Nothing, Frodo... Sam runs to Frodo's bedside. He is overjoyed to find Frodo awake.
SAM:
Frodo! Frodo! Bless you, you're awake!!
GANDALF:
Sam has hardly left your side.
SAM:
We were worried about you--weren't we, Mr. Gandalf?
GANDALF:
By the skills of Lord Elrond, you're beginning to mend. ELROND, LORD OF THE HIGH ELVES, steps up to Frodo's bedside...his face is neither old nor young, though in it is written the memory of many things both glad and sorrowful.
ELROND:
Welcome to Rivendell, Frodo Baggins.
Frodo sits up, looking at Elrond with awe.
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EXT. RIVENDELL VALLEY -- DAY
WIDE ON:
RIVENDELL... a small cluster of elegant Elven Buildings sitting in a Shangri-la like Valley below towering cliffs and snow capped mountains.
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ELROND (V.O.) You have found your way to the last homely house east of the sea. The elves of Imladris have dwelt within this valley for three thousand years through few of my kin now remain. Frodo looks out from his balcony.
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EXT. RIVENDELL GARDENS -- DAY Frodo and Sam walk together. Suddenly, the voices of Merry and Pippin can be heard as they bound up to Frodo and throw their arms around him.
MERRY:
Frodo! Frodo!
Sam looks past Frodo smiling... a bent figure sits alone on a bench, in the Sun. Close on: Frodo turning, following Sam's gaze...
FRODO:
Bilbo!
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EXT. RIVENDELL TERRACE -- DAY
Close on:
BILBO BAGGINS! He breaks in to a broad grin as Frodo rushes forward to embrace him. Bilbo has aged significantly since we last saw him.
BILBO:
Hello, Frodo, my lad!
FRODO:
Bilbo!
LATER... Frodo is turning the neatly inscribed title page of a red leather bound journal: FRODO (CONT'D) (reading) "There and back again: A Hobbit's tale" by Bilbo Baggins.
Bilbo smiles Proudly. He is sitting with Frodo on a terrace overlooking a Waterfall. Frodo looks at Page after page of beautiful Handwriting, with intricate Maps and Drawings.
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FRODO (CONT'D) This is wonderful.
BILBO:
I meant to go back...wander the paths of Mirkwood, visit Laketown, see the Lonely Mountain again...but age, it seems, has finally caught up with me.
Frodo turns a page...there before him, is a map of the Shire.