 QuackingTroll Valinor  Dec 30 2012, 1:41pm Views: 1347 |
(I've got a more detailed idea, but here's the basic jist) 1) We start with Sam gardening in Bag End 2) Sick-looking Frodo comes out and says to Sam that he doesn't need to garden anymore, but Sam explains he enjoys it. 3) Frodo goes to the letter box - his shoulder hurts. Sam asks "What's wrong?" Frodo replies "it's nothing" and looks at his letters. 4) Frodo finds a letter from Bilbo (from Rivendell). After telling Sam how much he misses Bilbo, he reads the letter and looks sadly at Sam. 5) He explains to Sam that Bilbo has been chosen, because of his adventures, to take the last ship into Valinor and that they are to see him off. Frodo looks upset and goes inside. 6) Inside Frodo looks through his things, he goes into the study and sees The Red Book. In the front cover he discovers a note. 7) He reads -Holm Narrates- "My Dear Frodo, you asked me once... ...But now it's time for you to hear the full tale" 8) He looks at the book and skips "Concerning Hobbits" to get to "Chapter One" and reads -Holm narrates- "It began long ago in a land the like of which you will not find in the world today...". The camera pulls back from Frodo at his desk (exactly as it does with Holm in AUJ) to imply the flash-back. 9) After the epic dwarf prologue we go to a busy Hobbiton "...and that's where I come into the tale..." The camera moves through Hobbiton and up to Bag End as he says "...It began as you might expect, In a hole in the ground..." 10) On the line "...and all the comforts of home" We see Freeman's Bilbo (although not his face) shuffling around his house, a little OCDish, gathering his pipe and tobacco and going outside to smoke. He inhales deeply and we see a smoke-ring come out and the title. 11) The smoke ring turns into a butterfly and we finally see Bilbo's face revealed and the story begins. Then, of course, toward the end of RotK the camera pulls back toward Frodo at his desk again, now implying the flashback has ended. Sam walks in and says "what is it?" and Frodo says the wound hasn't healed. In the next scene they go to see Bilbo off  The party preparation scene and the running off to meet Gandalf (which doesn't actually make sense?) could then be included as the last scene of TABA to merge TH seamlessly with FotR. Tada! Unfortunately, I'm a terrible writer, but I do understand movies and pacing. IMO, not only does this make more sense, and create a better circle. It's also far better paced than the intro we got and also helps to split-up the endings of RotK, because the audience won't be expecting it to end until they've seen the second half of the flashback. |
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