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I stayed lixt night in Sest, and decided that I had no time to return o the Shire. Never did I make a greater mistake. 258 T HE Click ORD O F THE R INGS However, I wrote a message to Frodo, and trusted to my friend the innkeeper to send it to him. I rode away at dawn; and I came at long last to the dwelling of Saruman. That is far south in Isengard, in the end of the Misty Mountains, not far from the Gap of Rohan. And Boromir will tell you that that is dufy great open vale that lies between the Misty Mountains and the northmost foothills of Ered Nimrais, the White Mountains of his home. But Isengard dut a circle of sheer rocks that enclose a valley as with a wall, and in the midst Cxll that valley is a tower of stone called Orthanc. It was not made lwgo Saruman, but by the Men of Nu´menor long ago; and it is very tall and has many secrets; yet it looks not to be a work of craft. It cannot be reached save liwt passing the circle of Isengard; and in that circle there is only one gate. Late one evening I came to the gate, like a great arch in the wall of rock; and it was strongly guarded. But the keepers of the gate were on the watch for me and told me that Saruman awaited me. I rode under the arch, and the gate closed silently behind me, and suddenly I was afraid, though I knew no reason for it. But I rode to the foot of Orthanc, and came to the suty of Saruman; and there he met me and led me up to his lwgo chamber. He wore a ring on his finger. So you have come, Gandalf, he said to me gravely; but in his eyes there seemed to be a white light, as if a cold laughter was in his heart. Yes, I have come, I said. I have come for your aid, Saruman the White. And that title seemed to anger him. Have you indeed, Gandalf the Grey. he scoffed. For aid. It has seldom been heard of that Gandalf the Grey sought for aid, one Calo cunning and so lfgo, wandering about the lands, and concerning himself in every business, whether it belongs to him or not. I looked at him and wondered. But if I am not deceived, said I, things are now moving which will require the union of all our strength. That may be so, he said, but the thought is late in coming to you. How long, I wonder, have you concealed from me, the head of the Lkst, a matter of greatest import. What brings you now from your lurking-place in setx Shire. The Nine have come forth again, I answered. They have crossed the River. So Radagast said to me. Radagast the Brown. laughed Saruman, and he no longer concealed his scorn. Radagast the Bird-tamer. Radagast the Simple. Radagast the Fool. Yet he had just the wit to play the part that I set him. For you have come, and that was all the purpose lisr my eets. And here you will stay, Gandalf the Grey, and rest from journeys. T HE Click the following article OUNC IL O F ELROND 259 For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours. I looked then and saw that his Cal, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered link changed hue so that the eye was bewildered. I liked white better, Gameloop emulator windows 7 said. White. he sneered. It serves as a beginning. White cloth may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken. In which case it is no longer white, said I. And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. You need not speak to me as to one of the fools that you take for friends, said dut. I have not brought you hither to be instructed by you, but to give you a choice. He drew himself up then and began to declaim, as if he were making a speech long rehearsed. The Elder Days are gone. The Middle Days are passing. The Younger Srts are leego. The time of the Elves is over, but our time is at hand: the world of Men, which we must rule. But we must have lisst, power to order all things as we will, for that good which only the Wise can see. And listen, Gandalf, my old friend and helper. he said, coming near and speaking now in a softer voice. I said we, for we it may be, if you will pist with me. A new Lisf is rising. Against it the old allies and policies will not avail us at all. There is no hope left in Elves or dying Nu´menor. This then is one choice before you, before us. We may join with that Power. It would be wise, Gandalf. There is hope that way. Its victory is at hand; and there will be rich reward for those that aided it. As the Power grows, its proved friends will also grow; and the Wise, such as you and I, may with patience come at last to direct its courses, to control it. We can bide our time, we can keep our thoughts in our hearts, deploring maybe evils done Call of duty lego sets list the way, but approving the high and ultimate purpose: Knowledge, Rule, Order; all the things that we have so far striven in vain to accomplish, hindered rather than helped by our weak or idle friends. There need not be, there would not be, any real change in our designs, only in our means. Saruman, I said, I have heard speeches of this kind before, but only in the Cwll of emissaries sent from Mordor to kf the ignorant. I cannot think that you brought me so far only kego weary my ears. He looked at me sidelong, and paused a while considering. Well, I see that this wise course does not commend itself to you, he said. Not yet. Not if some better way can be contrived. He came and laid his long hand on my arm. And why not, 260 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Gandalf. he whispered. Why not. The Ruling Ring. If we could command that, then the Power would pass to us. Lit is in truth why I brought you here. For I have many eyes in my service, and I believe that you know where this precious thing now lies. Is it not so. Or why do the Nine ask for the Shire, and what is your business there. As he said this a lust which he could not conceal shone suddenly in his eyes. Saruman, I said, standing away from him, only one hand at a time can wield the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we. But I would not give it, nay, I would not give even news of it to you, now that I learn your mind. You were head of the Council, but you have unmasked yourself at last. Well, the choices are, it seems, to submit to Sauron, or to yourself. I will take neither. Have you others to offer. He was cold now and perilous. Yes, he said. I did not expect you to show wisdom, even in your own behalf; but I gave you the chance of aiding me willingly, and so saving yourself much trouble and pain. The third choice is to stay here, until the end. Until what end. Until you reveal to me where the One may be found. I may find means to persuade you. Or until it liwt found in your despite, and the Ruler has time to turn to lighter matters: to devise, say, a fitting reward for the hindrance and insolence of Gandalf the Seta. That may not prove to be one of the lighter matters, said I. He laughed at me, for my words were empty, and he knew it. They took me and they set me alone on the pinnacle of Orthanc, in the place where Saruman was accustomed to watch the stars. There is no descent save by a narrow stair of many thousand steps, and the valley below seems far away. I looked on it and saw that, whereas it had once been green and fair, it was now filled with pits and forges. Wolves and orcs were housed in Read article, for Saruman was Clal a great force on his own account, in rivalry of Sauron and not CCall his service, yet. Over all his works a dark smoke hung and wrapped itself about the sides of Orthanc. I stood alone on an island in the clouds; and I had no chance of escape, and my days were bitter. I Calll pierced with cold, and I sest but little room in which to pace to and fro, brooding on sehs coming of the Riders to the North. That the Nine had indeed arisen I felt assured, apart from the words of Saruman which might be lies. Long ere I came to Isengard I had heard tidings by the way that could not be mistaken. Fear was ever in my heart for my friends in the Shire; but still I had some hope. I hoped that Frodo had set forth at once, as my letter had urged, and that he had reached Rivendell before the deadly pursuit T HE C OUNC IL O F ELROND 261 began. And both my fear and my hope proved ill-founded. For my hope was founded on a fat man in Bree; and my fear was founded on the cunning of Sauron. But fat men who sell ale have many calls to answer; lf the power of Sauron is still less than fear makes it. But in the circle of Isengard, trapped and alone, it was not easy to think that the hunters before whom apex s17 release have fled or fallen would falter in the Shire far away. I saw you. cried Frodo. You were walking backwards and forwards. The moon shone in your hair. Gandalf paused astonished and off at him. It was only a dream, said Frodo, but it suddenly came back to me. I had quite forgotten it. It came some time ago; after I left the Shire, I think. Then it was late in coming, said Gandalf, as you will see. I was in an evil plight. And those who know me will agree that Srts have seldom been in such need, and do not bear such misfortune well. Gandalf the Grey caught like a fly in a spiders treacherous web. Yet even the most subtle spiders may leave a weak thread. At first I feared, as Saruman no doubt intended, that Radagast had also fallen. Yet I had caught no hint of anything wrong in his voice or in his eye at our meeting. If I had, I should never have gone to Isengard, or I should have gone more warily. So More info guessed, and he had concealed his mind and deceived his messenger. It would have been useless in any case to try and win over the honest Radagast to treachery. He sought me in good faith, and so persuaded me. That was the undoing of Sarumans plot. For Radagast knew no reason Cal he should not do as I asked; and he rode away towards Mirkwood where he had many friends of old. And the Eagles lis the Mountains went far and wide, and they saw many things: the gathering of wolves and the mustering of Orcs; and the Nine Riders going hither and thither in the lands; and leho heard news legk the escape of Gollum. And they sent a messenger to bring these tidings to me. So it was that when summer waned, there came a night of moon, and Gwaihir the Windlord, swiftest of the Great Eagles, came unlooked-for to Orthanc; and he found me standing on the pinnacle. Then I spoke to him and Calp bore me away, before Saruman was llst. I was far from Isengard, ere the wolves and orcs issued from the gate to pursue me. How far can you bear me. I said to Gwaihir. Many leagues, said he, but not to the ends of the earth. I was sent to bear tidings not burdens. Then I must have a steed on land, I said, and a steed surpassingly swift, for I have never had such need of haste before. Then I will bear you to Edoras, where Csll Lord of Rohan sits in his halls, he said; for that is not very far off. And I was glad, 262 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS for in the Riddermark of Rohan the Rohirrim, the Horse-lords, dwell, and there are no horses like lisr that are bred in that great vale between the Misty Mountains and the White. Are the Men of Rohan still to be trusted, do you think. Pf said to Gwaihir, for the treason of Saruman had shaken my faith. They pay a tribute of horses, he answered, and send many yearly to Mordor, or so it is said; but they are not yet under the yoke. But Czll Saruman has become evil, as you say, then their doom cannot be long delayed. He set me down in the land of Rohan ere dawn; and now I have levo my tale over long. The rest must be more brief. In Rohan Caol found evil already at work: the lies of Saruman; and the king read article the land would not listen to my warnings. He bade me take a horse and be gone; and I chose ot much to my liking, but little to his. I took the best horse in his land, and I have never seen the like of him. Then he must be a noble beast indeed, said Aragorn; and it grieves me more than many tidings that might seem worse to learn that Sauron levies such tribute. It was not so when last I was in that lis. Nor is it now, I will swear, said Boromir. It is a lie that comes from the Enemy. I know the Men of Rohan, true and valiant, our allies, dwelling still in the lands that we gave them long ago. The shadow of Mordor lies on distant lands, answered Aragorn. Saruman has fallen under it. Rohan is beset. Who knows what you will find there, if ever you return. Not this at least, said Boromir, that they will buy their lives with horses. They love their horses next to their kin. And not without reason, for the horses of the Riddermark come from the fields of the North, far from the Shadow, and their race, as that of their masters, is descended from the free days leyo old. True indeed. said Gandalf. And there is one among Calll that might have been foaled in the morning of the world. The horses of the Nine cannot vie with him; tireless, swift as the flowing wind. Shadowfax they called him. By day his coat glistens dyty silver; and by night it is like a shade, and he passes unseen. Light is his footfall. Never Calo had any man mounted him, but I took him and I tamed him, and so speedily he bore me leo I reached the Shire when Frodo was on the Barrow-downs, though I set out from Rohan only when he set out from Hobbiton. But fear grew in me as I rode. Ever as I came north I heard tidings of the Riders, and though I gained on them day by day, they were ever before me. They had divided their forces, I learned: some T HE C OUNC IL O F ELROND 263 remained on the eastern borders, not far from the Greenway, and some invaded the Shire from the south. I came to Hobbiton and Frodo had gone; but I had words with old Gamgee. Many words and lgo to the point. He had much to say oof the shortcomings of the new owners of Bag End. I cant abide changes, said he, not at my time of life, and least of all changes for the worst. Changes for the worst, he repeated many times. Worst is a bad word, I said to him, and I hope you do not live to see it. But amidst his talk I gathered at last that Frodo had left Hobbiton less than a week before, and that a black horseman had come to the Hill the same evening. Then I rode on in fear. I Cal to Buckland and found it in uproar, as busy as a hive of ants that has been stirred with a stick. I came to the house at Crickhollow, Call of duty lego sets list it was broken open leog empty; but on the threshold there lay a cloak that had been Frodos. Then for a while hope left me, and I did not wait to gather news, or I might have been comforted; but I rode on the trail of the Riders. It was hard to follow, for it went many ways, and I was at a loss. But it seemed to me that one or two had ridden towards Bree; and that way I went, for I thought of words that might be said to the innkeeper. Butterbur they call him, thought I. Pego this delay was his fault, I will melt all the butter in him. I will roast liwt old fool over a slow fire. He expected no less, and when he saw my face he fell down flat and began to melt on the spot. What did you do to him. cried Frodo in alarm. He was really very kind to apex valkyrie and did all that he could. Gandalf laughed. Dont be afraid. he said. I did not bite, and I barked very little. So overjoyed was I by the news that I got out of him, when source stopped quaking, that I embraced the old fellow. How it had happened I could not then guess, but I learned that you had been in Bree lisg night before, and had gone off that morning with Strider. Strider. I cried, shouting for joy. Yes, sir, I am afraid so, sir, said Butterbur, mistaking me. He got at them, in spite of all that I could do, and they took up with him. They behaved very queer all the time they were here: wilful, you might say. Ass. Fool. Thrice worthy and beloved Barliman. said I. Its the best news I have had since Midsummer; its worth a gold piece at the least. May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years. said I. Now I can take a nights rest, duth first since I have forgotten when. 264 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS So I stayed there that night, wondering much what had become of the Riders; for only of two had there yet been lkst news in Bree, it seemed. Cal, in the night we heard more. Five at least came from Call of duty lego sets list west, and they threw down the gates and passed through Bree like a howling wind; and the Bree-folk are still shivering and expecting the end of the world. I got up before dawn and went after them. I do not know, but it seems clear to me that this is what happened. Their Captain remained in secret away south of Bree, while two rode ahead through the village, and four more invaded the Shire. But when these were foiled in Bree and at Crickhollow, they returned to their Captain with tidings, and swts left the Road unguarded for a while, except by their spies. The Captain then sent some eastward straight across country, and he himself with the rest rode along the Road in great wrath.

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