(IdrilCelebrindal)
Odd Narrator: Gandalf and the King's company rode around to meet Treebeard, but Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli remained behind to make sure the hobbits didn't try to fly off of any roofs or anything. Unfortunately, the hunters immediately started in with the questions, and seriously harshed the hobbits' groove.
Aragorn: Where were you on the night of February 29th?
Gimli: Where's my lunch?
Legolas: Why can't I go see the Ents?
Merry: Ow... not so hasty! I'm getting a headache.
Pippin: How about lunch first? Do you guys want orc or bacon?
A&G&L: Orc? Ewwwww!
Pippin: Bacon it is then.
Odd Narrator: They retired to the gatehouse where the hobbits served them all ridiculously long sandwiches.
Legolas: Ridiculously long sandwiches?
Merry: Yes, we call them Zimmermans. Don't ask me why.
Gimli: Ahh... a great meal. And it's nice to be able to engage in our pleasant six-way banter again.
Odd Narrator: I agree. Is there any spicy mustard?
Pippin: Certainly! (hunts through pantry... bangs head) GRAZCH-NACH!
Aragorn: Language! Sheesh!
Pippin: Oh sorry. Seems like I'm always banging my head lately.
Gimli: Good heavens, are you taller?
Merry: He doesn't look any taller to me.
Gimli: That's because you're taller too. This is bad. I'm going to have to get some heels put on my boots.
Pippin: Well the ent draught was doing some freaky stuff to us. I KNEW my feet were getting really far away.
Legolas: Ent draught? Well that explains it. Many strange tales are told of the draughts of Fangorn. I can't believe you two are mixing that stuff with pipeweed. And they say hobbits aren't adventurous!
Aragorn: So tell us about the ents.
Merry: Well what can I tell you. They're the oldest of the flower children... funky and freaky... weird and wise... grand and groovy. Can you dig it?
Gimli: Huh?
Merry: Well you can form your own opinion I suppose.
Gimli: This isn't a proper tale. You have to start at the beginning!
Aragorn: Yes! Where were you on the night of February 26th?
Merry: Woah... you all have gotten hyper! Have you been off on a killing rampage or what? Let's have a smoke and chill. I've got the weed.
Gimli: Got any papers? I lost my pipe.
Pippin: Not to worry... I have an extra.
Gimli: Groovy!
Odd Narrator: And thus the companions retired outside where they sat on the edge of ruin and smoked and chilled. And, since Aragorn had stepped in a Rohanish rosebud, the pungent smell that arose from his boots reminded them of Strider of the Rangers.
Pippin: Pheeew! Strider's back!
Aragorn: He has never been away. For I am Strider and Dunadan too, and I belong to both Gondor and the North.
Pippin: Oooookay... whatever floats your boat!
Legolas (sitting upwind): Enough chillin' and smokin'. Either you hobbits can start telling your story or I'm going to sing a song.
Pippin: Oh! We'll tell. Let's see... the first thing I remember was waking up with this profoundly ugly chick whose name I couldn't recall. What's today anyway?
Aragorn: March 5th.
Pippin: Okay... hmmm... five plus... ummm... "thirty days hath January, February, March, April, May".... so 30 minus....
Aragorn: Nine days.
Pippin: Nine! Absolutely correct. Seemed like at least a week! We had three horrible days with the orcs. I won't bother you with the details, the whips, the stench, the filth...
Merry: .... the constant complaining about our choice of bath soap...
Pippin: ... the poorly prepared Chuck...
Merry: ... the lack of organization and inter-department communication...
Pippin: ... the eviscerated organs...
Merry: ... the bad liquor...
Pippin: ... the worse pirate impressions...
Merry: ... OR the profoundly ugly chicks...
Pippin: ... because we're hobbits and we never complain about such things.
Merry: Wouldn't think of it!
Pippin: The worse the situation, the less we complain.
Merry: 'Cause that's the way we are.
Pippin: Say for instance a horrible nasty Mordor orc were to grab my bum... would I bother mentioning it to anyone?
Merry: Never! And if some huge ugly Uruk-hai tied me up so that my feet fell asleep... would I waste your valuable time describing the intense prickly painful sensation?
Pippin: Wouldn't think of it!
Merry: Why should we complain?
Pippin: Especially when we have the footage? Roll flashback!
Odd Narrator: And thus the company was entertained by all the footage from chapter 3, including multiple camera angles and scenes that didn't make the final cut. The hobbits added commentary on anything that wasn't coming across... especially interesting facts about orc hygiene and how long it takes bound hands to fall asleep.
Pippin: ... and if we can rewind here just a bit more... yes. Now frame advance... nice and slow ... yes! Right there! See? Grishnakh definitely got in that one last bum-grab before he got his head smashed in. I knew it... stinkin' pervert!
Merry: Well I suppose that's it! Unless anyone wants to see my fight scene again?
Aragorn and Gimli: NO!
Legolas: Note to self... never ask a hobbit about their adventures.
(RUSSELLBor)
Gimli: Then what happened?
Pippin: We got away.
Gimli: That's it? You got away?
Aragorn: Um, Gimli. . .
Pippin: Yup.
Gimli: But what about the ents and this mess and Saruman?
Aragorn: Gimli. I say. . .
Pippin: Oh! That. Well if you want to know,
Aragorn: Thanks Pippin, but really we've. . .
Pippin: So there we were. . .
Aragorn: hey look what I found, bet you're glad to have these back!
Pippin: Yeah, whatever, anyway. . .
Aragorn: But it's your sword and the brooch the lady gave you!
Pippin: Mmmhmm, cool, any way what I was saying was. . .
Aragorn: I just thought. . .
Merry: Shhh! Pip, tell them about how you cut your bonds.
Pippin: Oh that, well, if you must know. . .
Aragorn: That's alright I'd just as soon. . .
Gimili: Yes, cutting them was smart work!
Legolas: And set us a pretty riddle, boy I'll tell you what! We wondered of you two had grown wings and flew away!
Aragorn: sigh
Pippin: As if!. . . Ooooo! Something I ate isn't setting just right. Merry, you want to pick it up? I'll be back in a minute.
Later. . .
Merry: And so we wound up in the forest.
Aragorn: The end. Well, that's bad news about Saruman, but at least the story is finished!
Merry: Well. . .
Aragorn: I mean, it was a lovely story and you tell it so well, but. . .WHAT is that SMELL!?!?
[Pippin returns]
Merry: Anyway, so there we were, running for our lives through the woods when. . .
later. . .
Merry: . . .and then the forest felt like it freakin' exploded! And you should have heard their song as they marched!
Aragorn: Please don't. . .
Pippin: If Saruman had heard it he'd have wet his pants!
Aragorn: (face in his hands) How did it go.
Merry:
Oh mine eyes have seen the bearded, hoary, walking, talking trees,
They are marching off to Orthanc to bring Saruman to his knees,
They're a Hoomin' and a Hummin' and a floating on the breeze,
His tree's go marching on!
There was lots more, but it was all hoom-hoom this and hum-hum- that with a lot of doo-wahs and hey baby's hey baby's, but no real words.
Aragorn: Thank god.
Merry: Anyway, we wound up in Nan Curunir and it was dark already and really, really scary!
Gimli: Alright! The scary part is always my favorite!
Legolas: Yes, mine too! Especially when it's about bad-ass trees, the scarier the better!
Aragorn: You guys just won't leave well enough alone will you?
Merry: It felt like the forest it's self was moving behind us! Treebeard calls them Huorns in the "short language", but he doesn't talk about them much. He says that they used to be ents, but went all establishment on him, what ever that means. He said something about them joining something called the "silent majority" and other stuff, but they still have a lot of power in them once you get them roused!
Legolas: C'mon, get to the scary part!
Merry: It was a dark and cloudy night, and a wood had suddenly sprung up all around the north side of Isengard.
Pippin: (snicker)
Gimli: That must've been some wood!
Merry: (snicker) Oh aye, it was! But there was no sign of the enemy, just a light high in the tower! Treebeard and a few of the others snuck up on the great gates. Pippin and I were with him. We were sitting on. . .
Aragorn: Whoa, whoa, not so fast. So you are saying that several TREES. One of them bearing a pair of hobbits, SNUCK up on the gates of Isengard and nobody noticed?
Merry: Well, it was dark.
Aragorn: Dark? That's the best you can do? DARK?
Merry: Well it WAS dark! And I didn't write the damn thing, I'm just telling you how it went down! anyway, after that there was a great blast of trumpets and rolling of many drums and the whole host of Isengard poured out arrayed for battle. Orcs on foot, orcs on wolves, half orcs, quarter orcs, arabian and palamino orcs, wildmen and one guy with a sign that said "will kill whiteskins for food". He kind of reminded me of that southerner at Bree.
Aragorn: Yeah, we ran into a few of those at helm's deep. I figure he was probably a spy for Saruman, or Sauron or maybe the wildmen. My keen ranger senses. . .
Pippin: Ahem, I was speaking?
Aragorn: At length I might add. Well, go ahead, get on with it. Man, Gandalf and Elrond got nothing on hobbits!
(Thranduilion)
Pippin: Thank you. So the host left-
Merry: Singing and laughing-
Pippin: BWAH HAW HAW HAW HAW!
Merry: Right, like that-
Pippin: But Treebeard didn't move.
Merry: He said-
Pippin: "I'm here to deal with the Man today, and no armies of half-orcs will take me away from that!"
Merry: Booyah!
Pippin: When the host was gone all the Ents lined up outside the gates and held hands in a peace circle-
Merry: And started singing in their deep rumbling-
Pippin: and high fluting-
Merry: [TWEET!] -voices. Roll the flashback!
[flashback rolls]
Ents:
Ev'rybody's talking about
Wizardism, Orcism, Powerism, Ring-ism, Mordorism, Sarumism,
This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m.
All we are saying is give trees a chance!
All we are saying is give trees a chance!
Stones in the gates: Too much pressure! [TWEAK]
Ents:
C'mon
Ev'rybody's talking about Orthanc,
Rohanc, Men-Dwarf-Elf-hanc,
Uruks and Southern Orcs and Bad Wargs and Pink Eyes,
And bye bye, bye byes.
All we are saying is give trees a chance!
Gates: Ack, losing coherency! [CRUMBLE][CRASH][CRACK] moan...
[flashback ends]
Merry: When Saruman saw that-
Pippin: The little coward! [SNORK]
Merry: -he high-tailed it back to the tower with Quickbeam-
Pippin: POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
Merry: -hot on his tail. [snicker]
Aragorn: [ignoring][smoking] Sigh.
Pippin: Almost caught him, too-
Merry: But the artless bootless clay-brained bat-befowling beef-witted-
Pippin: -lumpish hedgeborn pox-marked rump-fed tottering-
Merry: -unmuzzled tardy-gaited weather-bitten ratsbane-
Pippin: -miscreant wizard got into his tower after all.
Merry: [deep breath] I'm getting tired. Let's roll the flashback again.
Pippin: Right on.
[flashback rolls Scene: Inside Isengard
Ents: roam roam destroy destroy
Saruman: wizardry wizardry
Machinery of Isengard: Spout spout! Flame flame! Torch torch! Ha ha, got you, Beechbone!
Beechbone: AIYEEEEE! burn burn torch torch die...
Other Ents: BROTHER BEECHBONE! NOOOOOOO!!!!
Quickbeam: We'll get you for this, you filthy White Wizard!
Ents: Rip rip tear tear hurl hurl hurl AVALANCHE!!!!
Orthanc stone: Ha ha, you can't get me, I'm to tough and strong for you! Neener neener neener!
Ents: Ow! bruise, bleed.
Treebeard [in a terrible booming voice that shakes the very foundations of the stone]: BROTHER ENTS!!!!
[tangible silence]
Treebeard: Thank you.
Young Ent [whispering]: How can silence be tangible?
Elder Ent: Sh! Treebeard's thinking!
Saruman: BWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HEE HEE HEE HEE HEEEE! [SNERF][CHOKE]
Ents: [cold silence]
Treebeard: mumblemumble humhoomhumhru oombala rumharm hroomhiem brala lamba hoooom
[much later]
Treebeard: andahoom hrem hoomraum heemhormhiiim ralathamana rumba
[much later still]
Treebeard: boom chakalaka boom hoom chakalaka boom hoom! Any questions?
Ents: No questions, brother Treebeard!
Treebeard: That's cool, man. Then let's get this show going, can you dig it?
(merithehobbit)
Legolas: So what was all the Hroomm hrroomm hoom and hurmming all about?
Pippin: Well we sure didn't know at the time...
Merry: You were looking for food as usual...
Pippin: So were you!
Merry: All the Ents went silently away, and we were at a loss to know what was happening.
Pippin: We think that they left a watch by the tower.. but we never saw them they were so still...
Merry: We heard lots of grinding and digging sounds.. mostly we just ate and talked all day...
Aragorn: Now that's a bold new concept!
Pippin: Well, it was hard work hiding from the creepy tower...[shudder]
Gimli: Then what happened?
Merry: Well, then Treebeard came back and said he was tired...
Pippin: He had been gathering the Isen water all day...he said he needed a stiff drink...
Merry: (snork) You said stiff..
Pippin: (snerk-pfff) Hey.. you just made my drink come out my nose.. HA HA HA!
Merry: (snork) Anyway... we were just jumping on the beds in the barracks.. to see which beds were the softest...
Pippin: No, that was earlier in the day.. we already decided those beds sucked.
Merry: Oh.. yea! Anyway.. we were trying to figure out where to sleep when a rider came galloping up the road...
Pippin: We were scared and lay quiet..
Merry: This shiny white rider came up...
Pippin: It was really weird.. I tried to say something.. but can you believe it?.. I was speechless!
Aragorn: Now that is amazing!
Gimli: A Hobbit speechless.. this better be good.
Merry: Well it is..
Pippin: It was Gandalf! I finally stuttered out "Gandalf" and he knew we were there and what do you think he said..
Merry: He didn't even say hello or anything...Or how do you do.. we thought he was long dead.. no greeting...
Pippin: Shhh. This is my part..
Merry: Oh.. sorry.
Pippin: Well.. he doesn't say Hullo Pip? How are you.. ask about the weather.. or even how we were or noticed the scar on Merry's head or nothing.. He just says "Get up you tom-fool of a Took!"
Gimli: BWHWAHAHAHAHAAA!
Legolas: snicker... snork
Aragorn: PHSHWWWHAAAAP (spits out ale all over) snork.
Gimli: I guess you weren't confused about whether it was Gandalf or not..
Legolas: That should be his pass word! "Fool of a Took!"
Pippin: Hey.. it was a rather annoying moment Okay?
Merry: Anyway.. he just wanted Treebeard... and quick.. rather hasty!
Pippin: snork... He was sure hasty.. I thought maybe Treebeard would be dizzy with the hurry Gandalf was in..
Merry: I think he has a recorder in one of his branches so he can play things back slowly.. it seemed to take him a while to figure out what all Gandalf had said...
Pippin: But then Gandalf at least came back and talked to us.
Merry: We asked him where he had been.. and if he had seen you guys....
Pippin: By then we were positive about it.. he still talks in that round about "I am not going to say everything" sort of way.. he is a hard read that Gandalf!
Merry: Then he left again.. and we just worried about you guys.. we heard about the big battle looming.. and wondered if we would ever meet again.
Aragorn: ZZZZZZ huh? Oh... That is very nice of you.
Legolas: How does he do that?
Gimli: What?
Legolas: Sleep and respond like he was awake!
Aragorn: I learned it in King school at Lothlorien...
Legolas: Oh.. man! I wanted to go there.. but my Dad made me go to Mirkwood Academy.. they don't have any royal trick training at all.
Aragorn: Well, at least I have a shot at a kingdom, whereas you don't!
Legolas: [scuffs shoe] Shuddup!
Gimli: It's okay Leggy... not everyone gets to be king...
Legolas: You're just saying that because you want me to feel better.
Gimli: Well, that and the fact that you are a little low on happy pills.. don't want you to get too down.
Merry: Hello! We are telling a story here!
Pippin: Men/Elves/Dwarves.. they just can't listen to a good story.
Aragorn: Maybe it is just that Treebeard rubbed off on you.. you are a tad long winded..
Pippin: Well, did they teach you tact in King school? Because I bet you had to pay the teacher to pass that one.
Merry: [high-five] Oh.. good zinger there Pip!
Pippin: Where was I?
Aragorn: (sigh) Gandalf and Treebeard just made plans to save the poor fighters out on the battlefield.
Pippin: Oh. Yes.. Well.. The air was hot and heavy....
(RUSSELLBor)
Pippin: ...and it was full of rustlings, creakings and a murmur as of many voices passing.
Merry: I thought it was the Huorns going off to help in the battle, but it was just Pip's stomach growling.
Pippin: Well I was hungry. Anyway, then the thunder and lightning started and around midnight it stopped.
Merry: Well, the lightning stopped, but as for the thunder. . .
Pippin: Hey, that was NOT me I tell ya! Anyway, about midnight, after the thundersorm had faded away, there was another thunder, NOT MINE!, coming from up in the hills behind us. The whole valley echoed. It hurt my ears.
Merry: And my nose!
Pippin: Hey!
Merry: I'm just saying. . .
Pippin: Too much!
Merry: Whatever.
Pippin: Then the Ents broke the dam and the waters began to pour into Isengard. The waters sank down through the holes in the ground and when they did there were great billows of smoke and steam.
Aragorn: We saw a clouds of smoke and steam from the south last night. We thought it was from Saruman's barbeque.
Pippin: Not his! By then he was probably weeping like a school girl. Well, we were hanging out in the guardroom over there when the lake began to over flow and run out through the old tunnel. Up and up the water rose. We were trapped! We had nowhere to go! Finally the water became so high that we. . .
Legolas: You what?
Gimli: Yes, yes, tell us!
Pippin: We...
Gimli: yes?
Pippin: We. . .
Legolas: Yes?
Pippin: We DROWNED! HAR! HAR! HAR! [slaps knee] You guy's are so easy!
Merry: HAR! HAR! HAR! Nice one Pip! [high fives]
Legolas: Hobbits! Sheesh!
Pippin: Hey, what the hell do you think happened? We climbed up until we were high enough to stay out of the flood! Dimwit!
Legolas: Why you, I oughta. . . .
Pippin: Dream on!
Legolas: Well this is one dream I'm about to make come true!
Merry: Alright, alright, just settle down! The point is that we are all here and everyone's okay. Now can't we all just get along?
Aragorn: Could you PLEASE finish this up!
Pippin: All right, don't get your panties in a bunch! Anyway, the water drained out, the river was returned to it's normal course and that is it the end! Happy now!?
Aragorn: Well, yes actually!
(Sevilodorf)
Legolas: I hate to even mention it but you do seem to have forgotten one little thing.
Gimli and Aragorn: No! No! Don't let them start another tale!!
Legolas: But it says right here in the script that I have to ask about Wormtongue.
Gimli: (grabs the script from Legolas and studies it carefully.) No it doesn't. It says I have to ask about Wormtongue.
Legolas: All right, then you ask.
Gimli: Do I have to?
PJ: It's in the script so just get it over with.
[Aragorn puts on his "I'm listening" and goes to sleep.]
Gimli: (shudders) What happened to Wormtongue?
Merry and Pippin: We thought you'd never ask.
[Look at each other and ... ]
(merithehobbit)
Pippin: Actually, I had forgotten about him...He got here just this morning.
Merry: Well, we had lit a toasty little fire, had breakfast and...
Aragorn: Wouldn't want to leave that part out...
Pippin: If you want to know it was sausages with some taters.. ummmmm they fried up real nice...
Aragorn: ANYWAY...[closes eyes again]
Merry: Well Treebeard came Hoom, hrumming over to us and told us to watch for folks coming up from the South that we may be happy to see...and just then...
Pippin: Up comes the sound of hooves...and we thought for sure we'd see you guys.. but NOOOOO..
Merry: Here comes this lone rider on a purple horse..
Pippin: It wasn't purple.. it was green.
Merry: Well, it was purple, then green then yellow and then orange..
Legolas: What kind of horse changes colors like the rainbow?
Pippin: It was the legendary "Horse of a different color" (snork)...heh..heh......heh?? Oh.. forget it..
Gimli: SO?
Merry: Oh.. up comes this guy, his horse was actually Grey and old and this guy is all slimy looking and I swear he looked green..
Pippin: You should've seen his face when he saw the big booger... it got even greener.. I think he has a blood disorder.. he looks really bad...
Merry: So Treebeard comes over and he literally pees his pants... I really have never seen a person do that.. he was all wet from the crotch down.. he starts groveling..
Pippin: And he seemed well skilled in groveling..
Merry: And he said he was sent from the King with an important message for Saruman...
Pippin: Then he tries to act all brave.. after he is wet himself... and said that only he was brave enough to ride through the open land full of Orcs...We couldn't stop laughing...it was probably quite irritating!
Aragorn: Ya think?
Merry: He was such a liar..
Pippin: Oh yes.. all the time he had that sneaky sort of glancy thing going on..
Gimli: Glancy thing?
Pippin: You know when people won't look you in the eye, they just glance all around... Kind of like you do a lot.. but you don't do it in a sneaky sort of way..
Gimli: Hrumph. [glances away]
Merry: Well, so Treebeard calls his bluff and tells him Gandalf already beat him.. but let him go inside the gate.. and he got all chicken and wanted to leave.
Pippin: But Treebeard wouldn't let him... He said he could stay and wait for Gandalf or cross the water and go to Saruman.
Merry: And he says he can't swim.. but Treebeard told him it wasn't deep.. just dirty and then he said something funny...
Pippin: Oh.. he said It's dirty, but probably cleaner than you are..
Merry: Snork... No.. he said It's dirty, but not as dirty as your mind...
Pippin: Snicker... No, he said It's dirty, but better than your breath.
Aragorn: ANYWAY... We got the picture... go on..[closes eyes again]
Merry: Well, he sort of slogs across the water, sometimes falling in, and Treebeard watched him the whole way.. wouldn't want him to drown.. OSHA and all just standing off set...
Pippin: And then I guess Saruman just dragged the weasel into the tower.. we missed it.... I was cooking up some bread and cheese for Elevensies...
Aragorn: Naturally...
Merry: No.. it was closer to Second Breakfast...
Legolas: My ears hurt!
Gimli: Here... lookie what I found young hobbits.. some mushrooms Legolas found when we stopped to pee...
Merry & Pippin: Mushrooms?
Legolas: Yes, we got them for you, just in case we should ever meet again.. [piles them on plates] knowing you would've suffered.[hands them forks] because we were so worried [starts stuffing them in Pippin and Merry's mouth] Yes.. THAT should do it.. [smiles and walks off a little way]
Aragorn: Blessed silence...
Gimli: Peace and Quiet
Legolas: Isn't it nice when you are comfortable enough with someone that you don't feel like you have to speak...
Aragorn & Gimli: Shhhh..
Merry & Pippin: Chomp, chomp, chomp, yum, lick, chomp, smack, chomp..
(BunnieBugs)
[Some while and two empty plates later...]
Pippin: Thanks, Gimli! Those were smashing!
Gimli: Smashing? Smashing what?
Pippin: Smashing mushrooms.
Merry: Weren't they a rock band?
Pippin: No, they were pumpkins.
Legolas: What? What were pumpkins?
Gimli: The mushrooms were pumpkins?
Aragorn: IS THIS GOING ANYWHERE?
Pippin: Not until I ask you a question...
Aragorn: (sigh) What is it?
Pippin: Who is this Wormtongue guy, anyway?
Aragorn: He was the king's counselor, and moonlighted as Saruman's spy and lap-dog. It's a pretty safe bet that whatever happens to him in there is well-deserved.
Merry: Treebeard did seem sort of pleased about the whole thing when he left for his bath and drink. About that time we started searching about for provisions for luncheon, and we found three store-rooms full...
Pippin: But the Ents came and carried off most of it! Can you believe it? They didn't even care that I'd called "dibs" on it!
Aragorn: (yawning) The nerve...
Merry: Anyway, they took what they called "man-food" for twenty-five, but it was pretty much the same as what you just had. Except for the booze! They didn't get any booze...
Pippin: Poor blighters had to make do with water.
Merry: I hope Treebeard mixed up some of that Kool-aid for them!
Pippin: [snork] Yeah! I'd love to see them all sprouting feathers... especially old Gandalf!
[Merry and Pippin momentarily dissolve into giggles...]
Merry: So, to make a long story short...
Aragorn: TOO LATE!
Merry: ...Pippin found the Hornblower barrels during our search for food. And he says, 'Pipe-weed is better after food...'
Gimli: Naturally!
Pippin: Well, it is!
Gimli: How would you know? There's nothing you do that isn't just after food!
Merry: He's got a point there, Pip.
Pippin: I get no respect!
Merry: So we treated ourselves to a little something...
Gimli: HA!!
Merry: Ahem... and a well-deserved rest. Which is when you all arrived.
Aragorn: One thing I don't get...
Legolas: Only one?
Aragorn: (ignores him) What is pipe-weed doing in Isengard?
Pippin: Floating around, mostly...
Aragorn: No, I mean, why is it here? There's no trade between the Shire and Isengard. Something's fishy...
Merry: No, I'm sure the barrels were tightly sealed...
Aragorn: Argh! No! I mean Saruman's been messing with the Shire, too! There's something shady going on here...
Pippin: But the sun's not even out...
Aragorn: [throws his hands in the air] Oh, I give up! [walks away]
Merry: Geez, what's up with him?
Pippin: I don't know, but I'm getting a wee bit hungry again... Now, where'd those brownies get to...?