An Olympian's Daughter

Potatos boil them, mash them stick them in a stew

Frodo, Sam and Gollum walk along a stream. Gollum trys to catch a fish. "Hey stinker! Don't go getting too far ahead!" "Why do you do that?" "What?" Sam asks, "Call him names? Run him down all the time." "Because. Because that's what he is Mister Frodo. There's naught left in him but lies and deceit. It's the Ring he wants. It's all he cares about." Sam argues.

Frodo steams at Sam "You have no idea what it did to him. What is still doing to him. I want to help him Sam." "Why?" Frodo explains "Because I have to believe he can come back."

Sam answers "You cannot save him, Mister Frodo." Frodo angrily "What do you know about it? Nothing!" Sam walks away from Frodo. Frodo apologizes "I'm sorry Sam. I don't know why I said that." Sam hisses back "I do. It's the Ring. You can't take your eyes off it. I've seen you. You're not eating. You barely sleep. It's taking a hold of you Mister Frodo. You have to fight it."

"I know what I must to do Sam. The Ring was entrusted to me. It's my task! Mine! My own!" Frodo howls "Can't you hear yourself? Don't you know who you sound like?" Sam pleads.

It's night, and Frodo and Sam are sleeping. Gollum is awake. The Ring is in Frodo's fist. "We wants it, we needs it. Must have the Precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!" the creatures hacks "No! No! Master!" while a sweeter voice pleads not too. "Yes. Precious first. They will cheat you, hurt you, lie!" the cruller voice mawls

Sméagol cries "Master's my friend." Gollum spits "You don't have any friends. Nobody likes you." He covers his ears. Sméagol speaks extra loudly "Not listening. Not listening." "You're a liar, and a thief." Gollum hisses

Sméagol cries some more "No."

Gollum shouts "Murderer!"

Sméagol weeps "Go away."

Gollum laughs at him "Go away?!"

Sméagol screeches with tears in his eyes "I hate you, I hate you!"

Gollum asks a rhetorical question "Where would you be without me? gollum gollum. I saved us. It was me. We survived because of me!"

Sméagol states in confidence "Not anymore."
Gollum growls "What did you say?"

Sméagol smiles "Master looks after us now. We don't need you."

Gollum asks again "What?"

Sméagol orders "Leave now and never come back."

Gollum howls "No!"

Sméagol orders again "Leave now and never come back!"

Gollum growls "Argh!"

Sméagol emphatically orders "Leave now and never come back!"

Sméagol is panting and looking around and realizes Gollum is gone.

Sméagol cheers doing a small and wild dance in circles, "We told him to go away! And away he goes Precious. Gone, gone, gone, Sméagol is free!" The next day, Sméagol comes back with two dead rabbits and drops them on Frodo's "Look! Look! See what Sméagol finds!" Sméagol picks up one of the rabbits and breaks its spine in front of Frodo. "They are young! They are tender and nice. Yes they are! Eat them. Eat them." Sméagol bites the rabbit. Sam takes the rabbits.]

Sam hollers at him "Make him sick you will, behaving like that. There's only one way to eat a brace of coneys." Sam cooks the rabbits in a pot. Sméagol watches despondently. Sméagol hollers in despair "Argh! What's he doing! Stupid fat hobbit. You ruins it!" "What's to ruin? There's hardly any meat on them." Sméagol moans. A faint sound catches Frodo's attention. "What we need is a few good taters." Sméagol asks like a child "What's taters? Precious, what's taters? Huh?" Sam explains "Po-ta-toes! Boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew. Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish."

Sméagol spits "Phooh!"

Sam argues "Even you couldn't say no to that." Sméagol turns up his nose at cooked foods "Oh yes we could! Spoiling nice fish!" He crawls to Sam. "Give it to us raw - and wriggling! You keep nasty chips!" "You're hopeless." Frodo follows the source of the sound. "Mister Frodo?" Frodo lies down and sees an army of the Easterlings marching. Sam and Sméagol find him.

Sam asks the very obvious question"Who are they?" "Wicked men; servants of Sauron. They are called to Mordor. The Dark One is gathering all armies to him. It won't be long now. It will soon be ready." Sméagol says "Ready to do what?" Sam asks "To make His war. The last war that will cover all the world in shadow." Frodo speaks up "We've got to keep moving. C'mon Sam."

Frodo starts to get up, but Sam stops him. Large beasts appear. "Mister Frodo! Look! It's an Oliphant! No one at home will believe this." The calling sound is heard again and Sméagol backs away. "Sméagol?" Frodo calls out.

The Easterlings are attacked from the bushes.

A man shoots an Easterling off of an Oliphant. The body falls near the hobbits. Frodo whispers to Sam "We've lingered here for too long. C'mon Sam!" The hobbits depart, but are caught by the humans. "Ah! Wait! We're innocent travelers!"

Faramir looks down at the halflings "There are no travelers in this land, only servants of the Dark Tower." "We are bound to an errand of secrecy. Those that claim to oppose the enemy would do well not to hinder us." Frodo says with authority "The enemy?" Faramir questions. Faramir turns over the dead Southron. "His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from, and if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all. Bind their hands." Faramir says with a far away look in his eyes.