This first:
Bilbo: So there I was, at the mercy of three monstrous trolls! And they were all arguing amongst themselves about how they were going to cook us, whether it be turned on a spit or whether they should sit on us one by one and squash us into jelly. They spent so much time arguing the wither-tos and why-fors, that when the sun’s first light cracked over the top of the trees and poof!
Hobbit Children: (gasps)
Bilbo: And turned them all to stone!
*Merry and Pippin enters the scene*
*Gandalf lights some fireworks*
(Pippin shows a firework to Merry)
Merry: No, no the big one, big one
(Pippin finds one shaped as a large dragon. Merry gasps and nods. Pippin jumps down from the carriage, and into the tent beside it. Merry follows. Inside the tent, they light up the firework)
Pippin: Done.
Merry: You’re supposed to stick it in the ground!
(Merry pushes the firework onto Pippin)
Pippin: It is in the ground.
(Pippin pushes it to Merry)
Merry: Outside!
(Merry pushes it back to Pippin)
Pippin: It was your idea!
*The dragon firework "exploded"*
*Then enters dileno's scene Meriadoc Brandybuck, etc..*
Then...
Hobbits: Speech Bilbo! Speech!
Bilbo: My dear Bagginses and Boffins!, Tooks and Brandybucks!, Grubbs...Chubbs, Hornblowers! Bolgers, Bracegirdles, and Proudfoots!
Everard: Proudfeet!
Bilbo: Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday!
Hobbits: Happy birthday!
Bilbo: Alas, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable Hobbits. I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
Bilbo: I, uh, I h-have things to do. (whispers to himself) I’ve put this off for far too long. (To the crowd) I regret to announce this is the end. I am going now. I bid you all a very fond farewell. Goodbye.
*Bilbo disappears* 😉
Continue.
Bilbo: Hahahahaha! (Flips the ring into the air and catches it in his pocket)
Gandalf: I suppose you think that was terribly clever.
Bilbo: Come on Gandalf! Did you see their faces?
Gandalf: There are many magic rings in this world Bilbo Baggins and none of them should be used lightly.
Bilbo: It was just a bit of fun, oh you’re probably right as usual. You will keep an eye on Frodo, won’t you?
Gandalf: Two eyes, as often as I can spare them.
Bilbo: I’m leaving everything to him.
Gandalf: What about this ring of yours, is that staying too?
Bilbo: Yes yes. It’s in an envelope over there on the mantelpiece.
Bilbo: No, wait, its --here in my pocket. Heh, Isn’t that, isn’t that odd though? Yet, after all why not? Why shouldn’t I keep it?
Gandalf: I think you should leave the ring behind, Bilbo. Is that so hard?
Bilbo: Well no… and yes! Now it comes to it, I don’t feel like parting with it, its mine, I found it, it came to me!
Gandalf: There’s no need to get angry.
Bilbo: Well if I’m angry it’s your fault! Its mine, my own, my precious.
Gandalf: Precious? It’s been called that before, but not by you.
Bilbo: Argh! What business is it of yours what I do with my own things!
Gandalf: I think you’ve had that ring quite long enough.
Bilbo: You want it for yourself!
Gandalf: Bilbo Baggins! Do not take me for some conjurer of cheap tricks, I am not trying to rob you. I’m trying to help you.
(Bilbo goes to Gandalf)
Gandalf: All your long years we’ve been friends. Trust me as you once did, hmm? Let it go.
Bilbo: You’re right Gandalf the ring must go to Frodo. It’s late, the road is long, Yes, it is time.
(Bilbo the door opens)
Gandalf: Bilbo…
Bilbo: Hmm?
Gandalf: …the ring is still in your pocket.
Bilbo: Oh, yes…
(Bilbo takes the ring out of his pocket and looks at the ring , he seems reluctant to let it go, he tilts his hand and lets the ring fall to the ground with a thud, a great weight seems to have been lifted off him.)
(Bilbo the out then stops door, runs)
Bilbo: I’ve thought of an ending for my book – and he lived happily ever after…to the end of his days.
Gandalf: And I’m sure you will my dear friend.
Bilbo: Good bye, Gandalf.
Gandalf: Good bye, dear Bilbo.
Bilbo: (singing) The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began…
Gandalf: Till our next meeting.
😉
CONTINUE