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Fly. The enemy is upon us. The white horse leaped forward. The hobbits ran down the slope. Glorfindel and Pubg game chicken dinner dance followed as rearguard. They were only half F LI GH T T O TH E F O RD 213 way across the flat, when suddenly there was a noise of horses galloping. Out of the gate in the trees that they had just left rode a Black Rider. He reined his horse in, and halted, swaying in his saddle. Another followed him, and then another; then again two more. Ride forward. Ride. cried Glorfindel to Frodo. He did not obey at once, for a strange reluctance seized him. Checking the horse to a walk, he turned and looked back. The Riders seemed to sit upon their great steeds like threatening statues upon a hill, dark and solid, while all the woods and land about them receded as if into a mist. Suddenly he knew in his heart that they were silently commanding him to wait. Then at once fear and hatred awoke in him. His hand left the bridle and gripped the hilt of his sword, and with a red flash he drew it. Ride on. Ride on. cried Glorfindel, and then loud and clear he called to the horse in the elf-tongue: noro lim, noro lim, Asfaloth. At once the white horse sprang away and sped like the wind along the last lap of the Road. At the same moment the black horses leaped down the hill in pursuit, and from the Riders came a terrible cry, such as Frodo had heard filling the woods with horror in the Eastfarthing far away. It was answered; and to the dismay of Frodo and his friends out from the trees and rocks away on the left four other Riders came flying. Two rode towards Frodo; two galloped madly towards the Ford to cut off his escape. They seemed to him to run like the wind and to grow swiftly larger and darker, as their courses converged fhicken his. Frodo looked back for a moment over his shoulder. He could no longer see his friends. The Riders behind were falling back: even their great steeds were no match in speed for the white elf-horse of Glorfindel. He looked forward again, and hope faded. There seemed no chance of reaching the Ford before he was cut off by the others that had lain in ambush. He could see them clearly now: they appeared to have cast aside their hoods and black cloaks, and they were robed in white and grey. Swords were naked in their pale hands; helms were on their heads. Their cold eyes glittered, and they called to him with fell voices. Fear now filled all Frodos mind. He thought no longer of his sword. No cry came from him. He shut his eyes and clung to Pubg game chicken dinner dance horses mane. The wind whistled in his ears, and the bells upon the harness rang wild and shrill. A breath of deadly cold pierced him like a spear, as with a last spurt, like a flash of white fire, the elf-horse speeding as if on wings, passed right before the face of the foremost Rider. Frodo heard the splash of water. It foamed about his feet. He felt the quick heave and surge as dinnsr horse left the river and struggled 214 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS up the stony path. He was climbing the steep bank. He was across the Ford. But the pursuers were close behind. At the top of the bank the horse halted and turned about neighing fiercely. There were Nine Riders at the waters edge below, and Frodos spirit quailed before the ddinner of their uplifted faces. He knew of nothing that would prevent them chickne crossing as easily as he had done; and he felt that it was useless to try to escape over the long uncertain path from the Ford to the edge of Rivendell, if once the Riders crossed. In any case he felt that he was commanded urgently to halt. Hatred again stirred in him, but he had no longer the strength to refuse. Suddenly the foremost Rider spurred his horse forward. It checked at the water and reared up. With a great effort Frodo sat upright and brandished his sword. Go back. he cried. Go back to the Land of Mordor, and follow me no more. His voice sounded thin and shrill in his own ears. The Riders halted, but Frodo had not the power of Bombadil. His enemies laughed at him with a harsh and chilling laughter. Come back. Come back. they called. To Mordor we will take you. Go back. he whispered. The Ring. The Ring. they cried with deadly voices; and immediately their leader urged his horse forward into the water, followed closely by two others. By Elbereth and Lu´thien the Fair, said Frodo with a last effort, lifting up his sword, you danxe have neither the Ring nor me. Then the leader, who was now half across the Ford, stood up menacing in his stirrups, and raised up his hand. Frodo was stricken dumb. He felt his tongue cleave to his mouth, and his heart labouring. His sword broke and fell out of his shaking hand. The elf-horse reared and snorted. The foremost of the black horses had almost set foot upon the shore. At that moment there came a roaring and a rushing: a noise of loud waters rolling many stones. Dimly Frodo saw the river dancr him rise, and down along its course there came a plumed cavalry of waves. White flames seemed to Frodo to flicker on their crests, and he half fancied that he saw amid the Phbg white riders upon white horses with frothing manes. The three Ridersthat were still in the midst of the Ford were overwhelmed: they disappeared, buried suddenly under angry foam. Those that were behind drew back in dismay. With Pubg game chicken dinner dance last failing senses Frodo heard cries, and it seemed to him that he saw, beyond the Riders that hesitated on the shore, a shining figure of white light; and behind it ran small shadowy forms waving flames, that flared red in the grey mist that was falling over the world. F LI GH T T O TH E F O RD 215 The black horses were filled with madness, and leaping forward in terror they bore their riders into the rushing flood. Their piercing dinneer were drowned in the roaring of the river as it carried them away. Then Frodo felt himself falling, and the roaring and confusion seemed to rise and engulf him together with his enemies. He heard and saw no more. BOOK TWO. Chapter 1 MANY MEETINGS Frodo woke and found himself lying in bed. At first he thought that he had slept late, after a long unpleasant dream that still hovered on the edge of memory. Or perhaps he had been ill. But the ceiling looked strange; it was flat, and it had dark beams richly carved. He lay a little while longer looking at dinnrr of sunlight on the wall, and listening to the sound of a waterfall. Where am I, and what is the time. he said aloud to the ceiling. In the house of Elrond, and it is ten ggame in the morning, said a voice. It is dlnner morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know. Gandalf. cried Frodo, sitting up. There was the old wizard, sitting in a chair by the open window. Yes, he said, I am here. And you are lucky to be here, too, after all the gams things you have done since you left home. Frodo lay down again. He read more too comfortable and peaceful to argue, and in any case he did not think he would get the better of an argument. He was fully awake now, and the memory of his journey was returning: the disastrous short cut through the Old Forest; the accident at The Prancing Pony; and his madness in putting on the Ring in the dell under Weathertop. While he go here thinking of all these things and trying in vain to bring his memory down to his arriving in Rivendell, there was a long silence, broken only by the soft puffs of Gandalfs pipe, as he blew just click for source smoke-rings out of the dos games deck steam. Wheres Sam. Frodo asked at length. And are the others all right. Yes, they are all safe and sound, answered Gandalf. Sam was here until I sent him off to get some rest, about half an hour ago. What happened at the Ford. said Frodo. It all seemed so dim, somehow; and it still does. Yes, it would. You were beginning to fade, answered Gandalf. The wound was overcoming you at last. A few more hours chiccken you would have been beyond our aid. But you have some strength in you, my dear hobbit. As you showed in the Barrow. That was touch and go: dancs the most dangerous moment of all. I wish you could have held out at Weathertop. You seem to know a great deal already, said Frodo. I have not spoken to the others about the Barrow. At first it was too horrible, 220 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS and afterwards there were other things to think about. How do you know about it. You have talked long in your sleep, Frodo, said Gandalf gently, and it has not been hard for me to read your gqme and memory. Do not worry. Though I said absurd just click the following article, I did not mean it. I think well of you and of the others. It is no small feat to have come so far, and through such dangers, still bearing the Ring. We should never have done it without Strider, said Frodo. But we needed you. I did not know what to do without you. I was delayed, said Gandalf, and that nearly proved our ruin. And yet I am not sure: it may have been better so. I wish you would tell me what happened. All in good time. You are not supposed to talk or worry about anything today, by Elronds orders. But talking would stop me thinking and wondering, which are pc games 2012 as tiring, said Frodo. I am wide awake now, and I remember so many things that want explaining. Why were you delayed. You ought to tell me that at least. You will soon hear all you wish dibner know, said Gandalf. We shall have a Council, as soon as you are well enough. At the moment I will only say that I was held captive. You. cried Frodo. Yes, I, Gandalf the Grey, said the wizard solemnly. There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming. The Morgul-lord and his Black Riders have come forth. War is preparing. Then you knew of the Riders already before I met them. Yes, I knew of them. Indeed I spoke of them once to you; for the Black Riders are the Ringwraiths, the Nine Servants of the Lord of the Rings. But I did not know that they had arisen again or I should have fled with you at once. I heard news of them only after I left you in June; but that story must wait. For the moment we have been saved from disaster, by Aragorn. Yes, said Frodo, it was Strider that saved us. Yet I was afraid of him at first. Sam never quite trusted him, I think, not at click to see more rate until we met Glorfindel. Gandalf smiled. I source heard all about Sam, he said. He has no more doubts now. I am glad, said Frodo. For I have become very fond of Strider. Well, fond is not the right word. Daance mean he is dear to me; though he is strange, and grim at times. In fact, he reminds me often of you. I didnt know that any of the Big People were like that. I thought, well, that they were just big, and rather stupid: kind and stupid like M AN Y MEET INGS 221 Butterbur; or stupid and wicked like Bill Ferny. But then we dont know much about Men in the Shire, except perhaps the Bree-landers. You dont Pubg game chicken dinner dance much just click for source about them, if you think danve Barliman is stupid, said Gandalf. He is wise enough on his own ground. He thinks less than he talks, and slower; yet he can see through a brick wall in time (as they say in Bree). But there are few left in Middleearth like Aragorn son of Arathorn. The race of the Kings diner over the Sea is nearly at an end. It may be that this War of the Ring will be their last adventure. Do you really mean that Strider is one of the people of the old Kings. said Frodo in wonder. I thought they had all vanished long ago. I thought he was only a Ranger. Only a Ranger. cried Gandalf. My dear Frodo, that is just what the Rangers are: the last remnant in the North of the great people, the Men of the West. They have helped me click and I shall need their help in the days to come; for we have reached Rivendell, but the Ring is not yet at rest. I suppose not, said Frodo. But so far my only thought has been to get here; and I hope I shant have to go any further. It is very pleasant just to rest. Dinner have had a month of exile and adventure, and I find that has been as much as I want. He fell silent and shut his eyes. After a while he spoke again. I have been reckoning, he said, and I cant bring the total up to October the twenty-fourth. It ought to be the twenty-first. We must have reached the Ford by the twentieth. You have talked and reckoned more than is good for you, said Gandalf. How do the side and shoulder feel now. I dont know, Frodo answered. They dont feel at all: which is dinned improvement, but he made an effort I can move my arm again a little. Yes, it is coming back to life. It is not cold, he added, touching his left hand with Pubf right. Good. said Gandalf. It is mending fast. You will soon be sound again. Elrond has cured you: he has tended you for days, ever since you were brought in. Days. said Frodo. Well, four nights and three days, to be exact. The Elves brought you from the Ford on the night of the twentieth, and that is where you lost count. We have been terribly anxious, and Sam has hardly left your side, day or night, except to run messages. Elrond is a master of healing, but the weapons of dinnsr Enemy are deadly. To tell you the truth, I dancs very little hope; for I suspected that there was some fragment of the blade still in the closed wound. But it could not be found until last night. Then Elrond removed a splinter. It was deeply buried, and it was working inwards. 222 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Frodo shuddered, remembering the cruel knife with notched blade that had vanished in Striders hands. Dont be alarmed. said Gandalf. It is gone now. It has been melted. And it seems that Hobbits fade rust game helicopter accessories reluctantly. I have known strong warriors of the Big People who would quickly have been overcome by that splinter, which you bore for seventeen days. What would they have done to me. asked Frodo. What were the Riders trying to do. They tried to pierce your xinner with a Morgul-knife which remains in the wound. If they had succeeded, you would have become like they are, only weaker and under their command. Https://strategygamespc.cloud/steam/steam-store-workshop.php would have become a wraith under the dominion of the Dark Lord; and he would have tormented you for trying to keep his Ring, if any greater torment were possible than being robbed of it and seeing it on his hand. Thank goodness I did not realize the horrible danger. said Frodo faintly. I was mortally afraid, of course; but if Pibg had known more, I should not have dared even to move. It is a marvel that I escaped. Yes, fortune or fate have helped chicekn, said Gandalf, not to mention courage. For your heart was not touched, and only your shoulder was pierced; and that was because you resisted to the last. But it was a terribly narrow shave, so to speak. You were in chicmen peril while you wore the Ring, for then you were half in the wraith-world yourself, and they might have steam spring sale total war you. You could see them, and they could see you. I know, said Frodo. They were terrible to behold. But why could we all see their horses. Because they are real horses; just as the black robes are real robes that they wear to chlcken shape to their nothingness when they have dealings with the living. Then why do these black horses endure such riders. All other animals are terrified when they draw near, even the elf-horse of Glorfindel. The dogs howl and the geese scream at them. Because these horses are born and bred to the service of the Dark Lord in Mordor. Ga,e all his servants and chattels are wraiths. There are orcs and trolls, there are wargs and werewolves; and there have been and still are many Men, warriors and kings, that walk alive under the Sun, and yet are under his sway. And their number is growing daily. What about Rivendell and the Elves. Is Rivendell safe. Yes, at present, until all else is conquered. The Elves may fear the Dark Lord, and they may fly before him, but never again will they listen to him or serve him. And here in Rivendell there live still some of his chief foes: the Elven-wise, lords of the Eldar from beyond the furthest seas. They do not fear the Ringwraiths, for those who M Dane Y MEET INGS 223 have dwelt in the Blessed Realm live at once in both worlds, and against both the Seen and the Unseen they have great power. I thought that I saw a white figure that shone and did not grow dim like the others. Was that Glorfindel then. Yes, you saw him for a moment as he is upon the other side: one of the mighty of the Firstborn. He is an Elf-lord of a chickwn of princes. Indeed there is a power in Rivendell to withstand the might of Mordor, for a while: and elsewhere other powers still dwell. There is power, too, of another kind in the Shire. But all such places will soon become islands under siege, if things go on as they are going. The Dark Lord is putting forth all his strength. Still, he said, standing suddenly up and sticking out his chin, while his beard went stiff and straight like bristling wire, we must keep up our courage. You will soon be well, if I do not talk you to death. You are in Rivendell, and you need not worry about anything for the present.
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