LR 1.11 A Knife in the Dark

1.11.000 {h} A Knife in the Dark
1.11.001 {p} As they prepared … door.
1.11.002 {p} The night deepened. … breathlessly.
1.11.003 {p} There was a … shuddered.
1.11.004 {p} ‘Open, in the … menacing.
1.11.005 {p} At a second … in.
1.11.006 {p} At that moment, … hill-top.
1.11.007 {qt} AWAKE! FEAR! FIRE! … AWAKE!
1.11.008 {p} Fatty Bolger had … time.
1.11.009 {qt} FEAR! FIRE! FOES!
1.11.010 {p} The Brandybucks were … over.
1.11.011 {qt} AWAKE! AWAKE!
1.11.012 {p} Far away answering … spreading.
1.11.013 {p} The black figures … Shire.
1.11.014 {ps} In the early … movement.
1.11.015 {p} Frodo soon went … window.
1.11.016 {p} As soon as … pieces.
1.11.017 {p} Strider immediately went … sound.
1.11.018 {p} ‘Never has such … to?’
1.11.019 {p} ‘Dark times,’ said … minutes.’
1.11.020 {p} Mr. Butterbur hurried … place.
1.11.021 {p} Frodo was crushed … courage.
1.11.022 {p} ‘Ponies would not … backs?’
1.11.023 {p} ‘As much as … felt).
1.11.024 {p} ‘I can carry … defiantly.
1.11.025 {p} ‘Can’t anything be … it.
1.11.026 {p} ‘I doubt it,’ … be.’
1.11.027 {p} ‘Yes,’ said Strider … doubt.’
1.11.028 {p} ‘There is one … Nob!’
1.11.029 {ps} In the end … Ferny.’
1.11.030 {p} ‘Bill Ferny?’ said … something?’
1.11.031 {p} ‘I wonder,’ said … it?’
1.11.032 {p} Bill Ferny’s price … bear.
1.11.033 {p} As a matter … Rivendell.
1.11.034 {p} However, in the … once.
1.11.035 {p} ‘If you pick … party.
1.11.036 {ps} After their breakfast … windows.
1.11.037 {p} Strider had changed … trespassing.
1.11.038 {p} They said farewell … while.’
1.11.039 {p} They tramped off, … long.’
1.11.040 {p} The hobbits took … once.
1.11.041 {p} ‘So that’s where … goblin.’
1.11.042 {p} Over the hedge … spat.
1.11.043 {p} ‘Morning, Longshanks!’ he … answer.
1.11.044 {p} ‘Morning, my little … again.
1.11.045 {p} Sam turned quickly. … on.
1.11.046 {ps} At last they … beyond.
1.11.047 {p} After the Road … Strider.
1.11.048 {p} ‘Not a “short … disaster.’
1.11.049 {p} ‘Ah, but you … valley.
1.11.050 {p} His plan, as … encouraging.
1.11.051 {p} However, in the … pursuit.
1.11.052 {p} ‘Bill Ferny will … better.’
1.11.053 {ps} Whether because of … Marshes.
1.11.054 {p} The ground now … hair.
1.11.055 {p} ‘I am being … water!’
1.11.056 {p} ‘What do they … neck.
1.11.057 {p} They spent a … frantic.
1.11.058 {p} The next day, … them.
1.11.059 {p} As Frodo lay, … off.
1.11.060 {p} ‘What is the … night.
1.11.061 {p} ‘I do not … hill-tops.’
1.11.062 {p} Frodo lay down … sleep.
1.11.063 {ps} They had not … summit.
1.11.064 {p} ‘That is Weathertop,’ … so.’
1.11.065 {p} ‘What do you … Frodo.
1.11.066 {p} ‘I mean: when … Road.’
1.11.067 {p} ‘But surely we … there?’
1.11.068 {p} ‘Yes; but the … are.’
1.11.069 {p} The hobbits looked … said.
1.11.070 {p} ‘What do you … Frodo.
1.11.071 {p} ‘I think,’ answered … see.’
1.11.072 {ps} All that day … away.
1.11.073 {p} At the day’s … land.
1.11.074 {p} Next morning they … been.
1.11.075 {p} ‘Very odd,’ said … wraith.’
1.11.076 {p} ‘Do not speak … earnestness.
1.11.077 {ps} The hills drew … Bree.
1.11.078 {p} In the morning … hedge.
1.11.079 {p} ‘I wonder who … Weathertop?’
1.11.080 {p} ‘No. There is … Alliance.’
1.11.081 {p} The hobbits gazed … murmured:
1.11.082 {lg} Gil-galad was an … Sea.
1.11.083 {lg} His sword was … shield.
1.11.084 {lg} But long ago … are.
1.11.085 {p} The others turned … Sam’s.
1.11.086 {p} ‘Don’t stop!’ said Merry.
1.11.087 {p} ‘That’s all I … said.’
1.11.088 {p} ‘He did not … that.’
1.11.089 {p} ‘There was a … myself!’
1.11.090 {p} ‘Going to Mordor!’ … that!’
1.11.091 {p} ‘Do not speak … Strider.
1.11.092 {ps} It was already … him.
1.11.093 {p} On the western … rocky.
1.11.094 {p} On the top … thing.
1.11.095 {p} Standing upon the … clouds.
1.11.096 {p} ‘Well, here we … here.’
1.11.097 {p} ‘I wonder,’ said … marks?’
1.11.098 {p} On the flat … said.
1.11.099 {p} ‘The stroke on … sometimes.’
1.11.100 {p} ‘What could they … Merry.
1.11.101 {p} ‘I should say,’ … wary.’
1.11.102 {p} ‘I wish we … us.’
1.11.103 {p} ‘Perhaps,’ said Strider. … can.’
1.11.104 {p} ‘How far is … Weathertop.
1.11.105 {p} ‘I don’t know … Road.’
1.11.106 {p} ‘A fortnight!’ said … time.’
1.11.107 {p} ‘It may,’ said Strider.
1.11.108 {p} They stood for … arm.
1.11.109 {p} ‘Look,’ he said, … downwards.
1.11.110 {p} At once Strider … alongside.
1.11.111 {p} ‘What is it?’ … whispered.
1.11.112 {p} ‘I do not … Strider.
1.11.113 {p} Slowly they crawled … hill.
1.11.114 {p} ‘Yes,’ said Strider, … here!’
1.11.115 {p} Hastily they crept … companions.
1.11.116 {ps} Sam and Peregrin … stacked.
1.11.117 {p} ‘I wonder if … seems.’
1.11.118 {p} Strider was greatly … footprints.
1.11.119 {p} ‘It is just … thought.
1.11.120 {p} Each of the … away.
1.11.121 {p} ‘Hadn’t we better … somehow.’
1.11.122 {p} ‘Yes, we certainly … miles.’
1.11.123 {p} ‘Can the Riders … move.’
1.11.124 {p} ‘I was too … them.’
1.11.125 {p} ‘Is there no … me!’
1.11.126 {p} Strider laid his … wilderness.’
1.11.127 {p} ‘Maybe,’ muttered Sam. … shouting.’
1.11.128 {ps} Down in the … strangers.
1.11.129 {p} ‘I don’t see … more.’
1.11.130 {p} ‘There is food … house!’
1.11.131 {p} The cold increased … pipe.
1.11.132 {p} As night fell … lore.
1.11.133 {p} ‘Tell us of … of?’
1.11.134 {p} ‘I do indeed,’ … fire.
1.11.135 {p} ‘I know only … of—’
1.11.136 {p} ‘No!’ said Strider … full.’
1.11.137 {p} ‘Then tell us … close.’
1.11.138 {p} ‘I will tell … softly:
1.11.139 {lg} The leaves were … glimmering.
1.11.140 {lg} There Beren came … following.
1.11.141 {lg} Enchantment healed his … listening.
1.11.142 {lg} He heard there … wavering.
1.11.143 {lg} He sought her … quivering.
1.11.144 {lg} When winter passed, … untroubling.
1.11.145 {lg} Again she fled, … glistening.
1.11.146 {lg} As Beren looked … glimmering.
1.11.147 {lg} Long was the … sorrowless.
1.11.148 {p} Strider sighed and … Westernesse.’
1.11.149 {p} As Strider was … faded.
1.11.150 {p} The story ended. … late.’
1.11.151 {p} The others looked … light.
1.11.152 {p} Sam and Merry … dell.
1.11.153 {p} ‘I don’t know … slope.’
1.11.154 {p} ‘Did you see … feet.
1.11.155 {p} ‘No, sir. I … look.’
1.11.156 {p} ‘I saw something,’ … way.’
1.11.157 {p} ‘Keep close to … hands!’
1.11.158 {p} For a breathless … aloud.
1.11.159 {p} ‘Hush!’ whispered Strider. … moment.
1.11.160 {p} Over the lip … advanced.
1.11.161 {p} Terror overcame Pippin … hand.
1.11.162 {p} Immediately, though everything … Frodo.
1.11.163 {p} At that moment … it.