The ambition of a mountain king

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In Dol Guldur, it is getting dark, and Gandalf continues searching the ruins. He passes several hanging metal cages full of spikes, each skeleton chained inside. "Cé ná also sís nurtaina...I ettuluvas caninye! Cánin i sá tanuvaxe!" He chanted. He walks out onto an open platform and shouts his spell, then strikes his staff against the ground. The concealment-revealing energy bubble expands around him, revealing Azog leaping at Gandalf with his mace raised. Gandalf only has the time to raise his sword and staff before Azog strikes him with his mace, sending Gandalf and his weapons flying. Gandalf lies on the ground, and many now-revealed Orcs stand behind Azog. Azog laughs evilly.

" You have come too late, Wizard! It is done." He laughs. Azog raises his mace and swings to finish Gandalf off, with some of his Orcs running up as well, but Gandalf manages to scramble up with his staff and point it at Azog. The team causes some invisible barrier that stops Azog in his tracks. "Where is your master?" Gandalf orders. Azog roars and runs at Gandalf again, but Gandalf's staff stops him and the Orcs behind him. "Where is he??" Gandalf shouts again. "He is everywhere. We are legion!" Azog said. Gandalf backs into the corner of the platform; while holding Azog at bay with his staff, Gandalf looks at the lower lowers of Dol Guldur behind him and sees hordes of Orcs and Wargs below, all armed for war.

"It is over." As Azog raises his mace, Gandalf shouts and swings his staff. There is a blinding flash of light and a thunderclap. When Azog and his Orcs open their eyes, Gandalf has disappeared, but they hear his footsteps running away. "Run him down." Azog orders. Gandalf runs the ruins as Orcs on Wargs chase him. He runs out of a building onto a bridge and strikes the building with his staff, causing parts of it to crumble and fall, crushing the Wargs on his tail and destroying the bridge. In the distance, Azog roars. Gandalf continues running, and he is running out onto a giant bridge when suddenly, a voice sounds out of the darkness.

"There is no light, Wizard...." Gandalf stops short as a massive cloud of shadow appears on the bridge in front of him. It is the Necromancer. "...that can defeat darkness." Gandalf raises his staff and forms a protective spherical shield of light around himself, about 60 meters in diameter. Tendrils of shadow try to pierce the guard but cannot. As the shadow continues pounding at the shield, Gandalf struggles, and the protection grows smaller. Gandalf yells, and the security grows more prominent again. However, the shadow grows even more robust, strong enough to disintegrate the bridge facing Gandalf's shield. The shield extends smaller and smaller until it is barely bigger than Gandalf. Gandalf opens his eyes in shock, and his shield completely disappears, and he is pushed back. The shadow rushes at him, but he manages to form his shield again. He falls onto his knees, holding his staff above his head, and the security continues to grow and shrink. Finally, the shadow pushes so hard that Gandalf's shield collapses, and he falls back.

The shadow turns into a wreath of flames, and Gandalf holds his staff above his head with both hands. The flames turn into the slit pupil of an eye, then slowly take the form of a tall man wearing armor with helmet-shaped spikes. It is Sauron. As Sauron approaches Gandalf, Gandalf's staff burns and disintegrates away to nothing. The shadows pick Gandalf up into the air and then slam him down on the stones. They then hurl him into a wall and hold him there. The wall around him crumbles and falls in the presence of Sauron. Sauron looks at Gandalf, and the flames around him seem to explode, forming the Eye of Sauron with his body at the center like an iris. Gandalf, recognizing the Necromancer for what it is, moans out his name while his face is covered with burns.

"Sauron." The camera zooms into Sauron's eye, in which is another flaming eye with Sauron's body in the middle, and we zoom into this eye, and its eye, and so on. The hypnotic illusion knocks out Gandalf.

Bilbo quietly walks through a large doorway and finds himself in a massive hall. He whispers out loud. "Hello?" He knocks quietly on the wall beside him, but the sound intensifies loudly as it echoes, and he jumps and presses himself against the wall in shock. Seeing no reaction to the noise, he walks out into the hall on an elevated walkway.  "You're not at home. Not at home. Good. Good, good, good." He says. Bilbo, at the top of a staircase, suddenly stops walking, and his mouth hangs open in shock. He sees mountains of gold, jewels, weapons, cups, and all sorts of treasure piled dozens of feet high throughout the immensely massive hall.

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