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[Opening shot is silent-film-style black and white, various scenes of Middle
Earth, with Frodo singing]
There was a ring,
A very strange, enchanted ring.
They say it wandered very far,
Very far,
Over land and sea...
A band of gold,
And very old,
But precious it was, to me.
And then one day,
One tragic day Gandalf passed my way.
And while he spoke of many things,
Fools and kings,
This he said to me...
The greatest thing
You'll ever learn
Is just to bear
This ring...It must...burn! [music swells]
[Shot focuses on a dissolute Frodo, sitting in Bag-End]
Frodo [voiceover]:
The Mordor Rouge... A nightmare, a hell hole and a wasteland. Ruled over by
Sauron. A kingdom of hellish horrors, where the evil and powerful came to play
with the old and ugly creatures of the underworld...
The most evil of all these was the ring that I bore. The One Ring. A ring of
power, it was made to rule all. They called it...Isildur's Bane, and it was
the star of the Mordor Rouge.
The ring I bore is...gone...
[Shot changes to flashback of Bilbo's party]
I first began my quest one year ago... It was 3018, the summer of love. I knew
little of the Mordor Rouge, Sauron, or the One Ring. Middle Earth had been swept
up in the impending doom threatened by the eastern shadow, and I had left home
because of it. Across the Ford of Bruinen lay the refuge of Rivendell. It was
not, as some hobbits said [cut to shot of imposing, judgemental hobbit] "a village
of SIN!" but one of the centers of the elven world! Elves, dwarves, men...they
were to be known as the Fellowship of the Ring. Yes, I had come to go on a dangerous
quest, to destroy the One Ring in the name of Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and that
which I believed in above all else: Love!
[back to shot of imposing judgemental hobbit] Always this ridiculous obsession
with love!
Frodo: There was only one problem - I'd never been in love!