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It comes from Mordor, lord, he said. It began last night at sunset. From the hills in the Eastfold of your realm I saw it rise and creep across the sky, and all night as I rode it came click the following article eating up the stars. Now the great cloud hangs over all the land between here and the Mountains of Shadow; and it is deepening. War has already begun. For a while the king sat silent. At last he spoke. So we come to it in the end, he said: the great battle of our time, in which many things shall pass away. But at least there is no longer need for hiding. We will ride the straight way and the open road and with all our speed. The muster shall begin at once, and wait for none that tarry. Have you good store in Minas Tirith. For if we must ride now in all haste, then we must ride light, with but meal and water enough to last us into battle. We have very great store long prepared, answered Hirgon. Ride now as light and as swift as you may. Then call the heralds, Eomer, ´ said The´oden. Let the Riders be marshalled. Eomer ´ went out, and presently the trumpets rang in the Hold and were answered by many others from below; but their voices no longer sounded clear and brave as they had seemed to Merry antichamber night before. Dull they seemed and harsh in the heavy air, braying ominously. The king turned to Merry. I am going to war, Master Meriadoc, he said. In a little while I shall take the road. I release you from my service, but not from my friendship. You shall abide here, and if you will, you ´ shall serve the Lady Eowyn, who will govern the folk in my stead. But, but, lord, Merry stammered, I offered you my sword. I do not want to be parted from you like this, The´oden King. And as all my friends have gone to the battle, I should be ashamed to stay behind. But we ride on horses tall and swift, said The´oden; and great though your heart be, you cannot ride on such beasts. Then tie me on to the back of one, or let me hang on a stirrup, or something, said Merry. It is a long way to run; but run I shall, if I cannot ride, even if I wear my feet off and arrive weeks too late. The´oden smiled. Rather than that I would bear you with me on 802 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Snowmane, he said. But at the least you shall ride with me to Edoras and look on Meduseld; for that way I shall go. So far Stybba can bear you: the great race will not begin till we reach the plains. Then Eowyn ´ rose up. Come now, Meriadoc. she said. I will show you the gear that I have prepared for you. They went out together. This request only did Aragorn make to me, said Eowyn, ´ as they passed among the tents, that you should be armed for battle. I have granted it, as I could. For my heart tells me that you will need such gear ere the end. Now she led Merry to a booth among the lodges of the kings guard; and there an armourer brought out to her a small helm, and a round shield, and other gear. No mail have we to fit you, said Eowyn, ´ nor any time for the forging of such a hauberk; but here is also a stout jerkin of leather, a belt, and a knife. A sword you have. Merry bowed, and the lady showed him the shield, which was like the shield that had been given to Gimli, and it bore on it the device of the white horse. Take all these things, she said, and bear them to good fortune. Farewell now, Master Meriadoc. Yet maybe we shall meet again, you and I. So it was that amid a gathering gloom the King of the Mark made ready to lead all his Riders on the eastward road. Hearts were heavy and many quailed in the shadow. But they were a stern people, loyal to their lord, and little weeping or murmuring was heard, even in the camp in the Hold where the exiles from Edoras were housed, women and children and old men. Doom hung over them, but they faced it silently. Two swift hours passed, and now the king sat upon his white horse, glimmering in the half-light. Proud and tall he seemed, though the hair that flowed beneath his high helm was like snow; and many marvelled at him and took heart to see him unbent and unafraid. There on the wide flats beside the noisy river were marshalled in many companies well nigh five and fifty hundreds of Riders fully armed, and many hundreds of other men with spare horses lightly burdened. A single trumpet sounded. The king raised his hand, and then silently the host of the Mark began to move. Foremost went twelve of the kings household-men, Riders of renown. Then the king ´ ´ followed with Eomer on his right. He had said farewell to Eowyn above in the Hold, and the memory was grievous; but now he turned his mind to the road that lay ahead. Behind him Merry rode on Stybba with the errand riders of Gondor, and behind them again twelve more of the kings household. They passed down the long ranks of waiting men with stern and unmoved faces. But when they T HE MU STER O F R O HA N 803 had come almost to the end of the line one looked up glancing keenly at the hobbit. A young man, Merry thought as he returned the glance, less in height and girth than most. He visit web page the glint of clear grey eyes; and then he shivered, for it came suddenly to him that it was the face of one click the following article hope who goes in search of death. On down the grey road they went beside the Snowbourn rushing on its stones; through the hamlets of Underharrow and Upbourn, where many sad faces of women looked out from dark doors; and so without horn or harp or music of mens voices the great ride into the East began with which the songs of Rohan were busy for many long lives of men thereafter. From dark Dunharrow in the dim morning with thane and captain rode Thengels son: to Edoras he came, the ancient halls of the Mark-wardens mist-enshrouded; golden timbers were in gloom mantled. Farewell he bade to his free people, hearth and high-seat, and the hallowed places, where long he had feasted ere the light faded. Forth rode the king, fear behind him, fate before him. Fealty kept he; oaths he had taken, all fulfilled them. Forth rode The´oden. Five nights and days east and onward rode the Eorlingas through Folde and Fenmarch and the Firienwood, six thousand spears to Sunlending, Mundburg the mighty under Mindolluin, Sea-kings city in the South-kingdom foe-beleaguered, fire-encircled. Doom drove them on. Darkness took them, horse and horseman; hoofbeats afar sank into silence: so the songs tell us. It was indeed in deepening gloom that the king came to Edoras, although it was then but noon by the hour. There he halted only a short while and strengthened his host by some three score of Riders that came late to the weapontake. Now having eaten he made ready to set out again, and he wished his esquire a kindly farewell. But Merry begged for the last time not to be parted from him. This is no journey for such steeds as Stybba, as I have told you, said The´oden. And in such a battle as we think to make on the fields of Gondor what would you do, Master Click here, swordthain though you be, and greater of heart than of stature. 804 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS As for that, who can tell. answered Merry. But why, lord, did you receive me as swordthain, if not to stay by your side. And I would not have it said of me in song only that I was always left behind. I received you for your safe-keeping, answered The´oden; and also to do as I might bid. None of my Riders can bear you as burden. If the battle were before my gates, maybe your deeds would be remembered by the minstrels; but it is a hundred leagues and two to Mundburg where Denethor is lord. I will say no more. Merry bowed and went away unhappily, and stared at the lines of horsemen. Already the companies were preparing to start: men were tightening girths, looking to saddles, caressing their horses; some gazed uneasily at the lowering sky. Unnoticed a Rider came up and spoke softly in the hobbits ear. Where will wants not, a way opens, so we say, he whispered; and so I have found myself. Merry looked up and saw that it was the young Rider whom he had noticed in the morning. You wish to go whither the Lord of the Mark goes: I see it in your face. I do, said Merry. Then you shall go with me, said the Rider. I will bear you before me, under my cloak until we are far afield, and this darkness is yet darker. Such good will should not be denied. Say no more to any man, but come. Thank you indeed. said Merry. Thank you, sir, though I do not know your name. Do you not. said the Rider softly. Then call me Dernhelm. Thus it came to pass that when the king set out, before Dernhelm sat Meriadoc the hobbit, and the great grey steed Windfola made little of the burden; for Dernhelm was less in weight than many men, though lithe and well-knit in frame. On into the shadow they rode. In the willow-thickets where Snowbourn flowed into Entwash, twelve leagues east of Edoras, they camped that night. And then on again through the Folde; and through the Fenmarch, where to their right great oakwoods climbed on the skirts of the hills under the shades of dark Halifirien by the borders of Gondor; but away to their left the mists lay on the marshes fed by the mouths of Entwash. And as they rode rumour came of war in the North. Lone men, riding wild, brought word of foes assailing their east-borders, of orc-hosts marching in the Wold of Rohan. Ride on. Ride on. cried Eomer. ´ Too late now to turn aside. The fens of Entwash must guard our flank. Haste now we need. Ride on. And so King The´oden departed from his own realm, and mile by mile the long road wound away, and the beacon hills marched T HE MU STER O F R O HA N 805 past: Calenhad, Min-Rimmon, Erelas, Nardol. But their fires were quenched. All the lands were grey and still; and ever the shadow deepened before them, and hope waned in every heart. Chapter 4 THE SIEGE O F GONDOR Pippin was roused by Gandalf. Candles were lit in their chamber, for only a dim twilight came through the windows; the air th7 layout coc heavy as with approaching thunder. What is the time. said Pippin yawning. Past the second hour, said Gandalf. Time to get up and make yourself presentable. You are summoned to the Lord of the City to learn your new duties. And will he provide breakfast. I have provided it: all that you will get till noon. Food is now doled out by order. Pippin looked ruefully at the small loaf and (he thought) very inadequate pat of butter which was set out for him, beside a cup of thin milk. Why did you bring me here. he said. You know quite well, said Gandalf. To keep you out of mischief; and if you do not like being here, you can remember that you brought it on yourself. Pippin said no more. Before long he was walking with Gandalf once more down the cold corridor to the Th15 update of the Tower Hall. There Denethor sat in a grey gloom, like an old patient spider, Pippin thought; he did not seem to have moved since the day before. He beckoned Gandalf to a seat, but Pippin was left for a while standing unheeded. Presently the old man turned to him: Well, Master Peregrin, I hope that you used yesterday to your profit, and to your liking. Though I fear that the board is barer in this city than you could wish. Pippin had an uncomfortable feeling that most of what he had said or done was somehow known to the Lord of the City, and much was guessed of what he thought as well. He did not answer. What would you do in my service. I thought, sir, that you would tell me my duties. I will, when I learn what you are fit for, said Denethor. But that I shall learn soonest, maybe, if I keep you beside me. The esquire of my chamber has article source leave to go to the out-garrison, so you shall take his place for a while. You shall wait on me, bear errands, and talk to me, if war and council leave me any leisure. Can you sing. Yes, said Pippin. Well, yes, well enough for my own people. But we have no songs fit for great halls and evil times, lord. We seldom T HE SIEGE O F G ON DO R 807 sing of anything more terrible than wind or rain. And most of my songs are about things that make us laugh; or about food and drink, of course. And why should such songs be unfit for my halls, or for such hours as these. This web page who have lived long under the Shadow may surely listen to echoes from a land untroubled by it. Then we may feel that our vigil was not fruitless, though it may have been thankless. Pippins heart sank. He did not relish the idea of singing any song of the Shire to the Lord of Minas Tirith, certainly not the comic ones that he knew best; they were too, well, rustic for such an occasion. He was however spared the ordeal for the apologise, vale mobile legends join. He was not commanded to sing. Denethor turned to Gandalf, asking questions about the Rohirrim and their policies, and the position of Eomer, the kings ´ nephew. Pippin marvelled at the amount that the Lord seemed to know about a people that lived far away, though it must, he thought, be many years since Denethor himself had ridden abroad. Presently Denethor waved to Pippin and dismissed him again for a while. Go to the armouries of the Citadel, he said, and get you there the livery and gear of the Tower. It will be ready. It was commanded yesterday. Return when you are clad. It was as he said; and Pippin soon found himself arrayed in strange garments, all of black and silver. He had a small hauberk, its rings forged of steel, maybe, yet black as jet; and a high-crowned helm with small raven-wings on either side, set with a silver star in the centre of the circlet. Above the mail was a short surcoat of black, but broidered on the breast in silver with the token of the Tree. His old clothes were folded and put away, but he was permitted to keep the grey cloak of Lo´rien, though not to wear it when on duty. He looked now, had he known it, verily Ernil i Pheriannath, the Prince of the Halflings, that folk had called him; but he felt uncomfortable. And the gloom began to weigh on his spirits. It was dark and dim all day. From the sunless dawn until evening the heavy shadow had deepened, and all hearts in the City were oppressed. Far above a great cloud streamed slowly westward from the Black Land, devouring light, borne upon a wind of war; but below the air was still and breathless, as if all the Vale of Anduin waited for the onset of a ruinous storm. About the eleventh hour, released at last for a while from service, Pippin came out and went in search of food and drink to cheer his heavy heart and make his task of waiting more supportable. In the messes he met Beregond again, who had just come from an errand over the Pelennor out to the Guard-towers upon the Causeway. Together they strolled out to the walls; for Pippin felt imprisoned 808 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS indoors, and stifled even in the lofty citadel. Now they sat side by side again in the embrasure looking eastward, where they had eaten and talked the day before. It was the sunset-hour, but the great pall had now stretched far into the West, and only as it sank at last into the Sea did the Sun escape to send out a brief farewell gleam before the night, even as Frodo saw it at the Cross-roads touching the head of the fallen king. But to the fields of the Pelennor, under the shadow of Mindolluin, there came no gleam: they were brown and drear. Already it northgard conquest years to Pippin since he had sat there before, in some half-forgotten time when he had still been a hobbit, a lighthearted wanderer touched little by the perils he had passed through. Now he was one small soldier in a city preparing for a great assault, clad in the proud but sombre manner of the Tower of Guard. In some other time and place Pippin might have been pleased with his new array, but he knew now that he was taking part in no play; he was in deadly earnest the servant of a grim master in the greatest peril. The hauberk was burdensome, and the helm weighed upon his head. His cloak he had cast aside upon the seat. He turned histired gaze away from the darkling fields below and yawned, and then he sighed. You are weary of this day. said Beregond. Yes, said Pippin, very: tired out with idleness and waiting. I have kicked my heels at the door of my masters chamber for many slow hours, while he has debated with Gandalf and the Prince and other great persons. And Im not used, Master Beregond, to waiting hungry on others while they eat. It is a sore trial for a hobbit, that. No doubt you will think I should feel the honour more deeply. But what is the good of such honour. Indeed what is the good even of food and drink under this creeping shadow. What does it mean. The very air seems thick and brown. Do you often have such glooms when the wind is in the East. Nay, said Beregond, this is no weather of the world. This is some device of his malice; some broil of fume from the Mountain of Fire that he sends to darken hearts and counsel. And so it doth indeed. I wish the Lord Faramir would return. He would not be dismayed. But now, who knows if he will ever come back across the River out of the Darkness. Yes, said Pippin, Gandalf, too, is anxious. He was disappointed, I think, not to find Faramir here. And where has he got to himself. He left the Lords council before the noon-meal, and in no good mood either, I thought. Perhaps he has some foreboding of bad news. Th15 update click to see more they talked they were stricken dumb, frozen as it were to intolerable. northgard ps4 are stones. Pippin cowered down with his hands pressed to T HE SIEGE O F G ON DO R 809 his ears; but Beregond, who had been looking out from the battlement as he spoke of Faramir, remained there, stiffened, staring out with starting eyes. Pippin knew the shuddering cry that he had heard: it was the same that he had heard long ago in the Marish hitman trilogy the Shire, but now it was grown in power and hatred, piercing the heart with a poisonous despair. At last Beregond spoke with an effort. They have come. he said. Take courage and look. There are fell things below. Reluctantly Pippin climbed on to the seat and looked out over the wall. The Pelennor lay dim beneath him, fading away to the scarce guessed line of the Great River. But now wheeling swiftly across it, like shadows of untimely night, he saw in the middle airs below him five birdlike forms, horrible as carrion-fowl yet greater than eagles, cruel as death. Now they swooped near, venturing almost within bowshot of the walls, now they circled away. Black Riders. muttered Pippin. Black Riders of the air. But see, Beregond. he cried. They are looking for something, surely. See how they wheel and swoop, always down to that point over there. And can you see something moving on the ground. Dark little things. Yes, men on horses: four or five. I cannot stand it. Gandalf. Gandalf save us. Another long screech rose and fell, and he threw himself back again from the wall, panting like a hunted animal. Faint and seemingly remote through that shuddering cry he heard winding up from below the sound of a trumpet ending on a long high note.
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