[Bends down to kiss him] Then it is a good dream. Sleep… [She kisses him lightly on the lips and then steps away to look out upon Rivendell. Aragorn closes his eyes but for a while. He looks over at Arwen.]
ARAGORN:
Min lû pennich nin i aur hen telitha.
(You told me once that this day would come.)
ARWEN:
[Turns to look at Aragorn] Ú i vethed... nâ i onnad. Boe bedich go Frodo. Han bâd lîn. (This is not the end... it is the beginning. You must go with Frodo.
That is your path.)
ARAGORN:
[Walks over to Arwen] Dolen i vâd o nin. (My path is hidden from me.)
ARWEN:
Si peliannen i vâd na dail lîn. Si boe ú-dhannathach. (It is already laid before your feet. You cannot falter now.)
ARAGORN:
Arwen… [Arwen hushes him, resting her fingers on his lips. As her hands moves down to rest on the Evenstar pendant around Aragorn’s neck, he clasps her hand in his and they gaze into each other’s eyes.]
ARWEN:
Ae ú-esteliach nad... estelio han. Estelio ammen. (If you trust nothing else... trust this. Trust us.) [They kiss.] [The next day, on the journey to Helm’s Deep. Éowyn is walking alongside Aragorn.] ÉOWYN Where is she? The woman who gave you that jewel.
[ARAGORN SMILES AND SAYS NOTHING. FLASHBACK Elrond is speaking to Aragorn in Rivendell, before he sets out with the Fellowship.]
ELROND:
Our time here is ending. Arwen’s time is ending. Let her go. Let her take the ship into the west. Let her bear away her love for you to the Undying Lands. There it will be evergreen.
ARAGORN:
But never more than a memory.
ELROND:
I will not leave my daughter here to die.
ARAGORN:
She stays because she still has hope.
ELROND:
She stays for YOU! She belongs with her people!
[Aragorn and Arwen are together before the Fellowship departs.]
ARAGORN:
Idhren emmen menna gui ethwel. Hae o auth a nîr a naeth. (You have a chance for another life. Away from war... grief... despair.)
ARWEN:
Why are you saying this?
ARAGORN:
I am mortal; you are Elfkind. It was a dream, Arwen, nothing more.
[He takes Arwen’s hand to return the Evenstar necklace to her.]
ARAGORN:
This belongs to you.
ARWEN:
[Closes Aragorn’s hand over the Evenstar] It was a gift. Keep it.
[Scene shifts back to Aragorn and Éowyn] ÉOWYN My lord?
ARAGORN:
She is sailing to the Undying Lands, with all that is left of her kin.