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We will make ready to ride, said The´oden; but let word be sent to the Lord Aragorn that the hour is nigh. The king with his guard and Merry at his side passed down from the gate of the Burg to where the Riders were assembling on the green. Many were already mounted. It would be a great company; for the king was leaving only a small garrison in the Burg, and all who could be spared were riding to the weapontake at Edoras. A thousand spears had indeed already ridden away at night; but still there would be some five hundred more to go with the king, for the most part men from the fields and dales of Westfold. A little apart the Rangers sat, silent, in an ordered company, armed with spear and bow and sword. They were clad in cloaks of dark grey, and their hoods were cast now over helm and head. Their horses were strong and of proud bearing, but rough-haired; and one stood there without a rider, Aragorns own horse that they had brought from the North; Roheryn was his name. There was no gleam of stone or gold, nor any fair thing in all their gear and harness; nor did their riders bear any badge or token, save only that each cloak was pinned upon the left shoulder by a brooch of silver shaped like a rayed star. The king mounted his horse, Snowmane, and Merry sat beside him on his pony: Stybba was his name. Presently Eomer ´ came out from the gate, and with him was Aragorn, and Halbarad bearing the great staff close-furled in black, and two tall men, neither young nor old. So much alike were they, the sons of Elrond, that few could tell them apart: dark-haired, grey-eyed, and their faces elven-fair, clad alike in bright mail beneath cloaks of silver-grey. Behind them walked Legolas and Gimli. But Puzzles online had eyes only for Aragorn, so startling was the change that he saw in him, as if in one night many years had fallen on his head. Grim was his face, grey-hued and weary. I am troubled in mind, lord, he said, standing by the kings horse. I have heard strange words, and I see new perils far off. I have laboured long in thought, and now I fear that I must change my purpose. Tell me, The´oden, click ride now to Dunharrow, how long will it be ere you come there. It is now a full hour past noon, said Eomer. Before the night of ´ the third day from now we should come to the Hold. The Moon will then be two nights past his full, and the muster that the king commanded will be held the day after. More speed we cannot make, if the strength of Rohan is to be gathered. Aragorn was silent for a moment. Three days, he murmured, and the muster of Rohan will only be begun. But I see that it cannot now be hastened. He looked up, and it seemed that he had made T HE PASSI NG O F T HE G RE Y COMP AN Y 779 some decision; his face was less troubled. Then, by your leave, lord, I must take new counsel for myself and my kindred. We must ride our own road, and no longer in secret. For me the time of stealth has passed. I will ride east by the swiftest way, and I will take the Paths of the Dead. The Paths of the Dead. said The´oden, and trembled. Why do you ´ speak of them. Eomer turned and gazed at Aragorn, and it seemed to Merry that the faces of the Riders that sat within hearing turned pale at the words. If there be in truth such paths, said The´oden, their gate is in Dunharrow; but no living man may pass it. Alas. Aragorn my friend. said Eomer. ´ Xcom 2 had hoped that we should ride to war together; but if you seek the Paths of the Dead, then our parting is come, and it is switch tactics games likely that we shall ever meet again under the Sun. That road I will take, nonetheless, said Aragorn. But I say to you, Eomer, ´ that in battle we may yet meet again, though all base th13 hosts of Mordor should stand between. You will do as you will, my lord Aragorn, said The´oden. It is your doom, maybe, to tread strange paths that others dare not. This parting grieves Xcom 2, and my strength is lessened by it; but now I must take the mountain-roads and delay no longer. Farewell. Farewell, lord. said Aragorn. Ride unto great renown. Farewell, Merry. I leave you in good hands, better than we hoped when we hunted the orcs to Fangorn. Legolas and Gimli will still hunt with me, I hope; but we shall not forget you. Good-bye. said Merry. He could find no more to say. He felt very small, and he was puzzled and depressed by all these gloomy words. More than ever he missed the unquenchable cheerfulness of Pippin. The Riders were ready, and their horses were fidgeting; he wished they would start and get it over. Now The ´ ´oden spoke to Eomer, and he lifted up his hand and cried aloud, and with that word the Riders set forth. They rode over the Dike and click here the Coomb, and then, turning swiftly eastwards, they took a path that skirted the foothills for a mile or so, until bending south it passed back among the hills and disappeared from view. Aragorn rode to the Dike and watched till the kings men were far down the Coomb. Then he turned to Halbarad. There go three that I love, and the smallest not the least, he said. He knows not to what end he rides; yet if he steam niko, he still would go on. A little people, but of great worth are the Shire-folk, said Halbarad. Little do they know of our long labour for the safekeeping of their borders, and yet I grudge it not. 780 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS And now our fates are woven together, said Aragorn. And yet, alas. here we must part. Well, I must eat a little, and then we also must hasten away. Come, Legolas and Gimli. I must speak with you as I eat. Together they went back into the Burg; yet for some time Aragorn sat silent at the table in the hall, and the others waited for him to speak. Come. said Legolas at last. Speak and be comforted, and shake off the shadow. What has happened since we came back to this grim place in the grey morning. A struggle somewhat grimmer for my part than the battle of the Hornburg, answered Aragorn. I have looked in the Stone of Orthanc, my friends. You have looked in that accursed stone of wizardry. exclaimed Gimli with fear and astonishment in his face. Did you say aught to him. Even Gandalf feared that encounter. You forget to whom you speak, said Aragorn sternly, and his eyes glinted. What do you fear that I should say to him. Did I not link proclaim my title before the doors of Edoras. Nay, Gimli, he said in a softer voice, and the grimness left his face, and he looked like one who has laboured in sleepless pain for many nights. Nay, my friends, I am the lawful pc maximum of the Stone, and I had both the right and the strength to use it, or so I judged. The right cannot be doubted. The strength was enough barely. He drew a deep breath. It was a bitter struggle, and the weariness is slow to pass. I spoke no word to him, and in the end I wrenched the Stone to my own will. That alone he will find hard to endure. And he beheld me. Yes, Master Gimli, he saw me, but in other guise than you see me here. If that will aid him, then I have done ill. But I do not think so. To know that I lived and walked the earth was a blow to his heart, I deem; for he knew it not till now. The eyes in Orthanc did not see through the armour of The´oden; but Sauron has not forgotten Isildur and the sword of Elendil. Now in the very hour of his great designs the heir of Isildur and the Sword are revealed; for I showed the blade re-forged to him. He is not so mighty yet that he is above fear; nay, doubt ever gnaws him. But he wields great dominion, nonetheless, said Gimli; and now he Xcom 2 strike more swiftly. The hasty stroke goes oft astray, said Aragorn. We must press our Enemy, and no longer wait upon him for the move. See my friends, when I had mastered the Stone, I learned many things. A grave android on pc games play I saw coming unlooked-for upon Gondor from the South that will draw off great strength from the defence of Minas Tirith. If it is not countered swiftly, I deem that the City will be lost ere ten days be gone. T HE PASSI NG O F T HE G RE Y COMP AN Y 781 Then lost it must be, said Gimli. For what help is there to send thither, and how could it come there in time. I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself, said Aragorn. But there is only one way through the mountains that will bring me to the coastlands before all is lost. That is the Paths of the Dead. The Paths of the Dead. said Gimli. It is a fell name; and little to the liking to the Men of Rohan, as I saw. Can the living use such a road and not perish. And even if you pass that way, what will so few avail to counter the strokes of Mordor. The living have never used that road since the coming of the Rohirrim, said Aragorn, for it is closed to them. But in this dark hour the heir of Isildur may use it, if he dare. Listen. This is the word that the sons of Elrond bring to me from their father in Rivendell, wisest in lore: Bid Aragorn remember the words of the seer, and the Paths of the Dead. And what may be the words of the seer. said Legolas. Thus spoke Malbeth the Seer, in the days of Arvedui, last king at Fornost, said Aragorn: Over the land there lies a long shadow, westward reaching wings of darkness. The Tower trembles; to the tombs of kings doom approaches. The Dead awaken; for the hour is come for the oathbreakers: at the Stone of Erech they shall stand again and hear there a horn in the hills ringing. Whose shall the horn be. Who shall call them from the grey twilight, the forgotten people. The heir of him to whom the oath they swore. From the North shall he come, need shall drive him: he shall pass the Door to the Paths of the Dead. Dark ways, doubtless, said Gimli, but no darker than these staves are to me. If you would understand them better, then I bid you come with me, said Aragorn; for that way I now shall take. But I do not go gladly; only need drives me. Therefore, only of your free will would I have you come, for you will find both toil and great fear, and maybe worse. I will go with you even on the Paths of the Dead, and to whatever end they may lead, said Gimli. I also will come, said Legolas, for I do not fear the Dead. I hope that the forgotten people will not have forgotten how to 782 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS fight, said Gimli; for otherwise I see not why we should trouble them. That we shall know if ever we come to Erech, said Aragorn. But the oath that they broke was to fight against Sauron, top down strategy they must fight therefore, if they are to fulfil it. For at Erech there stands yet a black stone that was brought, it was said, from Nu´menor by Isildur; and it was set upon a hill, and upon it the King of the Mountains swore allegiance to him in the beginning of the realm of Gondor. But when Sauron returned and grew in might again, Isildur summoned the Men of the Mountains to see more their oath, and they would not: for they had worshipped Sauron in the Dark Years. Then Isildur said to their king: Thou shalt be the last king. And if the West prove mightier than thy Black Master, this curse I lay upon thee and thy folk: to rest never until your oath is fulfilled. For this war will last through years uncounted, and you shall be summoned once again ere the end. And they fled before the wrath of Isildur, and did not dare to go forth to war on Saurons part; and they hid themselves in secret places in the mountains and had no dealings with other men, but slowly dwindled in the barren hills. And the terror of the Sleepless Dead lies about the Hill of Erech and all places where that people lingered. But that way I must go, since there are none living to help me. He stood up. Come. he cried, and drew his sword, and it flashed in the twilit hall of the Burg. To the Stone of Erech. I seek the Paths of the Dead. Come with me who will. Legolas and Gimli made no answer, but they rose and followed Aragorn from the hall. On the green there waited, still and silent, the hooded Rangers. Legolas and Gimli mounted. Aragorn sprang upon Roheryn. Then Halbarad lifted a great horn, and the blast of it echoed in Helms Deep: and with that they leapt away, riding down the Coomb like thunder, while all the men that were left on Dike or Burg stared in amaze. And while The´oden went by slow paths in the hills, the Grey Company passed swiftly over the plain, and on the next day in the afternoon they came to Edoras; and there they halted only briefly, ere they passed up the valley, and so came to Dunharrow as darkness fell. The Lady Eowyn ´ greeted them and was glad of their coming; for no mightier men had she seen than the Du´nedain and the fair sons of Elrond; but on Aragorn most of all her eyes rested. And when they sat at supper with her, they talked together, and she heard of all that had passed since The´oden rode away, concerning which only hasty tidings had yet reached her; and when she heard of the battle T HE PASSI NG O F T HE G RE Y COMP AN Y 783 in Helms Deep and the great slaughter of their foes, and of the charge of The´oden and his knights, then her eyes shone. But at last she said: Lords, you are weary and shall now go to your beds with such ease as can be contrived in haste. But tomorrow fairer housing shall be found for you. But Aragorn said: Nay, lady, be not troubled for us. If we may lie here tonight and break our fast tomorrow, it will be enough. For I ride on an errand most urgent, and with the first light of morning we must go. She smiled on him and said: Then it was kindly done, lord, to ´ ride so many miles out of your way to bring tidings to Eowyn, and to speak with her in her exile.
Asked Fredegar. Follow me. said Merry, and you will see. He turned to the left along the Hedge, and soon they came to a point where it bent inwards, running along the lip of a hollow. A cutting had been made, at some distance from the Hedge, and went sloping gently down into the ground. It had walls of brick at the sides, which rose steadily, until suddenly they arched over more info formed a tunnel that dived deep under the Hedge and came out in the hollow on the other side. Here Fatty Bolger halted. Good-bye, Frodo. he said. I wish you were not going into the Forest. I only hope you will not need rescuing before the day is out. But good luck to you today and every day. If there are no worse things ahead than the Old Forest, I shall be lucky, said Frodo. Tell Gandalf to hurry along the East Road: we shall soon be back on it and going as fast as we can. Good-bye. 110 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS they cried, and rode down the slope and disappeared from Fredegars sight into the tunnel. It was dark and damp. At the far end it was closed by a gate of thick-set iron bars. Merry got down and unlocked the gate, and when they had all passed through he pushed it to again. It shut with a clang, and the lock clicked. The sound was ominous. There. said Merry. You have left the Shire, and are now outside, and on the edge of the Old Forest. Are the stories about it true. asked Pippin. I dont know what stories you mean, Merry answered. If you mean the old bogey-stories Fattys nurses used to tell him, about goblins and wolves and things of that sort, I should say no. At any rate I dont believe them. But the Forest is queer. Everything in it is very much more alive, more aware of what is going on, so to speak, than things are in the Shire. And the trees do 7 base th like strangers. They watch you. They are usually content merely to watch you, as long as daylight lasts, and dont do much. Occasionally the most unfriendly ones may drop a branch, or stick a root out, or grasp at you with a long trailer. But at night things can be most alarming, or so I rpg paper told. I have only once or twice been in here after dark, and then only near the hedge. I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them in. In fact long ago they attacked the Hedge: they came and planted themselves right by it, and leaned over it. But the hobbits came and cut down hundreds of trees, and made a click the following article bonfire in the Forest, and burned all the ground in a long strip east of the Hedge. After that the trees gave up the attack, but they became very unfriendly. There is still a wide bare space not far inside where the bonfire was made. Is it only the trees that are dangerous. asked Pippin. There are various queer things living deep in the Forest, and on the far side, said Merry, or at least I have heard so; but I have never seen any of them. But something makes paths. Whenever one comes inside one finds open tracks; but they seem to shift and change from time to time in a queer fashion. Not far from this tunnel there is, or was for a long time, the beginning of quite a broad path leading to the Bonfire Glade, and then on more or less in our direction, east Most popular pc games a Most popular pc games north. That is the path I am going to try and find. The hobbits now left the tunnel-gate and rode across the wide hollow. On the far side was a faint path leading up on to the floor of the Forest, a hundred yards and more beyond the Hedge; but it vanished assoon asit brought them underthe trees. Looking back they T HE O L D F O R EST 111 could see the dark line of the Hedge Most popular pc games the stems of trees that were already thick about them. Looking ahead they could see only tree-trunks of innumerable sizes and shapes: straight or bent, twisted, leaning, squat or slender, game naruto or gnarled and branched; and all the stems were green or grey with moss and slimy, shaggy growths. Merry alone seemed fairly cheerful. You had better lead on and find that path, Frodo said to him. Dont let us lose one another, or forget which way the Hedge lies. They picked a way among the trees, and their ponies plodded along, carefully avoiding the many writhing and interlacing roots. There was no undergrowth. The ground was rising steadily, and as they went forward it seemed that the trees became taller, darker, and thicker. There was no sound, except an occasional drip of moisture falling through the still leaves. For the moment there was no whispering or movement among the branches; but they all got an uncomfortable feeling that they were being watched with disapproval, deepening to dislike and even enmity. The feeling steadily grew, until they found themselves looking up quickly, or glancing back over their shoulders, as if they Most popular pc games a sudden blow. There was not as yet any sign of a path, Most popular pc games the trees seemed constantly to bar their way. Pippin suddenly felt that he could not bear it any longer, and without warning let out a shout. he cried. I am not going to do anything. Just let me pass through, will you.
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