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They wavered, broke, and fled back; and then charged again, broke and charged again; and each time, like the incoming sea, they halted at a higher point. Again trumpets rang, and a press of roaring men leaped forth. They held their great shields above them like a roof, while in their midst they bore two trunks of mighty trees. Behind them orc-archers crowded, sending a hail of darts against the bowmen on the walls. They gained the gates. This web page trees, swung by strong arms, smote the timbers with a rending boom. If any man fell, crushed by a stone hurtling from above, two others sprang to take his place. Again and again the great rams swung and crashed. Eomer ´ and Aragorn stood together on the Deeping Wall. They heard the roar of voices and the thudding of the rams; and then in a sudden flash of light they beheld the peril of the gates. Come. said Aragorn. This is the hour when we site pubg gameloop install official swords together. Running like fire, they sped along the wall, and up the steps, and passed into the outer court upon the Rock. As they ran they gathered a handful of stout swordsmen. There was a small postern-door that opened in an angle of the burg-wall on the west, where the cliff stretched out to meet it. On that side a narrow path ran round towards the great gate, between the wall and the sheer brink of the Rock. Together Eomer ´ and Aragorn sprang through the door, their men close behind. The two swords flashed from the sheath as one. ´ Gu´thwine¨. cried Eomer. Gu´thwine¨ for the Mark. Andu´ril. cried Aragorn. Andu´ril for the Click to see more. 534 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Charging from the side, they hurled themselves upon the wild men. Andu´ril rose and fell, gleaming with white fire. A shout went up from click at this page and tower: Andu´ril. Andu´ril goes to war. The Blade that was Broken shines again. Dismayed the rammers let fall the trees and turned to fight; but the wall of their shields was broken as by a lightning-stroke, and they were swept away, hewn down, or cast over the Rock into the stony stream below. The orc-archers shot wildly and then fled. ´ thunder was rumbling in the distance now. The lightning flickered still, far off among the mountains in the South. A keen wind was blowing from the North again. The clouds were torn and drifting, and stars peeped out; and above the hills of the Coomb-side the westering moon rode, glimmering yellow in the storm-wrack. We did not come too soon, said Aragorn, looking at the gates. Their great hinges and iron click here were wrenched and bent; many of their timbers were cracked. The doors will not withstand another such battering. Yet we cannot stay here beyond the walls to defend them, said Eomer. Look. He pointed to the causeway. Already a great press For a moment Eomer and Aragorn halted before the gates. The ´ of Orcs and Men were gathering again beyond the stream. Arrows whined, and skipped on the stones about them. Come. We must get back and see what we can do to pile stone and beam across the gates within. Come now. They turned and ran. At that moment some dozen Orcs that had lain motionless among the slain leaped to their feet, and came silently and swiftly behind. Two flung go here to the ground at Eomers ´ heels, tripped him, and in a moment they were on top of him. But a small dark figure that none had observed sprang out of the shadows and gave a hoarse shout: Baruk Khazaˆd. Khazaˆd ai-meˆnu. An axe swung and swept back. Two Orcs fell headless. The rest fled. Eomer ´ struggled to his feet, even as Aragorn ran back to his aid. The postern was closed again, the iron door was barred and piled ´ inside with stones. When all were safe within, Eomer turned: I thank you, Gimli son of Glo´in. he said. I did not know that you were with us in the sortie. But oft the unbidden guest proves the best company. How came you there. I followed you to shake off sleep, said Gimli; but I looked on the hillmen and they seemed over large for me, so I sat beside a stone to see your sword-play. I shall not find it easy to repay you, said Eomer. ´ There may be many a chance ere the night is over, laughed the H ELM S DEEP 535 Dwarf. But I am content. Till now I have hewn naught but wood since I left Moria. Two. said Gimli, patting his axe. He had returned to his place on the wall. Two. said Legolas. I have done better, though now I must grope for spent arrows; all mine are gone. Yet I make my tale twenty at the least. But that is only a few leaves in a forest. The sky now was quickly clearing and the sinking moon was shining brightly. But the light brought little hope to the Riders of the Mark. The enemy before them seemed to have grown rather than diminished, and still more were pressing up from the valley through the breach. The sortie upon the Rock gained only a brief respite. The assault on the gates was redoubled. Against the Deeping Wall the hosts of Isengard roared like Call of duty warzone bundles june sea. Orcs and hillmen swarmed about its feet from end to end. Ropes with grappling hooks were hurled over the parapet faster than men could cut them or fling them back. Hundreds of long ladders were lifted up. Many were cast down in ruin, but many more replaced them, and Orcs sprang up them like apes in the dark forests of the South. Before the walls foot the dead and broken were piled like shingle in a storm; ever higher rose the hideous mounds, and still the enemy came on. The men of Rohan grew weary. All their arrows were spent, and every shaft was shot; their swords were notched, and their shields were ´ riven. Three times Aragorn and Eomer rallied them, and three times Andu´ril flamed in a desperate charge that drove the enemy from the wall. Then a clamour arose in the Deep behind. Orcs had crept like rats through the culvert through which the stream flowed out. There they had gathered in the shadow of the cliffs, until the assault above was hottest and nearly all the men of the defence had rushed to the walls top. Then they sprang out. Already some had passed into the jaws of the Deep and were among the horses, fighting with the guards. Down from the wall leapt Gimli with a fierce cry that echoed in the cliffs. Khazaˆd. Khazaˆd. He soon had work enough. Ai-oi. he shouted. The Orcs are behind the wall. Ai-oi. Come, Legolas. There are enough for us both. Khazaˆd ai-meˆnu. Gamling the Old looked down from the Hornburg, hearing the great voice ofthedwarf above allthe tumult. The Orcs are in theDeep. he cried. Helm. Helm. Forth Helmingas. he shouted as he leaped down the stair from the Rock see more many men of Westfold at his back. Their onset was fierce and sudden, and the Orcs gave way before 536 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS them. Ere long they were hemmed in in the narrows of the gorge, and all were slain or driven shrieking into the chasm of the Deep to fall before the guardians of the hidden caves. Twenty-one. cried Gimli. He hewed a two-handed stroke and laid the last Orc before his feet. Now my count passes Master Legolas again. We must stop this rat-hole, said Gamling. Dwarves are said to be cunning folk with stone. Lend us your aid, master. We do not shape stone with battle-axes, nor with our finger-nails, said Gimli. But I will help as I may. They gathered such small boulders and broken stones as they could find to hand, and under Gimlis direction the Westfold-men blocked up the inner end of the culvert, until only a narrow outlet remained. Then the Deeping-stream, swollen by the rain, churned and fretted in its choked path, and spread slowly in cold pools from cliff to cliff. It will be drier above, said Gimli. Come, Gamling, let us see how things go on the wall. He climbed up and found Legolas beside Aragorn and Eomer. ´ The elf was whetting his long knife. There was for a while a lull in the assault, since the attempt to break in through the culvert had been foiled. Twenty-one. said Gimli. Good. said Legolas. But my count is now two dozen. It has been knife-work up here. Eomer ´ and Aragorn leant wearily on their swords. Away on the left the crash and clamour of the battle on the Rock rose loud again. But the Hornburg still held fast, like an island in the sea. Its gates lay in ruin; but over the barricade of beams and stones within no enemy as yet had passed. Aragorn looked at the pale stars, and at the moon, now sloping behind the western hills that enclosed the valley. This is a night as long as years, he said. How long will the day tarry. Dawn is not far off, said Gamling, who had now climbed up beside him. But dawn will not help us, I fear. Yet dawn is ever the hope of men, said Aragorn. But these creatures of Isengard, these half-orcs and goblin-men that the foul craft of Saruman has bred, they will not quail at the sun, said Gamling. And neither will the wild men of the hills. Do you not hear their voices. ´ I hear them, said Eomer; but they are only the scream of birds and the bellowing of beasts to my ears. Yet there are many that cry in the Dunland tongue, said Gamling. H ELM S DEEP 537 I know that tongue. It is an ancient speech of men, and once was spoken in many western valleys of the Mark. Hark. They hate us, and they are glad; for our doom seems certain to them. The king, the king. they cry. We will take their king. Death to the Forgoil. Call of duty warzone bundles june to the Strawheads. Death to the robbers of the North. Such names they have for us. Not in half a thousand years have they forgotten their grievance that the lords of Gondor gave the Mark to Eorl the Young and made alliance with him. That old hatred Saruman has inflamed. They are fierce folk when roused. They will not give way now for dusk or dawn, until The´oden is taken, or they themselves are slain. Nonetheless day will bring hope to me, said Aragorn. Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it. ´ So the minstrels say, said Eomer. Then let us defend it, and hope. said Aragorn. Even as they spoke there came a blare of trumpets. Then there was a crash and a flash of flame and smoke. The waters of the Deeping-stream poured out hissing and foaming: they were choked more info longer, a gaping hole was blasted in the wall. A host of dark shapes poured in. Devilry of Saruman. cried Aragorn. They have crept in the culvert again, while we talked, and they have lit the fire of Orthanc beneath our feet. Elendil, Elendil. he shouted, as he leaped down into the breach; but even as he did so a hundred ladders were raised against the battlements. Over the wall and under the wall the last assault came sweeping like a dark wave upon a hill of sand. The defence was swept away. Some of the Riders were driven back, further and further into the Deep, falling and fighting as they gave way, step by step, towards the caves. Others cut their way back towards the citadel. A broad stairway climbed from the Deep up to the Rock and the rear-gate of the Hornburg. Near the bottom stood Aragorn. In his hand still Andu´ril gleamed, and the terror of the sword for a while held back the enemy, as one by one all who could gain the stair passed up towards the gate. Behind on the upper steps knelt Legolas. His bow was bent, but one gleaned arrow was all that he had left, and he peered out now, ready to shoot the first Orc that should dare to approach the stair. All who can have now got safe within, Aragorn, he called. Come back. Aragorn turned and sped up the stair; but as he ran he stumbled in his weariness. At once his enemies leapt forward. Up came the Orcs, yelling, with their long arms stretched out to seize him. The 538 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS foremost fell with Legolas last arrow in his throat, but the rest sprang over him. Then a great boulder, cast from the outer wall above, crashed down upon the stair, and hurled them back into the Deep. Aragorn gained the door, and swiftly it clanged to behind him. Things go ill, my friends, he said, wiping the sweat from his brow with his arm. Ill enough, said Legolas, but not yet hopeless, while we have you with us. Where is Gimli. I do not know, said Aragorn. I last saw him fighting on the ground behind the wall, but the enemy swept us apart. Alas. That is evil news, said Legolas. He is stout and Call of duty warzone bundles june, said Aragorn. Let us hope that he will escape back to the caves. There he would be safe for a while. Safer than we. Such a refuge would be to the liking of a dwarf. That must be my hope, said Legolas. But I wish that he had come this way. I desired to tell Master Gimli that my tale is now thirty-nine. If he wins back to the caves, he will pass your count again, laughed Aragorn. Never did I see an axe so wielded. I must go and seek some arrows, said Legolas. Would that this night would end, and I could have better light for shooting. Aragorn now passed into the citadel. There to his dismay he ´ learned that Eomer had not reached the Hornburg. Nay, he did not come to the Rock, said one of the More info. I last saw him gathering men about him and fighting in the mouth of the Deep. Gamling was with him, and the dwarf; but I could not come to them. Aragorn strode on through the inner court, and mounted to a high chamber in the tower. There stood the king, dark against a narrow window, looking out upon the vale. What is the news, Aragorn. he said. The Deeping Wall is taken, lord, and all the defence swept away; but many have escaped hither to the Rock. Is Eomer here. ´ No, lord. But many of your men retreated into the Deep; and some say that Eomer ´ was amongst them. In the narrows they may hold back the enemy and come within the caves. What hope they may have then I do not know. More than we. Good provision, it is said. And the air is wholesome there because of the outlets through fissures in the rock far above. None can force an entrance against determined men. They may hold out long. But the Orcs have brought a devilry from Orthanc, said Aragorn. H ELM S DEEP 539 They have a blasting fire, and with it they took the Wall. If they cannot come in the caves, they may seal up those that are inside. But now we must turn all our thought to our own defence. I fret in this prison, said The´oden. If I could have set a spear in rest, riding before my men upon the field, maybe I could have felt again the joy of battle, and so read more. But I serve little purpose here. Here at least you are guarded in the strongest fastness of the Mark, said Aragorn.
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Then Gandalf told how they had explored the whole length of Wilderland, down even to the Mountains of Shadow and the fences of Mordor. There we had rumour of him, and we guess that he dwelt there long in the dark ans but we never found him, and at last I despaired. And then in chrtains despair I thought again of a test that might make the finding of Gollum unneeded. The ring see more might tell if it were the One. The memory of words at the Council came back to me: words of Saruman, half-heeded at the time. I heard them now clearly in my heart. 252 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS The Nine, the Seven, and the Three, he said, had each their proper gem. Not so the One. It was upholatery and unadorned, as it were one of the lesser rings; but its maker set marks upon it that the skilled, maybe, could still see and read. What those marks were he had not said. Who now would know. The maker. And Saruman. But great though his lore may be, it must have a source. 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And Boromir, there lies in Minas Tirith still, Steam cleaner for upholstery and curtains, I guess, by any save Saruman upholsteey myself since the kings failed, a scroll that Isildur made himself. For Isildur did not march away straight from the war in Mordor, as some have told the tale. Some in the North, maybe, Boromir broke in. All know in Gondor that he went first to Minas Anor and dwelt a while with his nephew Meneldil, instructing him, before he committed to him the rule of the South Kingdom. In that time he planted there the last sapling of the White Tree in memory of his brother. But in that time also he made this scroll, see more Gandalf; and that is not remembered in Gondor, it would seem. 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What evil it saith I do not know; but I trace here a copy of it, lest it fade beyond recall. The Ring misseth, maybe, the heat of Saurons hand, which was black and yet burned like fire, and so Gil-galad was destroyed; and maybe were the gold made hot again, the foor would be refreshed. But for my part I will risk no hurt to this thing: of all the works of Sauron the only fair. It is precious to me, though Fir buy it with great pain. When I read these words, my quest was ended. For the traced writing was indeed as Isildur guessed, in the tongue of Mordor and the servants of the Tower. And what was said therein was upholsgery Steam cleaner for upholstery and curtains. For in the day that Sauron first put on the One, Celebrimbor, maker of the Three, was aware of him, and from afar he heard him speak these words, and so his evil purposes were revealed. 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