Kura

Summon the legions. It is time.

Our enemy vows to attack.

Who among you will stand and fight?

You will die.

Long have I awaited this day.

I pledge my loyalty to Sauron.

Half of us just left.

But half stayed.

Why wasn't I chosen for the expedition?

Thought you were going west.

Not till I've done something worthy of Númenor.

I have just convinced Númenor to send five ships

and 500 men to aid your people

and place a crown upon your head.

You are asking me to go to the one place that I swore never to return.

Why do you keep fighting?

Because I cannot stop.

Come with me, and together we will redeem both our bloodlines.

We head nor'-east.

- For Middle-earth. -

- -

It is no sword. It is a power.

Have you heard of Sauron?

I've seen this before.

It is a key.

The enemy commander spoke of giving the Orcs a home in these lands.

Whatever his design, this much is certain.

Our enemy knows your son has what he needs to enact it.

How long?

Maybe hours.

New life.

In defiance of death.

My children,

we have endured much.

We cast off our shackles.

Crossed mountain, field,

frost, and fallow

till our feet bloodied the dirt.

From Ered Mithrin to the Ephel Arnen,

we have endured.

Yet tonight, one more trial awaits us.

Our enemy may be weak, their numbers meager...

...yet before this night is through, some of us will fall.

But for the first time, you do so

not as unnamed slaves in far-away lands,

but as brothers.

As brothers and sisters in our home!

Nampat.

Nampat! Nampat!

This is the night

- we reach out the iron hand of the Uruk... Nampat! Nampat!

...and close our fist around these lands.

- Nampat!

Nampat!

Nampat!

Nampat!

Search it.

All of you! Fan out! Find them!

Meaning no offense, Lord-father, but where is he?

What happened to Sauron?

Can't find tooth nor tail of him. Must've got smart and scarpered.

No. The Elf's here.

I smell him.

Yes, Father.

Up here!

Bring him down!

Get out, now!

- -

Open that door!

- -

Get out!

Lord-father! You must move now!

You must move!

How many of 'em could have survived that?

How long do we have?

Not long enough.

Come on, we have to make ready the village.

- -

- -

Easy, Berek. Easy, boy.

Hoist it up!

- -

I thought all soldiers were to be abed.

Pardon me, Commander. I... I was only...

Hoping to get the first sight of land?

At ease.

It'll be visible to your eyes in a few moments.

Is it visible to yours already?

Has been for nearly an hour.

Keen are the eyes of the Elves.

And yet, mine have not before seen you.

Swinging steel nor flying sail.

What is your rank?

Stable sweep.

Despise not the labor which humbles the heart.

Humility has saved entire kingdoms the proud have all but led to ruin.

I did not join this expedition to be humbled, Commander.

Then for what did you join, soldier?

I was just trying to get away.

As far as I could from that place.

Númenor?

It's not Númenor.

Not the real Númenor, anyway.

If it ever existed.

It existed.

It exists still...

If only in the heart of the lowliest stable sweep.

It's Isildur.

I might have known.

You have the look of your father.

I was always told I look more like my mother.

Soldier.

Captain.

His mother...

What happened to her?

It is strange.

Most of my life, I've looked east to see the Sun rise over the sea.

And west to see it set over the land.

We're sailing into the dawn, and yet, to me,

it feels like the coming of night.

She drowned.

Land has been sighted, Your Majesty.

QUEEN MÍRIEL: How long before we make anchor?

It's a full day's sail into the mountains.

And from there, another day's ride east into the vale.

Signal the other ships.

Tell them to make all possible haste.

- -

It is beyond our skill to destroy.

Where will you hide it?

No one must know.

Not even you.

Our enemy has been sighted.

We survived them before.

Now we must do so again.

Tonight.

Our position gives us an advantage.

But to use it, we must draw the enemy in close.

We must wait until every last Orc

has crossed that bridge to spring our attack.

This will test your nerve.

Let it.

All who cannot fight will be barricaded inside.

This is to be our keep. Our fallback point.

Take heart. All of you. -

I have seen smaller armies defeat greater foes.

Soon, the sun will set.

Do your part, and I swear to you, you shall see it rise again.

- Do you believe it? Aye.

- Do you believe it? - Aye!

To your positions.

What about me?

Tavern.

Tavern's for wounded and children. I can fight.

I know you can.

Which is why I need you in there, protecting those who cannot.

Come.

Remember when I was little... When I used to have bad dreams?

I remember.

You remember what you used to say?

When you would hold me in the dark?

Would you say it to me now?

"In the end, this shadow is but a small and passing thing.

"There is light and high beauty

"forever beyond its reach.

"Find the light...