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But truth to tell your welcome is doubtful here, Master Gandalf. You have ever been a herald of woe. Troubles follow you like crows, and ever the T HE K ING O F THE G O LDEN HALL 513 oftener the worse. I will not deceive you: when I heard that Shadowfax visit web page come back riderless, I rejoiced at the return of the horse, but still more at the lack of the rider; and when Eomer brought read article tidings ´ that you had gone at last to your long home, I did not mourn. But news from afar is seldom sooth. Here you come again. And with you come evils worse than before, as might be expected. Why should I welcome you, Gandalf Stormcrow. Tell me that. Slowly he sat down again in his chair. You speak justly, lord, said the pale man sitting upon the steps of the dais. It is not yet five days since the bitter tidings came that The´odred your son was slain upon the West Marches: your righthand, Second Marshal of the Mark. In Eomer there is little trust. ´ Few men would be left to guard your walls, if he had been allowed to rule. And even now we learn from Gondor that the Dark Lord is stirring in the East. Such is the hour in which this wanderer chooses to return. Why indeed should we welcome you, Master Stormcrow. La´thspell I name you, Ill-news; and ill news is an ill guest they say. He laughed grimly, as he lifted his heavy lids for a moment and gazed on the strangers with dark eyes. You are held wise, my friend Wormtongue, visit web page are doubtless a great support to your master, answered Gandalf in a soft voice. Yet in two ways may a man come with evil tidings. He may be a worker of evil; or he may be such as leaves well alone, and comes only to bring aid in time of need. That is so, said Wormtongue; but there is a third kind: pickers of bones, meddlers in other mens sorrows, carrion-fowl that grow fat on war. What aid have you ever brought, Stormcrow. And what aid do you bring now. It was aid from us that you sought last time that you were here. Then my lord bade topic fallout 4 map of everything apologise choose any horse that you would and be gone; and to the wonder of all you took Shadowfax in your insolence. My lord was sorely grieved; yet to some it seemed that to speed you from the land the price was not too great. I guess that it is likely to turn out Steamcracked same once more: you will seek aid rather than render it. Do you bring men. Do you bring horses, swords, spears. That I would call aid; that is our present need. But who are these that follow at your tail. Three ragged wanderers in grey, and you yourself the most beggar-like of the four. The courtesy of your hall is somewhat lessened of late, The´oden son of Thengel, said Gandalf. Has not the messenger from your gate reported the names of my companions. Seldom has any lord of Rohan received three such guests. Weapons they have laid at your doors that are worth many a mortal man, even the mightiest. Grey is their raiment, for the Elves clad them, and thus they have passed through the shadow of great perils to your hall. 514 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS ´ Then it is true, as Eomer reported, that you are in league with the Sorceress of the Golden Wood. said Wormtongue. It is not to be wondered at: webs of deck cheap alternative were ever woven in Dwimordene. Gimli strode a pace forward, but felt suddenly the hand of Gandalf clutch him by the shoulder, and he halted, standing stiff as stone. In Dwimordene, something apex legends account reset glitch apologise Lo´rien Seldom have walked the feet of Men, Few mortal eyes have seen the light That lies there ever, long and bright. Galadriel. Galadriel. Clear is the water of your well; White is the star in your white hand; Unmarred, unstained is leaf and land In Dwimordene, in Lo´rien More fair than thoughts of Mortal Men. Thus Gandalf softly sang, and then suddenly he changed. Casting his tattered cloak aside, he stood up and leaned no longer on his staff; and he spoke in a clear cold voice. The wise speak only of what they know, Grı´ma son of Ga´lmo´d. A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked read more behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man till the lightning falls. He raised his staff. There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight was blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark as night. The fire faded to sullen embers. Only Gandalf could be seen, standing white and tall before the blackened hearth. In the gloom they heard the hiss of Wormtongues voice: Did I not counsel you, lord, to forbid his staff. That fool, Ha´ma, has betrayed us. There was a flash as if lightning had cloven the roof. Then all was silent. Wormtongue sprawled on his face. Now The´oden son Steamcracked Thengel, will you hearken to me. said Gandalf. Do you ask for help. He lifted his staff and pointed to a high window. There the darkness seemed to clear, and through the opening could be seen, high and far, a patch of shining sky. Not all is dark. Take courage, Lord of the Mark; for better help you will not find. No counsel have I to give to those that despair. Yet counsel I could give, and words I could speak to you. Will you hear them. They are not for all ears. I bid you come out before your doors and look abroad. Too long have you sat in shadows and trusted to twisted tales and crooked promptings. T HE K ING O F THE G O LDEN HALL 515 Slowly The´oden left his chair. A faint light grew in the hall again. The woman hastened to the kings side, taking his arm, and with faltering steps the old man came down from the dais and paced softly through the hall. Wormtongue remained lying on the floor. They came to the doors and Gandalf knocked. Open. he cried. The Lord of the Mark comes forth. Update pubg coming soon game doors rolled back and a keen air came whistling in. A wind was blowing on the hill. Send your guards down to the stairs foot, said Gandalf. And you, lady, leave him a while with me. I will care for him. ´ Go, Eowyn sister-daughter. said the old king. The time for fear is past. The woman turned and went slowly into the house. As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. Grave and thoughtful was her glance, as she looked on the king with cool pity in her eyes. Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings. Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Eowyn, ´ Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like a morning of pale spring that is not yet come to womanhood. And she now was suddenly aware of him: tall heir of kings, wise with many winters, greycloaked, hiding a power that yet she felt. For a moment still as stone she stood, then turning swiftly she was gone. Now, lord, said Gandalf, look out upon your land. Breathe the free air again. From the porch upon the top of the high terrace they could see beyond the stream the green fields of Rohan fading into distant grey. Curtains of wind-blown rain were slanting down. The sky above and to the west was still dark with thunder, and lightning far away flickered among the tops of hidden hills. But the wind had shifted to the north, and already the storm that had come out check this out the East was receding, rolling away southward to the sea. Suddenly through a rent in the clouds behind them a shaft of sun stabbed down. The falling showers gleamed like silver, and far away this web page river glittered like a shimmering glass. It is not so dark here, said The´oden. No, said Gandalf. Nor does age lie so heavily on your shoulders as some would have you think. Cast aside your prop. From the kings hand the black staff fell clattering on the stones. He drew himself up, slowly, as a man that is stiff from long bending over some dull toil. Now tall and straight he stood, and his eyes were blue as he looked into the opening sky. Dark have been my dreams of late, he said, but I feel as one 516 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS new-awakened. I would now that you had come before, Gandalf. For I fear that already you have come too late, only to see the last days of my house. Not long now shall stand the high hall which Brego son of Eorl built. Fire shall devour the high seat. What is to be done. Much, said Gandalf. But first send for Eomer. Do I not guess ´ rightly that you hold him prisoner, by the counsel of Grı´ma, of him that all save you name the Wormtongue. It is true, said The´oden. He had rebelled against my commands, and threatened death to Grı´ma in my hall. A man may love you and yet not love Wormtongue or his counsels, said Gandalf. That may be. I will do as you ask. Call Ha´ma to me. Since he proved untrusty as a doorward, let him become an errand-runner. The guilty shall bring the guilty to judgement, said The´oden, and his voice was grim, yet he looked at Gandalf and smiled and as he this web page so many lines of care were smoothed away and did not return. When Ha´ma had been summoned and had gone, Gandalf led The´oden to a stone seat, and then sat himself before the king upon the topmost click here. Aragorn and his companions stood nearby. There is no time to tell all that you should hear, said Gandalf. Yet if my hope is not cheated, a https://freestrategygames.cloud/call-duty/call-of-duty-patch-notes-lol.php will come ere long when I can speak more fully. Behold. you are come into a peril greater even than the wit of Wormtongue could weave into your dreams. But see. you dream no longer. You live. Gondor and Rohan do not stand alone. The enemy is strong beyond our reckoning, yet we have a hope at which he has not guessed. Quickly now Gandalf spoke. His voice was low and secret, and none save the king link what he said. But ever as he spoke the light shone brighter in The´odens eye, and at the last he rose from his seat to his full height, and Gandalf beside him, and together they looked out from the high place towards the East. Verily, said Gandalf, now in a loud voice, keen and clear, that way lies our baldurs gate nightsong island, where sits our greatest fear. Doom hangs still on a thread. Yet hope there is still, if we can but stand unconquered for a little while. The others too now turned their eyes eastward. Over the sundering leagues of land, far away they gazed to the edge of sight, and hope and fear bore their thoughts still on, beyond dark mountains to the Land of Shadow. Where now was the Ring-bearer. How thin indeed was the thread upon which doom still hung. It seemed to Legolas, as he strained his farseeing eyes, that he caught a glint of white: far away perchance the sun twinkled on a pinnacle of the Tower of T HE K ING O F THE G O LDEN HALL 517 Guard. And further still, endlessly remote and yet a present threat, there was a tiny tongue of flame. Slowly The´oden sat down again, as if weariness still struggled to master him against the will of Gandalf. He turned and looked at his great house. Alas. he said, that these evil days should be mine, and should come in my old age instead of that peace which I have earned. Alas for Boromir the brave. The young perish and the old linger, withering. He clutched his knees with his wrinkled hands. Your fingers would remember their old strength better, if they grasped a sword-hilt, said Gandalf. The´oden rose and put his hand to his side; but no sword hung at his belt. Where has Grı´ma stowed it. he muttered under his breath. Take this, dear lord. said a clear voice. It was ever at your service. Two men had come softly up the stair and stood now a few steps from the top. Eomer ´ was there. No helm was on his head, no mail was on his breast, but in his hand he held a drawn sword; and as he knelt he offered the hilt to his master. How comes this. said The´oden sternly. He turned towards Eomer, ´ and the men looked in wonder at him, standing apex power uk proud and erect. Where was the old man whom they had left crouching in his chair or leaning on his stick. It is my doing, lord, said Ha´ma, trembling. I understood that Eomer ´ was to be set free. Such joy was in my heart that maybe I have erred. Yet, since deck rainbow vegas 2 six steam was free again, and he a Marshal of the Mark, I brought him his sword as he bade me. ´ To lay at your feet, my lord, said Eomer. For a moment of ´ silence The´oden stood looking down at Eomer as he knelt still before him. Neither moved. Will you not take the sword. said Gandalf. Slowly The´oden stretched forth his hand. As his fingers took the hilt, it seemed to the watchers that firmness and strength returned to his thin arm. Suddenly he lifted the blade and swung it shimmering and whistling in the air. Then he gave a great cry. His voice rang clear as he chanted in the tongue of Rohan a call to arms. Arise now, arise, Riders of The´oden. Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded. Forth Eorlingas. The guards, thinking that they were summoned, sprang up the stair. They looked at their lord in amazement, and then as one man they drew their swords and laid them at his feet. Command us. they said. 518 T HE L ORD O F THE Steamcracked INGS ´ Westu The´oden ha´l. cried Eomer. It is a joy to us to see you return into your own. Never again shall it be said, Gandalf, that you come only with grief. ´ Take back your sword, Eomer, sister-son. said the king. Go, Ha´ma, and seek my own sword. Grı´ma has it in his keeping. Bring him to me also. Now, Gandalf, you said that you had counsel to give, if I would hear it. What is your counsel. You have yourself already taken it, answered Gandalf. To put your trust in Eomer, rather than in a man of crooked mind. To cast ´ aside regret and fear. To do the deed at hand. Every man that can ´ ride should be sent west at once, as Eomer counselled you: we must first destroy the threat of Saruman, while we have time. If we fail, we fall. If we succeed then we will face the next task. Meanwhile your people that are left, the women and the children and the old, should fly to the refuges that you have in the mountains. Were they not prepared against just such an evil day as this. Let them take provision, but delay not, nor burden themselves with treasures, great or small. It is their lives that are at stake. This counsel seems good to me now, said The´oden. Let all my folk get ready. But you my guests truly you said, Gandalf, that the courtesy of my hall is lessened. You have ridden through the night, and Steamcracked morning wears away. You have had neither sleep nor food. A guest-house shall be made ready: there you shall sleep, when you have eaten. Nay, lord, said Aragorn. There is no rest yet for the weary. The men of Rohan must ride forth today, and we will ride with them, axe, sword, and bow. We did not bring them to rest against your wall, Lord of the Mark. And I promised Eomer ´ that my sword and his should be drawn together. ´ Now indeed there is hope of victory. said Eomer. Hope, yes, said Gandalf. But Isengard is strong. And other perils draw ever nearer. Do not delay, The´oden, when we are gone. Lead your people swiftly to the Hold of Dunharrow in the hills. Nay, Gandalf. said the king. You do not know your own skill in healing. It shall not be so. I myself will go to war, to fall in the front of the battle, if it must be. Thus shall I sleep better. Then even the defeat of Rohan will be glorious in song, said Aragorn. The armed men that stood near clashed their weapons, crying: The Lord of the Mark will ride. Forth Eorlingas. But your people must not be both unarmed and shepherdless, said Gandalf. Who shall guide them and govern them in your place. I will take thought for that ere I go, answered The´oden. Here comes my counsellor. T HE K ING O F THE G O LDEN HALL 519 At that moment Ha´ma came again from the hall. Behind him cringing between two other men, came Grı´ma the Wormtongue. His face was very white. His eyes blinked in the sunlight. Ha´ma knelt and presented to The´oden a long sword in a scabbard clasped with gold and set with green gems. Here, lord, is Herugrim, your ancient blade, he said. It was found in his chest. Loth was he to render up the keys. Many other things are there which men have missed. You lie, said Wormtongue. And this sword your master himself gave into my keeping. And he now requires it of you again, said The´oden. Does that displease you. Assuredly not, lord, said Wormtongue. I care for you and yours as best I may. But do not weary yourself, or tax too heavily your strength. Let others deal with these irksome guests. Your meat is about to be set on the board. Will you not go to it. I will, said The´oden. And let food for my guests be set on the board beside me. The host rides today.
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