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LORD OF THE RINGS - (c) Three Foot Six Ltd

ARAGORN - SCENE 2

Following an ambush Aragorn realises that he and his men have been deliberately drawn away from Minas Tirith, the mighty city of which he is the rightful King.

ARAGORN
(calling)
Legolas! I need your Elf-eyes!

LEGOLAS hurries over to ARAGORN.

ARAGORN (cont'd)
What do you see? There ...

LEGOLAS peers into the distand murk ...

LEGOLAS
Flames ... and Nazgul! There is war at Minas Tirith!

ARAGORN
(angry)
He has taken us for fools! This skirmish in the south has been a ploy ...
a diversion to keep us from the field of battle!

LEGOLAS
Minas Tirith is two days ride! How can we hope to get there in time?

ARAGORN suddenly turns, a look of grim determination on his face.

ARAGORN
I will not see the White City fall! We must take the Paths of the Dead!

LEGOLAS
(shocked) Is it your want to seek death? The Shadow-men will suffer no living man to pass through their hidden halls!

ARAGORN
(grim determination) They will suffer me!

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