指环王3：王者归来The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Movie Script

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The FOUR FRIENDS look at each other. A WORLD of experience now separates from their fellow HOBBITS.

Seated at a long table, the FOUR FRIENDS raise their glasses . . . SAM eye is suddenly caught!

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ROSIE COTTON who is serving behind the BAR . . .

SAM steels himself and leaves to go and TALK to ROSIE ... FRODO, MERRY and PIPPIN exchange smiles as . . .

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EXT. HOBBITON - DAY On a BEAUTIFUL sunny day, SAM and ROSIE are MARRIED ... With their dearest FRIENDS gathered around them . . .

ROSIE throws a beautiful bouquet of FLOWERS . . . it's caught by PIPPIN who smiles in embarrassment ...

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INT. BAG END - DAY FRODO walks through BAG END to his STUDY ... FRODO V/0 How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand. There is no going back. There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.

That have taken hold.

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FRODO . . . from behind. He is HUNCHED over a DESK... PUSH IN . . . to reveal BILBO'S RED BOOK open on FRODO'S DESK.

He is WRITING in the LAST CHAPTERS ... (CONTINUED) Final Revision - October, 2003 145,

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in careful neat HANDWRITING. FRODO turns back the pages,

REVEALING:

There and Back Again - A Hobbit's Tale, by Bilbo Baggins. He writes below it as SAM GAMGEE calls out from the

door:

SAM O.S Mr Frodo?

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FRODO WINCES with a sharp GASP of PAIN . . . He puts · the PEN down and CLUTCHES at his SHOULDER . . .

SAM has entered the ROOM and stands BEHIND FRODO ... SAM .

(concerned) - What is it? -

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FRODO . . . He is DRAWN and PALE.

FRODO:

It's been four years to the day since Weathertop, Sam. It's never really healed.

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SAM . . . at a loss for words. His EYES fall to the BOOK. .....'· SAM , " (reading) "There and Back Again . . . A Hobbit's Tale, by Bilbo Baggins".

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to FRODO'S HANDWRITING: SAM (cont'd) (reading) " . . . And The Lord of the Rings, by Frodo Baggins".

(delighted) : You've finished it! -

FRODO:

(closing the book) Not quite . . . There's room for a little more.

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EXT. HOBBITON FIELDS - EARLY MORNING LYRICAL MUSIC OVER ... A COLD WINTER'S MORNING ... Out of the FOG rattles a SMALL COVERED WAGON; GANDALF is at the REINS.

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FRODO, SAM, MERRY and PIPPIN are waiting on PONIES for the WAGON . . . all are wearing their GREY ELVEN ROBES.