You
will unite, or you will fall…
INT. COUNCIL CHAMBER, RIVENDELL
-- DAY
Elrond addresses the council…
Strangers from distant lands
... Friends of old. You have been summoned here to answer the threat
of Mordor.
Middle-earth stands upon
the brink of destruction. None can escape it. You will unite...or
you will fall.
Each race is bound to this
fate...this one doom...
You have only one choice...the
ring must be destroyed. [It] cannot be destroyed, Gimli, son of Gloin,
by any craft that we here possess. The ring was made in the fires
of Mount Doom...only there can it be unmade. It must be taken deep
into Mordor, and cast back into
the fiery chasm from whence
it came.
One of you must do
this.
Stunned silence...the council
sits with downcast eyes, as if a great dread has descended on them. |