[More arrows are released. But the Uruk-hai army keep advancing, with more replacing those fallen.]
ARAGORN:
Fire!
GIMLI:
[Impatiently] Send them to me! C’mon!
[The Uruk-hai start to load ladders onto the walls, pushing them up with their long spears.]
ARAGORN:
Pendraid! (Ladders!) [The Elves draw their blades in preparation for combat. The first ladders are almost reaching the walls with big nasty Uruk Berserkers on top of them.]
ARAGORN:
Swords! Swords!
GIMLI:
Good!
[Close combat begins as the Uruk-hai climb over the wall.]
GIMLI:
Legolas, two already! [Holding up two fingers]
LEGOLAS:
I’m on seventeen!
GIMLI:
[Outraged] Argh! I’ll have no pointy-ear outscoring me! [He turns to a Uruk just climbing over the wall, whacking it in the groin with his axe and killing it as it falls.]
LEGOLAS:
[Fires two arrows] Nineteen!
[The Ent Moot is still in progress.
The Ents sway a little as they continue to deliberate. Merry and Pippin are sitting a distance away. Suddenly, Treebeard nods and turns to the hobbits.]
PIPPIN:
[Gesturing] Merry!
TREEBEARD:
We have just agreed. [Long pause with his eyes closed.]
MERRY:
[Angles his head in query] Yes?
TREEBEARD:
I have told your names to the Ent moot and we have agreed – you are not Orcs.