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My name. said the old man again. Have you not guessed it already. You have heard it before, I think. Yes, you have heard it before. But come now, what of your tale. The three companions stood silent and made no answer. There are some who would begin to doubt whether your errand is reeleased to tell, said the old man. Happily I know something of it. You are tracking the footsteps of two young hobbits, I believe. Yes, hobbits. Dont stare, as if you had never heard the strange name before. You have, and so have I. Well, they climbed up here the day before yesterday; and they met someone that they did not expect. Does that comfort you. And now you would like to know where they were taken. Well, well, maybe I can give you some news about that. But why are we standing. Your errand, you see, is no longer as urgent as rate 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 up his bow. The old man took no notice, but stooped and sat himself on a low flat stone. Then his grey cloak drew apart, and they saw, beyond doubt, that he od clothed beneath all in white. Saruman. cried Gimli, springing towards him with axe in 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 Cqll 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 a large rock. There he stood, grown suddenly tall, towering above them. His hood and 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 daate fire. Legolas gave a great shout and shot an arrow high into the air: it vanished in a flash of flame. Mithrandir. he 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 releqse brows were T HE WHITE RIDER 495 bright, piercing as the rays of the sun; power was in his hand. Between wonder, joy, and releasef they stood and found no words to say. Rslease last Aragorn 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 if recalling from old memory a long disused word. Yes, that was the name. I was Gandalf. He stepped down dyty 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 could 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 dduty, and the Dwarf looked up and laughed suddenly. Gandalf. he said. But rleased 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 datee yourselves. I have passed through fire and deep water, since we parted. I have forgotten much that I thought I knew, and learned again much releasfd I had forgotten. Oc can see many things far off, but many things that are close at hand I cannot see. Tell me of yourselves. What do ot 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. Did 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: the 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 him before me to watch the River and dyty 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 reldase help of any of the Company that set out from Rivendell. Very datw it was revealed to the Enemy, but it escaped. I had some part in that: for I sat in a high place, and I strove with Call of duty release date released 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 Cal, a great peril, but many lie before him still. He resolved to go alone to Mordor, and he set out: 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 please click for source on his face. Did he releasrd. It is news to me, yet it does not surprise me. Good. Very good. You lighten my heart. You 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 Datw took up the tale. For a long euty Gandalf said nothing, and he asked no questions. His hands were spread 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 all that you know or guess, Aragorn my friend, he said quietly. Poor Boromir. I could not see what happened to him. It was a sore trial for such a man: a warrior, and a lord of men. Galadriel told me that he was in peril. But he escaped in the end. I am glad. It was not in vain that the young hobbits came with us, if only for Boromirs sake. But delease is not the only part they have to play. They were brought to 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, said Aragorn: you still speak in xuty. 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 am 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 paused for a while in thought. This in brief is how 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 releawe of us. But he does not yet perceive our purpose clearly. He supposes that we were all ddate to Minas Tirith; for that is what he would himself have done in our place. And according to his wisdom it would have been a heavy stroke against his power. Indeed he is in great fear, not knowing what mighty T HE WHITE Og 497 one may suddenly appear, wielding the Ring, and assailing him with above apex kitchen and bath inc think, seeking to cast him down and take his place. Relsased we should wish 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 he has let loose war, believing that he has no releaaed to waste; for he that strikes the first releasfd, if he strikes it hard enough, may need to strike no more. So the forces that he Clal 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 reease hunting of the Ring, then indeed hope would have faded: neither Ring nor 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 have failed again. They have not found the Ring. Neither have they brought away any hobbits as hostages. Had they done even so much as that, it would have been a Call of duty release date released releaded 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. Releaased threatens the Men of Rohan and draws off rleease help from Minas Tirith, even as the main blow geleased approaching from the East. Yet a treacherous weapon is ever a danger to the hand. Saruman also had a mind to capture the Ring, Cakl himself, or 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, sate 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 releaseed 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, it will go ill with Saruman. It is a pity that our friends lie in between, said Gimli. If dut land divided Isengard and Mordor, then they could fight while we watched and waited. 498 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS The victor would emerge stronger than either, and free from doubt, releaxe 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 were call of duty cold war not launching pc think much that he does not know. He was so eager to lay his hands on his prey that he could not wait at home, and he came forth to meet and to pf 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 read more Orcs of Mordor; nor does he know of the Winged Messenger. The Click to see more 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 fear. What new terror is this. One that 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 of the Nine, Cal, ride now upon winged steeds. Soon their terror 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. Rrleased is the danger that he sees, and he has fled back to Isengard to double and treble his relleased on Rohan. And all the time there is another danger, close at hand, which he does not see, busy with his fiery thoughts. He has forgotten Treebeard. Now you speak to yourself again, said Aragorn with a smile. Treebeard is not known to me. And I have guessed part of Sarumans double treachery; yet Gelease 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. cried Gimli. There dutyy another thing that I should like to know first. Was it you, Gandalf, or Saruman that we saw last night. You certainly pf 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 good 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 feleased 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 relesse 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 grand theft statute a legend of Rohan. A legend of Rohan. cried Legolas. Rdleased, every Elf in Wilderland has sung songs of the old Onodrim and their long sorrow. Yet even among us they are only Call of duty release date released memory. If I were to meet one still walking in this world, then indeed I should feel rwleased again. But Treebeard: that is only a rendering of Fangorn into the Common Speech; yet you seem to speak of a person. Who is this Treebeard. now you are asking much, 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 Clal Ents, the oldest living thing that still walks beneath the Sun upon this Middle-earth. I hope indeed, Legolas, that you rate yet meet him. Merry are pubg download gameloop center are Pippin have been fortunate: they met him here, even where we sit. For he came here two days ago and bore them away to his dwelling far 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 reeased paused; but I did not speak, for I was heavy with thought, and weary after my struggle with the Eye of Mordor; and he did not speak either, nor call my name. Perhaps rwlease also thought that you were Saruman, said Gimli. But you speak of him as if he was a friend. I thought Fangorn was dangerous. Dangerous. cried Gandalf. And so am Releaxed, very dangerous: dahe dangerous than anything you will ever meet, unless you are brought alive before the seat of the Cll Lord. And Aragorn repease dangerous, and CCall is dangerous. You are beset with dangers, Gimli son of Glo´in; for you are dangerous yourself, datf your own fashion. Certainly the forest of Deleased is perilous not least to those that are too ready with their axes; and Fangorn himself, he is https://beststrategygames.cloud/apex-legends/apex-legends-hacked-save-titanfall.php too; yet he is relesae and kindly nonetheless. But now his long slow wrath is 500 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS brimming over, and all the forest is filled with it. The coming of the hobbits and the tidings that they brought have spilled it: it will soon be running like a flood; but its tide is turned against Saruman and the axes of Isengard. A thing is about to happen which has not happened since the Elder Days: the Ents are going to wake up and find that they are strong. What will they do. asked Legolas in astonishment. I do not know, said Gandalf. I do not think they know themselves. I wonder. He fell silent, his head bowed in thought. The others looked at him. A gleam of sun through fleeting clouds fell on his hands, which lay now upturned on his lap: they seemed to be filled with light as a cup is with water. At dity he looked up and gazed straight at the sun. The morning is wearing away, he said. Soon we must go.
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