So we start out with Gandalf's plunge and go immediately to Frodo and Sam! - How neat! - That is just what I would do! - I always find myself rushing through TTT to get news of Frodo and Sam which doesn't come until halfway through the book... Looks like the movie is running the stories concurently and jumping back and forth. I will like that!
7. The Black Gate is Closed...
`Well, here we are! ' said Sam. `Here's the Gate, and it looks to me as if that's about as far as we are ever going to get. My word, but the Gaffer would have a thing or two to say, if he saw me now! Often said I'd come to a bad end, if I didn't watch my step, he did. But now I don't suppose I'll ever see the old fellow again. He'll miss his chance of I told'ee so, Sam: more's the pity. He could go on telling me as long as he'd got breath, if only I could see his old face again. But I'd have to get a wash first, or he wouldn't know me.`I suppose it's no good asking "what way do we go now?" We can't go no further-unless we want to ask the orcs for a lift.'
`No, no! ' said Gollum. `No use. We can't go further. Sméagol said so. He said: we'll go to the Gate, and then we'll see. And we do see. O yes. my precious, we do see. Sméagol knew hobbits could not go this way. O yes. Sméagol knew '
'Then what the plague did you bring us here for? ' said Sam, not feeling in the mood to be just or reasonable.
`Master said so. Master says: Bring us to the Gate. So good Sméagol does so. Master said so, wise master.'
'I did,' said Frodo. His face was grim and set. but resolute. He was filthy, haggard, and pinched with weariness, but he cowered no longer, and his eyes were clear. `I said so, because I purpose to enter Mordor, and I know no other way. Therefore I shall go this way. I do not ask anyone to go with me.