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(The Fellowship is asleep. Galadriel walks by in silence. Frodo wakes up with a start and proceeds to follow her. Galadriel walks down to her garden and fills the ewer with water. She turns towards Frodo, not surprised to see him there) Galadriel: Will you look into the mirror? Frodo: What will I see? Galadriel: Even the wisest cannot tell. For the mirror shows many things. (She begins to pour the water into the silver basin) Galadriel: Things that were, things that are and some things… (empties the ewer) that have not yet come to pass. (Frodo steps up to the mirror to take a look. He peers down and sees nothing but his reflection. Then suddenly the mirror clears and shows a vision of Legolas, Merry and Pippin, then Sam. He sees Bag End, then the burning of Hobbiton, the enslavement of the Hobbits and the destruction of the Shire. Then suddenly the Eye of Sauron fills the entire mirror. The Ring hanging from Frodo’s neck pulls him closer to the water. Steam begins to curl up from the basin as Sauron speaks to Frodo in Black Speech. Terrified, he grabs the Ring and jerks back, throwing himself off the step and landing on his back on the grass) Galadriel: I know what it is you saw. For it is also in my mind. (speaks to Frodo telepathically) It is what will come to pass if you should fail. The Fellowship is breaking. It has already begun. He will try to take the Ring. You know of whom I speak. One by one it will destroy them all. Frodo: (telepathically) If you ask it of me, I will give you the One Ring. (Opening his palm, Frodo offers the Ring to her) Galadriel: You offer it to me freely. I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired this. (She approaches Frodo, her hand open. Her image begins to change) Galadriel: In place of a dark lord, you will have a queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the sea! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair! (She returns to normal with a scared look on her face) Galadriel: I pass the test! I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel. Frodo: I cannot do this alone. (She turns to him) Galadriel: You are a Ring-bearer, Frodo. To bear a Ring of Power is to be alone. (She holds out her hand with the ring Nenya on her finger) This is Nenya, the Ring of Adamant. And I am its keeper. This task was appointed to you. And if you do not find a way, no one will. Frodo: Then I know what I must do. It’s just… I’m afraid to do it. (Galadriel bends down to meet him at eye level) Galadriel: Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
