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Strange powers have our enemies, and strange weaknesses. said The´oden. But it has long been said: oft evil will shall evil mar. That many times is seen, said Gandalf. But at this time we have been strangely fortunate. Maybe, I have been saved by this hobbit from a grave blunder. I had considered whether or not to probe this Stone myself to find its uses. Had I done so, I should have been revealed to him myself. I am not ready for such a trial, if indeed I shall ever be so. But even if I found the power to withdraw myself, it would be disastrous for him to see me, yet until the hour comes when secrecy will avail no longer. That hour is now come, I think, said Aragorn. Not yet, said Gandalf. There remains a short while read more doubt, which we must use. The Enemy, it is clear, thought that the Stone was in Orthanc why should he not. And that therefore the hobbit was captive there, driven to look in the glass for his torment by Saruman. That dark mind will be filled now with the voice and face of the hobbit and with expectation: it may take some time before he learns his error. We must snatch that time. We have been too leisurely. We must move. The neighbourhood of Isengard is no place now to linger in. I will ride ahead at once with Peregrin Took. It will be better for him than lying in the dark while others sleep. ´ I will keep Eomer and ten Riders, said the king. They shall ride with me at early day. The rest may go with Aragorn and ride as soon as they have a mind. As you will, said Gandalf. But make all the speed you may to the cover of the hills, to Helms Deep. At that moment a shadow fell over them. The bright moonlight seemed to be suddenly cut off. Several of the Riders cried out, and crouched, holding their arms above their heads, asif to ward off a blow from above: a blind fear and a deadly cold fell on them. Cowering they lookedup. Avastwingedshapepassed overthe moonlike a black cloud. 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The great horse tossed his head. His flowing tail flicked in the moonlight. Then he leapt forward, spurning the earth, and was gone like the north wind from the mountains. A beautiful, restful night. said Merry to Aragorn. Some folk have wonderful luck. He did not want to sleep, and he wanted to ride with Gandalf and there he goes. Instead of being turned into a stone himself to stand here for ever as a warning. If you had been the first to lift the Orthanc-stone, and not he, how would it be now. said Aragorn. You might have done worse. Who can say. But now it is your luck to come with me, I fear. At once. Go and get ready, and bring anything that Pippin left behind. Make haste. Over the plains Shadowfax was flying, needing no urging and no guidance. Less than an hour had passed, and they had reached the Fords of Isen and crossed them. The Mound of the Riders and its cold spears lay grey behind them. Pippin was recovering. He was warm, but the wind in his face was keen and refreshing. 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The biter bit, the hawk under the eagles foot, the spider in a steel web. How long, I wonder, has he been constrained to come often to his glass for inspection and instruction, and the Orthanc-stone so bent towards Barad-duˆr that, if any save a will of adamant now looks into it, it will bear his mind and sight swiftly thither. And how it draws one to itself. Have I not felt it. Even now more info heart desires to test my will upon it, to see if I could not wrench it from him and turn it where I would to look across the wide seas of water and of time to Tirion the Fair, and perceive the unimaginable hand and mind of Fe¨anor at their work, while both the White Tree and the Golden were in flower. He sighed and fell silent. I wish I had known all this before, said Pippin. I had no notion of what I was doing. Oh yes, you had, said Gandalf. You knew you were behaving wrongly and foolishly; and you told yourself so, though you did not listen. 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