1 00:00:35,940 --> 00:00:42,710 At the end of the third age Middle-Earth was a land oppressed by shadow. 2 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:50,040 The people of the north Kingdom were scattered, the descendants of Kings forgotten 3 00:00:50,180 --> 00:00:53,720 reduced to Rangers wandering in the wild. 4 00:00:57,970 --> 00:01:03,150 But the darkness of Mordor was soon to spread over all lands 5 00:01:03,150 --> 00:01:06,420 and set great and terrible events in motion. 6 00:01:07,820 --> 00:01:12,160 For the lost Ring of Power had re-awoken, 7 00:01:14,140 --> 00:01:17,640 its evil master Sauron was seeking it. 8 00:01:18,860 --> 00:01:21,920 The One Ring to rule them all. 9 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:29,490 For five hundred years it had remained out of his sight and beyond his reach... 10 00:01:31,900 --> 00:01:35,310 but there was another who also sought the Ring. 11 00:01:37,020 --> 00:01:41,960 A creature who had long treasured it deep under the mountains 12 00:01:43,070 --> 00:01:46,610 and been consumed by its evil. 13 00:01:47,970 --> 00:01:52,460 His heart was tortured with longing for what he had lost 14 00:01:53,340 --> 00:01:56,910 and with hatred for the thief who took it: 15 00:01:57,610 --> 00:02:00,650 Bilbo Baggins 16 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:03,620 The Rangers have doubled their watch as you instructed. 17 00:03:04,530 --> 00:03:06,030 Is it still safe? 18 00:03:06,140 --> 00:03:06,940 Yes, 19 00:03:07,380 --> 00:03:09,220 for the time being. 20 00:03:17,700 --> 00:03:21,810 The enemy does not yet know that the Ring has been found. 21 00:03:21,890 --> 00:03:22,850 That is well. 22 00:03:22,990 --> 00:03:25,070 The matter is more complicated. 23 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:27,500 I have made a grave error, 24 00:03:27,970 --> 00:03:30,350 I overlooked something important, 25 00:03:30,450 --> 00:03:32,180 something dangerous. 26 00:03:33,850 --> 00:03:37,120 It concerns the former owner of the Ring. 27 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:39,040 Gollum. 28 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:43,290 How he came by it, I do not know 29 00:03:43,610 --> 00:03:45,330 but he's murderously protective of it; 30 00:03:45,410 --> 00:03:50,940 and now, he has left his cave, his mind bent on recovering it. 31 00:03:51,650 --> 00:03:53,930 Gollum knows, doesn't he Gandalf? 32 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,200 He knows the location of the Ring? 33 00:03:59,630 --> 00:04:00,550 Yes. 34 00:04:01,860 --> 00:04:05,000 Unfortunately our secret is no longer safe, 35 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:09,480 the foolish Hobbit revealed his name. 36 00:04:09,910 --> 00:04:11,840 It should have been destroyed. 37 00:04:12,170 --> 00:04:13,770 But it was not. 38 00:04:16,350 --> 00:04:17,800 I will go. 39 00:04:19,300 --> 00:04:20,890 I will find him. 40 00:04:23,290 --> 00:04:24,890 Thank you Aragorn. 41 00:04:26,470 --> 00:04:28,410 The road will not be easy, 42 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:32,260 but you have the foresight of your people. 43 00:04:33,050 --> 00:04:34,730 If you can't find him... 44 00:04:36,300 --> 00:04:37,740 no one can. 45 00:04:46,170 --> 00:04:47,080 Elendil. 46 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:48,520 Forefather. 47 00:04:49,430 --> 00:04:51,370 The future is hidden from me. 48 00:04:52,290 --> 00:04:55,200 Give me strength when the time comes. 49 00:05:27,310 --> 00:05:30,320 You are the heir of Elendil. 50 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:36,490 My friend, battle is coming. 51 00:05:47,940 --> 00:05:53,580 Middle-Earth cannot long withstand the power that now rises in the East. 52 00:05:56,090 --> 00:05:59,240 We are on the eve of a new age 53 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,610 for which there may be no dawn. 54 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:14,750 Who knows whither he has crawled these long years past? 55 00:07:16,020 --> 00:07:21,620 And how so small a creature has come to risk the hopes of so many? 56 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:14,200 Your name and your purpose. 57 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:18,600 I'm a Ranger of Arnor. I swear allegiance to the Seven Stars and Seven Stones... 58 00:08:19,900 --> 00:08:21,470 And the one White Tree. 59 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:27,050 You're a long way from Arnor, Ranger 60 00:08:27,370 --> 00:08:30,490 and you speak the password of the Dunedain, yet I know you not. 61 00:08:31,510 --> 00:08:35,090 I'm Arithir, son of Argonathen 62 00:08:35,970 --> 00:08:38,050 sent to gather news of the East 63 00:08:38,350 --> 00:08:40,310 Then we are kinsmen from afar. 64 00:08:42,590 --> 00:08:43,690 I'm Strider. 65 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:46,380 I have heard your name... 66 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:48,730 friend. 67 00:08:51,860 --> 00:08:54,500 These lands will not be safe much longer 68 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:59,590 raiding Orcs prowl the shores of Anduin, plundering the villages by night 69 00:09:00,750 --> 00:09:03,570 soon they will even be this side of the mountains. 70 00:09:07,490 --> 00:09:11,170 The servants of the enemy multiply as his strength increases 71 00:09:12,340 --> 00:09:14,720 alas, there are now so few of our kin. 72 00:09:15,500 --> 00:09:17,100 What of your journey? 73 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:22,470 I track a creature; 74 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:25,220 a spy of sorts, 75 00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:28,330 small in size, 76 00:09:28,770 --> 00:09:30,260 yet cunning. 77 00:09:32,410 --> 00:09:34,840 I have seen new breeds of Orc but 78 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:37,870 they grow larger and stronger, not smaller. 79 00:09:38,050 --> 00:09:39,650 This is no Orc. 80 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,350 Its tracks are like those of a Hobbit. 81 00:09:44,550 --> 00:09:47,060 It must not fall into the wrong hands. 82 00:09:48,430 --> 00:09:50,380 This may be of no use but... 83 00:09:51,790 --> 00:09:53,420 I have heard rumours, 84 00:09:54,550 --> 00:09:56,620 whisperings of a nameless fear. 85 00:09:57,950 --> 00:10:01,350 In the outlying villages they speak of a ghost that drinks blood, 86 00:10:02,210 --> 00:10:06,900 a horror that lurks in the trees snatching a sleeping child from a cot, 87 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,500 a fresh fish from an open window. 88 00:10:09,940 --> 00:10:13,010 The villagers lock their doors tight against the dark. 89 00:10:14,220 --> 00:10:16,010 Where did you hear this? 90 00:10:16,620 --> 00:10:17,990 In Ithilien 91 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:21,820 but I've also heard rumours as far as the borders of Mirkwood. 92 00:10:47,170 --> 00:10:48,010 Oi! 93 00:11:34,380 --> 00:11:36,940 If you ask me it's a false alarm, 94 00:11:37,070 --> 00:11:41,060 there ain't no tracks and there ain't no man-warrior at all. 95 00:11:41,140 --> 00:11:42,700 Goblok says there's trouble 96 00:11:42,770 --> 00:11:45,330 so look out or you'll get what's coming to ya. 97 00:11:45,710 --> 00:11:46,940 Goblok! 98 00:11:47,470 --> 00:11:50,010 Goblok's just meat from the mines, 99 00:11:50,230 --> 00:11:52,550 big and stupid. 100 00:11:53,300 --> 00:11:55,290 We should be preparing for the war. 101 00:11:55,330 --> 00:11:57,220 Forget this stinking raid. 102 00:11:57,220 --> 00:11:59,600 Look out for Goblok, he ain't just meat. 103 00:11:59,650 --> 00:12:02,080 Meat. I want fresh meat. 104 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:04,620 My guts are howling I'm so hungry. 105 00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:06,770 There's something tasty about, 106 00:12:07,020 --> 00:12:08,440 I can smell it. 107 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,050 We'll get ourselves a nice juicy villager, 108 00:12:11,050 --> 00:12:14,050 now stop your moaning or I'll ring your neck, ya scrawny rat. 109 00:12:14,050 --> 00:12:15,790 I'd like to see you try. 110 00:12:15,790 --> 00:12:18,040 You big dumb knuckle-heads are all the same: 111 00:12:18,140 --> 00:12:20,800 all nose and no intelligence. 112 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:22,230 Enough! 113 00:12:22,450 --> 00:12:23,810 Nice try. 114 00:12:23,810 --> 00:12:25,590 Now back off! 115 00:12:29,990 --> 00:12:31,020 What was that? 116 00:12:31,050 --> 00:12:32,430 I told you there was something. 117 00:12:32,430 --> 00:12:33,890 Quiet, you fool! 118 00:12:51,420 --> 00:12:52,580 Dabgash! 119 00:13:06,220 --> 00:13:08,190 This land does not belong to you. 120 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:42,860 My Precious. 121 00:14:18,910 --> 00:14:20,160 Stop! 122 00:14:21,370 --> 00:14:23,120 We have our orders. 123 00:14:24,980 --> 00:14:26,330 Find him. 124 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:28,360 Bring him to me. 125 00:14:28,460 --> 00:14:29,880 Right away, Goblok. 126 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,540 Be still. You will not escape. 127 00:16:40,260 --> 00:16:41,780 Do you understand, 128 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:43,780 Gollum? 129 00:16:48,210 --> 00:16:54,330 It knows our nameses. 130 00:16:56,580 --> 00:16:59,580 Yes, I know your name. 131 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:03,830 You're coming with me 132 00:17:04,100 --> 00:17:05,150 to the North. 133 00:17:06,777 --> 00:17:10,483 We'll put out it's eyes! 134 00:17:11,429 --> 00:17:15,280 We'll ring it's filthy neckses! 135 00:17:18,539 --> 00:17:21,046 We wouldn't hurt a fly, 136 00:17:21,081 --> 00:17:24,768 we promises we'll be very nice. 137 00:17:27,324 --> 00:17:29,772 Let us out 138 00:17:29,845 --> 00:17:32,329 Let us out! 139 00:17:38,464 --> 00:17:40,740 Gollum, you need to answer me truthfully. 140 00:17:41,263 --> 00:17:43,182 I know you were looking for something. 141 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:44,608 No, it doesn't. 142 00:17:44,808 --> 00:17:45,980 Something you lost. 143 00:17:46,257 --> 00:17:47,690 No! 144 00:17:49,534 --> 00:17:50,659 A ring. 145 00:17:51,201 --> 00:17:52,554 Precious... 146 00:17:52,458 --> 00:17:54,841 sshhhhhh! 147 00:18:01,738 --> 00:18:03,639 I will not hurt you. 148 00:18:04,901 --> 00:18:07,021 I give you my word. 149 00:18:07,916 --> 00:18:12,688 Keep precious word, Precious. 150 00:18:14,053 --> 00:18:15,807 Then you're staying in the sack. 151 00:18:15,942 --> 00:18:18,847 No! Nooo! 152 00:18:18,940 --> 00:18:21,753 Let us out! 153 00:18:31,725 --> 00:18:36,632 Nobody sees. Nobody sees. Nobody sees. 154 00:18:36,764 --> 00:18:41,970 Taller than trees trees trees. Everywhere trees... 155 00:18:43,763 --> 00:18:44,347 What? 156 00:19:28,010 --> 00:19:32,324 What does it want with us, Precious? 157 00:19:34,042 --> 00:19:36,730 He wants it. 158 00:19:37,481 --> 00:19:41,534 Our birthday present. 159 00:19:42,422 --> 00:19:44,420 We doesn't have it. 160 00:19:46,538 --> 00:19:48,758 Baggins has it. 161 00:19:48,822 --> 00:19:50,984 Sshhhh! 162 00:19:52,769 --> 00:19:55,054 He wants to know. 163 00:19:55,169 --> 00:19:56,163 No, 164 00:19:56,873 --> 00:19:57,602 he'll hurt us. 165 00:19:57,802 --> 00:19:59,086 Listen! 166 00:20:00,623 --> 00:20:04,900 We won't tell him anything. 167 00:20:08,671 --> 00:20:11,233 Besides, my precious, 168 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:16,256 he won't get far. 169 00:20:24,903 --> 00:20:26,777 We're thirsty. 170 00:20:35,472 --> 00:20:37,151 We rest later. 171 00:20:44,639 --> 00:20:46,269 He's not looking. 172 00:20:46,417 --> 00:20:48,851 Go! Go precious! 173 00:21:16,877 --> 00:21:18,689 We're not alone. 174 00:27:24,182 --> 00:27:25,326 Arwen. 175 00:27:34,186 --> 00:27:37,651 You are the heir of Elendil, 176 00:27:38,077 --> 00:27:41,954 you have the strength of your forefathers 177 00:27:45,092 --> 00:27:45,865 and... 178 00:27:46,914 --> 00:27:49,624 you have my heart. 179 00:28:51,255 --> 00:28:52,749 Come down Gollum! 180 00:29:00,396 --> 00:29:01,738 It's coming, 181 00:29:02,137 --> 00:29:03,946 it's here! 182 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:01,263 Come with me, 183 00:31:01,479 --> 00:31:03,082 we have your creature. 184 00:31:15,121 --> 00:31:17,456 Precious! 185 00:31:19,731 --> 00:31:22,626 Shire! The Shire! 186 00:31:22,932 --> 00:31:24,260 Baggins! 187 00:31:33,616 --> 00:31:35,186 What did you learn, Gandalf? 188 00:31:37,380 --> 00:31:41,838 The creature is...pitiful...wretched. 189 00:31:44,277 --> 00:31:48,759 But I now know how the Ring came to him. 190 00:31:49,569 --> 00:31:54,285 He possessed it long; many lives of his small kind. 191 00:31:55,922 --> 00:31:58,157 There's no possible doubt. 192 00:31:58,172 --> 00:32:05,283 He made his slow sneaking way, mile by mile, step by step, South 193 00:32:05,410 --> 00:32:09,184 down at last to Mordor. 194 00:32:10,665 --> 00:32:14,336 So the Shire is at the forefront of our enemy's thoughts. 195 00:32:15,471 --> 00:32:17,597 We must protect it. 196 00:32:20,033 --> 00:32:22,973 Gandalf, riders in black have crossed the river; 197 00:32:24,488 --> 00:32:27,013 I fear the Nine have returned. 198 00:32:29,809 --> 00:32:32,375 Then the Ring must leave the Shire. 199 00:32:34,794 --> 00:32:36,847 I must go at once. 200 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,798 A shadow of the past once more returns, 201 00:32:44,038 --> 00:32:49,798 nevertheless, by Gollum's capture, we know the enemy's next move. 202 00:32:49,863 --> 00:32:52,912 Frodo must be protected at all costs. 203 00:32:54,285 --> 00:32:56,062 Send the Hobbit to Bree; 204 00:32:58,232 --> 00:33:01,232 I shall watch over the Ring until you return. 205 00:33:04,361 --> 00:33:05,692 Very well. 206 00:33:09,077 --> 00:33:10,520 And Gollum? 207 00:33:12,234 --> 00:33:15,675 Gollum's wretchedness is beyond our help; 208 00:33:16,890 --> 00:33:18,883 he will never be free. 209 00:33:21,761 --> 00:33:25,459 What had it got in its pocketses? 210 00:33:26,852 --> 00:33:30,839 It wouldn't say precious. Nooo... 211 00:33:32,209 --> 00:33:35,059 No. Tricksy, it was. 212 00:33:37,185 --> 00:33:39,322 Little cheat! 213 00:33:41,486 --> 00:33:45,329 We should have squeeeezed it! 214 00:33:45,634 --> 00:33:48,961 And we will precious... 215 00:33:50,273 --> 00:33:52,735 We will.