13. Treebeard
[The hobbits run in to the forest. They collapse onto the ground, panting.]
Pippin: "Did we lose him? I think we lost him."
[Grishnák bursts through the branches.]
Grishnák: "I'm gonna rip off your filthy little heads! Come here!"
Merry: "Trees! Climb a tree!"
[The hobbits climb. Merry looks around and then sighs in relief.]
Merry: "He's gone."
[Merry is pulled by his legs and falls to the ground. Grishnák leans over him. Merry tries to kick him off.]
Pippin: "Merry!"
[Pippin looks down and as he turns his head, he sees a pair of gleaming yellow eyes blinking in the tree.]
[The tree then starts to move.]
Pippin: "Argh!"
[Pippin loses his grip and falls. The tree catches him before he hits the ground.]
Grishnák: "Let's put a maggot hole in your belly."
[The tree stomps and squashes the orc.]
Pippin: "Run Merry!"
[Merry tries to run away but is scooped by the tree.]
Tree: "Little orcs! Búrarum."
[The tree starts to walk.]
Pippin: "It's talking Merry. The tree is talking."
Tree: "Tree! I am no tree! I am an Ent."
Merry: "Treeherder! A shepherd of the forest."
Pippin: "Don't talk to it Merry. Don't encourage it."
Tree: "Treebeard some call me."
Pippin: "And whose side are you on?"
Treebeard: "Side? I am on nobody's side. Because nobody is on my side, little orc."
Treebeard: "Nobody cares for the woods anymore."
Merry: "We are not orcs. We are Hobbits!"
Treebeard: "Hobbits? Never heard of a Hobbit before. Sounds like orc mischief to me."
[He strengthens his hold on the hobbits.]
Treebeard: "They come with fire, they come with axes. Biting, breaking, hacking, burning. Destroyers and usurpers. Curse them!"
Merry: "No! You don't understand. We are Hobbits, halflings. Shirefolk!"
Treebeard: "Maybe you are, and maybe you aren't. The White Wizard will know."
Pippin: "White Wizard?"
Merry: "Saruman!"
[Treebeard drops them on the ground and the Hobbits look up at a White Wizard.]
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