Projet ANGLAIS Exposé Subject : Lord of the Rings : The Journey Intro : S : Speaker : Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Black Box Catalog / l’écrire au tableau -Today we come to you, at the turn of the tide, for a special broadcast about the best movies ever, taken from the great books that became a legend, a bible for the fans. I mean, of course, the LORD OF THE RINGS. -And, especially for our fans, today, we invited the whole fellowship, along with some special guests. -And for the heretics who didn’t see the movies or didn’t read the books, take attention to what is going to be said here. -Frodo, you may start, whenever you want, but i’m sure our viewer would prefer that you start from the beginning of the story.
1/ Frodo : Acquisition de l'anneau -T : Frodo : Well, everything started when Bilbo, my uncle, found... well, stole the ring from a creature called gollum on his journey. -Bilbo told noone about this and kept the ring for more than 50 years, until he left the shire and gave it to me. -Gandalf the grey, a powerful wizard and a friend of mine, discovered that it was the One ring, crafted by Sauron, the evil lord, to enslave the whole middle earth, and that the black riders, servants of the ring, may come to recover it. -So I decided to flee, and Sam, my friend and gardener, decided to join me. -On the way to Bree, we met Merry and Pippin, two friends and courageous hobbits, and we barely escaped the black riders -When arrived to Bree, to the inn called “ the fancing pony” we discovered that gandalf, supposed to meet us here, wasn’t. -Trying to find what to do, a guy who looked like an homeless helped us.
2/ Strider (Aragorn) -S : Aragorn : Hey, who are you calling homeless, you little folk :) Well, I was a friend of gandalf, and I discovered that frodo were carrying the One ring and that they were chased by the nazgul, the servant of the ring, who were once proud kings of men. -Then I decided to escort them to rivendell, the land of elves, to seek their wisdom.
-T : Pippin : Oh yea, I remember that, you were starving us, we missed so much lunches that I couldn’t even count them, we only had ONE breakfast, and three lunches per days, and we missed the second breakfast, the elevenses, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner, and supper, aaah, the very fact of reminding it cause me pain =(
-S : Aragorn : May I continue, young hobbit? /regard appuyé During our travel, we were attacked by the nine servants, frodo were wounded and while we were searching for a way to heal him, Arwen appeared
3/ Arwen -T : Arwen : It was a race against time, frodo needed the medicine of the elves, and we were far away from rivendell, so I took frodo with me and rode at full speed to rivendell, closely followed by the nazgul, who were stopped at the river by the power of the elves, frodo were saved !
-S : Speaker: Okay, thanks arwen, you can now go sit, you won’t be needed anymore
4/ Gandalf -S : Speaker :Frodo, do you know why Gandalf missed the "Rendez Vous" ? -T : Gandalf : Because I was betrayed by my friend Saruman the White, who jailed me into Isengard's Tower : Orthanc. But I could flee to come here to Rivendell
-S : Speaker :You mean a member of the Wizard's council committed betrayal ?! This is Blasphemy Gandalf, this is Madness ! -T : Gandalf : Madness ? This is MiddleEarth !!
5/ Council of Elrond -S : Speaker : ok ok, anyway, you’re late, Gandalf, we already started the review of your journey -T : Gandalf : A wizard is never late, nor he is early. He arrives precisely when he means to.
-S : Speaker : ….........................Sooooo, As soon as frodo healed, Elrond the ruler of rivendell, called representatives from each races in middle-earth to form a council and decide what to do with the ring -During the talks, we learned that Strider’s real name was aragorn, and he was actually the heir of Isildur, the king of Gondor 3 thousand years ago, the same Isildur who defeated sauron and took the One ring from his hand. -Boromir, son of the current steward of gondor, wanted the ring to protect the gondor and defeat Sauron. Gimli even tried to destroy the ring, but his axe broke. -T : Elrond : "You hear that Mr. Anderson?... This is the sound of your death... Goodbye, Mr. Anderson... "
-S : Speaker : Ahem... -T : Elrond : Owh, My bad, wrong movie... “I already said that during the council, but the ring cannot be destroyed, by any craft that we here possess. The ring was made in the fires of Mount Doom. Only there can it be unmade. The ring must be taken deep into Mordor and cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came.”
-S : Speaker : So the council decided to form the “the fellowship of the ring” with 4 hobbits (frodo, merry, pippin and sam), legolas (an elve), gimli (a dwarf), gandalf the grey, boromir and aragorn. for more details feel free to buy the extended version of lotr in blu-ray, available in pre-order on amazon :D
-6/ Gandalf -S : Speaker : So yea, the fellowship was created, but what happened next? Gandalf, would you tell us ? -T : Gandalf : The fellowship started its journey, we planned to go to Mordor trough Rohan, but the roads were heavily guarded, thus we decided to try to climb the mountain of Karadras, but this plan was a failure, thanks to Saruman and his spells. -So, we were looking for another plan, and our dear dwarf had another super awesome idea...
-S : Gimli : Yep, I clearly remember saying: “If anyone was to ask for my opinion, which I note they're not, I'd say we were taking the long way around, If we cannot pass over the mountain, let us go under it. Let us go through the mines of Moria. -T : Gandalf : Thanks gimli, so, following his brilliant idea, we went to the moria to discover that every dwarfs died, killed by goblins. We tried to sneak out, but we failed and were soon chased by an army of goblins and a balrog, an evil creature from the dark ages. The fellowship managed to outrun them, at the cost of my life /sadface
-S : Speaker : Well, since gandalf is now dead... Aragorn, would you continue please ? T : Aragorn : Of couse ! After gandalf’s death, we were sheltered by the elves who lent us boats to continue our journey, but we were attacked by the uruk-ai of Saruman, the traitor, and then frodo and sam went alone to mordor, while we, gimli, legolas and I, went to rescue merry and pippin, who were captured ..................................... Oh yes, by the way, boromir died, ahah.
7/ The Twin Tower -S : Speaker : Aww, poor boromir. well, not to be boring, i'll quickly sum up what happened to the two groups: -First: Frodo and sam went trough a maze of rocks, where they met Gollum, the former owner of the One ring, Frodo managed to tame him, and gollum led them trough the maze and the swamp, to finally trap them into the nest of a giant spider. -Ahh, gollum, it’s a pity bilbo didn’t kill him when he had the chance...
-T : Gandalf : Pity? It was pity that stayed bilbo’s hand. Many that live deserve death, and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? No, so do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement, even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart told me that Gollum had some part to play yet, for good or ill. And I was right, so the pity of bilbo ruled the fate of many.
-S : Speaker : Err, weren’t you dead ? And meanwhile, in rohan, Aragorn and his two friends chased the urukai, but met Gandalf, who were not dead ! He was now gandalf the white ! / ajouter gandalf the white au tableau -T : Gandalf : When i’m dead, I just stop being dead and be awesome instead, true story.
-S : Speaker : At this time, they were sure that the two hobbits were safe, they decided to help the Rohan, which was attacked by Saruman and his army of OVER NINE THOUSAND urukais. The king of Rohan reluctantly accepted the help and retreated to helm’s deep where the final battle were about to begin. -After one night of fights, several thousand of deads and a draw in the death-contest between Legolas and Gimli, unexpected reinforcement for the rohan came and ended the battle. With the help of the Ent, the shepherds of the forest, saruman was defeated. -T : Gandalf: Then I rode with pippin to Gondor, to warn them that a war were about to begin. But the steward of gondor, Denethor, refused to listen to us, and were mourning the loss of his son, boromir. -I had to lead everything by myself, pippin sought help from the rohan in the form of a long line of beacon signals. This coward of a steward then killed himself, as the armies of mordor besieged the city.
-S : Aragorn : In rohan, we saw the signal and began the preparations to march to gondor, while the rohan rode to gondor, I took another path, called the path of the dead, where, thanks to my lineage, I acquired the help of an army of ghosts, called the army of the dead. Then we rushed by sea to minas tirith, the capital of gondor and the place of the battle between gondor and mordor. Thanks to the army of the dead and another contest between legolas and gimli (/sigh) we barely managed to win this battle. -T : Gandalf : I even fought the leader of the nazgul, the witchking of Angmar
-S : Speaker : Meanwhile, on frodo’s side... bah, who care about frodo anyway... sam defeated the giant spider and they continued their journey to mount doom. -T : Gandalf : Yea... well … with the remaining forces, we launched an attack on the black gates, to distract sauron’s eye and give frodo an opportunity to sneak in mount doom.
-S : Frodo : Hey hey, it’s my turn now ! With the help of sam, We defeated the spider and we went to mount doom, fought with gollum, and finally managed
to throw the ring into the lava. And gollum even tried to swim in it in order to take the ring, but, well, you know, you can’t swim in lava cuz it’s hot, so gollum died, ahah. -T : Sam : Serves him right, ahah!
-S : Speaker : With the ring destroyed, Sauron cannot live anymore, and the middle earth were saved. BUT, was all of this really needed? I mean, this whole journey. We have here an exclusive document provided by an anonymous source, proving that there were another way, far easier: /VIDEO -T : Gandalf : Oh. My. G...andalf. we did not think about this, HEY did you see that, boromir? ahahahah.
-S : Speaker : And now, dear public, thanks for your attention. If you have any question for us or for the fellowship, feel free to ask. -Don’t forget to pre-order the extended version on blu-ray ! THE END(not to be continued)
