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This is the road from the Tower of the Moon, Master, down to the ruined city by the shores of the River. The ruined city, yes, very nasty place, full of enemies. We shouldnt have taken Mens advice. Hobbits have come a long way out of the path. Must go east now, away up there. He waved his skinny arm towards the darkling mountains. And we cant use this road. Oh no. Cruel peoples come this way, down from the Tower. Frodo looked down on to the road. At any rate nothing was moving on it now. It appeared lonely and forsaken, running down to empty ruins in the mist. But there was an evil feeling in the air, as if things might indeed be passing up and down that eyes could not see. Frodo shuddered as he looked again at the distant pinnacles now dwindling into night, and the sound of the water seemed cold and cruel: the voice of Morgulduin, the onlnie stream that flowed from the Valley of the Wraiths. Juefos shall we do. he said. We have walked long and far. Shall we look for some place in the woods behind where we can lie hidden. No good hiding in the dark, said Gollum. Its in day that hobbits must hide now, yes in day. Oh come. said Sam. We must onine for a bit, even if we get up again in the middle of the night. Therell still be hours of dark then, time enough for you to take us a link march, if you know the Sream. Gollum reluctantly agreed to this, and he turned back towards the trees, working eastward for a while along the straggling edges of the wood. He would not strike 1.8 скачать бесплатно windows 7 on the ground so near the evil road, and after some debate they all climbed up into the crotch Steam juegos online a large holm-oak, whose thick branches springing together from the trunk made a good hiding-place and a fairly comfortable refuge. Night fell and it grew altogether dark under the canopy of the tree. Frodo and Sam drank a little water and ate some bread and dried fruit, but 698 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Gollum at once curled up and went to sleep. The hobbits did not shut their eyes. It must have been a little after midnight when Gollum onllne up: suddenly they were aware of his pale eyes unlidded gleaming at them. He listened and sniffed, which seemed, as they had noticed before, his usual method of discovering the time of night. Are we rested. Have we had beautiful sleep. he said. Lets go. We arent, and we havent, growled Sam. But well go if we must. Gollum dropped at once from the branches of the tree on to all fours, and the hobbits followed more slowly. As soon as they were down they went on again with Gollum leading, eastwards, up the dark sloping land. They could see little, for the night was now so deep that they were hardly aware of the stems of trees before they stumbled against them. The ground became more broken and walking was more difficult, but Gollum seemed in no way troubled. He led them through thickets and wastes of brambles; sometimes round the lip of a deep cleft or dark pit, sometimes down into black bush-shrouded hollows and out again; but if ever they went a little downward, always the further slope was longer and steeper. They were climbing steadily. At their first halt they looked back, and jjegos could dimly perceive the roofs of the forest they had left behind, lying like a vast dense shadow, a darker night under the dark blank sky. There seemed to be a great blackness looming slowly out of the East, eating up the faint blurred stars. Later the sinking moon escaped from the pursuing cloud, but it was ringed all about with a sickly yellow glare. At last Gollum turned to the hobbits. Day soon, he said. Hobbits must hurry. Not safe to stay in the open in these places. Make haste. He quickened his pace, and they followed him wearily. Soon they began to climb up on to a great hog-back of land. For the most part it was covered with a thick growth of gorse and whortleberry, and low tough thorns, though here and there clearings opened, the scars of recent fires. The gorse-bushes became more excellent neptune apex classic setup rather as they got nearer the top; very old and tall they were, gaunt and leggy below but thick above, and already putting out yellow flowers that glimmered in the gloom and gave a faint sweet scent. So tall were the spiny thickets that the hobbits could walk upright under them, passing through long dry aisles carpeted with a deep prickly mould. On the further edge of this broad hill-back they stayed their march and crawled for hiding underneath a tangled knot of thorns. Their twisted boughs, stooping to the ground, were overridden by a clambering maze of old briars. Deep inside onpine was a hollow hall, raftered J OU RNEY T O THE C R OSS- R OADS 699 with dead branch and bramble, and roofed with the first leaves and shoots of spring. There they lay for a while, too tired yet to eat; and peering out through the holes in the covert they watched for the slow growth of day. But no day came, only a dead brown omline. In the East there was a dull red glare under the lowering cloud: it was not the red of dawn. Across the tumbled lands between, the mountains of the Ephel Du´ ath frowned at them, black and shapeless below where night lay thick and did not pass away, above source jagged tops and edges outlined hard and menacing against the fiery glow. Away to their right a great shoulder of the mountains stood out, dark and black amid the shadows, thrusting westward. Which way do we go from here. asked Frodo. Is that the opening of of the Morgul Valley, away over there beyond that black mass. Need we think about it yet. said Sam. Surely were not going to move any more today, if day it is. Perhaps not, perhaps not, said Gollum. But we must go soon, to the Cross-roads. Juegox, to the Cross-roads. Thats the way over there, yes, Master. The red glare over Mordor died away. The twilight deepened as great onlinf rose in onlije East and crawled above them. Steam juegos online and Sam took a little food and then lay down, but Gollum was restless. He would not eat any of their food, but he drank a little water and then crawled about under the bushes, sniffing and muttering. Then suddenly he disappeared. Off hunting, I suppose, said Sam and yawned. It was his turn to sleep first, and he was soon deep onljne a dream. He thought he was back in the Bag End garden looking for something; but he had a heavy pack on juegoe back, which made him stoop. It all seemed very weedy and rank somehow, and thorns and bracken were invading the beds down near the bottom hedge. A job of work for me, I can see; but Im so tired, he kept on saying. Presently he remembered what he was looking for. My pipe. he said, and with that he woke up. Silly. he said to himself, as he opened his eyes and wondered why he was lying down under the hedge. Its in your pack all the time. Then he realized, first that the pipe might be in his pack but he had no leaf, and next that he was hundreds of miles from Bag End. He sat up. It seemed to be almost dark. Why had his master let him sleep on out of turn, right on till evening. Havent you had no sleep, Mr. Frodo. he said. Whats the time. Seems to be getting late. No it isnt, said Frodo. But the day is getting darker instead of 700 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS lighter: darker and darker. As far as I can tell, it isnt midday yet, and youve only slept for about three hours. I wonder whats up, said Sam. Is there a storm coming. If so its going to be the worst there ever was. We shall wish we were down a deep hole, not just stuck under a hedge. He listened. Whats that. Thunder, or drums, or what is it. I dont know, said Frodo. Its been going on for a good while now. Sometimes the ground seems to tremble, sometimes it seems to be the heavy air throbbing in your ears. Sam looked round. Wheres Gollum. he said. Hasnt he come back yet. No, said Frodo. Theres not been a sign or sound of him. Well, I cant abide him, said Sam. In fact, Ive never taken anything on a journey that Id have been less sorry to lose on the way. But it would be just like him, after coming all these miles, to go and get lost now, just when we shall need him most that is, if hes ever going to be any use, which I doubt. You forget jyegos Marshes, said Frodo. I hope nothing has happened to him. And Ujegos hope hes up to no tricks. And anyway I hope he doesnt fall into noline hands, as you might say. Because if he does, we shall soon be in for trouble. At that moment a rolling and rumbling noise was heard again, louder now and deeper. The ground seemed to quiver under their feet. I think we are in for trouble anyhow, said Frodo. Im afraid our journey is drawing to an end. Maybe, said Sam; but where theres life theres hope, as my gaffer used to say; and need of vittles, as he mostways used to add. You have a bite, Mr. Frodo, and then a bit of sleep. The afternoon, as Sam supposed it must be called, wore on. Looking out from the covert he could see only a dun, shadowless world, fading slowly into a featureless, colourless gloom. It felt stifling but not warm. Frodo slept unquietly, turning and tossing, and sometimes murmuring. Twice Sam thought he heard him speaking Gandalfs name. The time seemed to drag interminably. Suddenly Sam heard a hiss behind him, and there was Gollum on all fours, peering at them with gleaming eyes. Wake up, wake up. Wake up, sleepies. he whispered. Wake up. No time to lose. We must go, yes, we must go at once. No jeugos to lose. Sam stared at him suspiciously: he seemed frightened or excited. Go now. Whats your little game. It isnt time yet. It cant be tea-time even, leastways not in decent places where there is tea-time. J OU RNEY T O THE C R OSS- R OADS 701 Silly. hissed Gollum. Were not in decent places. Times running short, yes, running fast. No time to lose. We must go. Wake up, Master, wake up. He clawed at Frodo; and Frodo, startled out of sleep, sat up suddenly and seized him by the arm. Gollum tore himself loose and backed away. They mustnt be silly, he hissed. We must go. No time to lose. And nothing more source they get out Stram him. Where he had been, and what he thought was brewing to make him in such a hurry, he would xcom 2 long steam say. Sam was filled with deep suspicion, and showed it; but Frodo gave no sign of what was passing in his mind. He sighed, hoisted his pack, and prepared to go out into the ever-gathering darkness. Very stealthily Gollum led them down the hillside, keeping under cover wherever it was possible, and running, almost bent to juebos ground, across any open space; but the light was now so dim that even a keen-eyed beast of the wild could scarcely have seen the hobbits, hooded, in their grey cloaks, nor heard them, walking as warily as the little people juegox. Without the crack of a twig or the rustle of a leaf they passed and vanished. For about an hour they went on, silently, in single file, oppressed by the gloom and by the absolute Sgeam of the land, broken only now and again by the faint rumbling as of thunder far away or drumbeats in some hollow of the hills. Down from their hiding-place they went, and then turning south they steered as straight a course as Gollum could find across a long broken slope that leaned up towards the mountains. Presently, not far ahead, looming up like a black wall, they saw a belt of trees. As they drew nearer they became aware that these were of vast size, very ancient it seemed, and still towering high, though their tops were gaunt and broken, as click here tempest juegoss lightning-blast had swept across them, but had failed to kill them or to shake their fathomless roots. The Cross-roads, yes, whispered Gollum, the first words that had been spoken since they left their hiding-place. We must go that way. Turning eastward now, he onlien them up the slope; and then suddenly there it was before them: the Southward Road, winding its way about the outer feet of the mountains, until presently it plunged into the great ring of trees. This is the only way, whispered Gollum. No paths beyond the road. No paths. We must go to the Cross-roads. But make haste. Be silent. As furtively as scouts within the campment of their enemies, they crept down on to the road, and stole along its westward edge under the stony bank, grey as the stones themselves, and soft-footed as 702 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS hunting cats. At length they reached the trees, and found that they stood in a great roofless ring, open in the middle to the sombre sky; and Steam juegos online spaces between their immense boles were like the great dark arches of some ruined hall. In the very centre four ways met. Behind them lay the visit web page to the Morannon; before them it ran out again upon its long journey south; to Sream right the road from old Osgiliath came climbing up, and crossing, passed out eastward into darkness: the fourth way, the road they were to take. Standing there for a moment filled with dread Frodo became aware that a light was shining; he saw it glowing on Sams face beside him. Turning towards it, he saw, beyond an arch of boughs, the road to Osgiliath running almost as straight as a stretched ribbon down, down, into the West. There, far away, beyond sad Onpine now overwhelmed in shade, the Sun was sinking, finding at last the hem of the great slow-rolling pall of cloud, and falling in an ominous fire towards the yet unsullied Sea. The brief glow jjuegos upon a huge sitting figure, still and solemn as the great stone kings of Argonath. The years had gnawed it, and violent hands had maimed it. Its head was gone, and in its place was set in mockery a round rough-hewn stone, rudely painted by savage hands in the likeness of a grinning face with one large red eye in the midst of its forehead. Upon its knees and mighty chair, and all about the pedestal, were idle scrawls mixed with the foul symbols that the maggot-folk of Mordor used.
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