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and takes Ring. Frodo falls flat.
Here perhaps Sam comes up, beats off a vulture and hurls himself
and Gollum into the gulf?

Subsequently in this same outline is found:

They escape [from Minas Morgol] but Gollum follows.
It is Sam that wrestles with Gollum and [?throws] him finally in
the gulf.

Not long after this, in the outline 'The Story Foreseen from Lorien'
(VII.344), my father noted that 'Sam must fall out somehow' (presum-
ably at the beginning of the ascent of Mount Doom) and that Frodo
went up the mountain alone:

Sam must fall out somehow. Stumble and break leg: thinks it is a
crack in ground - really Gollum. [?Makes ?Make] Frodo go on
alone.
Frodo toils up Mount Doom. Earth quakes, the ground is hot.
There is a narrow path winding up. Three fissures. Near summit
there is Sauron's Fire-well. An opening in side of mountain leads
into a chamber the floor of which is split asunder by a cleft.
Frodo turns and looks North-west, sees the dust of battle. Faint
sound of horn. This is Windbeam the Horn of Elendil blown only in
extremity.
Birds circle over. Feet behind.

Since the publication of The Treason of Isengard there has come to
light an outline that is obviously closely related to this passage from
'The Story Foreseen from Lorien' (which does not necessarily mean
that it belongs to the same time) but is very much fuller. This I will
refer to as I. The opening sentences were added at the head of the page
but belong with the writing of the text.

(I) Sam falls and hurts leg (really tripped by Gollum). Frodo has to
go alone. (Gollum leaps on Sam as soon as Frodo is away.)

Frodo toils on alone up slope of Mt.Doom. Earth quakes; the
ground becomes hot. There is a narrow path winding up. It crosses
one great fissure by a dreadful bridge. (There are three fissures
(W. S. E.).) Near the summit is 'Sauron's Fire-well'. The path enters
an opening in the side of the Mt. and leads into a low chamber, the
floor of which is split by a profound fissure. Frodo turns back. He
looks NW and sees dust and smoke of battle? (Sound of horn - the
Horn of Elendil?) Suddenly he sees birds circling above: they come
down and he realizes that they are Nazgul! He crouches in the
chamber-opening but still dare not enter. He hears feet coming up
the path.