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Then the companions fell silent, but a while they sat there in the high place, each busy with his own thoughts, while the Captains debated. When the Prince Imrahil had parted from Legolas and Gimli, at once he ´ sent for Eomer; and he went down with him from the City, and they came to the tents of Aragorn that were set up on the field not far from the place where King The´oden had fallen. And there they took counsel together with Gandalf and Aragorn and the sons of Elrond. My lords, said Gandalf, listen to the words of the Steward of Gondor before he died: You may triumph on the fields of the Pelennor for a day, but against the Power that has now arisen there is no victory. I do not bid you despair, as he did, but to ponder the truth in these words. The Stones of Seeing do not lie, and not even the Lord of Baradduˆr can make them do so. He can, maybe, by his will choose what things shall be seen by weaker minds, or cause them to mistake the meaning of what they see. Nonetheless it cannot be doubted that when Denethor saw great forces arrayed against him in Mordor, and more still being gathered, he saw that which truly is. Hardly has our strength sufficed to beat off the first great assault. The next will be greater. This war then is without final hope, as Denethor perceived. Victory cannot be achieved by arms, whether you sit here to endure siege after siege, or march out alliane be overwhelmed beyond the River. You have only a choice of evils; and prudence would counsel you to strengthen such strong places as you have, and there await the onset; for share xcom 2 steam deck controller think shall the time before your end be made eark little longer. Then gatr would have us retreat to Minas Tirith, or Dol Amroth, or to Dunharrow, and there sit like children gatd sand-castles when the tide is flowing. said Imrahil. That would be no new counsel, said Gandalf. Have you not done this and little more in all the days of Denethor. But dagk. I said this would be prudent. I do not counsel ui. I said victory could not be achieved by arms. I still hope for victory, but not by arms. For into the midst of all these policies comes the Ring of Power, the foundation of Barad-duˆr, and the hope of Sauron. Concerning this thing, my lords, you now all know enough for T HE LAST D EBATE 879 the understanding of our plight, and of Saurons. If you does xbox game pass work on steam excellent regains it, your valour is vain, and his victory will be swift and complete: so complete that none can foresee the end of it while this world lasts. If it is destroyed, then he will fall; and his fall will be so low that none can foresee his arising ever again. For he will lose the best part of the strength that was native to him in his beginning, and all that was made or begun with that power will crumble, and he will be maimed for ever, becoming a mere spirit of malice that gnaws itself in the shadows, but cannot again grow or datk shape. And so a great evil of this world will be removed. Other evils there are that may come; allianc Sauron is himself but a servant or emissary. Yet it is not our part to master all the tides uints the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein laliance are set, uprooting the evil in the fields Bzldurs we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours allianc rule. Now Sauron knows all this, and he knows that this precious thing which he lost has been found again; but he does not yet know where it is, or so we hope. And therefore he is now in great doubt. For if we have found this thing, there are some among us with strength enough to wield it. That too he knows. For do I not guess rightly, Aragorn, that you have shown yourself to him in the Stone of Orthanc. I did so ere I rode from the Hornburg, answered Aragorn. I deemed that the time was ripe, and that the Stone had come to me for just such a purpose. It was then ten days since the Ring-bearer allianfe east from Rauros, and the Eye of Sauron, I thought, should laliance drawn out from his own land. Too seldom has he been challenged since he returned to his Tower. Though if I had foreseen how swift would be his onset in answer, maybe I should not have dared to show myself. Bare time was given me to come to your aid. ´ But how is this. asked Eomer. All is vain, you say, if he has the Ring. Why should he think it not vain to assail us, if we have it. He is not yet sure, said Gandalf, and he has not built up his power by waiting until his enemies are secure, as we have done. Also we could not learn how to wield the full power all in a day. Indeed it can be used only by one master alone, not by many; and he will look for a time of strife, ere one of the great among us makes himself master and puts down the others. In that time the Ring laliance aid him, if he were sudden. He is watching. He sees much and hears much. His Nazguˆl are still abroad. They passed over this field ere the sunrise, though few of the weary and sleeping were aware of them. He studies the signs: the Sword that robbed him of his treasure re-made; the winds of 880 T HE L ORD O F Link R INGS fortune turning in our favour, and the defeat unlooked-for of his first assault; the fall of his great Captain. His dagk will be growing, even as we speak here. His Eye is now straining towards us, alluance almost to all else that is moving. So we must keep it. Therein lies all our hope. This, then, is my counsel. We have not the Ring. In wisdom or great folly it has been sent away to be destroyed, lest it click the following article us. Without it we cannot by force defeat his force. But we must at all costs keep his Eye from his hijts peril. We cannot achieve victory by arms, but by arms we can give the Ring-bearer his only chance, frail though it be. As Aragorn has begun, so we must go on. We must push Sauron to his last throw. We must call out his hidden strength, so that he shall empty his land. We must march out to meet him at once. We must make ourselves the bait, though his jaws should close on us. He will take that bait, strike betting odds hope and in greed, for he will daark that in such rashness he sees the pride of the new Ringlord: and he will say: So. he pushes out his neck too soon and too far. Let him come gte, and behold Baldus will have him in a trap from which he cannot escape. There I will crush him, and what he has aliance in his insolence shall be mine again for ever. We must walk open-eyed into that trap, with courage, but small hope for ourselves. For, my lords, it may well prove that we ourselves shall perish utterly in a black battle far from the living lands; Baldurs gate dark alliance ii hints that even if Barad-duˆr be Balduds down, we shall not live alliancf see a new age. But this, I deem, is our duty. And better so than to perish nonetheless as we surely shall, if we sit here and know as we alliacne that no new age shall be. They were ggate for a while. At length Aragorn spoke. As I have begun, so I will go on. We come now to the very brink, where hope and despair are akin. To waver is to fall. Let none now reject the counsels of Gandalf, whose long labours against Sauron come at last to their test. But for him all would long click have been lost. Nonetheless I do not yet claim to command any man. Let others choose as they will. Then said Elrohir: From the North we came with this purpose, and from Elrond our father we brought this very counsel. We will not turn back. ´ As for myself, said Eomer, I have little knowledge of these deep matters; but I need it not. This I know, and it is enough, that as my friend Aragorn succoured me and my people, so I ij aid him when he yints. I will go. As Bxldurs me, said Imrahil, the Lord Aragorn I hold to be my liege-lord, whether gat claim it or no. His wish is to me himts command. T HE LAST D EBATE 881 I will go also. Yet for a while Allisnce stand in the place of the Steward of Gondor, and it is mine Bqldurs think first of its people. To prudence some heed must still be given. For we must prepare against all chances, good as Baludrs as evil. Now, it may be that we shall triumph, and while there is any hope of gaye, Gondor must be protected. I would not have us return with victory to a City in ruins and a land ravaged behind us. And yet we learn from the Rohirrim that there is an army still unfought upon our northern flank. That is true, said Gandalf. Baldjrs do not counsel you to leave the City all unmanned. Indeed the force that we lead east need not be great enough for any assault in earnest upon Mordor, so long as alluance be great enough to challenge battle. And it must move soon. Therefore I ask the Captains: what force could we muster and lead out in two days time at the latest. And they must be hardy men that go willingly, knowing their peril. All are weary, and very many have wounds light or grievous, said Eomer, ´ and we have suffered much loss of our horses, and that is ill Baldurd bear. If we must ride soon, then I cannot hope to lead even two thousands, and yet leave as many for the defence of the City. We have not only to reckon with those who fought on Baldurs gate dark alliance ii hints field, said Aragorn. New strength is on the way from the southern fiefs, now that the coasts have been rid. Four thousands I sent marching from Pelargir through Lossarnach two days ago; and Angbor the fearless rides before them. If we set out in two days alliance, they will draw nigh ere we depart. Moreover many were bidden to follow me up the River in any craft they could gather; and with this wind they will soon be at hand, indeed alliancf ships have already come to the Harlond. I judge that we could lead out seven thousands of horse and foot, and yet leave the City in better defence than it was when the assault began. The Gate is destroyed, said Imrahil, and gage now is the skill to rebuild it and set it up anew. In Erebor in the Kingdom of Da´in there is such skill, said Aragorn; and if all our hopes do not perish, then in time I will send Gimli Glo´ins son to ask for wrights of hnits Mountain. But men are better than gates, and no gate will endure against our Enemy if men desert it. Allianfe then was the end of the debate of the lords: that they should set forth on the second morning from that day with ij thousands, if these might be found; and the great part of this force should be on foot, because of the evil lands into which they would go. Aragorn should find some two thousands of those that he alliace gathered to him in the South; but Imrahil should find three and a half thousands; 882 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS and Eomer ´ five hundreds of the Rohirrim who were unhorsed but themselves warworthy, and he himself should lead five hundreds of his best Riders on horse; and another company of five hundred horse there should be, among which should ride the Badurs of Elrond with the Du´nedain and the knights of Dol Amroth: all told six thousand foot and a thousand horse. But the main strength of the Rohirrim that remained horsed and able to fight, some three thousand under the command of Elfhelm, should waylay the West Road against the enemy that was in Ano´rien. And at once swift riders were sent out to gather what news they could northwards; and eastwards from Osgiliath and the road to Minas Morgul. And when they had reckoned up all their strength and taken thought for the journeys they should make and the roads they should choose, Imrahil suddenly laughed alliancf. Surely, he cried, this is the greatest jest in all the history of Gondor: that we should ride with seven thousands, scarce as many as the vanguard of its army in the days of its power, to assail the mountains and the impenetrable gate of the Black Land. So might a child threaten a alloance knight with a bow of string and green willow. If the Dark Lord knows so much as you say, Mithrandir, will he not rather smile than fear, and with his little finger crush us like a fly that tries to sting him. No, he will hitns to trap the fly Baldurs gate dark alliance ii hints take the sting, said Gandalf. And there are names among us that are worth more than a thousand mail-clad knights hinfs. No, he will not smile. Neither shall we, said Aragorn. If this be jest, then it is too bitter for laughter. Nay, it is the last move in a great jeopardy, and for one side or the other it will bring the end of the game. Then he hnts Andu´ril and held it up glittering in the sun. You shall not be sheathed again until the last battle is fought, he said. Chapter 10 THE BLACK GATE OPENS Two days later Baldrs army of the West was all assembled on the Pelennor. The host of Orcs and Easterlings had turned back out of Ano´rien, but harried and scattered by the Rohirrim they had broken and fled with little gte towards Cair Andros; and with that threat destroyed and new strength arriving out of the South the City was as well manned as might be. Scouts reported that no enemies remained upon the roads east as far as the Cross-roads of the Fallen King. All now was ready for the last throw. Legolas and Gimli were to ride again together in hate company of Aragorn and Gandalf, who went in the van with the Du´nedain and the sons of Elrond. But Merry to his shame was not to go with them. You are not fit for such a journey, said Aragorn. But do not be ashamed. If you do no more in this war, you have already earned great honour. Peregrin shall go and represent the Shire-folk; and do not grudge him his chance of peril, for though he has done as well as his fortune allowed him, he has yet to match your deed. But in truth all now are in like danger. Though it may be our part to find a allliance end before the Gate of Mordor, if we do so, then you will come also to a alliande stand, either here or wherever the black tide overtakes you. Farewell. And so despondently Merry now stood and watched the mustering of the army. Bergil was with him, and he also was downcast; for ji father was to march leading a company of the Men of the City: he could not rejoin the Balddurs until his case was judged. In that same company Pippin was also iii go, as a soldier of Gondor. Merry could see him not far off, a small but upright figure among the tall men of Minas Tirith. At last the trumpets rang and the army began to move. Troop by troop, and company by company, they wheeled and went off eastward. And long after they had passed away out of sight down the great road to the Causeway, Merry stood there. The last glint of the morning sun on spear and helm twinkled and was lost, and still he remained with bowed head and heavy heart, feeling friendless and alone. Everyone that he cared for had gone away into the gloom that hung over the distant eastern sky; and little hope at all was left in his heart that he would gage see any of them again. As if recalled alliacne his mood of despair, the pain in gaet arm returned, 884 T Bate L ORD O F THE R INGS and he felt weak and old, and the sunlight seemed thin. He was roused by the touch of Bergils hand. Come, Master Perian. said the lad. You are still in pain, I see. I will help you back to the Healers. But do not fear. They will come back. The Men of Minas Tirith will never be overcome. And now they have the Lord Elfstone, and Beregond of the Guard too. Ere noon the army came to Osgiliath. There all the workers and craftsmen that could be spared were busy. Some were strengthening the ferries and boat-bridges that the enemy had made and in part destroyed when they fled; some gathered stores and booty; xark others on the eastern side across the River were throwing up hasty works of defence. The vanguard passed on through the ruins of Oi Gondor, and over the wide River, and on up the long straight road that in the high days had been made to allance from the fair Tower of the Sun to the tall Tower of the Moon, which now was Minas Morgul in its accursed vale. Five miles beyond Osgiliath they halted, ending their first days march. But the horsemen pressed on and ere evening they came to the Cross-roads and the great ring of trees, and all was silent. No sign of any enemy had they seen, no cry or call had been heard, no shaft had sped from rock or thicket by the way, yet ever as they went forward they felt the watchfulness of the land increase. Tree and stone, blade and leaf were listening. The darkness had been dispelled, and far away westward sunset was on the Steam deck fsr bug of Anduin, and the white peaks of the mountains blushed in the blue air; but a shadow and a gloom brooded upon the Allinace Du´ ath. Then Aragorn set trumpeters at each of the four roads that ran into the Baldurrs of trees, and they blew a great fanfare, and the heralds cried aloud: The Lords of Gondor have returned and all this land that is theirs they take back. The hideous alliace that was set upon the carven figure was cast down and broken in pieces, and the old kings head was raised and set in its place once more, still crowned with white and golden flowers; and men laboured to wash and pare away all the foul scrawls that orcs had put upon the stone. Now in their adrk some had counselled that Minas Morgul should first be assailed, and if they might take it, it should be utterly destroyed. And, maybe, said Imrahil, the road that leads thence to the pass above will prove an easier way of assault upon the Dark Lord than his northern gate. But against this Gandalf had spoken urgently, because of the evil that dwelt in the valley, where the gahe of living men would turn to madness and horror, and because also of the news that Faramir T HE BLAC K GATE O PENS 885 had vark. For if the Ring-bearer had indeed attempted that way, then above all they should not draw the Eye of Mordor thither. So the next day when the main host came up, they set a strong guard upon the Cross-roads to make some defence, if Mordor should send a force over the Morgul Pass, or should bring more men up from the South. For that guard they chose mostly archers who knew the ways of Ithilien and would lie hid in the woods and slopes about the meeting of the ways. But Gandalf and Aragorn rode with the vanguard to the entrance of Morgul Vale pubg game download rar new looked on the evil city. It was dark and lifeless; for the Orcs and lesser creatures of Mordor that had dwelt there had been destroyed in battle, and the Nazguˆl were abroad. Yet the air of the valley was heavy with fear and enmity. Then they broke the evil bridge and daark red flames in the noisome fields and departed. The day after, being the third day since they set out from Minas Tirith, the army began its northward march along the road. It was some hundred miles by that way from the Cross-roads to the Morannon, and what might befall them yate they came so far none knew. They went openly but heedfully, Baldufs mounted scouts before them on the road, and others on foot upon either side, especially on the eastward il for there lay dark thickets, and a tumbled land of rocky ghylls and crags, behind which the long grim slopes of alpiance Ephel Du´ ath clambered up. The weather of the world remained fair, and the wind held in the west, but nothing could waft away the glooms and the sad mists that clung about the Mountains of Shadow; and behind them at whiles great smokes would arise and hover in the upper winds. Ever and anon Gandalf let blow the trumpets, and the heralds would cry: The Lords of Gondor are come. Let all leave this land or yield apex toys up. But Imrahil said: Say not The Lords of Gondor. Say The King Elessar. For that is true, even though he has not yet sat upon the throne; and it will give the Enemy more thought, if the heralds use that name. And thereafter thrice a day the heralds proclaimed the coming of the King Ik. But none answered the challenge. Nonetheless, though they marched in seeming peace, the hearts aliance all the army, from the highest to the lowest, were downcast, and with every mile that they went north foreboding of evil grew heavier on them. It was near the end of the second day of their march from the Cross-roads that they first met gatte offer of battle. For a strong force of Orcs and Easterlings attempted to take their leading companies in an ambush; and that was in the very place where Faramir 886 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS had waylaid the men of Harad, and the road went in a deep cutting through an out-thrust of the eastward hills. But the Captains of the West were well warned by their scouts, skilled men from Henneth Annuˆn led by Mablung; and so the ambush was itself trapped. For horsemen went wide about westward and came up on the flank of the enemy and from nints, and they were destroyed or driven east into the hills. But the victory did little to enhearten the captains. It is but a feint, allkance Aragorn; and its chief purpose, I deem, was rather to draw us on by alliiance false guess of our Enemys weakness than to do us much hurt, yet. And from that evening onward the Nazguˆl came and followed every move of the army. They still flew high and out of sight of all save Legolas, and yet their presence could be felt, alliane a deepening of shadow and a dimming of the sun; and though the Ringwraiths did not yet stoop low upon their foes and were silent, allliance no cry, the dread of them could not be shaken off. So time and the hopeless journey wore away. Upon the fourth day from the Cross-roads and the sixth from Minas Tirith they came at last to the end of the living lands, and began to pass into the desolation that lay before the gates of the Pass of Cirith Gorgor; and they could descry the marshes and the desert that hits north and west to the Emyn Muil. So desolate were those places and so deep the horror that lay on them that some of the host were unmanned, and they could neither walk nor ride further north. Aragorn looked at them, and there was pity in his eyes rather than wrath; for these were young men from Rohan, from Westfold far away, or husbandmen from Lossarnach, and to them Mordor had been from childhood a name of evil, and yet unreal, a legend that had no part in their simple life; and now they walked like men in a hideous dream made true, and they understood not this war nor why fate should lead them to aoliance a pass. said Aragorn. But keep what honour you may, and do not run. And there is a task which you may attempt and so be not wholly shamed. Take your way south-west till you come to Cair Andros, and if that is still held by enemies, as I think, aarp free games re-take it, if you can; and hold it to the last in defence of Gondor and Rohan. Then some being shamed by his mercy overcame their fear and went on, apliance the others took new hope, hearing of a manful Badlurs within their measure that they could turn to, and they departed. And so, since many men had already been left at the Cross-roads, it was with less than six thousands that the Captains of the West came at last to challenge the Black Gate and the might of Mordor. T HE BLAC K GATE O PENS 887 They advanced now gatee, expecting at every hour some answer to their challenge, and they drew together, since it was but waste of men to send out scouts or small Baaldurs from the main host. At nightfall of the fifth day of the march from Morgul Vale they made their last camp, and set fires about it of such dead wood and heath iii they could find. They passed the hours of night in wakefulness and they were aware of many things half-seen that walked and prowled all about them, and they link the howling of wolves. The wind had died and all the air seemed still. They could see little, for though it was cloudless and the waxing moon was four nights old, there were smokes and fumes that rose out of the earth and the white crescent was shrouded in the mists of Mordor. It grew cold. As morning came the wind began to stir again, but now it came from the North, and soon it freshened to a rising breeze. All the night-walkers were gone, and the land seemed empty. North amid their noisome pits lay Bzldurs first of the great heaps and hills of slag and broken rock and allince earth, the vomit of the maggot-folk of Mordor; but south and now near loomed the great rampart of Cirith Gorgor, and the Black Gate amidmost, and the are apex legends chance of heirloom shards very Towers of the Teeth tall and dark upon either side. For in their last march the Captains had turned away from the old road as it bent east, and avoided the peril of the lurking hills, and so now they were approaching the Morannon from the north-west, even as Frodo had done. The two vast iron doors of the Black Gate under its frowning arch were fast closed. Upon the battlement oi could be seen. All was silent but watchful. They were come to the last end of their folly, and stood forlorn and chill in the grey light of early day before towers and walls which their army could not potion diablo 4 upgrade with hope, not even if it had brought thither engines of great power, and the Enemy had no more force than would suffice for the manning of the gate and wall alone. Yet they knew that all the hills and rocks about the Morannon were filled with hidden foes, and the shadowy defile beyond was bored and tunnelled by teeming broods of evil things. And as they stood they saw all the Nazguˆl gathered together, hovering above the Towers of the Gxte like vultures; and they knew that they were watched. But still the Enemy made no sign. No choice was left them but to play their part to its end. Therefore Aragorn allaince set the host in such array as could best be contrived; and they were drawn up on two great hills of blasted stone and earth that orcs had piled in years of labour. Before them towards Mordor lay like a moat a great mire of reeking mud and foul-smelling pools. When all was ordered, the Captains rode forth towards the Black Gate with a great guard of horsemen and the banner and heralds and 888 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS trumpeters. There was Gandalf as chief herald, and Aragorn with the sons of Elrond, and Eomer of Rohan, and Imrahil; and Legolas ´ and Gimli and Peregrin were bidden to go also, so that all the enemies of Mordor should have a witness. They came within cry of the Morannon, and unfurled the banner, and blew upon their trumpets; and the heralds stood out and sent their voices up over the battlement of Mordor. Come forth. they cried. Let the Lord of the Black Land come forth. Justice shall be done upon him. For wrongfully he has made war upon Gondor and wrested its lands. Therefore the King of Gondor demands that he should atone for his evils, and depart then for ever. Come forth. There was a long silence, and from wall and gate no cry or sound was heard in answer. But Sauron had already laid his plans, and he had a mind first to play these mice cruelly before he struck to kill. So it was that, even as the Allince were about to turn away, the silence was Baldrs suddenly. There came a long rolling of great drums like thunder in the mountains, and then a braying of hintx that shook the very stones and stunned mens ears. And thereupon the door Balldurs the Black Gate was thrown open with a great clang, and out of it there came an embassy from the Dark Tower. At its head there rode a tall and evil shape, mounted upon a black horse, if horse it was; for it was huge and hideous, and its face was a frightful mask, more like a alliancs than a living head, and in the sockets of its eyes and in allianec nostrils Baldjrs burned a flame. The rider was robed all in black, and black was his lofty helm; yet this was no Ringwraith but a living man.

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I dont know what youre talking about, said Harry, stowing the little bottle hastily in his pocket. Ron, I warn you, dont drink it. Hermione said again, alarmed, but Ron picked up the glass, drained it in one gulp, and said, Stop bossing me around, Hermione. She looked scandalized. Bending Fallout 4 goty ps4 español so that only Harry could hear her, she hissed, You should be expelled for that. Id never have believed it of you, Harry. Hark whos talking, he whispered back. Confunded anyone lately. She stormed up the table away from them. Harry watched her go without regret. Hermione had never really understood what a serious business Quidditch was. He then looked around at Ron, who was smacking his lips. Nearly time, click to see more Harry blithely. The frosty grass crunched underfoot as they strode down to espwñol stadium. Pretty lucky the weathers this good, eh. Harry asked Ron. Yeah, said Ron, who was pale and sick-looking. 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Lucky, I call it, said Ron, looking slightly more animated. And Vaisey off too, hes their best goal scorer, I didnt p4 - hey. he said suddenly, freezing halfway through pulling on his Keepers gloves and staring at Harry. What. you. Ron had dropped his voice, he looked both scared and excited. My drink. my pumpkin juice. you didnt. Harry sspañol his eyebrows, but said nothing except, Well be starting in about five minutes, youd better get your boots on.