[DaughterofVana]

And here is the <A HREF="http://movieprojectonline.tripod.com/scripts/Lord_Of_The_Rings.txt" TARGET=_blank>FotR script in screenplay format</A>. I think it's identical to the above, but easier to read. Only problem is, there's no elvish. But there are plenty of other sites for that. <P>EDIT: <P>Read over it again. Some might be stuck on the "bare bones" of a movie screenplay, and don't really know that that's how it's supposed to be. There isn't supposed to be a lot of clumsy transitions and scene description. Even though that's cool to read, the screenwriter isn't in charge of those things, anyway, unless he's both the screenwriter AND the director. All the screenwriter does is write down the story, and the director adds in the little flares that makes a movie a "movie" (or a Movie, if you perfer). <P>Like the part with Galadriel. It does not say that the Lady speaks mind-to-mind with Frodo in some scenes, only that she and the hobbit exchange words. This is to give the director flexibility. Also, when unnamed characters speak (the Uruk-hai, the hobbits at Bilbo's party) they are not given seperate lines under the heading of "Uruk-hai or "Proudfoot." They are just listed as "action lines" flush with the left margin.<P>What about all those WORDS in CAPS? Major objects and important actions (sometimes sounds) are capitalized. This is to accomidate ease in reading for the propmasters/actors/production staff. Kind of annoying after a while, but that's how it goes.<P>Note: my link isn't the true screenplay from the movie. It was written in screenplay format by a person watching the movie. Therefore, certain innacuracies will occur. ("Balin, son of Hrundin" and the gender of the old hobbit during the cart-ride scene at the beginning of the movie)<P>Anyone else curious about screenplay format? PM me. This has gotten long enough. <P>-'Vana<p>[ March 04, 2003: Message edited by: DaughterofVana ]