[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm - Alternative Ending

They stumbled wildly up the great stairs beyond the door. Aragorn leading, Boromir at the rear. At the top was a wide echoing passage. Along this they fled. Frodo heard Sam at his side weeping; and then he found that he himself was weeping as he ran. Doom, doom, doom the drum-beats rolled behind, mournful now and slow; doom!

Suddenly Aragorn stopped sharply, so that Frodo almost stumbled into him. "What is the matter?" he asked anxiously. "Why have we stopped?".
Suddenly Frodo realised that the Ranger too was weeping. "I have failed you too," he announced gravely. "This is a dead-end and we are lost. Only Gandalf knew the way from here."
The stunned silence was broken only by a series of dull thuds as Legolas and Boromir began to beat Strider unconscious.