Non-canonical of course, but it made a pretty good scene. In the film adaptation of The Return of the King however, it is shown that the Phial is activated only after Frodo chants the words. Sam then stows the Phial into a pocket, but he never drops it. His master was gaining on him already he was some twenty strides ahead, flitting on like a shadow soon he would be lost to sight in that grey world. Red with his own living blood his hand shone for a moment, and then he thrust the revealing light deep into a pocket near his breast and drew his elven-cloak about him. There's Orcs about, and worse than Orcs.' Then returning quickly to his long habit of secrecy, he closed his hand about the precious Phial which he still bore. But you must be the guard and hold back the eyes. There were webs of horror in the dark ravines of Beleriand where it was forged. 'That would not help us now,' said Frodo. He hands it over to Sam, who keeps it with him. The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers: Chapter X - "The Choices of Master Samwise"įor your follow-up question: Frodo doesn't drop the Phial at all in the book. It flamed like a star that leaping from the firmament sears the dark air with intolerable light. The second time it is 'activated' is when Sam wields it during his fight with Shelob:Īs if his indomitable spirit had set its potency in motion, the glass blazed suddenly like a white torch in his hand. As Frodo become mentally stronger, the Phial becomes more powerful. The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers: Chapter IX - "Shelob's Lair"įrodo shouts the words "Aiya Eärendil Elenion Ancalima!" automatically after the Phial is lit. Aiya Eärendil Elenion Ancalima! he cried, and knew not what he had spoken for it seemed that another voice spoke through his, clear, untroubled by the foul air of the pit. Seldom had he remembered it on the road, until they came to Morgul Vale, and never had he used it for fear of its revealing light. The darkness receded įrodo gazed in wonder at this marvellous gift that he had so long carried, not guessing its full worth and potency. For a moment it glimmered, faint as a rising star struggling in heavy earthward mists, and then as its power waxed, and hope grew in Frodo's mind, it began to burn, and kindled to a silver flame, a minute heart of dazzling light, as though Eärendil had himself come down from the high sunset paths with the last Silmaril upon his brow. Slowly his hand went to his bosom and slowly he held aloft the Phial of Galadriel. 'Why yes! Why had I forgotten it? A light when all other lights go out! And now indeed light alone can help us.' 'The star-glass?' muttered Frodo, as one answering out of sleep, hardly comprehending. Seen in the case of Frodo when he first remembers of the Phial: It's activated when a person of strong spirit (and hope) wields it. It doesn't need to be activated by the words.
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