Chapter 8: The Dead Marshes

Follow Gollum, make sure to stay at the brown areas while crossing the marsh to avoid drowning, hit X if you are starting to drown . Use Sam on the digsite to acquire a bucket, get water at the well on the top left area, then put out the fire blocking the way. Continue along. Use Sam to dig up and grow a plant, climb up, burn the trees with the birds on it, go down and get water then climb up and put out the flames again. Follow the path. This time make sure to jump on the floating plants. On the next island, move to the right area and cross the plant-bridge on the right, stand at the connecting platform to make the next connecting-path rise up. Make your way across, get water and wash away the fire. Follow the path that Gollum made. Keep jumping to cross the marsh faster. Switch to Frodo, stand at the platform on the upper right island to fill up the water pool on the island before it, , switch to Sam, go back down to the island in the lower right, get some water and stop the flames. Move along. Switch to Sam to pull the branches from the tree, cross the plants, use the rope to pull out the skull inside the skeleton. Backtrack to the lower left area, cross the bridge connected to the skull and get some water, go to the lower left area and snuff out the fires, cross the marsh. Halfway through the new path made by Gollum, there is a floating plant, jump across it and use Frodo inside the dark tree to build a rope attachment. Use Sam to pull down the water atop the tree, grab some water, follow Gollum's path and put out the flames, move across to enter the next cutscene.

Hide behind the tree using Sam, then equip Frodo's elven cloak and wait until the Black rider passes overhead. Follow Gollum to the next island and do the same thing on this island. Follow Gollum again. Repeat same hiding tactics. Continue along. Hide and wait again. Follow Gollum's trail. Hide under the dark tree using Frodo's phial. Move along. Use Sam' s rope to pull yourself up the tree branch, jump to the other side with the sloped incline. Stand above the other end of the see-saw, switch to Frodo, cross over the other end of the see-saw, hit the tree. Follow the path, then follow Gollum. Burn the huge log using Sam, then use the hiding tactics again and wait. Move along. Use Sam's rope to pull down the branch, then build the bridge and cross it. Make the plant grow by digging up with Sam, then climb up.

As Faramir, walk up to the upper left area and wait for the oliphaunt to pass by. Jump up and grab one of the ropes hanging from the animal and climb up, beat the enemies, smash the barrels, grab the rope and climb up to the topmost platform. Beat the oliphaunt master by following the button prompts. Do this on another oliphaunt.

Helliphant

You cannot pass the red gaze right now. Switch to Aragorn's team using the character change menu. Head to the marker by following the stud trails.