Allways Sméagol's faultses!!" "Bring out the ring Frodo, hold it up..." "Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul!" "Thou shalt not Pass!!" "Is it not strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing!"
"Take it off! Take it off! Fool, take it off! Take off the Ring!!"
"I have!! I bear it no moaaaaaaaaa!!!" The ground plunged away as if with a mind of its own, and down! Down and down! "Turn!! Turn are you deaf?! We've lost him!! Turn and down!!" A scream shattered the night as the great beast plummeted down toward the sea, flames shot to illuminate the sky in the darkness. Frodo wasn't sure if part of that terrible sound came from dragon or himself! Tumbling over and over and over again!! A great claw snagged him, closing around him like a cage as the dragon rose up again.
"Frodo!! Dear boy are you there?! Are you all right!" the trembling shook him to the core, but despite it he managed a weak, "...I'm here!"
Gandalf sighed, holding onto Bilbo to keep him from falling as well. "We are not on the ground Frodo, but in the air. You met our dragon companion much earlier today. It seems he has come to lead us on another adventure." The shaking hobbit laughed, "Oh lords Gandalf no! Wasn't two adventures enough?!" The wizard smiled, "I do love how everyone seems to think I arrange these things." A rumbling huff from the dragon below them drew them back to Frodo's position. "I will only hold him in my claw so long... then I will drop him. He is tickling my toes." The white wizard turned a little whiter. "Do not release him! Frodo, hold on a moment."
Placing Bilbo on the widest part of the dragons back Gandalf moved swiftly to the dragons shoulder. Frodo looked up at him shakily, clinging to the dragon's claw as he leaned out. "Can you reach out and take my hand Frodo?" The hobbit closed his eyes for a moment, gathering his courage, then stretched his hand out as far as he could... and didn't even brush Gandalf's fingers. "No, his legs too long!" Gandalf shook his head, "Anantaboga! Lift your foot higher!" The massive head turned and regarded him coolly "It doesn't go any higher."
An hour later a grumpy dragon, a surly wizard an exhausted ring bearer and a jolly Baggins came into sight of shore, gulls cries carried over the wind to tickle their ears, and the crash of the waves calmed troubled minds.
": And here we are again... to take the paths we took before..:" A splash of spray brushed closed eyelids, and the ring bearer smiled. His eyes opened on the fast approaching shore. ":So once more, I come home..."
"The greatest adventure... a task hard to take, The core of ones spirit, such passions... can break. The road lies before you, you stand in the door...To follow the footsteps you've taken before!"
"The greatest adventure is there if you're bold...The task has been given, the time has been told. To measure your meaning... will cause but delay!The future is calling! The day is today!"
"A man who's a hero! As histories conceived! May be just a man, with a friend who believed!
You strode into sunsets!
Your courage retained!
Remember but this, In the end you remained!"
"... The greatest adventure... is what lies ahead...Though many have fallen, and many lie dead... The chances and changes, which you now can make...Within lives a promise, you cannot forsake.
.... The greatest adventure, and home... lie ahead."
The Hobbit: The greatest adventure. (With some changed lyrics!)