Sounds like Orc mischief to me! [Tightens his hold on the hobbits and squeezes them. Merry and Pippin whimpers in pain] They come with fire, they come with axes. Gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning! Destroyers and usurpers, curse them!
MERRY:
No, you don’t understand. We’re Hobbits... Halflings! Shirefolk!
TREEBEARD:
Maybe you are and maybe you aren’t.
The White Wizard will know.
PIPPIN:
The White Wizard?
MERRY:
Saruman.
[Treebeard drops them on the ground and the hobbits look up at the White Wizard.] [Following Gollum, Frodo and Sam reach the end of Emyn Muil and see that Mordor is now closer.]
GOLLUM:
See, see, we have led you out! Hurry hobbitses hurry. Very lucky we find you.
[Gollum jumps on a rock. Frodo walks past, Gollum shrinks as Sam draws near.]
GOLLUM:
Nice hobbit. [Leaps after Frodo, putting a wide berth between him and Sam.] [Sam’s foot slipped into muck.]
SAM:
Whoa, it’s a bog! He’s led us into a swamp!
GOLLUM:
A swamp, yes, yes. Come, master. We will take you on safe paths through the mist. Come, hobbits, come. We go quickly.
[Gollum looks back and gestures for the hobbits to follow.]
GOLLUM:
I found it, I did. The way through the marshes. Orcs don't use it. Orcs don't know it. They go round for miles and miles. Come quickly. Swift and quick as shadows we must be.
[The marsh lands stretch for miles and miles as far as the eye can see. The hobbits and Gollum appear as little specks. As the three pick their way gingerly though the marshes, they see faces floating in the water, still, rotting and pale, and flickering flames on the swamps.]
SAM:
There are dead things! Dead faces in the water!
GOLLUM:
All dead. All rotten. Elves and men and orcses. A great battle long ago.
[Turns to face the hobbits.] The Dead Marshes. Yes, yes that is their name.
This way. Don’t follow the lights.
[Sam’s foot slips again into the water.]
SAM:
Ohh!
GOLLUM:
Careful now, or hobbits go down to join the dead ones and light little candles of their own.
[Frodo is drawn to one of the faces in Elven armour. He stares at it intently, until suddenly its eyes open and Frodo falls face-down into the water.]