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But that is another story, which can wait until after lunch. Well let us go and have lunch then. said the Dwarf. The hobbits led the way; and they passed under the arch and came to a wide door upon the left, at the top of a stair. It opened direct into a large chamber, with other smaller doors at the far end, and a F L O TSAM A ND JETSAM 561 hearth and chimney at one side. The chamber was hewn out of the stone; and it must once have been dark, for its windows looked out only into the tunnel. But light came in now through the broken roof. On the hearth wood was burning. I lit a bit of fire, said Pippin. It cheered us up in the fogs. There were few faggots about, and most of the wood we could find was wet. But there is a great draught in the chimney: it seems to wind away up through the rock, and fortunately it has not been blocked. A fire is handy. I will make you some toast. The bread is three or four days old, I am afraid. Aragorn and his companions sat themselves down at one end of a long table, and the hobbits disappeared through one of the inner doors. Store-room in there, and above the floods, luckily, said Pippin, as they came back laden with dishes, bowls, cups, knives, and food of various sorts. And you need not turn up your nose at the provender, Master Gimli, said Merry. This is not orc-stuff, but man-food, as Treebeard calls it. Will you have wine or beer. Theres a barrel inside there very passable. And this is first-rate salted pork. Or I can cut you some rashers of bacon and broil them, if you like. I am sorry there is no green stuff: the deliveries have been rather interrupted in the last few days. I cannot offer you anything to follow but butter and honey for your bread. Are you content. Indeed yes, said Gimli. The score is much reduced. The three were soon busy with their meal; and the two hobbits, unabashed, set to a second time. We must keep our guests company, they said. You are full of courtesy this morning, laughed Legolas. But maybe, if we had not arrived, you would already have been keeping one another company again. Maybe; and why not. said Pippin. We had foul fare with the Orcs, and little enough for days before that. It seems a long while since we could eat to hearts content. It does not seem to have done you any harm, said Aragorn. Indeed you look in the bloom of health. Aye, you do indeed, said Gimli, looking them up and down over the top of his cup. Why, your hair is twice as thick and curly as when we parted; and I would swear that you have both grown somewhat, if that is possible for hobbits of your age. This Treebeard at any rate has not starved you. He has not, said Merry. But Ents only drink, and drink is not enough for content. Treebeards draughts may be nourishing, but one feels the need of something solid. And even lembas is none the worse for a change. 562 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS You have drunk of the waters of the Ents, have you. said Legolas. Ah, then I think it is likely that Gimlis eyes do not deceive him. Strange songs have been sung of the draughts of Fangorn. Many strange tales have been told about that land, said Aragorn. I have never entered it. Come, tell me more about it, and about the Ents. Ents, said Pippin, Ents are well Ents are all different for one thing. But their eyes now, their eyes are very odd. He tried a few fumbling words that trailed off into silence. Oh, well, he went on, you have seen some at a distance, already they saw you at any rate, and reported that you were on the way and you will see many others, I expect, before you leave here. You must form your own ideas. Now, now. said Gimli. We are beginning the story in the middle. I should like a tale in the right order, starting with that strange day when our fellowship was broken. You shall have it, if there is time, said Merry. But first if you have finished eating you shall apex mobile with controller your pipes and light up. And then for a little while we can pretend that we are all back safe at Bree again, or in Rivendell. He produced a small leather bag full of tobacco. We have heaps of it, he said; and you can all pack as much as you wish, when we go. We did some salvage-work this morning, Pippin and Of duty zombies perks. There are lots of things floating about. It was Pippin who found two small barrels, washed up out of some cellar or store-house, I suppose. When we opened them, we found they were filled with this: as fine a pipe-weed as you could wish for, and quite unspoilt. Gimli took some and rubbed it in his palms and sniffed it. It feels good, and it smells good, he said. It is good. said Merry. My dear Gimli, it is Longbottom Leaf. There were the Hornblower brandmarks on the barrels, as plain as plain. How it came here, I cant imagine. For Sarumans private use, I fancy. I never knew that it went so far abroad. But it comes in handy now. It would, said Gimli, if I had a pipe to go with it. Alas, I lost mine in Moria, or before. Is there no pipe counter strike all your plunder. No, I am afraid not, said Merry. We have not found any, not even here in the guardrooms. Saruman kept this dainty to himself, it seems. And I dont think it would be any use knocking on the doors of Orthanc to beg a pipe of him. We shall have to share pipes, as good friends must at a pinch. Half a moment. said Pippin. Putting his hand inside the breast of his jacket he pulled out a little soft wallet on a string. I keep a treasure or two near my skin, as precious as Rings to me. Heres one: F L O TSAM A ND JETSAM 563 my old more info pipe. And heres another: an unused one. I have carried it a long way, though I dont know why. I never really expected to find any pipe-weed on the journey, when my own ran out. But now it comes in useful after all. He held up a small pipe with a wide flattened bowl, and handed it to Gimli. Does that settle the score between us. he said. Settle it. cried Gimli. Most noble hobbit, it leaves me deep in your debt. Well, I am going back into the open air, to see what the wind and sky are doing. said Legolas. We will come with you, said Aragorn. They went out click here seated themselves upon the piled stones before the gateway. They could see far down into the valley now; the mists were lifting and floating away upon the breeze. Now let us take our ease here for a little. said Aragorn. We will sit on the edge of ruin and talk, as Gandalf says, while he is busy elsewhere. I feel a weariness such as I have seldom felt before. He wrapped his grey cloak about him, hiding his mail-shirt, and stretched out his long legs. Then he lay back and sent from his lips a thin stream of smoke. Call of duty warzone background japanese. said Pippin. Strider the Ranger has come back. He has never been away, said Aragorn. I am Strider and Du´nadan too, and I belong both to Gondor and the North. They smoked in silence for a while, and the sun shone on them; slanting into the valley from among white clouds high in the West. Legolas lay still, looking up at the sun and sky with steady eyes, and singing softly to himself. At last he sat up. Come now. he said. Time wears on, and the mists are blowing away, or would if you strange folk did not wreathe yourselves in smoke. What of the tale. Well, my tale begins with waking up in the dark and finding myself all strung-up in an orc-camp, said Pippin. Let me see, what is today. The fifth of March in the Shire-reckoning, said Aragorn. Pippin made some calculations on his fingers. Only nine days ago. he said. It seems a year since we were caught. Well, though half of it was like a bad dream, I reckon that three very horrible days followed. Merry will correct me, if I forget anything important: I am not going into details: the whips and the filth and stench and all that; it does not bear remembering. With that he plunged into an account of Boromirs last fight and the orc-march from Emyn Muil to the Forest. Every month in the Shire-calendar had 30 days. 564 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS The others nodded as the various points were fitted in with their guesses. Here are some treasures that you let fall, said Aragorn. You will be glad to have them back. He loosened his belt from under his cloak, and took from it the two sheathed knives. Well. said Merry. I never expected to see those again. I marked a few orcs with mine; but Uglu´k took them from us. How he glared. At first I thought he was going to stab me, but he threw the things away as if they burned him. And here also is your brooch, Pippin, said Aragorn. I have kept it safe, for it is a very precious thing. I know, said Pippin. It was a wrench to let it go; but what else could I do. Nothing else, answered Aragorn. One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters. You did rightly. The cutting of the bands on your wrists, that was smart work. said Gimli. Luck served you there; but you seized your chance with both hands, one might say. And set us a pretty riddle, said Legolas. I wondered if you had grown wings. Unfortunately not, said Pippin. But you did not know about Grishna´kh. He shuddered and said no more, leaving Merry to tell of those last horrible moments: the pawing hands, the hot breath, and the dreadful strength of Grishna´khs hairy arms. All this about the Orcs of Barad-duˆr, Lugbu´rz as they call it, makes me uneasy, said Aragorn. The Dark Lord already knew too much, and his servants also; and Grishna´kh evidently sent some message across the River after the quarrel. The Red Eye will be looking towards Isengard. But Saruman at any rate is in a cleft stick of his own cutting. Yes, whichever side wins, his outlook is poor, said Merry. Things began to go all wrong for him from the moment his Orcs set foot in Rohan. We caught a glimpse of the old villain, or so Gandalf hints, said Gimli. On the edge of the Forest. When was that. asked Pippin. Five nights ago, said Aragorn. Let me see, said Merry: five nights ago now we come to a part of upholstery cleaner story you know nothing about. We met Treebeard that morning after the battle; and that night we were at Wellinghall, one of his ent-houses. The next morning we went to Entmoot, a gathering of Ents, that is, and the queerest thing I have ever seen in my life. It lasted all that day and the next; and we spent the nights with an Ent called Quickbeam. And then late in the afternoon in the third day F L O TSAM A ND JETSAM 565 of their moot, the Ents suddenly blew up. It was amazing. The Forest had felt as tense as if a thunderstorm was brewing inside it: then all at once it exploded. I wish you could have heard their song as they marched. If Saruman had heard it, he would be a hundred miles away by now, even if he had had to run on his own legs, said Pippin. Though Isengard be strong and hard, as cold as stone and bare as bone, We go, we go, we go to war, to hew the stone and break the door. There was very much more. A great deal of the song had no words, and was like a music of horns and drums. It was very exciting. But I thought it was only marching music and no more, just a song until I got here. I know better now. We came down over the last ridge into Nan Curunı´r, after night had fallen, Merry continued. It was then that I first had the feeling that the Forest itself was moving behind us. I thought I was dreaming an entish dream, but Pippin had noticed it too. We were both frightened; but we did not find out more about it until later. It was the Huorns, or so the Ents call them in short language. Treebeard wont say much about them, but I think they are Ents that have become almost like trees, at least to look at. Steam deck controls stand here and there in the wood or under its eaves, silent, watching endlessly over the trees; but deep in the darkest dales there are hundreds and hundreds of them, I believe. There is a great power in them, and they seem able to wrap themselves in shadow: it is difficult to see them moving. But they do. They can move very quickly, if they are angry. You stand still looking at the weather, maybe, or listening to the rustling of the wind, and then suddenly you find that you are in the middle of a wood with great groping trees all around you. They still have voices, and can speak with the Ents that is why they are called Huorns, Treebeard says but they have become queer and wild. Dangerous. I should be terrified of meeting them, if there were no true Ents about to look after them. Well, in the early night we crept down a long ravine into the upper end of the Wizards Vale, the Ents with all their rustling Huorns behind. We could not see them, of course, but the whole air was full of creaking. It was very dark, a cloudy night. They moved at a great speed as soon as they had left the hills, and made a noise like a rushing wind. The Moon did not appear through the clouds, and not long after midnight there was a tall wood all round the north side of Isengard. There was no sign of enemies nor of any challenge. 566 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS There was a light gleaming from a high window in the tower, that was all. Treebeard and a few more Ents crept on, right round to within sight of the great gates. Pippin and I were with him. We were sitting on Treebeards shoulders, and I could feel the quivering tenseness in him. But even when they are roused, Ents can be very cautious and patient. They stood still as carved stones, breathing and listening. Then all at once there was a tremendous stir. Trumpets blared, and the walls of Isengard echoed. We thought that we had been discovered, and that battle was going to begin. But nothing of the sort. All Sarumans people were marching away. I dont know much about this war, or about the Horsemen of Rohan, but Saruman seems to have meant to finish off the king and all his men with one final blow. He emptied Isengard. I saw the enemy go: endless lines of marching Orcs; and troops of them mounted on great wolves. And there were battalions of Men, too. Many of them carried torches, and in the flare I could see their faces. Most of them were ordinary men, rather tall and dark-haired, and grim but not particularly evillooking. But there were some others that were horrible: man-high, but with goblin-faces, sallow, leering, squint-eyed. Do you know, they reminded me at once of that Southerner at Bree; only he was not so obviously orc-like as most of these were. I thought of him too, said Aragorn. We had many of these half-orcs to deal with at Helms Deep. It seems plain now that that Southerner was a spy of Sarumans; but whether he was working with the Black Riders, or for Saruman alone, I do not know. It is difficult fallout 4 danse quartier these evil folk to know when they are in league, and when they are cheating one another. Well, of all sorts together, there must have been ten thousand at the very least, said Merry. They took an hour to pass out of the gates. Some went off down the highway to the Fords, and some turned away and went eastward. A bridge has been built down there, about a mile away, where the river runs in a very deep channel. You could see it now, if you stood up. They were all singing with harsh voices, and laughing, making a hideous din. I thought things looked very black for Rohan. But Treebeard did not move. He said: My business is with Isengard tonight, with rock and stone. But, though I could not see what was happening in the dark, I believe that Huorns began to move south, as soon as the gates were shut again. Their business was with Orcs I think. They were far down the valley in the morning; or at any rate there was a shadow there that one couldnt see through. As soon as Saruman had sent off all his army, our turn came. Treebeard put us down, and went up to the gates, and began ham- F L O TSAM A ND JETSAM 567 mering on the doors, and calling for Saruman. There was no answer, except arrows and stones from the walls. But arrows are no use against Ents. They hurt them, of course, and infuriate them: like stinging flies. But an Ent can be stuck as full of orc-arrows as a pin-cushion, and take no serious harm. They cannot be poisoned, for one thing; and their skin seems to be very thick, and tougher than bark. It takes a very heavy axe-stroke to wound them seriously. They dont like axes. But there would have to be a great many axe-men to one Ent: a man that hacks once at an Ent never gets a chance of a second blow. A punch from an Ent-fist crumples up iron like thin tin. When Treebeard had got a few arrows in him, he began to warm up, to get positively hasty, as he would say. He let out a great hoom-hom, and a dozen more Ents came striding up. An angry Ent is terrifying. Their fingers, and their toes, just freeze on to rock; and they tear it up like bread-crust. It was like watching the work of great tree-roots in a hundred years, all packed into a few moments. They pushed, pulled, tore, shook, and hammered; and clang-bang, crash-crack, in five minutes they had these huge gates just lying in ruin; and some were already beginning to eat into the walls, like Call of duty warzone background japanese in a sand-pit. I dont know what Saruman thought was happening; but anyway he did not know how to deal with it. His wizardry may have been falling off lately, of course; but anyway I think he has not much grit, not much plain courage alone in a tight place without a lot of slaves and machines and things, if you know what I mean. Very different from old Gandalf. I wonder if his fame was not all along mainly due to his cleverness in settling at Isengard. No, said Aragorn. Once he was as great as his fame made him. His knowledge was deep, his thought was subtle, and his hands marvellously skilled; and he had a power over the minds of others. The wise he could persuade, and the smaller folk he could daunt. That power he certainly still keeps. There are not many in Middle-earth that I should say were safe, if they were left alone to talk with him, even now when he has suffered a defeat. Gandalf, Elrond, and Galadriel, perhaps, now that his wickedness has been laid bare, but very few others.

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