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Hey, Nob. he called, going to the door. Nob, you slowcoach. Nob. he said to himself, slapping his forehead. Now what does that remind me of. Not another letter youve forgotten, I hope, Mr. Butterbur. said Merry. Now, now, Mr. Brandybuck, dont go reminding me of that. But there, youve broken my thought. Now where was I. Nob, stables, ah. that was Phoenix point. Ive something that belongs to you. If you recollect Bill Ferny and the horsethieving: his pony as you bought, well, its here. Come back all of itself, it did. But where it had been to you know better than me. It was as shaggy as an old dog and as lean as a clothes-rail, but it was alive. Nobs looked after it. What. My Bill. cried Sam. Well, I was born lucky, whatever my gaffer may say. Theres another wish come true. Where is he. Sam would not go to bed until he had visited Bill in his stable. The travellers stayed in Bree all the next day, and Mr. Butterbur could not complain of his business next evening at any rate. Curiosity overcame all fears, and his house was crowded. For a while out of H OM EWARD B O U ND 995 politeness the hobbits visited the Common Room in the evening and answered a good many questions. Bree memories being retentive, Frodo was asked many times if he had written his book. Not yet, he answered. I am going home now to put my notes in order. He promised to deal with the amazing events at Bree, and so give a bit of interest to a book that appeared likely to treat mostly of the remote and less important affairs away south. Then one of the younger folk called for a song. But at that a hush fell, and he was frowned down, and the call was not repeated. Evidently there was no wish for any uncanny events in the Common Room again. No trouble by day, nor any sound by night, disturbed the peace of Bree while the travellers remained there; but the next morning they got up early, for as the weather was still rainy they wished to reach the Shire before night, and it was a long ride. The Bree folk were all out to see them off, and were in merrier mood than they had been for a year; and those who had not seen the strangers in https://gameslikeclashofclans.cloud/steam/steam-apex.php their gear before gaped with wonder at them: at Gandalf with his white beard, and the light that seemed to gleam from him, as if his blue mantle was only a cloud over sunshine; and at the four hobbits like riders upon errantry out of almost forgotten tales. Even those who had laughed at all the talk about the King began to think there might be some truth in it. Well, good luck on your road, and good luck to your homecoming. said Mr. Butterbur. I should have warned you before that alls not well in the Shire neither, if what we hear is true. Funny goings on, they say. But one thing drives out another, and I was full of my own troubles. But if I may be so bold, youve come back changed from your travels, and you look now like folk as can deal with troubles out of hand. I dont doubt youll soon set all to rights. Good luck heat pc nfs you. And the oftener you come back the better Ill be pleased. They wished him farewell and rode away, and passed through the West-gate and on towards the Shire. Bill the pony was with them, and as before he had a good deal of baggage, but he trotted along beside Sam and seemed well content. I wonder what old Barliman was hinting at, said Frodo. I can guess some of it, said Sam gloomily. What I saw in the Mirror: trees cut down and all, and my old gaffer turned out of the Row. I ought to have hurried back quicker. And somethings wrong with the Southfarthing evidently, said Merry. Theres a general shortage of pipe-weed. Whatever it is, said Pippin, Lotho will be at the bottom of it: you can be sure of that. 996 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Deep in, but not at the bottom, said Gandalf. You have forgotten Saruman. He began to take an interest in the Shire before Mordor did. Well, weve got you with us, said Merry, so things will soon be cleared up. I am with you at present, said Gandalf, but soon I shall not be. I am not coming fortnite android 2022 the Shire. You must settle its affairs yourselves; that is what you have been trained for. Do you not yet understand. My time is over: it is no longer my task to set things to rights, nor to help folk to do so. And as for you, my dear friends, you will need no help. You are grown up now. Grown indeed very high; among the great you are, and I have no longer any fear at all for any of you. But if you would know, I am turning aside soon. I am going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time. He is a moss-gatherer, and I have been a stone doomed to rolling. But my rolling days are ending, and now we shall have much to say to one another. In a little while they came to the point on the East Road where they had taken leave of Bombadil; and they hoped and half expected to see him standing there to greet them as they went by. But there was no sign of him; and there was a grey mist on the Barrow-downs southwards, and a deep veil over the Old Forest far away. They halted and Frodo looked south wistfully. I should dearly like to see the old fellow Phoenix point, he said. I wonder how he is getting on. As well as ever, you may be sure, said Gandalf. Quite untroubled; and I should guess, not much interested in anything that we have done or seen, unless perhaps in our visits to the Ents. There may be a time later for you to go and see https://gameslikeclashofclans.cloud/best/best-pc-games-2023.php. But if I were you, I should press on now for home, or you will not come to the Brandywine Bridge before the gates more info locked. But there arent continue reading gates, said Merry, not on the Road; you know that quite well. Theres the Buckland Gate, of course; but theyll let me through that at any time. There werent any gates, you mean, said Gandalf. I think you will find some now. And you might have more trouble even at the Buckland Gate than you think. But youll manage all right. Good-bye, dear friends. Not for the last time, not yet. Good-bye. He turned Shadowfax off the Road, and the great horse leaped the green dike that here ran beside it; and then at a cry from Gandalf he was gone, racing towards the Barrow-downs like a wind from the North. H OM EWARD B O U ND blasphemous steam Well here we are, just the four of us that started out together, said Merry. We have left all the rest behind, one after another. It seems almost like a dream that has slowly faded. Not to me, said Frodo. To me it feels more like falling asleep again. Chapter 8 THE SCOURING O F THE SHIRE It was after nightfall when, wet and tired, the travellers came at last to the Brandywine, and they found the way barred. At either end of the Bridge there was a great spiked gate; and on the further side of the river they could see that some new houses had been built: two-storeyed with narrow straight-sided windows, bare and dimly lit, all very gloomy and un-Shirelike. They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and the lights in the windows went out. A voice shouted in the dark: Whos that. Be off. You cant come in. Cant you read the notice: No admittance between sundown and sunrise. Of course we cant read the notice in the dark, Sam shouted back. And if hobbits of the Shire are to be kept out in the wet on a night like this, Ill tear down your notice when I find it. At that a window are world war 2 strategy games opinion, and a crowd of hobbits with lanterns poured out of the house on the left. They opened the further gate, and some came over the bridge. When they saw the travellers they seemed frightened. Come along. said Merry, recognizing one of the hobbits. If you dont know me, Hob Hayward, you ought to. I am Merry Brandybuck, and I should like to know what all this is about, and what a Bucklander like you is doing here. You used to be on the Hay Gate. Bless me. Its Master Merry, to be sure, and all dressed up for fighting. said old Hob. Why, they said you was dead. Lost in the Old Forest by all accounts. Im pleased to see you alive after all. Then stop gaping at me through the bars, and open the gate. said Merry. Im sorry, Master Merry, but we have orders. Whose orders. The Chiefs up at Bag End. Chief. Chief. Do you mean Mr. Lotho. said Frodo. I suppose so, Mr. Baggins; but we have to say just the Chief nowadays. Do you indeed. said Frodo. Well, I am glad he has dropped the Baggins at any rate. But it is evidently high time that the family dealt with him and put him in his place. A hush fell on the hobbits beyond the gate. It wont do no good T HE SC O URIN G O F TH E SH IRE 999 talking that way, said one. Hell get to hear of it. And if you make so much noise, youll wake the Chiefs Big Man. We shall wake him up in a way that will surprise him, said Merry. If you mean that your precious Chief has been hiring ruffians out of the wild, then weve not come back too soon. He sprang from his pony, and seeing the notice in the light of the lanterns, he tore it down and threw it over the gate. The hobbits backed away and made no move to open it. Come on, Pippin. said Merry. Two is enough. Merry and Pippin climbed the gate, and the hobbits fled. Another horn sounded. Out of the bigger house on the right a large heavy figure appeared against a light learn more here the doorway. Whats all this, he snarled as he came forward. Gate-breaking. You clear out, or Ill break your filthy little necks. Then he stopped, for he had caught the gleam of swords. Bill Ferny, said Merry, if you dont open that gate in ten seconds, youll regret it. I shall set steel to you, if you dont obey. And when you have opened the gates you will go through them and never return. You are a ruffian and a highway-robber. Bill Ferny flinched and shuffled to the gate and unlocked it. Give me the key. said Merry. But the ruffian flung it at his head and then darted out into the darkness. As he passed the ponies one of them let fly with his heels and just caught him as he ran. He went off with a yelp into the night and was never heard of again. Neat work, Bill, said Sam, meaning the pony. So much for your Big Man, said Merry. Well see the Chief later. In the meantime we want a lodging for the night, and as you seem to have pulled down the Bridge Inn and built this dismal place instead, youll have to put us up. I am sorry, Mr. Merry, said Hob, but it isnt allowed. What isnt allowed. Taking in folk off-hand like, and eating extra food, and all that, said Hob. Whats the matter with the place. said Merry. Has it been a bad year, or what. I thought it had been a fine summer and harvest. Well no, the years been good enough, said Hob. We grows a lot of food, but we dont rightly know what becomes of it. Its all these gatherers and sharers, I reckon, going round counting and measuring and taking off to storage. They do more gathering than sharing, and we never see most of the stuff again. Oh come. said Pippin yawning. This is all too tiresome for me tonight. Weve got food in our bags. Phoenix point give us a room to lie down in. Itll be better than many places I have seen. 1000 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS The hobbits at the gate still seemed ill at ease, evidently some rule or other was being broken; but there was no gainsaying four such masterfultravellers, all armed, and two ofthem uncommonly large and strong-looking. Frodo ordered the gates to be locked again. There was some sense at any rate in keeping a guard, while ruffians were still about. Then the four companions went into the hobbit guard-house and made themselves as comfortable as they could. It was a bare and ugly place, with a mean little grate that would not allow just click for source good fire. In the upper rooms were little rows of hard beds, and on every wall there was a notice and a list of Rules. Pippin tore them down. There was no beer and very little food, but with what the travellers brought and shared out they all made a fair meal; and Pippin broke Rule 4 by putting most of next days allowance of wood on the fire. Well now, what about a smoke, while you tell us what has been happening in the Shire. he said. There isnt no pipe-weed now, car crazy Hob; at least only for the Chiefs men. All the stocks seem to have gone. We do hear that waggon-loads of it went away down the old road out of the Southfarthing, over Sarn Ford way. That would be the end o last year, after you left. But it had been going away quietly before that, in a small way. That Lotho-- Now you shut up, Hob Hayward. cried several of the others. You know talk o that sort isnt allowed. The Chief will hear of it, and well all be in trouble. He wouldnt hear naught, if some of you here werent sneaks, rejoined Hob hotly. All right, all right. said Sam. Thats quite enough. I dont want to hear no more. No welcome, no beer, no smoke, and a lot of rules and orc-talk instead. I hoped to have a rest, but I can see theres work and trouble ahead. Lets sleep and forget it till morning. The new Chief evidently had means of getting news. It was a good forty miles from the Bridge to Bag End, but someone made the journey in a hurry. So Frodo and his friends soon discovered. They had not made any definite plans, but had vaguely thought of going down to Crickhollow together first, and resting there a bit. But now, seeing what things were like, they decided to go straight to Hobbiton. So the next day they set out along the Road and jogged along steadily. The wind had dropped but the sky was grey. The land looked rather sad and forlorn; but it was after all the first of November and the fag-end of autumn. Still there seemed an unusual amount of burning going on, and smoke rose from many points round about. A great cloud of it was going up far away in the direction of the Woody End. T HE SC O URIN G O F TH E SH IRE 1001 As evening fell they were drawing near to Frogmorton, a village right on the Road, about twenty-two miles from the Bridge. There they meant to stay the night; The Floating Log at Frogmorton was a good inn. But as they came to the east end of the village they met a barrier with a large board saying no road; and behind it stood a large band of Shirriffs with staves in their hands and feathers in their caps, looking both important and rather scared. Whats all this. said Frodo, feeling inclined to laugh. This is what it is, Mr. Baggins, said the leader of the Shirriffs, a two-feather hobbit: Youre arrested for Gate-breaking, and Tearing up of Rules, and Assaulting Gate-keepers, and Trespassing, and Sleeping see more Shire-buildings without Leave, and Bribing Guards with Food. And what else. said Frodo. Thatll do to go on with, said the Shirriff-leader. I can add some more, if youd like it, said Sam. Calling your Chief Names, Wishing to punch his Pimply Face, and Thinking you Shirriffs look a lot of Tom-fools. There now, Mister, thatll do. Its the Chiefs orders that youre to come along quiet. Were going to take you to Bywater and hand you over to the Chiefs Men; and when he deals with your case you can have your say. But if you dont want to stay in the Lockholes any longer than you need, I should cut the say short, if I was you. To the discomfiture of the Shirriffs Frodo and his companions all roared with laughter. Dont be absurd. said Frodo. I am going where I please, and in my own time. I happen to be going to Bag End on business, but if you insist on going too, well that is your affair. Very well, Mr. Baggins, said the leader, pushing the barrier aside. But dont forget Ive arrested you. I wont, said Frodo. Never. But I may forgive you. Now I am not going any further today, so if youll kindly escort me to The Floating Log, Ill be obliged. I cant do that, Mr. Baggins. The inns closed. Theres a Shirriffhouse at the far end of the village. Ill take you there.
Check this out are coming. Pippin and Bergil edged their way forward to the front of the crowd, and waited. Horns sounded at some distance, and the noise of cheering rolled towards them like a gathering wind. Then there was a loud trumpet-blast, and all about them people were shouting. Forlong. Forlong. Pippin heard men calling. What do they say. he asked. Forlong has come, Bergil answered; old Forlong the Fat, the Lord of Lossarnach. That is where my grandsire lives. Hurrah. Here he is. Good old Forlong. Leading the line there came walking a big thick-limbed horse, and on it sat a man of wide shoulders and huge girth, but old and grey-bearded, yet mail-clad and black-helmed and bearing a long heavy spear. Behind him marched proudly a dusty line of men, wellarmed and bearing great battle-axes; grim-faced they were, and shorter and somewhat swarthier steam pc any men that Pippin had yet seen in Gondor. Forlong. men shouted. True heart, true friend. Forlong. But when the men of Lossarnach had passed they muttered: So few. Two hundreds, what are they. We hoped for ten times the number. That will be the new tidings of the black fleet. They are sparing only a tithe of their strength. Still every little is a gain. And so the companies came and were hailed and cheered and passed through the Gate, men of the Outlands marching to defend the City of Gondor in a Io strategy games hour; but always too few, always less than hope looked for or need asked. The men of Ringlo´ Vale behind the son of their lord, Dervorin striding on foot: three hundreds. From the uplands of Morthond, the great Blackroot Vale, tall Duinhir with his sons, Duilin and Derufin, and five hundred bowmen. From the Anfalas, the Langstrand far away, a long line of men of many sorts, M IN AS TIRIT H 771 hunters and herdsmen and men of little villages, scantily equipped save for the household of Golasgil their lord. From Lamedon, a few grim hillmen without a captain. Fisher-folk of the Ethir, some hundred or more spared from the ships. Hirluin the Fair of the Green Hills from Pinnath Gelin with three hundreds of gallant green-clad men. And last and proudest, Imrahil, Prince of Dol Amroth, kinsman of the Lord, with gilded banners bearing his token of the Ship and the Silver Swan, and a company of knights in full harness riding grey horses; and behind them seven hundreds of men at arms, tall as lords, grey-eyed, dark-haired, singing as they came. And that was all, less than three Io strategy games full told. No more would come. Their cries and the tramp of their feet passed into the City and died away. The onlookers stood silent for a while. Dust hung in the air, for the wind had died and the evening was heavy. Already the closing hour was drawing nigh, and the red sun had gone behind Mindolluin. Shadow came down on the City. Pippin looked up, and it seemed to him that the sky had grown ashen-grey, as if a vast dust and smoke hung above them, and light came dully through it. But in the West the dying sun had set all the fume on fire, and now Mindolluin stood black against a burning smoulder flecked with embers. So ends a fair day in wrath. he said, forgetful of the lad at his side. So it will, if I have not returned before the sundown-bells, said Bergil. Come. There goes the trumpet for the closing of the Gate. Hand in hand they went back into the City, the last to pass the Gate before it was shut; and as they reached the Lampwrights Street all the bells in the towers tolled solemnly. Lights sprang in many windows, Io strategy games from the houses and wards of the men at arms along the walls there came the sound of song. Farewell for this time, said Read more. Take my greetings to my father, and thank him for the company that Io strategy games sent. Come again soon, I beg. Almost I wish now that there was no war, for we might have had some merry times. We might have journeyed to Can pc game pass download think, to my grandsires house; it is good to be there in spring, the woods and fields are full of flowers. But maybe we will go thither together yet. They will never overcome our Lord, and my father is very valiant. Farewell and return. They parted and Pippin hurried back towards the citadel. It seemed a long way, and he grew hot and very hungry; and night closed down swift and dark. Not a star pricked the sky. He was late for the daymeal in the mess, and Beregond greeted him gladly, and sat him at his side to hear news of his son. After the meal Pippin stayed a while, and then took his leave, for a strange gloom 772 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS was on him, and now he desired very much to see Gandalf again. Can you find your way. said Beregond at the door of the small hall, on the north side of the visit web page, where they had sat. It is a black night, and all the blacker since orders came that lights are to be dimmed within the City, and none are to shine out from the walls. And I can give you news of another order: you will be summoned check this out the Lord Denethor early tomorrow. I fear you will not be for the Third Company. Still we may galciv 4 to Io strategy games again. Farewell and sleep in peace. The lodging was dark, save for a little lantern set on the table. Gandalf was not there. Gloom settled still more heavily on Pippin. He climbed on the bench and tried to peer out of a window, but it was like looking into a pool of ink. He got down and closed the shutter and went to bed. For a while he lay and listened for sounds of Gandalfs return, and then he fell into an uneasy sleep. In the night he was wakened by a light, and he saw that Gandalf had come and was pacing to and fro in the room beyond the curtain of the alcove. There were candles on the table and rolls of parchment. He heard the wizard sigh, and mutter: When will Faramir return. Hullo. said Pippin, poking his head round the curtain. I thought you had forgotten all about me. I am glad to see you back. It has been a long day. But the night will be too short, said Gandalf. I have come back here, for I must have a little peace, alone. You should sleep, in a bed while you still may. At the sunrise I shall take you to the Lord Denethor again. No, when the summons comes, not at sunrise. The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn. Chapter 2 THE PASSING O F THE GREY COMPANY Gandalf was gone, and the thudding hoofs of Shadowfax were lost in the night, when Merry came back to Aragorn. He had only a light bundle, for he had lost his pack at Parth Galen, and all he had was a few useful things he had picked up among the wreckage of Isengard. Hasufel was already saddled. Legolas and Gimli with their horse stood close by. So four of the Link still remain, said Aragorn. We will ride on together. 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