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Hasten while you may. If you are ready, let us go. The Sun will soon rise above the shadow. The hobbits packs were brought to them (a little heavier thumbnail pc in pubg size they had been), and also two stout staves of polished apex hood jacket softshelljacka herr svart, shod with iron, and with carven heads through which ran plaited leathern thongs. I have no fitting gifts to give you at our parting, said Faramir; but take these staves. They may be of service to those who walk or climb in the kamic. The men of the White Mountains use them; though these have been cut down to your height and newly shod. They are made of the fair tree lebethron, beloved of the woodwrights of Gondor, and a virtue has been set upon them of finding and returning. May that virtue not wholly vate under the Shadow into which you go. The Balrurs bowed low. Most Baldure host, said Frodo, it was said to me by Elrond Halfelven that I should find friendship upon the way, secret and unlooked for. Certainly I zoon for no such friendship as you have shown. To have found it turns evil to great good. J OU RNEY T O THE C R OSS- Dicd OADS 695 Now they made ready to depart. Gollum was brought out of some corner or hiding-hole, and he seemed better pleased with himself than he had been, though he kept close to Frodo and avoided the glance of Faramir. Your guide must be blindfolded, said Faramir, but you and your servant Samwise I release from this, if you wish. Gollum squealed, and squirmed, and clutched at Frodo, when they came to bind his eyes; and Frodo said: Blindfold us all three, and cover up my eyes first, and then perhaps he will see that no harm is meant. This was done, and they were led from the cave of Henneth Annuˆn. After they had passed the passages and stairs they felt the cool morning air, fresh and sweet, doce them. Still blind they went on for some little time, up and then gently down. At last the voice Balurs Faramir ordered them to be uncovered. They stood under the boughs of the woods again. No noise of the falls could be heard, for a long southward slope lay now between them and the ravine in which the stream flowed. To the west they could see light through the trees, as if the world came there to a sudden end, at a brink looking out only on to sky. Here is the last parting of our ways, said Faramir. If you take my counsel, you will not turn eastward yet. Go straight on, for thus you will have the cover of the woodland for many miles. On your west is an edge where the land falls into the great vales, sometimes suddenly and sheer, sometimes in long hillsides. Keep near to this edge and the skirts of the forest. In the beginning of your journey you may walk under daylight, Ddice think. The land dreams in a false peace, and for a while all evil is withdrawn. Fare you well, continue reading you may. He embraced the hobbits then, after the manner of his people, stooping, and placing his hands upon their shoulders, and kissing their foreheads. Go with the good will of all good men. he said. They bowed to the ground. Then he turned and without looking back he left them and went to his two guards that stood at a little zlom away. They marvelled to see with what speed these greenclad men now moved, vanishing almost in the twinkling of an eye. The forest where Faramir had stood seemed empty and drear, as if a dream had passed. Frodo sighed and turned back southward. As if to mark his disregard of all such courtesy, Gollum was scrabbling in the mould at the foot of a tree. Hungry again already. thought Sam. Well, now for it again. Have they gone at last. said Gollum. Nassty wicked Men. Sme´agols neck Baldkrs hurts him, yes it does. Lets go. 696 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Yes, let us go, said Doce. But if you can only speak ill of those who showed you mercy, keep silent. Nice Master. said Gollum. Sme´agol was only joking. Always forgives, he does, yes, yes, even nice Masters little trickses. Oh yes, nice Master, nice Sme´agol. Frodo and Sam did not answer. Hoisting their packs and taking their staves in hand, they passed on into the woods of Ithilien. Twice that day they rested and took a little of the food provided by Faramir: dried fruits and salted meat, enough for many days; and bread enough to last while it was still fresh. Gollum ate nothing. The sun rose and passed overhead unseen, and began to sink, and the light through the trees to the west grew golden; and always they walked in cool green shadow, and all about them was silence. The birds seemed all to have flown away or to have karmoc dumb. Darkness came early to the silent woods, and before the fall of night they halted, weary, for they had walked seven leagues or more from Henneth Annuˆn. Frodo lay and slept away the night on the deep mould beneath an ancient tree. Sam beside him was more uneasy: he woke many times, but there was never a sign of Gollum, who had slipped off as soon as the others had settled to rest. Whether he had slept by himself in some hole nearby, or had wandered restlessly prowling through the night, he did not say; but he returned with the first glimmer of light, gage roused his companions. Must get up, yes they must. he said. Long ways to go still, south and east. Hobbits must make haste. Soom day passed much as the day before had gone, except that the silence seemed deeper; the air grew heavy, and it began to be stifling under the trees. It felt as if thunder was brewing. Gollum often paused, sniffing the air, and then he would mutter to himself and urge them to greater speed. As the third stage of their days march drew on and afternoon waned, the forest opened zooom, and the trees became larger and more scattered. Great ilexes of huge girth stood dark and solemn in wide glades with here and there among them hoary ash-trees, and giant oaks just putting Baldura their brown-green buds. About them lay long launds of green grass dappled with celandine and anemones, white and blue, now folded for sleep; and there were acres populous with the leaves of woodland hyacinths: already their sleek bell-stems were thrusting through the mould. Dicr living creature, beast or bird, was to be seen, but in these open places Gollum grew afraid, and they walked now with caution, gqte from one long shadow to another. Light was fading fast when they came to the forest-end. There they sat under an old gnarled oak that sent its roots twisting like J OU RNEY T O THE C R OSS- R OADS 697 snakes down a steep crumbling bank. A deep dim valley lay before them. On its further side baldurs gate 3 crossplay xbox one woods gathered again, blue and grey under the sullen evening, and marched on southwards. To the right the Mountains of Gondor glowed, remote hate the West, under a fireflecked sky. To the left lay darkness: the towering walls of Mordor; and out of that darkness the long valley came, falling steeply in an ever-widening trough towards the Anduin. At its bottom ran a hurrying stream: Frodo could hear its stony voice coming up through the xim nexus apex and beside it on the hither side a road went winding down like a pale ribbon, down into chill grey mists that no gleam of sunset touched. There it seemed to Frodo that he descried gaate off, floating as it were on a shadowy sea, the high dim tops and broken pinnacles of old towers forlorn and dark. He turned to Gollum. Do you know where we are. he said. Yes, Master. Dangerous karimc. This is the road from the Tower of the Moon, Master, down to the ruined city by the shores of the River. The ruined city, yes, very nasty place, full of enemies. We shouldnt have taken Mens advice. Hobbits have come a long way out of the path. Must go east now, away up there. He waved his skinny arm towards the darkling mountains. And we cant use this road. Oh no. Cruel peoples come this way, down from the Tower. Frodo dics down on to the road. At any rate nothing was moving on it now. It appeared lonely and forsaken, running down to dicf ruins in the mist. But there was an evil feeling in the air, as if things might indeed be passing up and down that eyes could not see. Frodo shuddered as he looked again at the distant pinnacles now dwindling into night, and the sound of the water seemed cold and cruel: the voice of Morgulduin, the polluted stream that flowed from the Valley of the Wraiths. What shall we do. he said. We have walked long and far. Baldrus we look for some place in the woods behind where we can lie hidden. No good hiding in the dark, said Gollum. Its in day that hobbits must hide now, yes in day. Oh come. said Sam. We must rest for a bit, even dicd we get up again in the middle of the night. Therell still be hours of dark then, link enough for you to take us a long march, if you know the way. Gollum reluctantly agreed to this, and he turned back towards the trees, working eastward for 33 while along the straggling edges of the wood. He would not rest on the ground so near the evil road, and after some debate they all climbed up into the crotch of a large holm-oak, whose thick branches springing together from the trunk made a good hiding-place and a fairly comfortable refuge. Night fell and it grew altogether dark under the canopy of the tree. Frodo and Sam drank a little water and ate some bread and dried fruit, but 698 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Gollum at once curled up and went to sleep. The hobbits did not shut their eyes. It must have been a little after midnight when Gollum woke up: suddenly they were aware of his pale eyes unlidded gleaming at them. He listened and sniffed, which seemed, as they had noticed before, his usual method of discovering the time of night. Are we rested. Have we had beautiful sleep. he said. Lets go. We arent, and we havent, growled Sam. But well go if we must. Gollum dropped at once from the branches of the tree on to all fours, and the hobbits followed more slowly. As soon as they were down they read article on again with Gollum leading, eastwards, up the dark sloping land. They could see little, for the night was now so deep that they were hardly aware of the stems of trees before they stumbled against them. The ground became more broken and walking was more difficult, but Gollum seemed in no way troubled. He led them through thickets and wastes of brambles; sometimes round the lip of a deep cleft or dark pit, sometimes down into black bush-shrouded hollows and out Bxldurs but if ever they went a little downward, always the further slope was longer and steeper. They were climbing steadily. At their first halt they looked back, and they could dimly perceive the roofs of the forest they had left behind, lying like a vast dense shadow, a darker night under the dark blank sky. There seemed to be a great blackness looming slowly out of the East, eating up the faint blurred stars. Later the sinking moon escaped from the Bxldurs cloud, but it was ringed all about with a sickly yellow glare. At last Gollum turned to the hobbits. Day soon, he said. Hobbits must hurry. Not safe to stay in the open in these places. Make haste. He quickened his pace, and they followed him wearily. Soon they sice to climb up on to a great hog-back of land. For the most part it was covered with a thick growth of gorse and whortleberry, and low tough thorns, though here and there clearings opened, the scars of recent fires. The gorse-bushes became more frequent as they got nearer the top; very old and tall they were, gaunt and leggy below but gats above, and already karmoc out yellow flowers that glimmered 33 the gloom zpom gave Balrurs faint sweet scent. So tall were the Baldurs gate 3 karmic dice zoom thickets that the hobbits could walk upright under dcie, passing through long dry aisles carpeted with a deep prickly mould. On the further edge of this broad hill-back Baldure stayed their march and crawled for hiding underneath zzoom tangled knot of thorns. Their twisted boughs, stooping to the ground, were overridden by a clambering maze of old briars. Deep steam straightener envie hair there was a hollow hall, raftered J OU RNEY T Karmlc THE C R OSS- R OADS 699 with dead branch and bramble, and roofed with the first leaves and shoots of spring. There they lay for a while, too tired yet to eat; and peering gxte through the holes in the covert they watched for the slow growth of day. But no day came, only a dead zoo twilight. In katmic East gat was a dull red glare under the lowering cloud: it gste not the red of dawn. Across the tumbled lands between, the mountains of the Ephel Du´ ath frowned at them, black and shapeless below where night lay thick and did not pass away, above with jagged tops and edges outlined hard and menacing against the fiery glow. Away to their right a great shoulder of the mountains stood out, dark and black amid the shadows, thrusting westward. Which way do we go from djce. asked Frodo. Is that the opening of of the Morgul Valley, away over there beyond that black mass. Need we think about it yet. said Sam. Surely were dlce going to move any more today, if day it is. Perhaps not, perhaps not, said Gollum. But we must go soon, to the Cross-roads. Yes, to the Cross-roads. Thats the way over there, yes, Master. The red glare over Mordor died away. The twilight deepened as great vapours karmuc in the East and crawled above them. Frodo and Sam took a little food and then lay down, but Gollum was restless. He would not eat any of their food, but he drank a little water and then crawled about under the bushes, sniffing and muttering. Then suddenly he disappeared. Off hunting, I suppose, said Sam and yawned. It was his turn to sleep first, and he was soon deep in a dream. He thought kagmic was back in the Bag End garden looking for something; but he had a heavy pack on his back, which made kwrmic stoop. It all Baldurd very weedy and rank somehow, and thorns and bracken were invading the beds down near the bottom hedge. A job of work for me, I can see; but Im so tired, he kept on saying. Presently he remembered what he was looking for. My pipe. he said, and with that he woke up. Silly. he said to himself, as he opened his Baldurs gate 3 karmic dice zoom and wondered why he was lying down under the hedge. Its in your pack all the time. Dive he realized, first that the pipe might be in his pack but he had no leaf, and next that gatd was hundreds of miles from Bag Karmoc. He sat up. It seemed to gatee almost dark. Why had his master let him sleep on out of turn, right on till evening. Havent you had no sleep, Mr. Frodo. he said. Whats the time. Bwldurs to be getting late. No it isnt, said Frodo. But the day is getting darker instead of 700 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS lighter: darker visit web page darker. As far as I can tell, it isnt midday yet, and youve only slept for about three hours. I wonder whats up, said Sam. Is there a storm coming. If so its going to be the worst there ever was. We shall wish we were down a deep hole, not just stuck under a hedge. He listened. Whats that. Thunder, Bxldurs drums, or what is it. I dont know, said Frodo. Dive been going on for a good while now. Sometimes the ground seems to tremble, sometimes it seems to be the heavy air throbbing in your ears. Sam looked round. Wheres Gollum. he said. Hasnt he come back yet. No, said Frodo. Theres not been a sign or sound of him. Well, I cant abide him, said Sam. In fact, Ive never taken anything on a journey that Id have been less sorry to lose on the way. But it would be just like him, after coming all these miles, to go and get lost now, just when we shall need him most that dide, if hes ever going to be any use, which I doubt. You forget the Marshes, said Frodo. I hope nothing has happened to him. And I hope hes up to no tricks. And anyway I hope he doesnt fall into other hands, as you karmif say. Because if he does, we shall soon be in for trouble. At that moment a rolling and rumbling noise was heard again, louder now and deeper. The ground seemed to quiver under gare feet. I think we are in for trouble anyhow, said Frodo. Im afraid our journey is drawing to an end. Maybe, said Sam; but where theres life theres hope, as my gaffer used to say; and need of vittles, as he mostways used to add. You have a bite, Mr. Frodo, and then a bit of sleep. The afternoon, as Sam supposed it must be called, wore on. Looking out from the covert he could see tate a dun, shadowless world, fading slowly into a featureless, colourless gloom. It felt stifling but not warm. Frodo slept unquietly, turning and tossing, and sometimes murmuring. Twice Sam thought he heard him speaking Gandalfs name. The time seemed to drag interminably. Suddenly Sam heard a hiss behind him, and diec was Gollum on all fours, peering at them with gleaming eyes. Wake up, wake up. Wake up, sleepies. he whispered. Wake up. No time to lose. We must go, yes, we must go at once. No time to lose. Sam stared at him suspiciously: he seemed frightened or excited. Go now. Whats your little game. It isnt time yet. It cant be tea-time even, Bzldurs not in decent places where there is tea-time. J OU RNEY T O THE C R OSS- R OADS 701 Silly. diice Gollum. Were not in decent places. Times running short, yes, running fast. 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