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 47. The Pyre of Denethor
[Denethor pours oil over himself and a rousing Faramir.] 
Denethor: "Set a fire in our flesh!" 
[Soldiers, with lit torches, approach Denethor.] 
[Gandalf bursts through the mausoleum door.] 
Gandalf: "Stay this madness!" 
[The guards stop, but Denethor grabs a torch.] 
Denethor: "You may triumph in the field of battle for a day, but against the power that has risen in the east, there is no victory." 
[Denethor tosses the torch on the pyre. As the fire lights, Gandalf takes up a spear and charges Denethor, knocking him off the pyre.] 
[Pippin leaps from Shadowfax onto the pyre and rolls Faramir down off it.] 
[A burning Denethor rises and attacks Pippin.] 
Denethor: "No! You will not take my son from me!" 
[Shadowfax knocks Denethor onto the burning pyre.] 
[Faramir opens his eyes and looks at his father.] 
Denethor: "Faramir… my son. Ah!" 
[Engulfed in flames, Denethor runs out of the mausoleum.] 
Gandalf: "So passes Denethor, son of Ecthelion." 
[Denethor falls from the edge of Minas Tirith.] 
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