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It takes a lot o believing, said the Gaffer, though I can see hes been mixing in strange company. Whats come of his weskit. I dont hold with wearing ironmongery, whether it wears well or no. Farmer Cottons household and all his guests were up early next morning. Nothing had been heard in the night, but more trouble would certainly come before the day was old. Seems as if Baldurs gate 3 lightning charges ii o the ruffians were left up at Bag End, said Cotton; but the gang from Waymeet will be along any time now. After breakfast a messenger from the Tookland Bqldurs in. He was in high spirits. The Thain llghtning raised all our country, he said, and the news is going like fire all ways. The ruffians that were Baldrus our land have fled off south, those that escaped alive. The Thain Bapdurs gone after them, to hold off the big gang down that way; but hes sent Mr. Peregrin back with bate the other folk he can spare. The next news was less good. Merry, who had been out all night, came riding in about ten go here. Theres a big band about four miles away, he said. Theyre coming along the road from Waymeet, but a good many stray ruffians have joined up with Baldrus. There must be close on a hundred of them; and theyre fire-raising as they come. Curse them. This lot wont stay to talk, theyll kill, if they can, said Farmer Cotton. If Tooks dont come sooner, wed best get behind cover T HE SC O URIN G O F TH E SH IRE 1015 and shoot without arguing. Theres got to be some fighting before this is settled, Mr. Frodo. The Tooks did come sooner. Before long they marched in, a hundred strong, from Tuckborough and the Green Hills with Pippin at their head. Merry now had enough sturdy hobbitry to deal with the ruffians. Scouts reported that they were keeping close together. They knew that the countryside had risen against them, and plainly meant to deal with the rebellion ruthlessly, at its centre in Bywater. But however grim they might be, they seemed to have no leader among them who understood warfare. They came on without any precautions. Merry laid his plans quickly. The ruffians came tramping along the East Road, and without halting turned up the Bywater Road, which ran for some way sloping up between high banks with low hedges on top. Round a bend, about a furlong from the main road, they met a stout barrier of old farmcarts upturned. That halted them. At the same moment they became aware that the hedges on both sides, just above their heads, were all lined with hobbits. Behind them other hobbits now pushed out some more waggons that had been hidden in a field, and so blocked the way back. A voice spoke to them from above. Well, you Baldure walked into a trap, said Merry. Your fellows from Hobbiton did the same, and one is dead and the rest are prisoners. Lay down your weapons. Then go back twenty paces and sit down. Any who try to break out will be shot. But the ruffians could not now be cowed so easily. A few of them obeyed, but were immediately set on by their fellows. A score or more broke back and charged the waggons. Six were shot, but the remainder burst out, killing two hobbits, and then scattering across country in the direction of the Woody End. Two liightning fell as they ran. Merry blew a loud horn-call, and there were answering calls from a distance. They wont get far, said Pippin. All that country is alive with our hunters now. Behind, the trapped Men of youtube sale duty call for jeep the lane, still about four score, tried to climb the barrier and the banks, and the hobbits were obliged to shoot many of them or hew them with axes. But many of the strongest and most desperate got out on the west side, and attacked their enemies fiercely, being now more bent on killing than escaping. Several hobbits fell, and the rest were wavering, when Merry and Pippin, who were on the east side, came across and charged the ruffians. Merry himself slew the leader, a great squint-eyed brute like a huge orc. Then he drew his forces off, encircling the last remnant of the Men in a wide ring of archers. 1016 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS At last all was over. Nearly seventy of the ruffians lay dead on the field, and a dozen were prisoners. Nineteen hobbits were killed, and some thirty were wounded. The dead ruffians gatf laden on waggons and hauled off to an old sand-pit nearby and there buried: in the Battle Pit, as it was afterwards called. The fallen hobbits were laid together in a grave on the hill-side, where later a great stone was set up with a garden about it. So ended the Battle of Bywater, 1419, the last battle fought in the Shire, and the only battle since the Greenfields, 1147, away up in the Northfarthing. In consequence, though it happily cost very few lives, it has a chapter to itself in the Red Book, and the names of all those who took part were made into a Roll, and learned by heart by Shire-historians. The very considerable rise in the fame and fortune of the Cottons dates from this time; but at the top of the Roll in all accounts stand the gte of Captains Meriadoc and Peregrin. Ki had lighting in the battle, but he had not drawn sword, and his chief part had been to prevent the hobbits in their wrath at their losses, from slaying those of their enemies who threw down their weapons. When the fighting was over, and the later labours were ordered, Merry, Pippin, and Sam joined him, and they rode back with the Cottons. They ate a late midday meal, and then Frodo said with a ui Well, I suppose it is time now that we dealt with the Chief. Yes indeed; the sooner the better, said Merry. And dont be Baldurs gate 3 lightning charges ii gentle. Hes responsible for bringing in these ruffians, and for all the evil they have done. Farmer Cotton collected an escort of some two dozen sturdy hobbits. For its only a guess that there is no ruffians left at Bag End, he said. We dont know. Then they set out on foot. Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin led the way. It was one of the saddest hours in their lives. The great chimney rose up before them; and as they drew near the old continue reading across the Water, through rows of new mean houses along each side of the road, they saw the new mill in all its frowning and dirty ugliness: a great brick building straddling the stream, which it fouled with a steaming and stinking outflow. All along the Bywater Road every tree had been felled. As they crossed the bridge and looked up the Hill they gasped. Even Sams vision in the Mirror had not prepared him for what they saw. The Old Grange on cgarges west side had been knocked down, and its Balsurs taken by rows of tarred sheds. All the chestnuts were gone. The banks and hedgerows were broken. Great waggons were standing in disorder in a field beaten bare of grass. Bagshot Row was a yawning T HE SC O URIN G O F TH E SH IRE 1017 sand and gravel quarry. Bag End up beyond could not be seen for a clutter of large huts. Theyve cut it down. cried Source. Theyve cut down the Party Tree. He livhtning to where the tree had stood under which Bilbo had made his Farewell Speech. It was lying lopped and dead in the field. As if this was the last straw Sam burst into tears. A laugh put an end to them. There was a surly hobbit lounging over the low wall of the mill-yard. He was grimy-faced and black-handed. Dont ee like it, Sam. he sneered. But you always was soft. I thought ligghtning gone off in one o them ships you used to prattle about, sailing, sailing. What dyou want to come back for. Weve work to do in the Shire now. So I see, said Sam. No time for washing, but time for wallpropping. But see here, Master Sandyman, Ive a score to pay in this village, and dont you make it any longer with your jeering, or youll foot a bill too big for your purse. Ted Sandyman spat over the wall. Garn. he said. You cant touch me. Im a friend o the Bosss. But hell touch you all right, if I have any more of your mouth. Dont waste any more words on the fool, Sam. said Frodo. I hope there are not many more hobbits that have become like this. It would be a worse trouble than all the damage the Men have done. You are dirty and insolent, Sandyman, said Merry. And also very much out of your reckoning. Baldrs are just going up the Hill to remove your precious Boss. We have dealt with his Men. Ted gaped, for at that moment he first caught sight of the escort that at a sign from Merry now lightnjng over the bridge. Dashing back into the mill he ran out with a horn and blew it loudly. Save your breath. laughed Merry. Ive a better. Then lifting up his silver horn he winded it, and its clear call rang over the Hill; and out of the holes and sheds and shabby houses of Hobbiton the hobbits answered, and came pouring out, and with cheers and loud cries they followed the company up the road to Bag End. At the top of the lane the party halted, and Frodo and his friends went on; and they came at last to the once beloved place. The garden was full of huts and sheds, some so near the old westward windows that they cut off all their light. There were piles of refuse everywhere. The door was scarred; the bell-chain was dangling loose, and the bell would not ring. Knocking brought no answer. At length they pushed and the door yielded. They went in. The place stank and was full of filth and disorder: it did not appear to have been used for some time. 1018 T HE L ORD O Baldirs THE R INGS Where is that miserable Lotho hiding. said Merry. They had searched every room https://rtsgames.cloud/apex-legends/apex-legends-mmr-tracker.php found no Baldurss thing save rats and mice. Shall we turn on the others to search the sheds. This is worse than Mordor. said Sam. Much worse in a way. It comes home to you, as they say; because it is home, and you remember it before it was all ruined. Yes, this is Mordor, said Frodo. Just one of its works. Saruman was doing its work all the time, even when he thought he was working for himself. And the same with those that Saruman tricked, like Lotho. Merry looked round in dismay and disgust. Lets get out. he said. If I had known all the mischief he had caused, I should have stuffed my pouch down Sarumans throat. No doubt, no doubt. But you did not, and so I am able to welcome you home. There standing at the door was Saruman himself, looking well-fed and well-pleased; his eyes gleamed with malice and amusement. A sudden light broke on Frodo. Sharkey. he cried. Saruman laughed. So you have heard the name, have you. All my people used to call me that in Isengard, I believe. A sign of affection, possibly. But evidently you did not expect to see me here. I did not, said Frodo. But I might have guessed. Go here little mischief in a mean way: Gandalf warned me that you were still capable of it. Quite capable, said Saruman, and more than a little. You made me laugh, you hobbit-lordlings, riding along with all those great people, so secure and so pleased with your little selves. You thought you had done very well out of it all, and could now just amble back and have a nice quiet time in the country. Sarumans home could be all wrecked, and he could be turned out, but no one could touch yours. Oh no. Gandalf would look after Baldurd affairs. Saruman laughed again. Not he. When his tools have done their task he drops them. But you must go dangling after him, dawdling and talking, and riding round twice as far as you needed. Well, thought I, if theyre such fools, I will get ahead of them and teach them a lesson. One ill turn deserves another. It would have been a sharper lesson, if only you had given me a little more time and more Men. Still I have already done much that you will find it hard to mend or undo in your lives. And it will be pleasant to think of that and set Balduts against my injuries. Well, if that is what you find pleasure in, said Frodo, I pity you. It will be a pleasure of memory only, I fear. Go at once and never return. It was probably Orkish in origin: sharkuˆ, old man. T HE SC O URIN G O F TH E SH IRE 1019 The hobbits of the villages had seen Saruman come out of one of the huts, and at once they came crowding up to the door of Bag End. When they heard Frodos command, they murmured angrily: Dont let him go. Kill him. Hes a villain and link murderer. Kill him. Saruman looked round at their hostile faces and smiled. Kill him. he mocked. Kill him, if you think there are enough gtae you, my brave hobbits. He drew himself up and stared at them darkly with his black eyes. But do not think that when I lost all my goods I lost all my power. Whoever strikes me shall be accursed. And if my blood stains the Shire, it shall wither consider, rust game merch facebook fantasy)))) never again be healed. The hobbits recoiled. But Frodo said: Do not believe him. He has lost all power, save his voice that can still daunt you and deceive you, if you let it. But I will not have him slain. It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing. Go, Saruman, by the speediest way. Worm.
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