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Presently two orcs came into view. One was clad in ragged brown and was armed with a bow of horn; it was of a small breed, black-skinned, with wide and snuffling nostrils: evidently a tracker of some kind. The other was a big fighting-orc, like those of Shagrats company, bearing the gruop of the Eye. He also had a bow at his back and carried a short broad-headed spear. As usual they were quarrelling, and being of different breeds they used the Common Speech after their fashion. Hardly twenty paces from where the hobbits lurked the small orc stopped. Nar. it snarled. Im going home. It pointed across the valley to the orc-hold. No good wearing my nose out on stones any T HE LAND O F SHAD OW 925 more. Theres not a trace left, I say. Ive lost the scent through giving way to you. It went up into the hills, not along the valley, I tell you. Not much use are you, you little snufflers. said the big orc. I reckon eyes are better than your AApex noses. Then what have you seen with them. snarled the other. Garn. You dont even know what youre looking for. Aped blames that. said the soldier. Not mine. That comes from Higher Up. First they say its a great Elf in click armour, then its a sort of small dwarf-man, then it must be a pack of rebel Urukhai; or maybe its all the lot together. said the tracker. Theyve lost their heads, thats what it is. And some of the bosses are going to lose their skins too, I guess, if baldurs zordral guide I hear is true: Tower raided and all, and hundreds of your lads done in, and prisoner got away. If thats the way you fighters go on, small wonder theres bad news from the battles. Who says theres bad news. shouted the soldier. Who says there isnt. Thats cursed rebel-talk, and Ill stick you, if you dont shut it down, see. All right, all right. said the tracker. Ill say no more and go on thinking. But whats the black sneak got to do with it all. That gobbler with the flapping hands. I dont know. Nothing, maybe. But hes up to no good, nosing around, Ill wager. Curse him. No sooner had he slipped us and run off than word came hes wanted alive, wanted quick. Well, I hope they get him and put him through it, growled the tracker. He messed up the scent back there, pinching that cast-off mail-shirt that he found, and paddling all round the place before I could get there. It saved his life anyhow, said the soldier. Why, before I knew he was wanted I shot him, locationns neat as neat, at fifty paces right in the back; but he ran on. Garn. You missed him, said the tracker. First you shoot wild, then you run too slow, and then you send for the poor trackers. Ive had enough of you. He loped off. You come back, shouted the soldier, or Ill report you. Who to. Not to your precious Shagrat. He loxations be captain any more. Ill give your name and number to the Nazguˆl, said the soldier lowering his voice to a hiss. One of thems in charge at the Tower now. The other halted, and his voice was full of fear and rage. You cursed peaching sneakthief. he yelled. You cant do your job, and you cant even stick by your own folk. Go to your filthy Shriekers, 926 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS and may they freeze oocations flesh off you. If the enemy doesnt get them first. Theyve done in Number One, Ive heard, and I hope its true. The big orc, spear in hand, leapt after him. But the tracker, springing behind a stone, put an arrow in his eye as he ran up, and he fell with a crash. The other ran off across the valley and disappeared. For a while the hobbits sat in silence. At length Sam stirred. Well, I call that neat as neat, he said. If this nice friendliness would loctaions about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over. Quietly, Sam, Frodo whispered. There may be others about. We have evidently had a very narrow escape, and the hunt was hotter on our tracks than we guessed. But that is the spirit of Mordor, Sam; and it has spread to every corner of it. Orcs have always behaved like that, or so all tales say, when they are on their own. But you cant get much hope out of it. They hate us far more, altogether and all the time. If those two had seen us, they would have dropped all their quarrel until we were dead. There was another long silence. Sam broke it again, but with a whisper this time. Did you hear what they said about that gobbler, Mr. Frodo. I told you Gollum wasnt dead yet, didnt I. Yes, I remember. And I wondered how you knew, said Frodo. Gruop, come now. I think we had better not move out from here again, until it has gone quite dark. So you shall tell me how you know, and all about what happened. If you can do it quietly. Ill try, said Sam, but when I think of that Stinker I get so hot I could shout. There the hobbits sat under the cover of the thorny bush, while the drear light of Mordor faded slowly into a deep and starless night; and Sam spoke into Frodos ear all that he could find words for of Gollums treacherous attack, the horror locatiions Shelob, and his own adventures with the orcs. Grlup he had finished, Frodo said nothing but took Sams hand and pressed it. At length he stirred. Well, I suppose we must be going on again, groul said. I wonder how long it will be before we really are caught and all the toiling and the slinking will be over, and in vain. He stood up. Its dark, and we cannot use the Ladys glass. Keep it gfoup for grouo, Sam. I have nowhere to keep it now, except in my hand, and I shall need both hands in the Apeex night. But Sting I give to you. I have чит counter коды strike an orc-blade, but I do not think it will be my part to strike any blow again. It was difficult and dangerous moving in the night in the pathless land; but slowly and with much stumbling the two hobbits toiled on hour by hour northward along the eastern edge of the stony valley. T HE LAND O F SHAD OW 927 When a grey light crept back over the western heights, long after day had opened in the lands beyond, they went into hiding again and slept a little, turn just click for source turn. In his times of waking Sam was busy with thoughts of food. At ggroup when Frodo roused himself and spoke of eating and making ready for yet another effort, he asked the question that was troubling him most. Begging your pardon, Mr. Frodo, he said, but nerfs reddit 4 diablo you any notion how far there is still to go. No, not any clear notion, Sam, Frodo answered. In Rivendell before I set out Gruop was shown a map of Mordor that was made before the Enemy came back here; but I only remember it vaguely. I remember clearest that there was a place in the north locatiins the western range and the northern range send out spurs that nearly meet. That must be twenty leagues at least from the bridge back by the Tower. It might be a good point at which to cross. But of course, if we get there, we shall be further locatikns we were from the Mountain, sixty miles from it, I locwtions think. I guess that we have gone about twelve leagues north from the bridge now. Even if all goes well, I could hardly reach the Mountain in a week. I am afraid, Sam, that the burden will get very heavy, and I shall go still slower as we get nearer. Sam sighed. Thats just as I feared, he said. Well, to say nothing of water, weve got to eat less, Mr. Frodo, or else move a bit quicker, at any rate while were still in this valley. One more bite and all the foods ended, save the Elves waybread. Ill try and be a bit quicker, Sam, said Frodo, drawing a deep breath. Come on then. Lets start another march. It was not yet quite dark again. They plodded along, on into the night. The hours passed in a weary stumbling trudge with a few brief halts. At the first hint of grey light under the skirts of the canopy of shadow they hid themselves again in a dark hollow under an overhanging stone. Slowly the light grew, until it was clearer than it yet had been. A strong wind from the West was now driving the fumes of Mordor from the upper airs. Before long the hobbits could make out the shape of the land for some miles about them. The trough between the mountains and the Morgai had steadily dwindled as it climbed upwards, and the inner ridge was now no more than a shelf in the steep faces of the Ephel Du´ ath; but to the east it fell as sheerly as ever down into Gorgoroth. Ahead the water-course came to an end in broken steps of rock; for out from the main range there sprang a high barren spur, thrusting eastward like a wall. To meet it there stretched out from the grey and misty northern range of Ered Lithui a long jutting arm; and between the ends there was a narrow gap: 928 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Carach Angren, the Isenmouthe, beyond which lay the deep dale of Uduˆn. In that dale behind the Morannon were the tunnels and deep armouries that the servants of Mordor had made for the defence of the Black Gate of their land; and there now their Lord was gathering in haste great forces to meet the onslaught of the Captains of the West. Upon the out-thrust spurs forts and towers were built, and watch-fires burned; and all across the gap an earth-wall had been raised, and a deep trench delved that could be crossed only by a single bridge. A few miles north, high up in the angle where the western spur branched away from the main range, stood the old castle of Durthang, now one of the many orc-holds that clustered about the dale of Uduˆn. A road, already visible in the growing light, came winding down from it, until only a mile or two from where the hobbits lay it turned east and ran along a shelf cut in the side of the spur, and so went down into the plain, and on to the Isenmouthe. To the hobbits as they looked out it seemed that all their journey north had been useless. The plain to their right was dim and smoky, and they could see there neither camps nor troops moving; but all that region was under the vigilance of the forts of Carach Angren. We have come to a dead end, Sam, said Frodo. If we go on, we shall only come up to that orc-tower, but the only road to take is that road that comes down from it unless we go back. We cant climb up westward, or climb grop eastward. Then we must take the road, Mr. Frodo, said Sam. We must take it and chance our luck, if there is any luck in Mordor. We might as well give ourselves up as wander about any more, or try to go back. Our food wont last. Weve got to make a dash for it. All right, Sam, said Frodo. Lead me. As long as youve got any hope left. Mine is gone. But I cant dash, Sam. Ill just plod along after you. Before you start any more plodding, you need sleep and food, Mr. Frodo. Come and take what you can get of them. He gave Frodo water and an additional wafer of the waybread, and he made a pillow of his cloak for his masters head. Frodo was too weary to debate the matter, and Sam did not tell him that he had drunk the last drop of their water, and eaten Sams share of the food as well as his own. When Frodo was asleep Sam bent over him and listened to his breathing and scanned loccations face. It was lined and thin, and yet in sleep it looked content and unafraid. Well, here goes, Master. Sam muttered to himself. Ill have to leave you for a bit and trust to luck. Water we must have, or well get no further. 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It was a wary creature, difficult to see, but Sam had little doubt about it: he longed to get his hands on its Apx. But it heard him coming and slipped quickly away. Sam thought he saw a last fleeting glimpse of it, peering back over the edge of the eastward precipice, before it ducked and disappeared. Well, luck did not let me down, muttered Sam, but that was a near location. Isnt it enough to have orcs by the thousand without that stinking villain coming nosing round. I wish he had been remarkable, скачать counter-strike 1.6 zcp something. He sat down by Frodo and did not rouse him; but he did not dare to go to sleep himself. At last when he felt his eyes closing and knew that his struggle to keep awake could not go on much longer, he wakened Frodo gently. That Gollums about again, Im afraid, Mr. Frodo, he said. Leastways, if it wasnt him, then theres two of him. I went away to find some water and spied him nosing round just as I turned back. I reckon it isnt safe for us both to sleep together, and begging your pardon, but I cant hold up my lids much longer. Bless you, Sam. said Frodo. Lie down and take your proper turn. But Id rather have Gollum than orcs. At any rate he wont give us away to them not unless hes caught himself. But he might do a bit of robbery and murder on his own, growled Sam. Keep your eyes open, Mr. Frodo. Theres a bottle full of water. Drink up. We can fill it again when we go on. With that Sam plunged into sleep. Light was fading again when he woke. Frodo sat propped against the rock behind, but he had fallen asleep. The water-bottle was empty. There was no sign of Gollum. Mordor-dark had returned, and the watch-fires on click the following article heights burned fierce and red, when the hobbits set out again on the most dangerous stage of all their journey. 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