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Merry saw many folk standing, looking up and muttering; all their faces were grey and sad, and some were afraid. With a sinking heart T HE MU STER O F R O HA N 801 he made his way to the king. Hirgon the rider of Gondor was there before him, and beside him stood now another man, like him and dressed alike, but shorter and broader. As Merry entered he was speaking to the king. It comes from Mordor, lord, he said. It began last night at sunset. From the hills in the Eastfold of your realm I saw it rise and creep across the sky, and all night as I rode it came behind eating up the stars. Now the great cloud hangs over all the land between here and the Mountains of Shadow; and it is deepening. War has already begun. For a while the king sat silent. At last he spoke. So we come to it in the end, he said: the great battle of our time, in which Bladurs things shall pass away. But at least there is no longer need for hiding. We will ride the straight way and the open road and with fextrlaife our speed. The muster shall begin at once, and wait for none that tarry. Have you good store in Minas Tirith. For if we must ride now in all haste, then we must ride light, with but meal and water enough to last us into battle. We have very great store long prepared, answered Hirgon. Ride now as light and as swift as you may. Then call the heralds, Eomer, ´ said The´oden. Let the Riders be marshalled. Eomer ´ went out, and presently the trumpets rang in the Hold and were answered by many others from below; but their voices no longer sounded clear and brave as they had seemed to Merry the night before. Dull they seemed and harsh Baldyrs the heavy air, braying ominously. The king turned to Merry. I am going to war, Master Meriadoc, he said. In a little while I shall take the road. I release you from my service, but not from my friendship. You shall abide here, and if you will, you ´ shall serve the Lady Eowyn, who will govern the folk in my Baldure. But, but, lord, Merry stammered, I offered you my sword. I do not want to be parted from you like this, The´oden King. And as all my friends have gone to the battle, I should be ashamed to stay behind. But we ride on horses tall and swift, said The´oden; and great though your heart be, you cannot ride on such beasts. Then fextrxlife me on to the back of one, or let me hang on a stirrup, or something, said Merry. It is a long way to run; but run I shall, if I cannot ride, even if I wear my feet off and arrive weeks too late. The´oden smiled. Rather than that I would bear you with me on 802 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Snowmane, he said. But at the least you shall ride with me to Edoras and look on Meduseld; for that way I shall go. So far Stybba can bear you: the great race will not begin till we reach the plains. Then Eowyn ´ rose up. Come now, Meriadoc. she said. I will show you the gear that I have prepared for you. They went out together. This request only did Aragorn make to me, said Eowyn, ´ as they passed among the tents, Baldura you should be armed for battle. I have granted it, as I could. For my heart tells me that you will need such gear ere Baldurs gate 3 fextralife ki end. Now she led Merry to a booth among the lodges of the kings guard; and there an armourer brought out to her Baldurss small helm, and a round shield, and other gear. No mail have we to fit you, said Eowyn, fexfralife nor any time for the forging of such a hauberk; but here is also a stout jerkin of leather, a belt, and a knife. Of duty united download install sword you have. Merry bowed, and the lady showed him the shield, which was like the shield that had been given to Gimli, gaet it bore on it the device of the white horse. Take all these things, she said, and bear them to good fortune. Farewell now, Master Meriadoc. Yet maybe we shall meet again, you and I. So it was that amid a gathering gloom the King of the Mark made ready to lead all his Riders on the eastward road. Hearts were heavy and many quailed in the shadow. But they were a stern people, loyal to their lord, and little weeping or source was heard, even in the camp in the Hold where the exiles from Edoras were housed, women yate children and old men. Doom hung over them, but they faced it silently. Two swift hours passed, and now the king sat upon his white horse, glimmering in the half-light. Proud and tall he seemed, though the hair that flowed beneath his high helm was gatf snow; and many marvelled at him Baldurw took heart to see him unbent and unafraid. There on the wide flats beside the noisy river were marshalled in many companies well nigh five and fifty hundreds of Riders fully armed, and many hundreds of other men with spare horses lightly burdened. A single trumpet sounded. The king raised his hand, and then silently the host of the Mark began to move. Foremost went twelve of the kings household-men, Riders of renown. Then the king ´ ´ followed with Eomer on his right. He had said farewell to Eowyn above in the Hold, and the memory was grievous; but now he turned his mind to the road that lay ahead. Behind him Merry rode on Stybba with the errand riders of Gondor, and behind them again twelve more of the kings household. They passed down the long ranks of waiting men with stern and unmoved faces. But when they T HE MU STER O F R O HA N fedtralife had come almost to the end of the line one looked up glancing keenly at the hobbit. A young man, Merry thought as he returned the glance, less in height and girth than most. He caught the glint of clear grey eyes; Baldusr then he shivered, for it came suddenly to him that it was the face of one without hope who goes in search of death. On down the grey road they went beside the Snowbourn rushing on its stones; through the hamlets of Underharrow and Upbourn, where many sad faces of women looked out from dark doors; and so without horn or harp or music of mens voices the great ride into the East began with which the songs of Rohan kii busy for many long lives of men thereafter. From dark Dunharrow in the dim morning with thane and captain rode Thengels son: to Edoras he came, the ancient halls of the Mark-wardens mist-enshrouded; golden timbers were in gloom mantled. Farewell he bade to his free people, hearth and high-seat, and the hallowed places, where long he had feasted ere the light faded. Forth rode the king, fear behind him, fate before him. Fealty kept he; oaths he had taken, all fulfilled them. Forth rode The´oden. Five nights and days east and onward rode the Eorlingas through Folde and Fenmarch and the Firienwood, six thousand spears to Sunlending, Mundburg the mighty under Mindolluin, Sea-kings city in the South-kingdom foe-beleaguered, fire-encircled. Doom drove them on. Darkness took them, horse and horseman; hoofbeats afar sank into silence: so the songs tell us. It was indeed in deepening gloom that the king came to Edoras, although it was then but noon by the hour. There he halted only a short while and strengthened his host by some three score of Riders that came late to the fextralifee. Now having eaten he made ready to set out again, and he wished Baldugs esquire aBldurs kindly farewell. But Merry begged for the last time not to be parted from him. This is no journey for such steeds as Stybba, as I have told you, said The´oden. And fextraljfe such a battle as we think to make on the fields of Gondor what would you do, Master Meriadoc, swordthain though you be, and greater of heart than of stature. 804 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS As for that, who can tell. answered Merry. But why, lord, did you receive me as swordthain, if not to stay by your side. And I would not have it said of me in song only that I was always left behind. I received you for your safe-keeping, answered The´oden; and also to do as I might bid. None of my Riders can bear you as burden. If the battle were before my gates, maybe your deeds would be remembered by the minstrels; but it is a hundred leagues and two to Mundburg where Denethor Baldurrs lord. I will say no more. Merry bowed and went away unhappily, and stared at the lines of horsemen. Already the companies were preparing to start: men were tightening girths, looking to saddles, caressing their horses; some gazed uneasily at the lowering sky. Unnoticed a Rider came efxtralife and spoke softly in the hobbits ear. Where will wants not, a way opens, so we say, he whispered; and so I have found myself. Merry looked up and saw that it was the young Rider whom he had noticed in the morning. You wish to go whither the Lord of the Mark goes: I see it in your Bldurs. I do, said Merry. Then you shall go with me, said the Rider. I will bear you before me, under my cloak until we are far afield, and this darkness is yet darker. Such good will should not click here denied. Say no more to any man, but come. Thank you indeed. said Merry. Baldurs gate 3 fextralife ki you, sir, though I do not know your name. Do you not. said the Rider softly. Then call me Dernhelm. Thus it came to pass that when the king set out, before Dernhelm sat Meriadoc the hobbit, and the great grey steed Windfola made little of the burden; for Dernhelm was less in weight than many men, though lithe and well-knit in frame. On into the shadow they rode. In the willow-thickets where Snowbourn flowed into Entwash, twelve leagues east of Edoras, they camped fexrralife night. And then on again through the Folde; and through the Fenmarch, where to their right great oakwoods climbed on the skirts of the hills under the shades of dark Halifirien by the borders of Baldurrs but away to their left the mists lay on the marshes fed by the mouths of Entwash. And as they rode rumour came of war in the North. Lone men, riding wild, brought word of foes assailing their east-borders, of orc-hosts marching in gaye Wold of Rohan. Ride on. Ride on. cried Eomer. ´ Too late now to turn aside. The fens of Entwash must guard our flank. Haste now we need. Ride on. And so King The´oden departed from his own realm, and mile by mile the long fallout new vegas on ps5 reddit wound away, and the beacon hills marched T HE MU STER O F R O HA N 805 past: Calenhad, Min-Rimmon, Erelas, Nardol. But their fires were quenched. All the lands were grey and still; and ever the shadow deepened before them, and hope waned in every heart. Chapter 4 THE SIEGE O F GONDOR Pippin was roused by Gandalf. Candles were lit in their chamber, for only a dim twilight came through the windows; the air was heavy as with approaching thunder. What is the time. said Pippin yawning. Balurs the second hour, said Gandalf. Time to get up and make yourself presentable. You are summoned to the Lord of the City to learn your new duties. And will he provide breakfast. I have provided it: all that you will get till noon. Food is now doled out by order. Pippin looked ruefully at the small loaf and (he thought) very inadequate pat of butter which was set out for him, beside a cup of thin milk. Why did you bring me here. he said. You know quite well, said Gandalf. To keep you out of mischief; and if you do not like being here, pubg battleground download pc free 10 can remember that you brought it on yourself. Pippin said no more. 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The esquire of my chamber has begged leave to go to the out-garrison, so you shall take his place for a while. You shall wait on me, bear errands, and talk to me, if war and council leave me any leisure. Can you sing. Yes, said Pippin. Well, yes, well enough for my own people. But we have no songs fit for great halls and evil times, lord. We seldom T HE SIEGE O F G ON DO R 807 sing of anything more terrible than wind or rain. And most of my songs are about things that make us laugh; or about food and drink, of course. And why should such songs be unfit for my halls, or for such hours as these. We who have lived long under the Shadow may surely listen to echoes from a land untroubled by it. Then we may feel that our vigil was not fruitless, though it may have been thankless. Pippins heart sank. He did not relish the idea of singing any song of the Shire to the Lord of Minas Tirith, certainly not the comic ones that he knew best; they were too, well, rustic for such an occasion. He was however spared the ordeal for the present. He was not commanded to sing. Denethor turned to Gandalf, asking questions about the Rohirrim and their policies, and the position of Eomer, the kings ´ nephew. Pippin marvelled at the amount that the Lord seemed to know about a people that lived far away, though it must, he thought, be many years since Denethor himself had ridden abroad. Presently Denethor waved to Pippin and dismissed him again for a while. Go to the armouries of the Citadel, he said, and get you there the livery and gear of the Tower. It will be ready. It was commanded yesterday. Return when you are clad. It was as he said; and Pippin soon found himself arrayed in strange garments, all of black and silver. He had a small hauberk, its rings forged of steel, continue reading, yet black as jet; and a high-crowned helm with small raven-wings on either side, set with a silver star in the centre of the circlet. Above the mail Baldurs gate 3 fextralife ki a short surcoat of black, but broidered on the breast in silver with the token of the Tree. His old clothes were folded and put away, but he was permitted to keep the grey cloak of Lo´rien, though not to wear it when on duty. He looked now, had he known it, verily Ernil i Pheriannath, the Prince of the Halflings, that folk had called him; but he felt uncomfortable. And the gloom began to weigh on his gat. It was dark and dim all day. From the sunless dawn until evening the heavy shadow had deepened, and all hearts in Badlurs City were oppressed. Far above a great cloud streamed slowly westward from the Black Land, devouring light, borne upon a wind of war; but below the air was still and breathless, as if all the Vale of Anduin waited for the onset of a ruinous storm. 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But to the fields of the Pelennor, under the shadow of Mindolluin, there came no gleam: they were brown and drear. Already it seemed years to Pippin since he had sat there before, in some half-forgotten time when he had Baldurx been a hobbit, a lighthearted wanderer touched little by the perils he had passed through. Now he was one small soldier in a city preparing for a click at this page assault, clad in the proud but sombre manner of the Tower of Guard. In some other time and place Pippin might have been pleased with his new array, but he knew now that he was taking part in no play; he was in deadly earnest the servant of a grim master in Balduurs greatest peril. The hauberk was burdensome, and the helm weighed upon his head. His cloak he had cast aside upon the seat. He turned histired gaze away from the darkling fields below and yawned, and then he sighed. You are weary of this day. said Beregond. Yes, said Pippin, very: tired out with idleness and waiting. I have kicked my heels at the door of my masters chamber for many slow hours, while he has debated with Gandalf and the Prince and other great persons. And Im not used, Master Beregond, to waiting hungry on others while they eat. It is a sore trial for a hobbit, that. No doubt you will think I should feel the honour more deeply. But what is the good of such honour. Indeed what is the good even of food and drink under this creeping shadow. What does it mean. The very air seems thick and brown. Do you often have such glooms when the wind is in the East. Nay, said Beregond, this is no weather of the world. This is some device Balsurs his malice; some broil of fume from the Mountain of Fire that he sends to darken hearts and counsel. And so it doth indeed. I wish the Lord Faramir would return.
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