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So far Stybba can bear you: the great race will not begin till we reach the plains. Then Eowyn ´ rose up. Come now, Meriadoc. she said. I will show you the gear that I have prepared for you. They went out together. This request only did Aragorn make to me, said Eowyn, ´ as they passed among the tents, that you should be armed for battle. I have granted it, as I could. For my heart tells me that you will need such gear ere the end. Now she led Merry to a booth among the lodges of the kings guard; and there an armourer brought out to her a small helm, and a round shield, and other gear. No mail have click the following article to fit you, go here Eowyn, ´ nor any time for the forging of such a hauberk; but here is also a stout jerkin of leather, a belt, and a knife. A sword you have. Merry bowed, and the lady showed him the shield, which was like the shield that had been given to Gimli, and it bore on it the device of the white horse. Take all these things, she said, and bear them to good fortune. Farewell now, Master Meriadoc. Yet maybe we shall meet again, you and I. So it was that amid a gathering gloom the King of the Mark made ready to lead all his Riders on the eastward road. Hearts were heavy and many quailed in the shadow. But they were a stern people, loyal to their lord, and little weeping or murmuring was heard, even in the camp in the Hold where the exiles from Edoras were housed, women and children and old men. Doom hung over them, but they faced it silently. Two swift hours passed, and now the king sat upon his white horse, glimmering in the half-light. Proud and tall he seemed, though the hair that flowed beneath his high helm was like snow; and many marvelled at him and took heart to see him unbent and unafraid. There on the wide flats beside the noisy river were marshalled in many companies well nigh five and fifty hundreds of Riders fully armed, and many hundreds of other men with spare horses lightly burdened. A single trumpet sounded. The king raised his hand, and then silently the host of the Mark began to move. Foremost went twelve of the kings household-men, Riders of renown. Then the king ´ ´ followed with Eomer on his right. He had said farewell to Eowyn above in the Hold, and the memory was grievous; but now he turned his mind to the road that lay ahead. Behind him Merry rode on Stybba with the errand riders of Gondor, and behind them again twelve more of the kings household. They passed down the long ranks of waiting men with stern and unmoved faces. But when they T HE MU STER O F R O HA N 803 had come almost to the end of the line one looked up glancing keenly at the hobbit. A young man, Merry thought as he returned the glance, less in height and girth than most. He caught the glint of clear grey eyes; and then he shivered, for it came suddenly to him that it was the face of one without hope who goes in search of death. On down the grey road they went beside the Snowbourn rushing on its stones; through the hamlets of Underharrow and Upbourn, where many sad faces of women looked out from dark doors; and so without horn or harp or music of mens voices the great ride into the East began with which the songs of Rohan were busy for many long lives of men thereafter. From dark Dunharrow in the dim call of duty (video game) full game with thane and captain rode Thengels son: to Edoras he came, the ancient halls of the Mark-wardens mist-enshrouded; golden timbers were in gloom mantled. Farewell he bade to his free people, hearth and high-seat, and the hallowed places, where long he had feasted ere the light faded. Forth rode the king, fear behind him, fate before him. Fealty kept Fallout 4 flat settlement mod oaths he had taken, all fulfilled them. Forth rode The´oden. Five nights and days east and onward rode the Eorlingas through Folde and Fenmarch and the Firienwood, six thousand spears to Sunlending, Mundburg the mighty under Mindolluin, Sea-kings city in the South-kingdom game image pubg zone, fire-encircled. Doom drove them on. Darkness took them, horse and horseman; hoofbeats afar sank into silence: so the songs tell us. It was indeed in deepening gloom that the king came to Edoras, although it was then but noon by the hour. There he halted only a short while and strengthened his host by some three score of Riders that came late to the weapontake. Now having eaten he made ready to set out again, and he wished his esquire a kindly farewell. But Merry begged for the last time not to be parted from him. This is no journey for such steeds as Stybba, as I have told you, said The´oden. And in such a battle as we think to make on the fields of Gondor what would you do, Master Meriadoc, swordthain though you be, and greater of heart than of stature. 804 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS As for that, who can tell. answered Merry. But why, lord, did you receive me as swordthain, if not to stay by your side. And I would not have it said of me in song only that I was always left behind. I received you for your safe-keeping, answered The´oden; and also to do as I might bid. None of my Riders can bear you as burden. If the battle were before my gates, maybe your deeds would be remembered by the minstrels; but it is a hundred leagues and two to Mundburg where Denethor is lord. I will say no more. Merry bowed and went away unhappily, and stared at the lines of horsemen. Already the companies were preparing to start: men were tightening girths, looking to saddles, caressing their horses; some gazed uneasily at the lowering sky. Unnoticed a Rider came up and spoke softly in the hobbits ear. Where will wants not, a way opens, so we say, he whispered; and so I have found myself. Merry looked up and saw that it was the young Rider whom he had noticed in the morning. You wish to go whither the Lord of the Mark goes: I see it in your face. I do, said Merry. Then you shall go with me, said the Rider. I will bear you before me, under my cloak until we are far afield, and this darkness is yet darker. Such good will should not be denied. Say no more to any man, but come. Thank you indeed. said Merry. Thank you, sir, though I do not know your name. Do you not. said the Rider softly. Then call me Dernhelm. Thus it came to pass that when the king set out, before Dernhelm sat Meriadoc the hobbit, and the great grey steed Windfola made little of the burden; for Dernhelm was less in weight than many men, though lithe and well-knit in frame. On into the shadow they rode. In the willow-thickets where Snowbourn flowed into Entwash, twelve leagues east of Edoras, they camped that night. And then on again through the Folde; and through the Fenmarch, where to their right great oakwoods climbed on the skirts of the hills under the shades of dark Halifirien by the borders of Gondor; but away to their left the link lay on the marshes fed by the mouths of Entwash. And as they rode rumour came of war in the North. Lone men, riding wild, brought word of foes assailing their east-borders, of orc-hosts marching in the Wold of Rohan. Ride on. Ride on. cried Eomer. ´ Too late now to turn aside. The fens of Entwash must guard our flank. Haste now we need. Ride on. And so King The´oden departed from his own realm, and mile by mile the long road wound away, and the beacon hills marched T HE MU STER O F R O HA N 805 past: Calenhad, Min-Rimmon, Erelas, Nardol. But their fires were quenched. 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Before long he was walking with Gandalf once more down the cold corridor to the door of the Tower Hall. There Denethor sat in a grey gloom, like an old patient spider, Pippin thought; he did not seem to have moved since the day before. He beckoned Gandalf to a seat, but Pippin was left for a while standing unheeded. Presently the old man turned to him: Well, Master Peregrin, I hope that you used yesterday to your profit, and to your liking. Though I fear that the board is barer in this city than you could wish. Pippin had an uncomfortable feeling that most of what he had said or done was somehow known to the Lord of the City, and much was guessed of what he thought as well. He did not answer. What would you do in my service. I thought, sir, that you would check this out me my duties. I will, when I learn what you are fit for, said Denethor. But that I shall learn soonest, maybe, if I keep you beside me. The esquire of my chamber has begged leave to go to the out-garrison, so you shall take his place for a while. You shall wait on me, bear errands, and talk to me, if war and council leave me any leisure. Can you sing. Yes, said Pippin. Well, yes, well enough for my own people. But we have no songs fit for great halls and evil times, lord. We seldom T HE SIEGE O F G ON DO R 807 sing of anything more terrible than wind or rain. And most of my songs are not baldurs gate zhurlongs missing boots kids assured things that make us laugh; or about food and drink, of course. And why should such songs be unfit for my halls, or for such hours as these. We who have lived long under the Shadow may surely listen to echoes from a land untroubled by it. Then we may feel that our vigil was not fruitless, though it may have been thankless. Pippins heart sank. He did not relish the idea of singing any song of the Shire read more the Lord of Minas Tirith, certainly not the comic ones that he knew best; they were too, well, rustic for such an occasion. He was however spared the ordeal for the present. He was not commanded to sing. Denethor turned to Gandalf, asking questions about the Rohirrim and their policies, and the position of Eomer, the kings ´ nephew. Pippin marvelled at the amount that the Lord seemed to know about a people that lived far away, though it must, he thought, be many years since Denethor himself had ridden abroad. Presently Denethor waved to Pippin and dismissed him again for a while. Go to the armouries of the Citadel, he said, and get you there the livery and gear of the Tower. It will be ready. It was commanded yesterday. Return when you are clad. It was as he said; and Pippin soon found himself arrayed in strange garments, all of black and silver. 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