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And if both led to terror and death, what good lay in choice. The day drew on. A deep silence fell upon the little grey hollow where they lay, so near to the borders of the land of fear: a silence that could be felt, as if it were a thick veil that cut them off from all the world about them. Above them was a dome of pale sky barred with fleeting smoke, but it seemed high and far away, xclm if seen through great deeps lime air heavy with brooding thought. Not even an eagle poised against the sun would have marked the hobbits sitting there, under the weight of lije, silent, not moving, shrouded in their thin grey cloaks. For a moment he might have paused to consider Gollum, a tiny figure sprawling on the ground: there perhaps lay the famished skeleton of some child of Men, its ragged garment still clinging to it, its long arms and legs almost bone-white and bone-thin: no flesh worth a peck. Frodos head was bowed over his knees, but Sam leaned back, with hands behind his head, staring out of his hood at the empty sky. T HE BLAC K GATE I S CLO S ED 645 At least for a long while it was empty. Then presently Sam thought he saw a dark bird-like figure wheel into the circle of his sight, xocm hover, and then wheel away again. Two more followed, and then a fourth. They were very small to look at, yet he knew, somehow, that they were huge, with a vast stretch of pinion, flying at a xcoom height. He covered his eyes and bent forward, cowering. The same warning fear was on him as he had felt in the presence of the Black Riders, the helpless horror that had come with the cry in the wind and the shadow on the moon, though now it was not so crushing or compelling: the menace was more remote. But menace it was. Frodo felt it too. His thought was broken. He stirred and shivered, but he did not look base th 11 new. Gollum huddled himself together like xom cornered spider. The winged shapes wheeled, and stooped swiftly down, speeding back to Mordor. Sam took a deep breath. The Riders are about again, up in the air, he said in a hoarse whisper. I saw them. Do you think they could see us. They were very high up. And if they are Black Riders, same as before, then they cant likke much by daylight, can they. No, perhaps aGmes, said Frodo. But their steeds could see. And these winged creatures that they ride on now, they can probably see more than any other creature. They are like great carrion birds. They are looking for something: the Enemy is on the watch, I fear. The feeling of dread passed, but the enfolding silence was broken. For some time they had been cut off from the world, as if in an invisible island; now they were laid bare again, peril had returned. But still Frodo did not speak to Gollum or make his choice. His eyes were closed, as if he were dreaming, or looking inward into his heart and memory. 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Far off a 646 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS horn blew on the ramparts of the Morannon. Then quietly Gollum Gamea back and slipped down into the hollow. More Men going to Mordor, he said in a low voice. Dark faces. We have not seen Men like these before, no, Sme´agol has not. They are Gammes. They have black eyes, and long black hair, and gold rings in their ears; yes, lots of beautiful gold. And some have red paint on their cheeks, and red cloaks; and their flags are red, and the tips of their spears; and they have round shields, yellow and black with big spikes. Not nice; very cruel wicked Men they look. Almost as bad as Orcs, and much bigger. Sme´agol thinks they have come out of the South beyond the Great Rivers end: they came up that road. They have passed on to the Liike Gate; but more may follow. Always more people coming to Mordor. One kike all the peoples will Gmaes inside. Were there any oliphaunts. asked Sam, forgetting his fear in his eagerness for news of strange places. No, no oliphaunts. What are oliphaunts. said Gollum. Sam stood up, putting his hands behind his back (as he always did when speaking poetry), and began: Grey as a mouse, Big as a house, Nose Games like xcom a snake, I make the earth shake, As I tramp through the grass; Trees crack as I pass. With horns in my mouth Li,e walk in the South, Flapping big ears. Beyond count of years I stump round and round, Never lie on the ground, Not even to die. Oliphaunt am I, Biggest of all, Huge, old, and tall. If ever youd met me You wouldnt forget me. If you never do, You wont think Im true; But old Oliphaunt am I, And I never lie. T Gamss BLAC K GATE I S CLO S ED 647 That, said Sam, when he Gamed finished reciting, thats a rhyme we have in the Shire. Nonsense maybe, and maybe not. But we have our tales too, and news out of the South, you know. Lik the old days hobbits used to go on their travels now and again. Not that many ever came back, and not that all they said was believed: news from Bree, and not sure as Shiretalk, as the sayings go. But Ive heard tales of the big folk dcom away in the Sunlands. Swertings we call em in our tales; and they ride on oliphaunts, tis said, when they fight. They put houses and towers on the oliphauntses backs and all, and the oliphaunts throw rocks and trees at one another. So when you said Men out of the South, all in lije and gold, I said were there any oliphaunts. For if there was, Likd was going to take a look, risk or no. But now I dont suppose Ill ever see an oliphaunt. Maybe there aint no such a beast. He sighed. No, no oliphaunts, said Gollum again. Sme´agol has not heard of them. He does Gams want to see them. He does not want them to be. Sme´agol wants to go away from here and hide somewhere safer. Sme´agol wants master to go. Nice master, wont he come with Sme´agol. Frodo stood up. He had laughed in the midst of all his cares when Sam trotted out the old fireside rhyme of Oliphaunt, and the laugh had released him from hesitation. I wish we had a thousand oliphaunts with Gandalf on a white one at their head, he said. Then wed break a way into this evil land, perhaps. But weve not; just our own tired legs, thats all. Well, Sme´agol, the third turn may turn the best. I will come with you. Good master, wise master, nice master. cried Gollum in delight, patting Frodos knees. Good master. Then rest now, nice hobbits, under xfom shadow of the stones, close under the stones. Rest and lie quiet, till the Yellow Face goes away. Then we can go quickly. Soft and quick as shadows we must be. Chapter 4 O F HERBS AND Gsmes RABBIT For the few hours of daylight that were left they rested, shifting into the shade as the sun moved, until at last the shadow of the western rim of their dell grew long, and darkness filled all the hollow. Then they ate a little, and drank sparingly. Gollum ate nothing, but he accepted water gladly. Soon get more now, he said, licking his lips. Good water runs down in streams Gamex the Great River, nice water in the lands we are going to. Sme´agol will kike food there too, perhaps. Hes very hungry, yes, gollum. He set his two large flat hands on his read more belly, and a pale green light came into his eyes. The dusk was deep when at length they set out, creeping over the westward rim of the dell, and fading Games like xcom ghosts into the broken country on the borders of the road. The moon was now three nights from the full, but it did not climb over the mountains until nearly midnight, and the early night was very lke. A single red light burned high up in the Towers of the Teeth, but otherwise no sign could be seen or heard of the sleepless luke on the Morannon. For many miles the red eye seemed to stare at them as they fled, stumbling through a barren stony country. They did not dare to take the road, but likke kept it on their left, following its line as well as they could at a little distance. At last, when night was growing old and they were already weary, for they had taken only one short rest, here eye dwindled to a small fiery point and then vanished: they had turned the dark northern shoulder of the lower mountains and were heading southwards. With hearts strangely lightened they now rested again, but not for long. They were not going quick enough for Gollum. By xxcom reckoning it was nearly thirty leagues from the Morannon to the Cross-roads above Osgiliath, and he hoped to cover that distance in four journeys. Read more soon they struggled on once more, until the dawn began to spread slowly in the wide grey solitude. They had then walked almost eight leagues, and the hobbits could not have gone any further, even if they had dared. O F H ERBS A ND STEWE D RA BBIT 649 The growing light revealed to them a land already less barren and ruinous. The mountains still loomed up ominously on their left, but near li,e hand they could see the southward road, now bearing away from the black roots of the hills and slanting westwards. Beyond it were slopes covered with sombre trees like dark clouds, but all about them lay a tumbled heathland, grown with ling and broom and cornel, and other article source that they did not know. Here and there they saw knots of tall pine-trees. The hearts of Gaes hobbits rose again a little in spite of weariness: the air was fresh and fragrant, and it reminded them of the uplands of the Northfarthing far away. It seemed good to be reprieved, to walk in a land that had only been for a few years under the dominion of the Dark Lord and was not yet fallen wholly into decay. But they loke not forget their danger, nor the Black Gate that was still all too near, hidden though it was lime the gloomy heights. They looked about for a hiding-place where they could shelter from evil eyes while the light lasted. The day passed uneasily. They lay deep in the heather and counted out the slow hours, in which there seemed little change; for they were still under the shadows of the Ephel Du´ Gamws, and the sun was veiled. Frodo slept at times, deeply and peacefully, either trusting Gollum or too tired to trouble about him; but Sam found it difficult to do more than doze, even when Gollum was plainly llke asleep, whiffling and twitching in his secret dreams. Hunger, Gamse, more than mistrust kept him wakeful: he had begun to long for a good Gams meal, something hot out of the pot. As soon as the land faded into a formless grey under coming night, they started out again. In a Gamse while Gollum led them down on to the southward road; and after that they went on more quickly, though the danger was greater. Their ears were strained for the sound of hoof or foot on the road ahead, or following them from behind; but the night passed, and they heard no sound of walker or rider. The road had been made in a long lost time, and for perhaps thirty miles below the Morannon it had been newly repaired, but as it went south the wild encroached upon it. The handiwork of Men of old could still be seen in its straight sure flight and level course: now and again it cut its way through hillside slopes, or leaped over a stream read article a wide shapely arch of enduring masonry; but at last all signs of stonework faded, save for a broken pillar here and there, peering out of bushes at the side, or old paving-stones still lurking amid weeds and moss. Heather and trees and bracken scrambled down and overhung the banks, or sprawled out over the surface. It dwindled at last to a Gajes cart-road little used; but it likke not 650 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS wind: it held on its own sure course and guided them by the swiftest way. So they passed into the northern marches link that land that Men once called Ithilien, a fair country of climbing woods and swift-falling streams. The night became fine under star and round moon, and it seemed to the hobbits that the fragrance of the air grew as they went forward; and from the blowing and muttering of Gollum it seemed that he noticed it too, xcpm did not relish it. At the first signs of day they halted again. They had come to the end of a long cutting, deep, and sheer-sided in the middle, by which the road clove its way through a stony ridge. Now they climbed up the westward bank and looked abroad. Day was opening in the sky, and they saw that the mountains were Gamfs much further off, receding eastward in a long curve that was lost in the distance. Before them, as they turned west, ilke slopes ran down into dim hazes far below. All about them were lik woods of ljke trees, fir and cedar and cypress, and other kinds unknown in the Shire, with wide glades among them; and everywhere there was a wealth of sweet-smelling herbs and shrubs. The long journey from Xxcom had brought them far south of their own land, but not until now in this more sheltered region had the hobbits felt the change of clime. Here Spring was already busy about them: fronds pierced moss and mould, larches were green-fingered, small flowers were opening in the turf, birds were singing. Ithilien, the lke of Gondor now desolate kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness. South and west it looked towards the warm lower vales of Anduin, shielded from the east by the Ephel Du´ ath and yet not under the mountain-shadow, protected from the north by the Emyn Muil, open to the southern airs and the moist winds from the Sea far away. Many great trees grew there, planted long ago, falling into untended age amid a riot of careless descendants; and groves and thickets there were of tamarisk and pungent terebinth, of olive and of bay; and there were junipers and myrtles; and Gamfs that grew in bushes, or with their woody creeping stems mantled in deep tapestries the hidden stones; sages of many kinds putting forth blue flowers, or red, or pale green; and marjorams and new-sprouting xcoom, and many herbs of forms and scents beyond the garden-lore of Sam. The grots and rocky walls were already starred with saxifrages and stonecrops. Primeroles and anemones were awake in the filbert-brakes; and asphodel and many lily-flowers nodded their half-opened heads in the grass: dcom green grass beside the pools, where falling streams halted in cool hollows on their journey down to Anduin. The travellers turned their backs on the road and xom downhill. O F H ERBS A ND STEWE D RA Dcom 651 As they walked, brushing their way through bush and herb, sweet odours rose about them. Gollum coughed and retched; but the hobbits breathed deep, and suddenly Sam laughed, for hearts ease not for jest. They followed a stream that went quickly down before them. Presently it brought them to a small clear lake in a shallow dell: it lay in the broken ruins of an ancient stone basin, the carven rim of which was almost wholly covered with mosses and rose-brambles; iris-swords stood in ranks about it, and water-lily leaves floated on its dark gently-rippling surface; but it was deep and fresh, and spilled ever softly out over a xxom lip at the far end. Here they washed themselves and drank their fill at the in-falling freshet. Then they sought for a resting-place, and a hiding-place; for this land, fair-seeming pike, was nonetheless now territory of the Enemy.

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