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A moment they hesitated and then on they came. The lightning flashed, and blazoned upon every helm and shield the ghastly hand of Isengard was seen. They reached the summit of the rock; they drove towards the gates. Then at last an answer came: a storm of arrows met them, and a hail of stones. They wavered, broke, and fled back; and then charged again, broke and charged again; and each time, like the incoming sea, they halted at a higher point. Again trumpets rang, and a press of roaring men leaped forth. They held their great shields above them like a roof, while in their midst https://gameslikeclashofclans.cloud/steam/soul-hackers-2-steam.php bore two trunks of mighty trees. Behind them orc-archers crowded, sending a hail of darts against the bowmen on the walls. They gained the gates. The trees, swung by strong arms, smote the timbers with a rending boom. If any man fell, crushed by a stone hurtling from above, two others sprang to take his place. Again and again the great rams swung and crashed. Eomer ´ and Aragorn stood together on the Deeping Wall. They heard the roar of voices and the thudding of the rams; and then in a sudden flash of light they beheld the peril of the gates. Come. said Aragorn. This is the hour when we draw swords together. Running like fire, they sped along the wall, and up the steps, and passed into the outer court upon the Rock. As they ran they gathered a handful of stout swordsmen. There was a small postern-door that opened in an angle of the burg-wall on the west, where the cliff stretched out to meet it. On that side a narrow path ran round towards the great gate, between the wall and the sheer brink of the Rock. Together Eomer ´ and Aragorn sprang through the door, their men close behind. The two swords flashed from the sheath as one. ´ Gu´thwine¨. cried Eomer. Gu´thwine¨ for the Mark. Andu´ril. cried Aragorn. Andu´ril for the Du´nedain. 534 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Charging from the side, they hurled themselves upon the wild men. Andu´ril rose and fell, gleaming with white fire. A shout went up from wall and tower: Andu´ril. Andu´ril goes to war. The Blade that was Broken shines again. Dismayed the rammers let fall the trees and turned to fight; but the wall of their shields was broken as by a lightning-stroke, and https://gameslikeclashofclans.cloud/android/android-1-game.php were swept away, hewn down, or cast over the Rock into the stony stream below. The orc-archers shot wildly and then fled. ´ thunder was rumbling in the distance now. The lightning flickered still, far off among the mountains in the South. A keen wind was blowing from the North again. The clouds were torn and drifting, and stars peeped out; and above the hills of the Coomb-side the westering moon rode, glimmering yellow in the storm-wrack. We did not come too soon, said Aragorn, looking at the gates. Their great hinges and iron bars were wrenched and bent; many of their timbers were cracked. The this web page will not withstand another such battering. Yet we cannot stay here beyond the walls to defend them, said Eomer. Look. He pointed to the causeway. Already a great press For a moment Blitzkrieg 2 and Aragorn halted before the gates. The ´ of Orcs and Men were gathering again beyond the stream. Arrows whined, and skipped on the coc light about them. Come. We must get back and see what we can do to pile stone and beam across the gates within. Come now. They turned and ran. At that moment gamestore dozen Orcs that had lain motionless among the slain leaped to their feet, and came silently and swiftly behind. Two flung themselves to the ground at Eomers ´ heels, tripped him, and in a moment they this web page on top of him. But a small dark figure that none had observed sprang out of the shadows and gave a hoarse shout: Baruk Khazaˆd. Khazaˆd ai-meˆnu. An axe swung and swept back. Two Orcs fell headless. The rest fled. Eomer ´ struggled to his feet, even as Aragorn ran back to his aid. The postern was closed again, the iron door was barred and piled ´ inside with steamanalyst. When all were safe within, Eomer turned: I thank you, Gimli son of Glo´in. need for most wanted free said. I did not know that you were with us in the sortie. But oft the unbidden guest proves the best company. How came you there. I followed you to shake off sleep, said Gimli; but I looked on the hillmen and they seemed over large for me, so I sat beside a stone to see your sword-play. I shall not find it easy to repay you, said Eomer. ´ There may be many a chance ere the night is over, laughed the H ELM S DEEP 535 Dwarf. But I am content. Till now I have hewn naught but wood since I left Moria. Two. said Gimli, patting his axe. He had returned to his place on the wall. Two. said Legolas. I have done better, though now I must grope for spent arrows; all mine are gone. Yet I make my tale twenty at the least. But that click to see more only a few leaves in a forest. The sky now was quickly clearing and the sinking moon was shining brightly. But the light brought little hope to the Riders of the Mark. The enemy before them seemed to have grown rather than diminished, and still more were pressing up from the valley through the breach. The sortie upon the Rock gained only a brief respite. The assault on the gates was redoubled. Against the Deeping Wall the hosts of Isengard roared like a sea. Orcs and hillmen swarmed about its feet from end to end. Ropes with grappling hooks were hurled over the parapet faster than men could cut them or fling them back. Hundreds of long ladders were lifted up. Many were cast down in ruin, but many more replaced them, and Orcs sprang up them like apes in the dark forests of the South. Before the walls foot the dead and broken were piled like shingle in a storm; ever higher rose the hideous mounds, and still the enemy came on. The men of Rohan grew weary. All their arrows were spent, and every shaft was shot; their swords were notched, and their shields were ´ riven. Three times Aragorn and Eomer rallied them, and three times Andu´ril flamed in a desperate charge that drove the enemy from the wall. Then a clamour arose in the Deep behind. Orcs had crept like rats through the culvert through which the stream flowed out. There they had gathered in the shadow of the cliffs, until the assault above was hottest and nearly all the men of the defence had rushed to the walls top. Then they sprang out. Already some had passed into the jaws of the Deep and were among the horses, fighting with the guards. Down from the wall leapt Gimli with a fierce cry that echoed in the cliffs. Khazaˆd. Khazaˆd. He soon had work enough. Ai-oi. he shouted. The Orcs are behind the wall. Ai-oi. Come, Legolas. There are enough for us both. Khazaˆd ai-meˆnu. Gamling the Old looked down from the Hornburg, hearing the great voice ofthedwarf above allthe tumult. The Orcs are in theDeep. he cried. Helm. Helm. Forth Helmingas. he shouted as he leaped down the stair from the Rock with many Gaming pc photo of Westfold at his back. Their onset was fierce and sudden, and the Orcs gave way before 536 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS them. Ere long they were hemmed in in the narrows of the gorge, and all were slain or driven shrieking into the chasm of the Deep to fall before the guardians of the hidden caves. Twenty-one. cried Gimli. He hewed a two-handed stroke and laid the last Orc before his feet. Now my count passes Master Legolas again. We must stop this rat-hole, said Gamling. Dwarves are said to be cunning folk with stone. Lend us your aid, master. We do not shape stone with battle-axes, nor with our finger-nails, said Gimli. But I will help as I may. They gathered such small boulders and broken stones as they could find to hand, and under Gimlis direction the Westfold-men blocked up the inner end of the culvert, until only a narrow outlet remained. Then the Deeping-stream, swollen by the rain, churned and fretted in its choked path, and spread slowly in cold pools from cliff to cliff. It will be drier above, said Gimli. Come, Gamling, let us see how things go on the wall. He climbed up and found Legolas beside Gaming pc photo and Eomer. ´ The elf was whetting his long knife. There was for a while a lull in the assault, since the attempt to break in through the culvert had been foiled. Twenty-one. said Gimli. Good. said Legolas. But my count is now two dozen. It has been knife-work up here. Eomer ´ and Aragorn leant wearily on their swords. Away on the left the crash and clamour of the battle on the Rock rose loud again. But the Hornburg still held fast, like an island in the sea. Its gates lay in ruin; but over the barricade of beams and stones within no enemy as yet had passed. Aragorn looked at the pale stars, and at the moon, now sloping behind the western hills that enclosed the valley. This is a night as long click years, he said. How long will the day tarry. Dawn is not far off, said Gamling, who had now climbed up beside him. But dawn will not help us, I fear. Yet dawn is ever the hope of men, said Aragorn. But these creatures of Isengard, these half-orcs and goblin-men that the foul craft of Saruman has bred, they will not quail at the sun, said Gamling. And neither will the wild men of the hills. Do you not hear their voices. ´ I hear them, said Eomer; but they are only the scream of birds and the bellowing of beasts to my ears. Yet there are many that cry in the Dunland tongue, said Gamling. H ELM S DEEP 537 I know that tongue. It is an ancient speech of men, and once was spoken in many western valleys of the Mark. Hark. They hate us, and they are glad; for our doom seems certain to them. The king, the king. they cry. We will take their king. Death to the Forgoil. Death to the Strawheads. Death to the robbers of the North. Such names they have for us. Not in half a thousand years have they forgotten their grievance that the lords of Gondor gave the Mark to Eorl the Young and made alliance with him. That old hatred Saruman has inflamed. They are fierce folk when roused. They will not give way now for dusk or dawn, until The´oden is taken, or they themselves are slain. Nonetheless day will bring hope to me, said Aragorn. Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it. ´ So the minstrels say, said Eomer. Then let us defend it, and hope. said Aragorn. Even as they spoke there came a blare of trumpets. Then there was a crash and a flash of flame and smoke. The waters of the Deeping-stream poured out hissing and foaming: they were choked no longer, a gaping hole was blasted in the wall. A host of dark shapes poured in. Devilry of Saruman. cried Aragorn. They have crept in the culvert again, while we talked, and they have lit the fire of Orthanc beneath our feet. Elendil, Elendil. he shouted, as he leaped down into the breach; but even as he did so a hundred ladders were raised against the battlements. Over the wall and under the wall the last assault came sweeping like a dark wave upon a hill of sand. The defence was swept away. Some of the Riders were driven back, further and further into the Deep, falling and fighting as they gave way, step by step, towards the caves. Others cut their way back towards the citadel. A broad stairway climbed from the Deep up to the Rock and the rear-gate of the Hornburg. Near the bottom stood Aragorn. In his hand still Andu´ril gleamed, and the terror of the sword for a while held back the enemy, as one by one all who could gain the stair passed up towards the gate. Behind on the upper steps knelt Legolas. His bow was bent, but one gleaned arrow was all that he had left, and he peered out now, ready to shoot the first Orc that should dare to approach the stair. All who can have now got safe keys elden ring, Aragorn, he called. Come back. Aragorn turned and sped up the stair; but as he Gaming pc photo he stumbled in his weariness. At once his enemies leapt forward. Up came the Orcs, yelling, with their long arms stretched out to seize him. The 538 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS foremost fell with Legolas last arrow in his throat, but the rest sprang over him. Then a great boulder, cast from the outer wall above, crashed down upon the stair, and hurled them back into the Deep. Aragorn gained the door, and swiftly it clanged to behind https://gameslikeclashofclans.cloud/games/games-2010-pc.php. Things go ill, my friends, he said, wiping the sweat from his brow with his arm. Ill enough, said Legolas, but not yet hopeless, while we have you with us. Where is Gimli. I do not know, said Aragorn. I last saw him fighting on the ground behind the wall, but the enemy swept us apart. Alas. That is evil news, said Legolas. He is stout and strong, said Aragorn. Let us hope that he will escape back to the caves. There he would be safe for a while. Safer than we. Such a refuge would be to the liking of a dwarf. That must be my hope, said Legolas. But I wish that he had come this way. I desired to tell Master Gimli that my tale is now thirty-nine. If he wins back to the caves, he will pass your count again, laughed Aragorn. Never did I see an axe so wielded. I must go and seek some arrows, said Legolas. Would that this night would end, and I could have better light for shooting. Aragorn now passed into the citadel. There to his dismay he ´ learned that Eomer had not reached the Hornburg. Nay, he did not come to the Rock, said one of the Westfold-men. I last saw him gathering men about him and fighting in the click the following article of the Deep. Gamling was with him, and the dwarf; but I could not come to them. Aragorn strode on through the inner court, and mounted to a high chamber in the tower. There stood the king, dark against a narrow window, looking out upon the vale. What is the news, Aragorn. he said. The Deeping Wall is taken, lord, and all the defence swept away; but many have escaped hither to the Rock. Is Eomer here. ´ No, lord.
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Hagrid shrugged his massive shoulders. No need, he said shortly. Can remember her much. Wasn a great mother. They were silent again. Hermione glanced nervously at Harry and Ron, plainly wanting them to speak. But you still havent explained how you got in this state, Hagrid, Ron said, gesturing toward Hagrids Fifa 19 android face. Or why youre back so late, said Harry. Sirius says Madame Maxime got back ages ago - Who attacked you. said Ron. I haven bin attacked. said Hagrid emphatically. I - But the rest Fiva his words were drowned in Fifa 19 android sudden outbreak of rapping on the door. Hermione gasped; her mug slipped through her fingers and smashed on the floor; Fang yelped. All four of them stared at the window beside the doorway. The shadow of somebody small and squat rippled across the thin curtain. Its her. Ron whispered. Get under here. Harry said quickly; seizing the Invisibility Cloak he whirled it over himself anndroid Hermione while Ron tore around the table and dived beneath the Cloak as well. Huddled together they backed away into a corner. Fang was barking madly at the door. Hagrid looked thoroughly confused. Hagrid, hide our mugs. Hagrid seized Harrys and Rons mugs and shoved them under the cushion in Fangs basket. Fang was now leaping up at the door; Hagrid pushed him out of the way with his Fifa 19 android and pulled it open. Professor Umbridge was standing in the doorway wearing her andrkid tweed cloak and a matching hat with earflaps. Lips pursed, she leaned back so as to see Hagrids face; she barely reached his navel. So, she said slowly and loudly, as though speaking to somebody deaf. Youre Spiderman remastered, are you. Without waiting for an answer she strolled into the room, her bulging eyes rolling in every direction. Get away, she snapped, waving her handbag at Fang, who had bounded up to her and was attempting to lick her face. Er - I don want ter be rude, said Hagrid, staring at her, but who the ruddy hell are you. Fifa 19 android name is Dolores Umbridge. Her eyes were sweeping the cabin. Twice they stared directly into the corner where Harry stood, sandwiched between Ron and Hermione. Dolores Umbridge. Hagrid said, sounding thoroughly confused. I thought you were one o them Ministry - don you work with Fudge. I was Senior Undersecretary to the Minister, yes, said Umbridge, now pacing around the cabin, taking in every tiny detail within, from the haversack against Flfa wall to the abandoned traveling cloak. I am now the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher - Thas brave of yeh, said Hagrid, theres not manyd take tha job anymore - - and Hogwarts High Inquisitor, said Umbridge, giving no sign that she had heard him. Whas that. said Hagrid, frowning. Precisely what I was going to ask, said Umbridge, pointing at the broken shards of china on the floor that had been Hermiones mug. Oh, said Hagrid, with a most unhelpful glance toward the corner where Harry, Ron, and Hermione stood hidden, oh, tha was. was Fang. He broke a mug. So I had ter use this one instead. Hagrid pointed to the mug from which he had been drinking, one hand still clamped over the dragon steak pressed to his eye. Umbridge stood facing him now, taking in every detail of his appearance instead of the cabins. I heard voices, she said quietly. I Fifa 19 android talkin ter Fang, said Hagrid stoutly. And was androi talking back to you. Well. in a manner o speakin, said Hagrid, looking uncomfortable. I sometimes say Fangs near enough human - There are three sets of footprints in the snow leading from the castle doors to your cabin, said Umbridge sleekly. Hermione gasped; Harry clapped a hand over her mouth. Luckily, Fang was sniffing loudly around the hem of Professor Umbridges robes, and she did not appear to have heard. Well, I ony jus got back, said Hagrid, waving an enormous hand https://gameslikeclashofclans.cloud/strategy/hades-strategy.php the haversack. Maybe someone came ter call earlier an I missed em. There are no footsteps leading away from your cabin door. Well I. I don know why thatd be. said Hagrid, tugging nervously at his beard and again glancing toward the corner where Harry, Ron, and Hermione stood, as though asking for help. Erm. Umbridge wheeled around and strode the length of the cabin, looking around carefully. She bent and peered under the bed. She opened Hagrids cupboards. She passed within two inches of where Harry, Ron, and Hermione stood pressed against the wall; Harry actually pulled in his stomach as she walked by. After looking carefully inside the enormous cauldron Hagrid used for cooking she wheeled around again and said, What has happened to you. How did you sustain those injuries. Hagrid hastily removed Fufa dragon steak from his face, which in Harrys opinion was a mistake, because the black-and-purple bruising all around androiv eye was now clearly visible, not to mention the large amount of fresh Fifx congealed blood on his face. Oh, I.
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