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At same moment Frodo suddenly feels, many times multiplied,
the impact of the (unseen) searching eye; and of the enchantment of
the Ring. He does not wish to enter chamber or to throw away the
Ring. He hears or feels a deep, slow, but urgently persuasive voice
speaking: offering him life, peace, honour: rich reward: lordship:
power: finally a share in the Great Power - if he will stay and go
back with a Ring Wraith to Baraddur. This actually terrifies him. He
remains immovably balanced between resistance and yielding, tor-
mented, it seems to him a timeless, countless, age. Then suddenly a
new thought arose - not from outside - a thought born inside
himself: he would keep the Ring himself, and be master of all. Frodo
King of Kings. Hobbits should rule (of course he would not let
down his friends) and Frodo rule hobbits. He would make great
poems and sing great songs, and all the earth should blossom, and
all should be bidden to his feasts. He puts on the Ring! A great cry
rings out. Nazgul come swooping down from the North. The Eye
becomes suddenly like a beam of fire stabbing sheer and sharp out
of the northern smoke. He struggles now to take off the Ring - and
fails.
The Nazgul come circling down - ever nearer. With no clear
purpose Frodo withdraws into the chamber. Fire boils in the Crack
of Doom. All goes dark and Frodo falls to his knees.
At that moment Gollum arrives, panting, and grabs Frodo and
the Ring. They fight fiercely on the very brink of the chasm. Gollum
breaks Frodo's finger and gets Ring. Frodo falls in a swoon. Sam
crawls in while Gollum is dancing in glee and suddenly pushes
Gollum into the crack.
Fall of Mordor.

Perhaps better would be to make Gollum repent in a way. He is
utterly wretched, and commits suicide. Gollum has it, he cried. No
one else shall have it. I will destroy you all. He leaps into crack. Fire
goes mad. Frodo is like to be destroyed.
Nazgul shape at the door. Frodo is caught in the fire-chamber and
cannot get out!
Here we all end together, said the Ring Wraith.
Frodo is too weary and lifeless to say nay.
You first, said a voice, and Sam (with Sting?) stabs the Black
Rider from behind.
Frodo and Sam escape and flee down mountain-side. But they
could not escape the running molten lava. They see Eagles driving
the Nazgul. Eagles rescue them.

Make issue of fire below them so that bridge is cut off and a sea of
fire bars their retreat while mountain quivers and crumbles. Gandalf
on white eagle rescues them.

Against the sentence 'He is utterly wretched, and commits suicide'
my father subsequently wrote No.