Dialogue or scene note, The One Ring edition

Coming from a dream imagining the Fellowship of the Ring (very much the Peter Jackson version, with Gandalf the White out of sequence) defending a tower in a marsh under a murky orange-brown sky.

After a demand to release some prisoners, the orc army below them fires a catapult containing a prisoner. Splat.

Gandalf looks down gravely.

“You have made your point. Now let us make ours.”

He nods to Legolas, who shoots an arrow at the orc who pulled the lever. The orc runs. He stops and looks back when it lands behind him and smirks. And takes a second arrow right in the face.