LR 1.02 The Shadow of the Past

1.02.000 {h} The Shadow of the Past
1.02.001 {p} The talk did … forgotten.
1.02.002 {p} But in the … Gandalf.
1.02.003 {p} ‘If only that … say.
1.02.004 {p} Some people were … shoulders.
1.02.005 {p} He lived alone, … done.
1.02.006 {ps} As time went … queer.
1.02.007 {p} Frodo himself, after … yet.’
1.02.008 {p} So it went … Shire.
1.02.009 {ps} There were rumours … Mordor.
1.02.010 {p} That name the … name.
1.02.011 {ps} Little of all … them.
1.02.012 {p} Sam Gamgee was … talk.
1.02.013 {p} ‘Queer things you … Sam.
1.02.014 {p} ‘Ah,’ said Ted, … to.’
1.02.015 {p} ‘No doubt you … now.’
1.02.016 {p} ‘No thank ’ee,’ … laugh.
1.02.017 {p} ‘All right,’ said … back.’
1.02.018 {p} ‘Who’s they?’
1.02.019 {p} ‘My cousin Hal … one.’
1.02.020 {p} ‘Says he did, … there.’
1.02.021 {p} ‘But this one … inch.’
1.02.022 {p} ‘Then I bet … not.’
1.02.023 {p} ‘But this one … Moors.’
1.02.024 {p} ‘Then Hal can’t … point.
1.02.025 {p} ‘All the same,’ … before.
1.02.026 {p} ‘And I’ve heard … return.
1.02.027 {p} ‘They are sailing, … laughed.
1.02.028 {p} ‘Well, that isn’t … Shire.’
1.02.029 {p} ‘Well, I don’t … lad.’
1.02.030 {p} ‘Oh, they’re both … noisily.
1.02.031 {p} Sam sat silent … out.
1.02.032 {p} It was early … thoughtfully.
1.02.033 {ps} It was just … doings.
1.02.034 {p} Then suddenly his … window.
1.02.035 {p} Frodo welcomed his … another.
1.02.036 {p} ‘All well eh?’ … Frodo!’
1.02.037 {p} ‘So do you,’ … night.
1.02.038 {ps} Next morning after … fingers.
1.02.039 {p} Gandalf was thinking … delight.
1.02.040 {p} He was smoking … silence.
1.02.041 {p} ‘Last night you … way?’
1.02.042 {p} ‘In many ways,’ … him.
1.02.043 {p} ‘In Eregion long … perilous.
1.02.044 {p} ‘A mortal, Frodo, … him.’
1.02.045 {p} ‘How terrifying!’ said … garden.
1.02.046 {ps} ‘How long have … know?’
1.02.047 {p} ‘Bilbo knew no … tight.’
1.02.048 {p} ‘Yes, he warned … chain.’
1.02.049 {p} ‘Very wise,’ said … control.’
1.02.050 {p} ‘How long have … again.
1.02.051 {p} ‘Known?’ said Gandalf. … guess.
1.02.052 {p} ‘When did I … back.’
1.02.053 {p} ‘Who is he?’ … before.’
1.02.054 {p} ‘Maybe not,’ answered … waited.
1.02.055 {p} ‘And all seemed … Wait!”
1.02.056 {p} ‘And I waited. … it.’
1.02.057 {p} ‘There wasn’t any … mean?’
1.02.058 {p} ‘He felt better … Bilbo.
1.02.059 {p} ‘Of course, he … responsible.
1.02.060 {p} ‘Ever since Bilbo … enslaved.’
1.02.061 {p} Frodo shuddered. ‘But … slaves?’
1.02.062 {p} ‘To tell you … revenge.’
1.02.063 {p} ‘Revenge?’ said Frodo. … ring.’
1.02.064 {p} ‘It has everything … moment.’
1.02.065 {ps} Frodo took it … it.
1.02.066 {p} Gandalf held it … asked.
1.02.067 {p} ‘No,’ said Frodo. … wear.’
1.02.068 {p} ‘Well then, look!’ … back.
1.02.069 {p} ‘Wait!’ he said … brows.
1.02.070 {p} No apparent change … gasped.
1.02.071 {p} ‘It is quite … ever.
1.02.072 {p} ‘Hold it up!’ … closely!’
1.02.073 {p} As Frodo did … depth.
1.02.074 {p} ‘I cannot read … voice.
1.02.075 {p} ‘No,’ said Gandalf, … enough:
1.02.076 {lg} One Ring to … them.
1.02.077 {p} It is only … Elven-lore:
1.02.078 {lg} Three Rings for … lie.’
1.02.079 {p} He paused, and … it.’
1.02.080 {p} Frodo sat silent … me?’
1.02.081 {ps} ‘Ah!’ said Gandalf. … Winter.
1.02.082 {p} ‘But last night … again.’
1.02.083 {p} ‘I wish it … Frodo.
1.02.084 {p} ‘So do I,’ … chance.
1.02.085 {p} ‘The Enemy still … Ring.
1.02.086 {p} ‘The Three, fairest … Shire.
1.02.087 {p} ‘So it is … ever.
1.02.088 {p} ‘And this is … fear.’
1.02.089 {p} ‘Why, why wasn’t … it.
1.02.090 {p} ‘It was taken … best.
1.02.091 {p} ‘But for the … Mirkwood.
1.02.092 {p} ‘But the Ring … arrows.’
1.02.093 {p} Gandalf paused. ‘And … think.
1.02.094 {ps} ‘Long after, but … downward.
1.02.095 {p} ‘He had a … it.
1.02.096 {p} ‘Then up he … behind.
1.02.097 {p} ‘“Give us that, … shoulder.
1.02.098 {p} ‘“Why?” said Déagol.
1.02.099 {p} ‘“Because it’s my … Sméagol.
1.02.100 {p} ‘“I don’t care,” … it.”
1.02.101 {p} ‘“Oh, are you … finger.
1.02.102 {p} ‘No one ever … hole.
1.02.103 {p} ‘He wandered in … her.
1.02.104 {p} ‘But as he … beginning.”
1.02.105 {p} ‘So he journeyed … it.’
1.02.106 {ps} ‘Gollum!’ cried Frodo. … loathsome!’
1.02.107 {p} ‘I think it … known.’
1.02.108 {p} ‘I can’t believe … notion!’
1.02.109 {p} ‘It is true … thing.’
1.02.110 {p} ‘Yes,’ said Frodo. … him.’
1.02.111 {p} ‘Only too true, … things.
1.02.112 {p} ‘But that, of … unbearable.
1.02.113 {p} ‘All the “great … all.’
1.02.114 {p} ‘What do you … it?’
1.02.115 {p} ‘You ought to … matter.
1.02.116 {p} ‘A Ring of … him.’
1.02.117 {p} ‘What, just in … better?’
1.02.118 {p} ‘It is no … dark.
1.02.119 {p} ‘There was more … Shire!
1.02.120 {p} ‘Behind that there … thought.’
1.02.121 {p} ‘It is not,’ … still?’
1.02.122 {p} Gandalf looked at … evidence.’
1.02.123 {p} ‘And when did … interrupting.
1.02.124 {p} ‘Just now in … him.’
1.02.125 {p} ‘You have seen … amazement.
1.02.126 {p} ‘Yes. The obvious … last.’
1.02.127 {p} ‘Then what happened … that?’
1.02.128 {p} ‘Not so clearly. … truth.
1.02.129 {p} ‘The murder of … on.
1.02.130 {p} ‘I endured him … from.’
1.02.131 {p} ‘But how did … Frodo.
1.02.132 {p} ‘Well, as for … hungry.
1.02.133 {p} ‘Light, light of … expect.’
1.02.134 {p} ‘Is that where … Frodo.
1.02.135 {p} ‘I saw him … precious!”
1.02.136 {p} ‘That is a … wanted.’
1.02.137 {p} ‘Then why didn’t … Shire?’
1.02.138 {p} ‘Ah,’ said Gandalf, … me.
1.02.139 {p} ‘The Wood-elves tracked … cradles.
1.02.140 {p} ‘But at the … Saruman.
1.02.141 {p} ‘Well, that was … him.
1.02.142 {p} ‘What he had … Mordor.’
1.02.143 {ps} A heavy silence … heard.
1.02.144 {p} ‘Yes, to Mordor,’ … revenge!
1.02.145 {p} ‘Wretched fool! In … done.
1.02.146 {p} ‘Yes, alas! through … Shire.
1.02.147 {p} ‘The Shire – … important.’
1.02.148 {p} ‘But this is … chance!’
1.02.149 {p} ‘Pity? It was … Pity.’
1.02.150 {p} ‘I am sorry,’ … Gollum.’
1.02.151 {p} ‘You have not … in.
1.02.152 {p} ‘No, and I … death.’
1.02.153 {p} ‘Deserves it! I … hearts.’
1.02.154 {p} ‘All the same,’ … it?’
1.02.155 {p} ‘Let you? Make … himself.
1.02.156 {p} ‘Of course, my … certain.’
1.02.157 {p} ‘But why not … it.’
1.02.158 {p} ‘Would you? How … tried?’
1.02.159 {p} ‘No. But I … it.’
1.02.160 {p} ‘Try!’ said Gandalf. … now!’
1.02.161 {ps} Frodo drew the … pocket.
1.02.162 {p} Gandalf laughed grimly. … mine.
1.02.163 {p} ‘Your small fire, … himself.
1.02.164 {p} ‘There is only … ever.’
1.02.165 {p} ‘I do really … chosen?’
1.02.166 {p} ‘Such questions cannot … have.’
1.02.167 {p} ‘But I have … Ring?’
1.02.168 {p} ‘No!’ cried Gandalf, … me.’
1.02.169 {p} He went to … moving.’
1.02.170 {ps} There was a … Mountain.
1.02.171 {p} ‘Well!’ said Gandalf … do?’
1.02.172 {p} ‘No!’ answered Frodo, … me.’
1.02.173 {p} ‘Whatever it may … Gandalf.
1.02.174 {p} ‘I hope so,’ … sighed.
1.02.175 {p} ‘I should like … again.
1.02.176 {p} ‘Of course, I … terrible.’
1.02.177 {p} He did not … ago.
1.02.178 {p} ‘My dear Frodo!’ … Underhill.
1.02.179 {p} ‘But I don’t … hearing.’
1.02.180 {p} Suddenly he stopped … ear.
1.02.181 {p} ‘Well, well, bless … doing?’
1.02.182 {p} ‘Lor bless you, … evidence.
1.02.183 {p} ‘I don’t,’ said … eavesdropping?’
1.02.184 {p} ‘Eavesdropping, sir? I … fact.’
1.02.185 {p} ‘Don’t be a … bristles.
1.02.186 {p} ‘Mr. Frodo, sir!’ … sir!’
1.02.187 {p} ‘He won’t hurt … away!’
1.02.188 {p} ‘Well, sir,’ said … go?’
1.02.189 {p} Suddenly Gandalf laughed. … away?’
1.02.190 {p} ‘I did, sir. … upset.’
1.02.191 {p} ‘It can’t be … grass-snakes.’
1.02.192 {p} Sam fell on … Frodo!’
1.02.193 {p} ‘Me, sir!’ cried … tears.