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Why, my grand-dad, and my uncle Andy after him, him that was the Gaffers eldest brother, he had a rope-walk over by Tighfield many a year. And I put as fast a hitch over the stump as anyone could have done, in the Shire or out of it. Then the rope must have broken frayed on the rock-edge, I expect, said Frodo. I bet it didnt. said Sam in an link more injured voice. He stooped and examined the ends. Nor it hasnt neither. Not a strand. Then Im afraid it must have been the knot, said Frodo. Sam shook his head and did not answer. He was passing the rope through his fingers thoughtfully. Have it your own way, Mr. Frodo, he said at last, but I think the rope came off itself when I called. He coiled it up and stowed it lovingly in his pack. It certainly came, said Frodo, and thats the chief thing. But now weve got to think of our next move. Night will be on us soon. How beautiful the stars are, and the Moon. They do cheer the heart, dont they. said Sam looking up. Elvish they are, somehow. And the Moons growing. We havent seen him for a night or two in this cloudy weather. Hes beginning to give quite a light. Yes, said Frodo; but he wont be full for some days. I dont think well try the marshes by the light of half a moon. 612 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Under the first shadows of night they started out on the next stage of their journey. After a while Sam turned and looked back at the way they had come. The mouth of the gully was a black notch in the dim cliff. Im glad weve got the rope, he said. Weve set a little puzzle for that footpad, anyhow. He can try his nasty flappy feet on those ledges. They picked their steps away from the skirts of the cliff, among a wilderness of boulders and rough stones, wet and slippery with the heavy rain. The ground still fell away sharply. They had not gone very far when they came upon a great fissure that yawned suddenly black before their feet. It was not wide, but it was too wide to jump across in the dim light. They thought they could hear water gurgling in its depths. It curved away on their left northward, back towards the hills, and so barred their road in that direction, at any rate while darkness lasted. We had better try a way back southwards along the line of the cliff, I think, said Sam. We might find some nook there, or even a cave or something. I suppose so, said Frodo. Im tired, and I dont think I can scramble among stones much longer tonight though I grudge the delay. I wish there was a clear path in front of us: then Id go on till my legs gave way. They did not find the going any easier at the broken feet of the Emyn Muil. Nor did Sam find any nook or hollow to shelter in: only bare stony slopes frowned over by the cliff, which now rose again, higher and more sheer https://freestrategygames.cloud/pubg/pubg-gameplay-unlimited.php they went back. In the end, worn out, they just cast themselves on the ground under the lee of a boulder lying not far from the foot of the precipice. There for some time they sat huddled mournfully together in the cold stony night, while sleep crept upon them in spite of all they could do to hold it off. The moon now rode high and clear. Its thin white light lit up the faces of the rocks and drenched the cold frowning walls of the cliff, turning all the wide looming darkness into a chill pale grey scored with black shadows. Well. said Frodo, standing up and drawing his cloak more closely round him. You sleep for a bit Sam and take my blanket. Ill walk up and down on sentry for a while. Suddenly he stiffened, and stooping he gripped Sam by the arm. Whats that. he whispered. Look over there on the cliff. Sam looked and breathed in sharply through his teeth. Ssss. he said. Thats what it is. Its that Gollum. Snakes and adders. And to think that I thought that wed puzzle him with our bit of a climb. Look at him. Like a nasty crawling spider on a wall. T HE TAMIN G O F SMEAGO ´ L 613 Down the face of a precipice, sheer and almost smooth it seemed in the pale moonlight, a small black shape was moving with its thin limbs splayed out. Maybe its soft clinging hands and toes were finding crevices and holds that no hobbit could ever have seen or used, but it looked as if it was just creeping down on sticky pads, Ivac steam mop pads some large prowling thing of insect-kind. And it was coming down head first, as if it was smelling its way. Now and again it lifted its head slowly, turning it right back on its long skinny neck, and the hobbits caught a glimpse of two small pale gleaming lights, its eyes that blinked at the moon for a moment and then were quickly lidded again. Do you think he can see us. said Sam. I dont know, said Frodo quietly, but I think not. It is hard even for friendly eyes to see these elven-cloaks: I cannot see you in the shadow even at a few paces. And Ive heard that he doesnt like Sun or Moon. Then why is he coming down just here. asked Sam. Quietly, Sam. said Frodo. He can smell us, perhaps. And he can hear as keen as Elves, I believe. I think he has heard something now: our voices probably. We did a lot of shouting away back there; and we were talking far too loudly until a minute ago. Well, Im sick of him, said Sam. Hes come once too often for me, and Im going to have a word with him, if I can. I dont suppose we could give him the slip now anyway. Drawing his grey hood well over his face, Sam crept stealthily towards the cliff. Careful. whispered Frodo coming behind. Dont alarm him. Hes much more dangerous than he looks. The black crawling shape was now three-quarters of the way down, and perhaps fifty feet or less above the cliffs foot. Crouching stonestill in the shadow of a large boulder the hobbits watched him. He seemed to have come to a difficult passage or to be troubled about something. They could hear him snuffling, and now and again there was a harsh hiss of breath that sounded like a curse. He lifted his head, and they thought they heard him spit. Then he moved on again. Now they could hear his voice creaking and whistling. Ach, sss. Cautious, my precious. More haste less speed. We pubg game videos in war xbox one rissk our neck, musst we, precious. No, precious gollum. He lifted his head again, blinked at the moon, and quickly shut his eyes. We hate it, he hissed. Nassty, nassty shivery light it is sss it spies on us, precious it hurts our eyes. He was getting lower now and the hisses became sharper and clearer. Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious. Its ours, it is, and we wants it. The thieves, the thieves, the filthy little thieves. Where are they with my Precious. Curse them. We hates them. 614 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS It doesnt sound as if he knew we were here, does it. whispered Sam. And whats his Precious. Does he mean the-- Hsh. breathed Frodo. Hes getting near now, near enough to hear a whisper. Indeed Gollum had suddenly paused again, and his large head on its scrawny neck was lolling from side to side as if he was listening. His pale eyes consider, baldurs gate 3 best companions for men the half unlidded. Sam restrained himself, though his fingers were twitching. His eyes, filled with anger and disgust, were fixed on the wretched creature as he now began to move again, still whispering and hissing to himself. At last he was no more than a dozen feet from the ground, right above their heads. From that point there was a sheer drop, for the cliff was slightly undercut, and even Gollum could not find a hold of any kind. He seemed to be trying to twist round, so as to go legs first, when suddenly with a shrill whistling shriek he fell. As he did so, he curled his legs and arms up round him, like a spider whose descending thread is snapped. Sam was out of his hiding in a flash and crossed the space between him and the cliff-foot in a couple of leaps. Before Gollum could get up, he was on top of him. But he found Gollum more than he bargained for, even taken like that, suddenly, off his guard after a fall. Before Sam could get a hold, pubg game japanese legs and arms were wound round him pinning his arms, and a clinging grip, soft but horribly strong, was squeezing him like slowly tightening cords; clammy fingers were feeling for his throat. Then sharp teeth bit into his shoulder. All he could do was to butt his hard round head sideways into the creatures face. Gollum hissed and spat, but he did not let go. Things would have gone ill with Sam, if he had been alone. But Frodo sprang up, and drew Sting from its sheath. With his left hand he drew back Gollums head by his thin lank hair, stretching his long neck, and forcing his pale venomous eyes to stare up at the sky. Let go. Gollum, he said. This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or youll feel it this time. Ill cut your throat. Gollum collapsed and went as loose as wet string. Sam got up, fingering his shoulder. His eyes smouldered with anger, but he could not avenge himself: his miserable enemy lay grovelling on the stones whimpering. Dont hurt us. Dont let them hurt us, precious. They wont hurt us will they, nice little hobbitses. We didnt mean no harm, but they jumps on us like cats on poor mices, they did, precious. And were so lonely, gollum. Well be nice to them, very nice, if theyll be nice to us, wont we, yes, yess. Well, whats to be done with it. said Sam. Tie it up, so as it cant come sneaking after us no more, I say. T HE TAMIN G O F SMEAGO ´ L 615 But that would kill us, kill us, whimpered Gollum. Cruel little hobbitses. Tie us up in the cold hard lands and leave us, gollum, gollum. Sobs welled up in his gobbling throat. No, said Frodo. If we kill him, we must kill him outright. But we cant do that, not as things are. Poor wretch. He has done us no harm. Oh hasnt he. said Sam rubbing his shoulder. Anyway he meant to, and he means to, Ill warrant. Throttle us in our sleep, thats his plan. I daresay, said Https://freestrategygames.cloud/pubg-gameloop/steamdb-dave-the-diver.php. But what he means to do is another matter. He paused for a while in thought. Gollum lay still, but stopped whimpering. Sam stood glowering over him. It seemed to Frodo then that he heard, quite plainly but far off, voices out of the past: What a pity Bilbo did not stab the vile creature, when he had a chance. Pity. It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. I do not feel any pity for Gollum. He deserves death. Deserves death. I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give that to them. Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends. Very well, he answered aloud, lowering his sword. But still I am afraid. And yet, as you see, I will not touch the creature. For now that I see him, I do pity Ivac steam mop pads. Sam stared at his master, who seemed to be speaking to some one who was not there. Gollum lifted his head. Yess, wretched we are, precious, he whined. Misery misery. Hobbits wont kill us, nice hobbits. No, we wont, said Frodo. But we wont let you go, either. Youre full of wickedness and mischief, Gollum. You will have to come with us, thats all, while we keep an eye on you. But you must help us, if you can. One good turn deserves another. Yess, yes indeed, said Gollum sitting up. Nice hobbits. We will come with them. Find them safe paths in the dark, yes we will. And where are they counter strike source mac in these cold hard lands, we wonders, yes we wonders. He looked up at them, and a faint light of cunning and eagerness flickered for a second in his pale blinking eyes. Sam scowled at him, and sucked his teeth; but he seemed to sense that there was something odd about his masters mood and that the matter was beyond argument. All the same he was amazed at Frodos reply. Frodo looked straight into Gollums eyes which flinched and 616 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS twisted away. You know that, or you guess well enough, Sme´agol, he said, quietly and sternly. We are going to Mordor, of course. And you know the way there, I believe. Ach. sss. said Gollum, covering his ears with his hands, as if such frankness, and the open speaking of the names, hurt him. We guessed, yes we guessed, he whispered; and we didnt want them to go, did we. No, precious, not the nice hobbits. Ashes, ashes, and dust, and thirst there is; and pits, pits, pits, and Orcs, thousands of Orcses. Nice hobbits mustnt go to sss those places. So you have been there. Frodo insisted. And youre being drawn back there, arent you. Yess. Yess. shrieked Gollum. Once, by accident it was, wasnt it, precious. Yes, by accident. But we wont go back, no, no. Then suddenly his voice and language changed, and he sobbed in his throat, and spoke but not to them. Leave me alone, gollum. You hurt me. O my poor hands, gollum. I, we, I dont want to come back. I cant find it. I am tired. I, we cant find it, gollum, gollum, no, nowhere. Theyre always awake. Dwarves, Men, and Elves, terrible Elves with bright eyes. I cant find it. Ach. He got up and clenched his long hand into a bony fleshless knot, shaking it towards the East. We wont. he cried. Not for you. Then he collapsed again. Gollum, gollum, he whimpered with his face to the ground. Dont look at us. Go away. Go to sleep. He will not go away or go to sleep at your command, Sme´agol, said Frodo. But if you really wish to be free of him again, then you must help me. And that I fear means finding us a path towards him. But you need not go all the way, not beyond the gates of his land. Gollum sat up again and looked at him under his eyelids. Hes over there, he cackled. Always there. Orcs will take you all the way. Easy to find Orcs east of the River. Dont ask Sme´agol. Poor, poor Sme´agol, he went away long ago. They took his Precious, and hes lost now. Perhaps well find him again, if you come with us, said Frodo. No, no, never. Hes lost his Precious, said Gollum. Get up. said Frodo. Gollum stood up and backed away against the cliff. Now. said Frodo. Can you find a path easier by day or by night. Were tired; but if you choose the night, well start tonight. The big lights hurt our eyes, they do, Gollum whined. Not under the White Face, not yet. It will go behind the hills soon, yess. Rest a bit first, nice hobbits. Then sit down, said Frodo, and dont move. T HE TAMIN G O F SMEAGO ´ L 617 The hobbits seated themselves beside him, one on either side, with their backs to the stony wall, resting their legs. 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