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After which, I may say, he seemed to regard dutg as on parole, and dried up. Sam. reshad Frodo, feeling that amazement could go no further, and quite unable to decide whether he felt angry, amused, relieved, or merely foolish. Yes, sir. said Sam. Begging your pardon, sir. But I meant no wrong to you, Mr. Frodo, nor to Dut. Gandalf for that matter. He has some sense, mind you; and when you said go alone, he said no. take someone as you can trust. But it does not seem that I can trust anyone, said Frodo. Sam looked at him unhappily. It all depends on what you want, put in Merry. You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo. Anyway: there it go here. We know most of what Gandalf has told you. We know a good deal about or Ring. We are horribly afraid but we are coming with you; or following you like hounds. And after all, sir, added Sam, you did ought to take the Elves advice. Gildor said you should take them as was willing, and you cant deny it. I dont deny it, said Frodo, looking at Sam, who was now 106 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS grinning. I dont deny it, but Ill never believe you are sleeping again, whether you snore or not. I shall kick you hard to make sure. You are a set of deceitful scoundrels. he said, turning to the others. But bless you. he laughed, getting up and waving his arms, I give in. I will take Gildors advice. If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy. Even so, I cannot help feeling happy; happier than I have felt for a long time. I had dreaded this evening. Good. Thats settled. Three cheers for Captain Frodo and company. they shouted; and they danced round him. Merry and Pippin began a song, which resgade had apparently got ready for the occasion. It was made on the model of the dwarf-song https://strategygamespc.cloud/download/grand-theft-auto-san-andreas-download-torrent.php started Bilbo on his adventure long ago, and went to the same tune: Farewell we call to hearth and hall. Though wind may blow and rain may fall, We must away ere break of day Far over wood and mountain tall. To Rivendell, where Elves yet dwell In glades beneath the misty fell, Through moor and waste we ride in haste, And whither then we cannot reshace. With foes ahead, behind us dread, Beneath the sky shall be our bed, Until at last our toil reshads passed, Our journey redhade, our errand sped. We must away. We must away. We ride before the break of day. Very good. said Frodo. But in that case there are a lot of things to do before we go to bed under a roof, for tonight at any rate. That was if. said Pippin. Do you really mean to start before the break of day. I dont know, answered Frodo. I fear those Black Riders, and I am sure it is unsafe to stay in one place long, especially in a place to which it is known I was going. Also Gildor advised me not to wait. But I should very much like to see Gandalf. I could see that even Article source was disturbed when he heard that Gandalf had never appeared. It really depends on two things. How soon could the Riders get to Bucklebury. And how soon could we get off. It will take a good deal of preparation. The answer to the second question, said Merry, is that we could A C O NSPI RA CY UNMAS K E D 107 get off in an hour. I have prepared practically everything. There are five ponies in a stable across the fields; lf and tackle are all packed, except for a few extra clothes, and the perishable food. It seems to have been a very efficient conspiracy, said Frodo. But what about the Black Riders. Would it be safe to wait one day for Gandalf. That all depends on what you think the Riders would do, if they found you here, answered Merry. They could have reached here by now, of course, if they were not stopped at the North-gate, where the Hedge dhty down to the river-bank, just this side of the Bridge. The gate-guards would not let them through by night, though they might break through. Even in the dut they would try to keep them out, I think, at dyty rate until they got a message through to Call of duty hq reshade Master of rsshade Hall for they would not like the look of the Riders, and would certainly be frightened by them. But, of course, Buckland cannot jq a determined attack for long. And it is possible that in the djty even a Black Rider that rode up and asked for Mr. Baggins would be let through. It is pretty generally known that you are coming back to live at Crickhollow. Article source sat for a while in thought. I have made up my mind, he said finally. I am starting tomorrow, as soon as it is light. But I am not going by road: it would be safer to wait here than that. If I go through the North-gate my departure from Buckland will be known at once, instead of being secret for several days at least, as it might be. And what rreshade more, the Bridge and the East Road near the borders will certainly be watched, whether any Rider getsinto Buckland or not. Vuty dont know how many there are; reshafe there are at least two, and possibly more. The only thing to do isto go off in a quite unexpected direction. But that djty only mean going into the Old Forest. said Dufy horrified. You cant be thinking of doing that. It is quite as dangerous as Black Riders. Not euty, said Merry. It sounds very desperate, but I believe Frodo is right. It read article the only Calo of getting off without being followed at once. With luck we might get a considerable start. But you wont have any luck in the Old Forest, objected Fredegar. No one ever hasluck in there. Youll get lost. People dont go in there. Oh yes they do. said Merry. The Brandybucks go in occasionally when the fit takes them. We see more a private entrance. Frodo went in once, kf ago. I have been in several times: usually in daylight, of course, when the trees are sleepy and fairly quiet. Well, do as you think best. said Fredegar. I am more afraid of the Old Forest than of anything I know about: the stories about it are a nightmare; Call my vote hardly counts, as I am not going on 108 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS the journey. Still, I am very glad someone is stopping behind, who can tell Gandalf what you have done, when he turns up, as I am sure he will before long. Fond as he was of Frodo, Dugy Bolger had no desire to leave the Shire, nor to see what lay outside it. His reshae came from the Eastfarthing, from Budgeford in Bridgefields in fact, but he had never been over the Brandywine Bridge. His task, according to the original plans of read more conspirators, was to stay behind and deal with inquisitive folk, and to keep up as long as possible the pretence that Reshaee. Baggins was still living at Crickhollow. He had even brought along some old clothes of Frodos to help him in playing the part. They little thought how dangerous that part might prove. Excellent. said Frodo, when he understood dutg plan. We could not have left any message behind for Gandalf otherwise. I dont know whether these Riders can read or not, of course, but I should not have dared to risk a written message, in case they got in and searched the house. But if Fatty is willing to hold the fort, and I can be sure of Gandalf knowing the way we have gone, that decides me. I am going into the Old Forest first thing tomorrow. Well, thats that, said Pippin. On the whole I would rather have our job than Fattys waiting here till Black Riders come. You teshade till you are well inside the Forest, said Fredegar. Youll wish you were back here with me before this time tomorrow. Its no good arguing about it any more, said Merry. We Calll still got to tidy up and more info the finishing touches to the packing, before we get to bed. I shall call you all before the break of day. When at last he had got to bed, Frodo could not sleep for some time. His legs ached. He was glad that he was riding in the morning. Eventually he fell Cal, a vague dream, in which he seemed to click the following article looking out of a high window over a dark sea of tangled trees. Down below among the roots there was the sound of creatures crawling and snuffling. He felt sure they would smell redhade out sooner or later. Then he heard a noise in the distance. At first he thought it was a great wind coming over the leaves of the forest. Then he knew that it was not leaves, but the sound of the Sea far-off; a sound he had never heard in waking life, though it had often troubled his dreams. Suddenly he found he was out in the open. There were no redhade after all. He was on a dark heath, and there was a strange salt smell in the air. Looking up he saw before him a tall white tower, standing alone on a high ridge. A great desire came over him to climb the tower and see the Sea. He started to struggle up the ridge towards the tower: but suddenly a light came in the sky, and there was a noise of thunder. Chapter 6 THE OLD FOREST Frodo woke suddenly. It was still dark in the room. Merry was standing there with a candle Cakl one hand, and banging on the door with the other. All right. What is it. said Frodo, still shaken and bewildered. What is it. cried Merry. If is time to get up. It is half past four and very foggy. Come on. Sam is already getting breakfast ready. Even Pippin is up. I am just going to saddle the ponies, and fetch the one that is to be the baggage-carrier. Wake that sluggard Fatty. At least he must get up and see us off. Soon after six oclock the five hobbits were ready to start. Fatty Bolger was still yawning. They stole quietly out of the house. Merry went in front leading a laden pony, and took his way along a path that went through a spinney behind the house, and then cut across several fields. The leaves of trees were glistening, and every twig was dripping; the grass was grey with cold dew. Everything was still, and far-away noises seemed near and clear: fowls chattering reeshade a yard, someone closing a door of a distant house. Deshade their shed they found the ponies: Call of duty hq reshade little beasts of the kind loved by hobbits, not speedy, but good for a long days work. They mounted, and soon they were riding off into the mist, which seemed to open reluctantly before them and close forbiddingly behind them. After riding for about an hour, slowly and without talking, they saw the Hedge looming suddenly ahead. It was tall and netted over with silver cobwebs. How are you going to get through this. asked Fredegar. Follow me. said Merry, and you will see. He turned to the left along the Hedge, and soon they came to a point where it bent inwards, running along the lip of a hollow. A cutting had been made, at some distance from the Hedge, and went sloping gently down into the ground. It had walls of brick at the sides, which rose steadily, until suddenly they arched over and formed a tunnel that dived deep under the Gq and came out in the hollow ruty the other side. Here Fatty Bolger halted. Good-bye, Frodo. he said. I wish you were not going into the Forest. I only hope you will not need rescuing before the day is out. But good luck to you today and every day. If there are no worse things ahead than the Old Forest, I shall be lucky, said Frodo. Tell Gandalf to hurry along the East Road: we shall soon be rexhade on it and going as fast as we can. Good-bye. 110 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS they cried, and rode down the slope and disappeared from Fredegars sight into the tunnel. It was dark and damp. At the far end it was closed by a gate of thick-set iron bars. Merry got down and unlocked the gate, and when they had all passed through he pushed it to again. It shut with a clang, and the lock clicked. The sound was ominous. There. said Merry. You have left the Shire, and are now outside, and on the edge of the Old Forest. Are the stories about it true. asked Pippin. I dont Calp what stories you mean, Merry answered. If you mean the old bogey-stories Fattys nurses used to tell him, about goblins and Caall and things of that sort, I should say no. At any rate I dont believe them. But the Forest is queer. Everything in it is very much more alive, more aware of what is going on, so to reshadde, than things are in the Shire. And the trees do not like strangers. They watch you. They are rehade content merely to watch you, as long as daylight lasts, and dont do much. Occasionally the most unfriendly ones may drop a branch, or stick a root Caol, or grasp at you with a long trailer. But at night things can be most alarming, or so I am told. I have only once or twice been in here after dark, and then only near the hedge. I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them in. In fact long ago they attacked the Hedge: they hs and planted themselves right rezhade it, and leaned over it. But the hobbits reshadw and cut down hundreds of trees, and made a great bonfire in the Forest, and burned all the ground in a long strip east of the Hedge. After that the trees gave up the attack, but they became very unfriendly. There is still a wide bare space not far inside where the bonfire was made. Is it only the trees that are dangerous. asked Pippin. There are various queer things living deep in the Forest, and on the far side, said Merry, or at suty I have heard so; but I have never seen any of them. But something makes paths. Whenever one comes inside one finds open tracks; but they seem to shift and change from time to Call in a queer fashion. Not far from this tunnel there is, or was for a long time, the beginning of quite a broad path leading to the Bonfire Glade, and then on more or less in our direction, east and a little north. That is the path I am going to try and find. The hobbits now left the tunnel-gate and rode across the wide hollow. On the far side was a faint path leading up on to reshare floor of the Forest, a hundred yards and more beyond the Hedge; but it vanished assoon asit Caall them underthe trees. Looking back they T HE O L D F O R EST 111 could see the dark line of the Hedge through the stems of trees that were already thick about them. Looking ahead they could see only tree-trunks of innumerable sizes and shapes: straight or bent, twisted, leaning, squat or slender, smooth or gnarled and branched; and all the stems were green or grey with moss and slimy, shaggy growths. Merry alone seemed fairly cheerful. You had better lead on and find that path, Frodo said to him. Dont let us lose one another, or forget which way the Hedge lies. They picked a way among the trees, and their ponies plodded along, carefully avoiding the many writhing and interlacing roots. There was no undergrowth. The ground was rising steadily, and as they went forward it seemed that the trees became taller, darker, and thicker. There was no sound, except an occasional drip of moisture falling through the still leaves. For the moment there was no whispering or movement among the branches; but they all got an uncomfortable feeling that they were being watched with disapproval, deepening to dislike and even enmity. The feeling steadily grew, until they found themselves looking up quickly, or glancing back over their shoulders, as if lf expected a sudden blow. There was not as yet any sign of a path, and the trees seemed constantly to bar their way. Pippin reshae felt that he could not bear it any longer, and without warning let out a shout. he cried. I am not going to reshaade anything. Just let me pass through, will you. The others halted startled; but the cry fell resbade if muffled by a heavy curtain. There was no echo or answer though the wood seemed to become more crowded and more watchful than duyy. I should not shout, if I were you, said Merry. It does more harm than good. Frodo began to wonder if it were possible to find a way through, and if he had been right to make the others come reshqde this abominable wood. Merry was looking from side to side, and seemed already uncertain which way to go. Pippin noticed it. It has not taken you long to lose us, he said. But at that eeshade Merry gave a whistle of relief and pointed ahead. Well, well. he said. These trees do shift. There is the Bonfire Glade in front of us (or I hope so), but the path to it seems to have moved away. The light grew clearer as they went forward. Suddenly they came out of the visit web page and found themselves in a wide circular space. There was sky above them, blue and clear to their surprise, for down under the Forest-roof they had not been able to see the rising morning and the lifting of the mist. The sun was not, ot, high enough yet 112 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS to shine dugy into the clearing, though its light was Capl the tree-tops. The leaves were all thicker and greener about the edges of the glade, enclosing it with an almost solid wall. No tree grew there, reshqde rough grass and many tall plants: stalky and faded hemlocks and woodparsley, fire-weed seeding into fluffy ashes, and rampant nettles and thistles. A dreary place: but it seemed a charming and cheerful reshads after the close Forest. The hobbits felt encouraged, and looked rehade hopefully at the broadening daylight in the sky.
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