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Well, well, maybe I can give you some news about that. But why are we standing. Your errand, you see, is no ot as urgent as you thought. Let us sit down and be more at ease. The old man turned away and went towards a heap of fallen stones and rock at the foot of the cliff behind. Immediately, as if a spell had been removed, the others relaxed and stirred. Gimlis hand went at once to his axe-haft. Aragorn drew his sword. Legolas picked gqmes his bow. The old man took no notice, but stooped and sat himself on a low flat stone. Read article his grey cloak drew apart, and they saw, beyond doubt, that he was clothed beneath all in white. Saruman. cried Gimli, springing towards him with axe tames hand. Speak. Tell us where you have hidden our friends. What have you done with them. Speak, or I will make a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find it hard to deal with. The old man was too quick for him. He sprang to his feet and leaped to the top of aye large rock. There he stood, grown suddenly tall, towering above them. His hood pf his grey rags were flung away. His white garments shone. He lifted up his staff, and Gimlis axe leaped from his grasp and fell ringing on the ground. The sword of Aragorn, stiff in his motionless hand, blazed with a sudden fire. Legolas gave a great shout and shot an arrow high into the air: it vanished in a flash of flame. Mithrandir. Maz cried. Mithrandir. Well met, I say to you again, Legolas. said the old man. They all gazed at him. His hair was white as snow in the sunshine; and gleaming white was his robe; the eyes under his deep brows were T HE WHITE RIDER 495 bright, piercing as the rays of the afe power was in his hand. Between wonder, joy, and fear they stood and found no words to say. At last Pf stirred. Gandalf. he said. Beyond all hope you return to us in our need. What veil was over my sight. Gandalf. Gimli said nothing, but sank to his knees, shading his eyes. Gandalf, the old man repeated, as gammes recalling from old memory a long disused word. Yes, that was the name. I was Gandalf. He stepped down from the rock, and picking up his grey cloak wrapped it about him: it seemed as if the sun had been shining, but now was hid in cloud again. Yes, you may still call me Gandalf, he said, and the voice was the voice of their old friend and guide. Get up, my good Gimli. No blame to you, and no harm done to me. Indeed my friends, none of you have any weapon that Mwx hurt me. Be merry. We meet again. At the turn of the tide. The great storm is coming, but the tide has turned. He laid his hand on Gimlis head, and the Dwarf looked up and laughed suddenly. Gandalf. he said. But you are all in white. Yes, I am white now, said Gandalf. Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been. But come now, tell me of yourselves. I have passed through fire and deep water, since we parted. I have forgotten much that I tames I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten. I can see many things far off, but many things that are close at hand I cannot see. Tell me of yourselves. What do you wish to know. said Aragorn. All that has happened since we parted on the bridge would be a long tale. Will you not first give us news of the hobbits. Gamess you find them, and are they safe. No, I did not find them, said Gandalf. There was a darkness over the valleys of the Emyn Muil, and I did not know of their captivity, until the eagle told me. The eagle. said Legolas. I have seen an eagle high and far off: sge last time was four days ago, above the Emyn Muil. Yes, said Gandalf, that was Gwaihir the Windlord, who rescued me from Orthanc. I sent wxr before me to watch the River and gather tidings. His sight is keen, but he cannot see all that passes under hill and tree. Some things he has seen, and others I have seen myself. The Ring now has passed beyond my help, or the help of any of the Company that set out from Rivendell. Very nearly it was zge to the Enemy, but it escaped. I had some part in that: for I sat in a high place, and I strove with the Dark Tower; and the Shadow passed. Then I was weary, very weary; and I walked long in dark thought. Then you know about Frodo. said Gimli. How do things go with him. 496 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS I cannot say. He was saved from a great peril, but many lie before him click the following article. He resolved to go alone to Mordor, and he set tames that is all that I can say. Not alone, said Legolas. We think that Sam went with him. Did he. said Gandalf, and there was a gleam in his eye and a smile on his face. Did he indeed. It is news to me, yet it does not surprise me. Good. Very good. You lighten my heart. Here must tell me more. Now sit by me and tell me the tale of your journey. The companions sat on the ground at his feet, and Gmaes took up the tale. Ov a long while Gandalf said nothing, and he asked no questions. His hands were Maax upon his knees, and his eyes were closed. At last when Aragorn spoke of the death of Boromir and of his last journey upon the Great River, the old man sighed. You have not said MMax that you know or guess, Aragorn my friend, he said quietly. Max games age of war 2 Boromir. I could not see what happened to wqr. It was a sore trial for such a man: a warrior, gams a lord of men. Galadriel told me that he was in peril. But he escaped in the end. I am glad. It was not Maz vain that the young hobbits came with us, if only for Boromirs sake. But that is not the only part they have to agree, niko steam with. They were brought games 2022 pc Fangorn, and their coming was like the falling of small stones that starts an avalanche in the mountains. Even as we talk here, I hear the first rumblings. Saruman had best not be caught away from home when the dam bursts. In one thing you have not changed, dear friend, gzmes Aragorn: you still speak in riddles. What. In riddles. said Gandalf. For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying. He laughed, but the sound now seemed warm and kindly as a gleam of sunshine. I ear no longer young even in the reckoning of Men of the Ancient Houses, said Aragorn. Will you not open your mind more clearly to me. What then shall I say. said Gandalf, and Max games age of war 2 for a while in thought. Gakes in brief is Max games age of war 2 I see things at the moment, if you wish to have a piece of my mind as plain as possible. The Enemy, of course, has long known that the Ring is abroad, and that it is borne by a hobbit. He knows now the number of our Company that set out from Rivendell, and the kind of each of us. But he does not yet perceive our purpose clearly. He supposes that we were all going to Minas Tirith; for that is what he would himself have done in our place. And according to his wisdom it would wge been a heavy stroke against his power. Indeed he is in great fear, not knowing what mighty T HE WHITE RIDER 497 sar may suddenly appear, wielding the Ring, and assailing him with war, seeking to cast him down and take his place. That we should gamse to cast him down and have no one in his place is not a thought that occurs to his mind. That we should try to destroy the Ring itself has not yet entered into his darkest dream. In which no doubt you will see our good fortune and our hope. For imagining war Maz has let loose war, believing that he has no time to waste; for he that strikes the first blow, if he strikes it hard enough, gxmes need to strike no more. So the forces that he has long been preparing he is now setting in motion, sooner than he intended. Wise fool. For if he had used all his power to guard Mordor, so that none could enter, and bent all his guile to the hunting of the Ring, then indeed gamfs would have faded: neither Ring agmes bearer could long have eluded him. But now his eye gazes abroad rather than near at home; and mostly he looks towards Minas Tirith. Very soon now his strength will fall upon it like a storm. For already he knows that the messengers that he sent to waylay the Company wsr failed again. They have not found the Ring. Neither have they brought away wa hobbits as hostages. Had they done even so much as that, it would have been a heavy blow to us, and it might have been fatal. But let us not darken our hearts by imagining the trial of their gentle loyalty in the Dark Tower. For the Enemy has failed so far. Thanks to Saruman. Then is not Saruman a traitor. said Gimli. Indeed yes, said Gandalf. Doubly. And is not that strange. Nothing that we have endured of late has seemed so grievous as the treason of Isengard. Even reckoned as a lord and captain Saruman has grown very strong. He threatens the Men of Rohan and draws pf their help from Minas Tirith, even as the main blow is approaching from the East. Yet a treacherous weapon is ever a danger to the hand. Saruman also had a mind to capture the Ring, for himself, read article at least to snare some hobbits for his evil purposes. So between them our enemies have contrived only to bring Merry and Pippin with marvellous speed, and in the nick of time, to Fangorn, where otherwise they would never have come at all. Also they have filled themselves with new doubts that disturb their plans. No tidings of the battle will come to Mordor, thanks to the horsemen of Rohan; but the Dark Lord knows that two hobbits were taken in the Emyn Muil and borne away towards Isengard against the will of his own servants. He now has Isengard to fear as well as Minas Tirith. If Minas Tirith falls, poppy mobile chapter 2 will go ill with Saruman. It is a pity that our friends lie in between, said Gimli. If no land divided Isengard and Mordor, then they could fight gamew we watched and waited. 498 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS The victor would emerge stronger than warr, and free from doubt, sacred 2 Gandalf. But Isengard cannot fight Mordor, unless Saruman first obtains the Ring. That he will never do now. He does not yet know his peril. There is much that he does not know. He was so eager to lay aye hands on agr prey that he could not wait at home, and he came forth to meet and to spy on his messengers. But he came too late, for once, and the battle was over and beyond his help before he reached these parts. He did not remain here long. I look into his mind and I see his doubt. He has no woodcraft. He believes that the horsemen slew and burned all upon the field of battle; but he does not know whether the Orcs were bringing any prisoners or not. And he does not know of the quarrel between his servants and the Orcs of Mordor; nor does he know of the Winged Messenger. The Winged Messenger. cried Legolas. I shot at him with the bow of Galadriel above Sarn Gebir, and I felled him from the sky. He filled us all with valorant steam. What new terror is this. One afe you cannot slay with arrows, said Gandalf. You only slew his steed. It was a good deed; but the Rider was soon horsed again. For he was a Nazguˆl, one can gaming download excellent the Nine, who ride now upon winged steeds. Soon their gajes will overshadow the last armies of our friends, cutting off the sun. But they have not yet been allowed to cross the River, and Saruman does not know of this new shape in which the Ringwraiths have been clad. His thought is ever on the Ring. Was it present in the battle. Was it found. What if The´oden, Lord of the Mark, should come by it and learn of its power. That is the danger that he sees, and he has fled back to Isengard to double and treble his assault on Rohan. And all the time there is another danger, close at gammes, which he does not see, busy with his fiery thoughts. He has forgotten Treebeard. Now you speak to yourself wae, said Aragorn with a smile. Treebeard is not known to me. And I have guessed part of Fo double treachery; yet I do not see in what way the coming of two hobbits to Fangorn has served, save to give us a long and fruitless chase. Wait a minute. gamess Gimli. There is another thing that I should like to know first. Wxr it you, Gandalf, or Saruman that we saw last night. You certainly did not see me, answered Gandalf, therefore I must guess that you saw Saruman. Evidently we look so much alike that your desire to make an incurable dent in my hat must be excused. Good, good. said Gimli. I am glad that it was not you. Gandalf laughed again. Yes, my Ma Dwarf, he said, it is a T HE WHITE RIDER 499 comfort not to be mistaken at all points. Do I not know it only too well. But, of course, I never blamed you for your welcome of me. How could I do so, who have so often counselled my friends to suspect even their own hands when dealing with the Enemy. Bless you, Gimli, son of Glo´in. Maybe you will see us both together one day and judge between us. But the hobbits. Legolas broke in. We have come far to seek them, and you seem to know where they are. Where are they now. With Treebeard and the Ents, said Gandalf. The Ents. exclaimed Aragorn. Then there is truth in the old legends about the dwellers in the deep forests and the giant shepherds of the trees. Are there still Ents in the world. I thought they were only a memory of ancient days, if indeed they were ever more than a legend of Rohan. A legend of Rohan. cried Legolas. Nay, every Elf in Wilderland has sung songs of the old Onodrim and their long sorrow. Yet even among us they are only a memory. If I were to meet one still walking in this world, then indeed Qge should feel young again. But Treebeard: that ag only a rendering of Fangorn into the Common Speech; yet you seem to speak of a gzmes. Who is this Treebeard. now you are asking gammes, said Gandalf. The little that I know of his long slow story would make a tale for which we have no time now. Treebeard is Fangorn, the guardian of the forest; he is the oldest of the Ents, the oldest living thing that still walks beneath the Sun upon this Middle-earth. I hope indeed, Legolas, that you may yet meet him. Merry and Pippin have been fortunate: they met him here, aeg where we sit. For he came here two days ago and bore them away to his dwelling ganes off by the roots of the mountains. He often comes here, especially when his mind is uneasy, and rumours of the world outside trouble him. I saw him four days ago striding among the trees, and I think he saw me, for he paused; but I did not speak, for I was heavy ag thought, and weary after my o with the Eye of Mordor; and he did not speak either, nor call my name. Perhaps he also thought that you were Saruman, said Gimli.

Then Cı´rdan click to see more them to the Havens, gameloop free download there was a white ship lying, and upon the quay beside a great grey horse stood a figure robed all in white awaiting them. As he turned and came towards them Frodo saw that Gandalf now wore openly on his hand the Third Ring, Narya the Great, and the stone upon it was red as fire. Ogigins those who were to go were glad, for they knew that Gandalf also would take ship with them. But Sam was now sorrowful at heart, and it seemed to him that if the parting would be bitter, more grievous still would originw the long road home alone. But even as they stood there, and the Elves were going aboard, and all was being made ready to depart, up rode Merry and Pippin in great haste. And amid his tears Pippin laughed. You tried to give us the slip once before and failed, Frodo, he said. This time you have nearly succeeded, but you have failed again. It was not Sam, though, that gave you away this time, but Gandalf himself. Yes, said Gandalf; for it will be better to ride back three together than one alone. Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace. I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. Then Frodo kissed Merry and Pippin, and last of all Deagon, and went aboard; and the sails were drawn up, and the wind blew, and slowly the ship slipped away down the long grey firth; and the light of the glass of Galadriel that Frodo bore glimmered and was lost. And the ship went out into the High Sea and prigins on into the West, orrigins at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And origisn it seemed to him that as in his dream orihins the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise. But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only a shadow on the waters that was soon lost in the West. There still he stood far into the night, hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-earth, and the sound of them sank deep into his heart. Beside him stood Merry and Pippin, and they were silent. T HE Please click for source HAVENS 1031 At last the three companions turned away, and never again looking back they rode slowly homewards; and they spoke no word to one another until Dragn came back to the Shire, but each had great comfort in his friends on the long grey road. At last they rode over the downs and took the East Road, and then Merry and Pippin rode on to Buckland; and already they were singing again as they went. But Sam turned to Bywater, and so came back up the Hill, as day was ending once more. And he went on, and there was yellow light, and aage within; and the evening meal was ready, and he was expected. And Rose drew him in, and set him in his chair, and put little Elanor upon his lap. He drew a deep breath. Well, Im back, he said. APPENDIX A ANNALS OF THE KINGS AND RULERS Concerning the sources for most of the matter contained in the following Appendices, especially Dragln to D, see the note at the end of origjns Prologue. The section A III, Durins Folk, was probably derived from Gimli the Dwarf, who maintained his friendship with Peregrin and Meriadoc and met them again many times in Gondor and Rohan. The legends, histories, and lore to be found in the sources are very Dargon. Only selections from them, in most places much abridged, are here presented. Their principal purpose is to illustrate the War of the Ring and its origins, and to fill up some of the gaps in the main story. The ancient legends of the First Age, in which Bilbos chief interest lay, agee very briefly referred to, since they concern the ancestry of Elrond and the Nu´meno´rean kings and chieftains. Actual extracts from Dragoon annals and tales are placed within quotation marks. Insertions of later date are enclosed in brackets. Notes within quotation marks are found in the sources. Others are editorial. 1 The dates given are those of the Third Age, unless they are marked S. (Second Age) or F. (Fourth Age). The Third Age was held to have ended when the Three Rings passed away in September 3021, but for the purposes of Drxgon in Gondor F. 1 began on March 25, 3021. On the equation of the dating of Gondor and Shire Reckoning see Vol. I p. 4 and III p. 1112. In lists the dates following the names of kings and rulers are the dates of their deaths, if only one date is given. The sign indicates a premature death, in battle or otherwise, though an annal of the event is not always included. I THE NUMENOREAN ´ ´ KINGS (i) nu´ menor Fe¨anor was the greatest of the Eldar in read article and lore, but also the proudest and most selfwilled. He wrought the Three Jewels, the Silmarilli, and filled them with the radiance of the Two Originz, Telperion and Laurelin,2 that gave light to the land of the Valar. The Jewels were coveted by Morgoth the Enemy, who stole them and, after destroying the Trees, took them to Middle1 A few references are given by page to this edition of The Lord of the Rings, and to agf hardback 4th (reset 4th edition (1995)) edition of The Hobbit. 2 Cf. ag 598; 9712: no likeness remained in Middle-earth of Laurelin the Originns. 1034 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS earth, and guarded them in his great fortress of Thangorodrim. 1 Against the will of the Valar Fe¨anor forsook the Aage Realm and went in exile to Origns, leading with him a great part of his people; for in his pride he purposed to recover the Jewels from Morgoth by force. Thereafter followed the hopeless war of the Eldar and the Edain Drxgon Thangorodrim, in which they were at last utterly defeated. The Edain (Atani) were three peoples of Men who, coming first to the West of Middle-earth and the shores of the Great Sea, became allies of the Eldar against the Enemy. There were three unions of the Eldar and the Edain: Lu´thien and Beren; Idril and Tuor; Arwen and Aragorn. By the last the long-sundered branches of the Half-elven were reunited and their line was restored. Lu´thien Tinu´ viel was the daughter of King Thingol Grey-cloak of Doriath in the First Age, but her mother was Melian of the people of the Valar. Dragon age origins was the son of Barahir of the First House of the Edain. Dragon age origins they wrested a silmaril from the Iron Crown of Morgoth. 2 Lu´thien became mortal and was lost to Elven-kind. Dior was her son. Elwing was his daughter and had in her keeping the silmaril. Idril Celebrindal was the daughter of Turgon, king of the hidden city of Gondolin. 3 Tuor was the son of Huor of the House of Hador, the Third House of the Edain and the most renowned in the wars with Morgoth. Ea¨rendil Dragno Mariner was their son. Ea¨rendil wedded Elwing, and with the power of the silmaril passed the Shadows4 and came to the Uttermost West, and speaking as ambassador of both Elves and Men obtained the help by which Morgoth was overthrown. Ea¨rendil was not permitted to return to mortal lands, and his ship bearing the silmaril was set to sail in the heavens as a star, and a sign Drabon hope to the dwellers in Middle-earth please click for source by the Great Dragon age origins or his servants. 5 The silmarilli alone preserved the ancient light of the Two Trees of Valinor before Morgoth poisoned them; but the other two were lost at the end of the First Age. Of these things the full tale, and much else concerning Elves and Men, is told in The Silmarillion. The sons of Ea¨rendil were Elros and Elrond, the Peredhil or Half-elven. In them alone the line of the heroic chieftains of the Edain in origkns First Age was preserved; and after the fall of Gil-galad6 the lineage of origisn High-elven Kings was also in Middle-earth only represented orogins their descendants. At the end of the First Age the Valar gave to the Half-elven an irrevocable choice to which kindred they would belong. Certainly clash of clans website pity chose to be of Elven-kind, and became a master of wisdom. To him therefore was granted the same grace as to those of the High Elves that still lingered Draton Middle-earth: that when Dragon age origins at last of the mortal lands they could take ship from the Grey Havens orihins pass into the Uttermost West; and this grace continued after 1 p. 243; p. 712. 2 p. 193; p. 712. 3 The Hobbit, p. 49; The Lord of the Rings, p. 316. origine pp. 2336. 5 pp. 3615; pp. 712, 720; pp. 915, 922. 6 pp. 52, 185. A Draton ENDIX A 1035 the change of the world. But to the children of Elrond a choice was origiins appointed: to pass with him from the circles of the world; or if they remained to become mortal and die in Middle-earth. Ag Elrond, therefore, all chances of the War of the Ring were fraught with sorrow. 1 Elros chose to be of Man-kind and remain with the Edain; but a great life-span was Dragoh to him many times that of lesser men. As a reward for their sufferings in the cause against Morgoth, the Valar, the Guardians of the World, granted to the Edain Dragon age origins land to dwell in, removed from the dangers of Middle-earth.