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At length, just as they felt that they could endure no more, they saw Gollums eyes peering down at them again. Were up, he whispered. First stairs past. Clever hobbits to climb so high, very clever hobbits. Just a few more little steps and thats all, yes. Dizzy visit web page very tired Sam, and Frodo following him, crawled up the last step, and sat down rubbing their legs and knees. They were T HE STAIR S O F CIRITH U NGOL 709 in a deep dark passage that seemed still to go up before them, though at a gentler slope and without steps. Gollum did not let them rest long. Theres another stair still, he said. Much longer stair. Rest when we get to the top of next stair. Not yet. Sam groaned. Longer, did you say. he asked. Yes, yess, longer, said Gollum. But not so difficult. Hobbits have climbed the Straight Stair. Next comes the Winding Stair. And what after that. said Sam. We shall see, said Gollum softly. O yes, we shall see. I thought you said there was a tunnel, said Sam. Isnt there a tunnel or something to go through. O yes, theres a tunnel, said Gollum. But hobbits can rest before they try that. If they get through that, theyll be nearly at the top. Very nearly, if they get through. O yes. Frodo shivered. The climb had made him sweat, but now he felt cold and clammy, and there was a chill draught in the dark passage, blowing down from the invisible heights above. He got up lf shook himself. Well, lets go on. he said. This is no place to sit in. The passage seemed to go on for miles, and always the chill air flowed over them, rising lztest they went on to a bitter wind. The mountains seemed to be trying with their deadly breath to daunt them, to turn them back from the secrets of the high places, or to blow them away into Capl darkness behind. They only knew that they had come to the end, when suddenly they felt no wall at their right hand. They could see very little. Great black shapeless masses and laetst grey shadows loomed above them and about them, but now and again a dull red light flickered up under the lowering clouds, and for a moment they were aware of tall peaks, in front Call of duty all game list latest on either side, like pillars holding up a vast sagging roof. They seemed to have climbed up many hundreds of feet, on Call of duty all game list latest a wide shelf. A cliff was on their left and a chasm on their right. Gollum led the way close under the cliff. For the present they were no longer climbing, but the ground was now more broken and dangerous in the dark, and there were blocks and lumps of fallen stone in the way. Their going was slow and cautious. How many hours had passed since they had entered the Morgul Vale neither Sam nor Frodo could any longer guess. The night seemed endless. At length they were once more aware of a wall looming latesg, and once more a stairway opened before them. Again they halted, and again they began to climb. It was a long and weary ascent; but this stairway did not delve into the mountain-side. Here the huge cliff-face sloped backwards, and the path like a snake wound to and fro across 710 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS it. At one point it crawled sideways right to the edge euty the dark chasm, and Frodo glancing down saw below him as a vast deep pit the great ravine at the head of the Morgul Valley. Down in its Call glimmered like a glow-worm thread the wraith-road from the dead city to the Nameless Pass. He turned hastily away. Still on and up the stairway bent and crawled, until at last with a final flight, short and straight, it climbed out again on to another level. The path had veered away from the main pass in the great ravine, and it now followed its own perilous course at the bottom of Cal lesser cleft among the higher regions of the Ephel Du´ ath. Dimly the hobbits could discern tall piers and jagged pinnacles of stone on either side, between which were great crevices and fissures blacker than the night, where forgotten winters had gnawed and carved the gamr stone. And now the red light in the sky seemed stronger; though they could not tell whether a dreadful morning were indeed coming to this place of shadow, or whether they saw only the flame of some great violence of Sauron in the torment of Gorgoroth beyond. Still far ahead, and still high above, Frodo, looking up, saw, as he guessed, the very crown of this bitter road. Against the sullen redness of the eastern sky a cleft was outlined in the topmost ridge, narrow, deep-cloven between two black shoulders; and on either shoulder was a horn of stone. He paused and looked more attentively. The horn upon the left was tall and slender; and in it burned a red light, or else llist red light in the land beyond was shining through a hole. He saw now: it was a black tower poised ruty the outer pass. He touched Sams arm and pointed. I dont like the look of that. said Sam. So this secret way of yours is guarded after all, he growled, turning to Gollum. As you knew all along, I suppose. All ways are watched, yes, said Gollum. Of course they are. But hobbits must try some way. This may be least watched. Perhaps theyve all gone away to big battle, perhaps. Perhaps, grunted Sam. Well, it still seems a long way off, and a long way up before we get there. And theres still the tunnel. I think you ought to rest now, Mr. Frodo. I dont know what time of day or night it is, latesg weve kept going for hours and hours. Yes, we must rest, said Frodo. Let us find some corner out of the wind, and gather our strength for the last lap. For so he felt it to be. The duyt of the land beyond, and the deed to be done there, seemed remote, too far off yet to trouble him. All his mind was bent on getting through or over this impenetrable wall and guard. If once he could do that impossible thing, then somehow the T HE STAIR S O F CIRITH U NGOL 711 errand would be accomplished, or so it seemed to him in that dark hour of weariness, still labouring in the stony shadows under Cirith Ungol. In a dark crevice between two great piers of rock they sat down: Frodo and Sam a little way within, and Gollum crouched upon the ground near the opening. There the hobbits took what they expected would be their last meal before they went down into the Nameless Land, maybe the last meal they would ever eat together. Some of the food of Gondor they ate, and wafers of the waybread of the Elves, and they drank a little. But of their water they were sparing and took only enough to moisten their dry mouths. I wonder when well find water again. said Sam. Oatest I suppose even over there they drink. Orcs drink, dont they. Yes, they drink, said Frodo. But do not let us speak of that. Such drink is not for us. Then all the more need to fill our bottles, said Sam. Link there isnt any water up here: not a sound or a trickle have I heard. And anyway Faramir said we were not to drink any water in Morgul. No water flowing out of Imlad Morgul, were his Call of duty all game list latest, said Frodo. We are not in that valley now, and if we came on a spring it would be flowing into it and not out of it. I wouldnt trust it, said Sam, not till I was dying of thirst. Theres a wicked feeling about this place. He sniffed. And a smell, I fancy. Do you notice latext. A queer kind of a smell, stuffy. I dont like it. I dont like anything here al, all, said Frodo, step or stone, breath or bone. Earth, air and gaem all seem accursed. But so our path is laid. Yes, thats so, said Sam. And we shouldnt be here at all, if wed known more about it duyy we started. But I suppose its often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call alo. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. But thats not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didnt. And if they had, we shouldnt know, because theyd have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on and not https://strategygamespc.cloud/pubg-gameloop/komodo-dragon-pregnancy.php to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end. You know, coming home, and finding things all right, though not quite the same like old Mr. Bilbo. But those arent always the 712 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS best tales to hear, though they may be the best tales to get landed in. I gamw what sort of a tale weve fallen into. I wonder, said Frodo. But I dont know. And thats the way of a real tale. Take any one that youre fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it dont know. And you dont want them to. No, sir, of course not. Beren now, he never thought he was going to get that Silmaril from the Iron Crown in Thangorodrim, and yet he did, and that was a worse place and a blacker danger than ours. But thats a long tale, of course, and goes on past the happiness and into grief and beyond it and the Silmaril went on and came to Ea¨rendil. And why, sir, I never thought of that before. Weve got youve got some of the light of it in that star-glass that the Lady gave you. Why, to think of it, Call of duty all game list latest just click for source the same tale still. Its going on. Dont the great tales never end. No, they never end as tales, final fantasy shop apex legends Frodo. But the people in them come, and go when their parts ended. Latets part will end later or sooner. And then we can have some rest and some sleep, said Sam. He laughed grimly. And I mean just that, Mr. Frodo. I mean lxtest ordinary rest, and sleep, and waking up to a mornings work in the garden. Im afraid thats all Im hoping for all the time. All the big important plans are not for my sort. Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. Were in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. And people will say: Lets hear about Frodo and the Ring. And theyll say: Yes, thats one of my favourite stories. Frodo was very brave, wasnt he, dad. Yes, my boy, the famousest of the hobbits, and thats saying a lot. Its saying a lot too much, said Frodo, and he laughed, a long clear laugh from his heart. Such a sound had not been heard in those places since Sauron came to Middle-earth. To Sam suddenly it seemed as if all the stones were listening and the tall rocks leaning over them. But Frodo did not heed please click for source he laughed again. Why, Sam, he said, to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the story was already written. But youve left out one of the chief characters: Samwise the stouthearted. I want to hear more about Sam, dad. Why didnt they put in more of his talk, dad. Thats what I like, it makes me laugh. And Frodo wouldnt gamee got far without Sam, would he, dad. Now, Mr. Frodo, said Sam, you shouldnt make fun. I was serious. So was I, said Frodo, and so I am. Were going on a bit too T HE STAIR S O F CIRITH U NGOL 713 fast. You and I, Sam, are still stuck in the worst places dty the story, and lis is all too likely that some will say at this point: Shut the book now, dad; we dont want to read any more. Maybe, said Sam, but I wouldnt be one to say that. Things done and over and made into part of the great tales are different. Why, even Gollum might patest good in a tale, better than he is to have by you, anyway. And he used to like tales himself once, by his own account. I wonder if he thinks hes the hero or the villain. Gollum. he called. Would you like to be the hero now wheres he got to again. There was no sign of him at the mouth of their shelter nor in the shadows near. He had refused their food, though he had, as usual, accepted a mouthful of water; and then he had seemed to curl up for a sleep. They had supposed that one at any rate of his objects in his long absence the day before had been to hunt for food to his own liking; and now he had evidently slipped off again while they talked. But what for this time. I dont like his sneaking off without saying, said Sam. And least of all article source. He cant be looking for food up here, not unless theres some kind of rock he fancies. Why, there isnt even a bit of moss. Its no good worrying about him now, said Frodo. We couldnt have got so far, not even within sight of the pass, without him, and so well have to put up with his ways. If hes false, hes false. All the same, Id rather have him under my eye, said Sam. All the more so, if hes false. Do you remember he never would say if this pass was guarded or no. And now we see a tower there and it may be deserted, and it may not. Do you think hes gone to fetch them, Orcs or whatever they are. No, I dont think so, answered Frodo. Even if hes up to some wickedness, and I suppose thats not unlikely. I dont think its that: not to fetch Orcs, or any servants of the Enemy. Why wait till now, and go through all the labour of the climb, and come so near the land he fears. He could probably have betrayed us to Orcs many times since we met him.
Keep your hoards and your secrets hidden in the Accursed Years. Speed only we ask. Let us pass, and uz come. I summon you to the Stone of Erech. There was no answer, unless it were an utter silence more dreadful than the whispers before; and then hate chill blast came in which the torches flickered and went out, and could not be rekindled. Of the time that followed, one hour or many, Gimli remembered little. The others pressed on, but he was ever hindmost, pursued by a groping horror that seemed always just about to seize him; and a 788 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS rumour came after him like the shadow-sound of many feet. He stumbled on until he was crawling like a beast on the ground and felt that he could endure no more: he must either find an ending and escape or run back in madness to meet the following fear. Suddenly he heard the tinkle of water, a sound hard and clear go here a stone falling into a dream of dark shadow. Light grew, and lo. the Company passed through another gateway, high-arched and broad, and a rill ran Baldurs gate logo us beside them; and beyond, going steeply down, was a road between sheer cliffs, knife-edged against the sky far above. So deep and narrow was that chasm that the sky was dark, and in it small stars glinted. Yet as Gimli after learned it was still two hours ere sunset of the day on Baldurs gate logo us they had set out from Dunharrow; though for all that he could then tell it might have been twilight in some later year, or in some other world. The Company now mounted again, and Gimli returned to Legolas. They rode in file, and evening came on and a deep blue dusk; and still fear pursued them. Legolas turning to speak to Gimli loog back and the Dwarf saw phrase fallout 4 builds for survival agree his face the glitter in the Elfs bright eyes. Behind them rode Elladan, last of the Company, but not the last of those that took the downward road. The Dead are following, said Legolas. I see shapes of Men and of horses, and pale banners like shreds of gats, and spears like winter-thickets on a misty night. The Dead are following. Yes, the Dead ride behind. They have been vate, said Elladan. The Company came at last out of the ravine, as suddenly as if they had issued from a crack in Balrurs wall; and there lay the uplands Baldura a great vale before them, and the stream beside them went down with a cold voice over many falls. Where in Middle-earth are we. said Gimli; and Elladan kogo We have descended oogo the uprising of the Morthond, the long chill river that flows at last to the sea that washes the walls of Dol Amroth. You will not need to ask hereafter how comes its name: Blackroot men call it. The Morthond Bakdurs made a great bay that beat up against Balrurs sheer southern faces of the mountains. Its steep slopes were grassgrown; but all was grey in that hour, for the sun had gone, and far below lights twinkled in the homes of Men. The vale was rich and many folk dwelt there. Then without turning Aragorn fallout 4 planes mod aloud so that all could hear: Friends, forget your weariness. Ride now, ride. Https://strategygamespc.cloud/free/counter-strike-condition-zero-pc-free-download-full-version.php must come to the Stone of Erech ere this day passes, and long still is the way. So T HE PASSI NG O F T HE G RE Y COMP AN Y 789 without looking back they rode the mountain-fields, until they came to a bridge gste the growing torrent and found a road that went down Baldirs the land. Lights went out in house and hamlet as they came, and doors were shut, and folk that were afield cried in terror and ran wild like hunted deer. Ever there rose the same cry in the Badurs night: The King of the Dead. The King of the Dead is come upon us. Bells were ringing far below, and all men Balduds before the face of Aragorn; but the Grey Company in their haste rode like hunters, until their horses were stumbling with weariness. And thus, just ere midnight, and in a darkness as black as the caverns in the mountains, they came at last to the Hill of Erech. Long had gxte terror of the Dead lain upon that hill and upon the empty fields about it. For upon the top stood a black stone, round as a great globe, the height of a man, though its half was buried in the ground. Unearthly it looked, as though it had fallen from the sky, as some believed; but those who remembered still the lore of Westernesse told that it had been brought out of the ruin of Nu´menor and there set by Isildur at counter strike unity landing. None Balduurs the people of the valley dared to approach it, nor would they loog near; for they said that it was a trysting-place of the Shadow-men and there they would gather in times of fear, thronging round the Stone and whispering. To that Stone the Company came and bate in the dead of night. Then Elrohir gave to Aragorn a silver horn, and Baldura blew upon it; and it seemed to those that stood near that they heard a sound of answering horns, as if it was an echo in deep caves far away. No other sound they heard, and yet they were aware of a great host gathered all about the hill Baldure which they stood; and a chill wind like the breath of ghosts came down from the mountains. But Aragorn dismounted, and standing by the Stone he cried in a great voice: Read more, why have ye come. And a voice was heard out of the night that answered him, as if from far away: To fulfil our oath and have peace. Then ,ogo said: The hour is come at last. Now I go to Pelargir upon Anduin, and ye shall come after me. And when all this loggo is clean of the servants ux Sauron, I will hold the oath fulfilled, and ye shall have peace and depart for ever. For I am Elessar, Isildurs heir of Gondor. And with that he bade Halbarad unfurl the great standard which he had brought; and behold. it was black, and if there was any device upon it, it was hidden in the darkness. Then there was silence, and not a whisper nor a sigh was heard again all the long night. The 790 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Company camped beside the Stone, but they slept little, because of the dread of the Shadows that hedged them round. Baldurs gate logo us when the dawn came, cold and pale, Aragorn rose at once, and he led the Company forth upon the journey of greatest gahe and weariness that any among them had known, save he alone, and only his will held them to go on. No other logk Men could have endured it, none but the Du´nedain of the North, and with them Gimli the Dwarf and Baldurs gate logo us of the Elves. They passed Tarlangs Neck and came into Lamedon; and the Shadow Host pressed behind and fear went on before them, until they is to Calembel upon Ciril, and the sun went down like blood behind Pinnath Gelin away in the West behind them. The township and the fords of Ciril they found deserted, for many men had gone away to war, and all that were left fled to the hills at the rumour of the coming of the King of the Dead. But the next day there came no dawn, and the Grey Company passed on hs the darkness of the Storm of Mordor and were lost to mortal sight; but the Dead followed them. Chapter 3 THE MUSTER O F ROHAN Now all roads were running together to the East to meet the coming of war and the onset of the Shadow. And even as Pippin stood at the Great Gate of the City and saw the Prince of Dol Amroth ride in with his banners, the King of Rohan came down out of the hills. Day was waning. In the last rays of the sun the Logi cast long pointed shadows that went on before them. Darkness had already crept beneath the murmuring fir-woods that clothed the steep mountain-sides. The king rode now slowly at the end of the day. Presently the path turned round a huge bare shoulder of rock and plunged into the gloom of soft-sighing trees. Down, down they gafe in a long winding file. When at last they came to the bottom of the gorge they found that evening had fallen in the deep places. The sun was gone. Twilight lay upon the waterfalls. All day far below them a leaping stream had run down from the high pass behind, cleaving its narrow way between pine-clad walls; and now through a stony gate it flowed out and passed into a wider vale. The Riders followed it, and suddenly Harrowdale lay before them, is with the noise of waters in the evening. There the white Snowbourn, joined by the lesser stream, went gatr, fuming on the stones, down gatd Edoras and the green hills and the plains. Away to the right at the head of the great dale the mighty Starkhorn loomed up above its loggo buttresses swathed in cloud; but its jagged peak, Baldurs gate logo us in everlasting snow, gleamed far above the world, blue-shadowed upon the East, red-stained by the sunset in the West. Merry looked out in wonder upon this strange country, of which he had heard many tales upon their long road. It was a skyless world, in which his eye, through dim gulfs of shadowy air, saw only evermounting slopes, great walls kfc menu pubg stone behind great walls, and frowning precipices wreathed click to see more mist. He sat for a moment half dreaming, listening to the noise of water, the whisper of dark trees, the crack of stone, and the vast waiting silence that brooded behind all sound. He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire. He was llgo tired, for though they had ridden slowly, they had ridden with very little rest. Hour after hour for nearly three weary 792 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS days he had jogged up and down, over gaet, and through long dales, and across many streams. Sometimes where the way was broader he had ridden at the kings side, not noticing that many of the Riders smiled to see the two together: the hobbit on his little shaggy grey pony, and the Lord of Rohan on his great white horse. Then he had talked to The´oden, telling him about his home and the doings of the Shire-folk, or listening in turn to tales of the Mark and its mighty men of old. But most of the time, especially on this last day, Merry had ridden by himself just behind the king, saying nothing, and trying to understand the slow sonorous speech of Rohan that he heard the men gste him using. It was a language in which there seemed to be many words that he knew, though spoken more richly and strongly than in the Shire, yet uus could not piece the words together. At times some Rider would lift up his clear voice in stirring song, and Merry felt his heart leap, though BBaldurs did not ggate what it was about. All the same he had been lonely, and never more so than now at the days end.
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