LR 2.02 The Council of Elrond

2.02.000 {h} The Council of Elrond
2.02.001 {p} Next day Frodo … peaks.
2.02.002 {p} On a seat … council?’
2.02.003 {p} ‘I feel ready … north.
2.02.004 {p} ‘You may have … today.’
2.02.005 {ps} Suddenly as they … wanted.’
2.02.006 {p} Frodo and Bilbo … Sam.
2.02.007 {p} Gandalf led them … grave.
2.02.008 {p} Elrond was there, … saying:
2.02.009 {p} ‘Here, my friends, … urgent.’
2.02.010 {p} He then pointed … glance.
2.02.011 {p} He was cloaked … wonder.
2.02.012 {p} ‘Here,’ said Elrond, … answered.’
2.02.013 {ps} Not all that … troubled.
2.02.014 {p} ‘It is now … return.’
2.02.015 {p} Glóin sighed. ‘Moria! … south.
2.02.016 {p} ‘That was nigh … since.
2.02.017 {p} ‘Then about a … time.”
2.02.018 {p} ‘At this we … refuse?”
2.02.019 {p} ‘At that his … cloak.”
2.02.020 {p} ‘“Consider well, but … he.
2.02.021 {p} ‘“The time of … Dáin.
2.02.022 {p} ‘“For the present,” … darkness.
2.02.023 {p} ‘Heavy have the … year.
2.02.024 {p} ‘And so I … also.’
2.02.025 {p} ‘You have done … deem.
2.02.026 {p} ‘That is the … world.
2.02.027 {p} ‘Now, therefore, things … it.’
2.02.028 {ps} Then all listened … shut.
2.02.029 {p} Then through all … ceased.
2.02.030 {p} Of Númenor he … Arnor.
2.02.031 {p} Thereupon Elrond paused … so.’
2.02.032 {p} ‘You remember?’ said … ago.’
2.02.033 {p} ‘So it was … victories.
2.02.034 {p} ‘I was the … own.’
2.02.035 {p} At this the … indeed.’
2.02.036 {p} ‘Alas! yes,’ said … counsel.
2.02.037 {p} ‘“This I will … him.
2.02.038 {p} ‘Only to the … again.
2.02.039 {p} ‘Fruitless did I … lessened.
2.02.040 {p} ‘In the North … hills.
2.02.041 {p} ‘In the South … young.
2.02.042 {p} ‘But in the … walked.
2.02.043 {p} ‘So it has … part.’
2.02.044 {ps} He ceased, but … last.
2.02.045 {p} ‘Believe not that … then?
2.02.046 {p} ‘Yet that hour, … before.
2.02.047 {p} ‘Some said that … Osgiliath.
2.02.048 {p} ‘I was in … call.
2.02.049 {p} ‘In this evil … me.
2.02.050 {p} ‘In that dream … crying:
2.02.051 {lg} Seek for the … stand.
2.02.052 {p} Of these words … lay.’
2.02.053 {ps} ‘And here in … said.
2.02.054 {p} ‘And who are … cloak.
2.02.055 {p} ‘He is Aragorn … folk.’
2.02.056 {p} ‘Then it belongs … once.
2.02.057 {p} ‘It does not … while.’
2.02.058 {p} ‘Bring out the … riddle.’
2.02.059 {ps} There was a … hand.
2.02.060 {p} ‘Behold Isildur’s Bane!’ … Elrond.
2.02.061 {p} Boromir’s eyes glinted … sword?’
2.02.062 {p} ‘The words were … Gondor?’
2.02.063 {p} ‘I was not … eyes.
2.02.064 {p} Frodo felt Bilbo … out:
2.02.065 {lg} All that is … king.
2.02.066 {p} ‘Not very good … snort.
2.02.067 {p} ‘I made that … comes.’
2.02.068 {p} Aragorn smiled at … strange.
2.02.069 {p} ‘But my home, … only.
2.02.070 {p} ‘If Gondor, Boromir, … grave?
2.02.071 {p} ‘And yet less … grown.
2.02.072 {p} ‘But now the … Tirith.’
2.02.073 {p} ‘Isildur’s Bane is … messenger?’
2.02.074 {p} ‘That shall be … Elrond.
2.02.075 {p} ‘But not yet, … me.’
2.02.076 {p} ‘I had not … refreshed.’
2.02.077 {p} ‘Very well,’ said … happened.’
2.02.078 {ps} To some there … hand.
2.02.079 {p} ‘Well told, my … speak!’
2.02.080 {p} Then, less willingly … again.
2.02.081 {p} ‘Not bad,’ Bilbo … here!’
2.02.082 {p} ‘Yes, it made … Gandalf.’
2.02.083 {ps} Galdor of the … heard?’
2.02.084 {p} ‘The questions that … chief.’
2.02.085 {p} ‘Some, Galdor,’ said … much?
2.02.086 {p} ‘There is indeed … truth.
2.02.087 {p} ‘Some here will … was.
2.02.088 {p} ‘But we were … Middle-earth.
2.02.089 {p} ‘“At the worst,” … End.”’
2.02.090 {ps} Gandalf fell silent, … sighed.
2.02.091 {p} ‘There I was … less.’
2.02.092 {p} ‘We were all … on!’
2.02.093 {p} ‘From the first … done.
2.02.094 {p} ‘Time passed with … foe.
2.02.095 {p} ‘That was seventeen … Isildur.’
2.02.096 {p} ‘And I,’ said … search.’
2.02.097 {p} Then Gandalf told … heart.
2.02.098 {p} ‘“The Nine, the … read.”
2.02.099 {p} ‘What those marks … alone.
2.02.100 {p} ‘With that thought, … books.
2.02.101 {p} ‘“If indeed you … City.”
2.02.102 {p} ‘So said Denethor. … tale.’
2.02.103 {p} ‘Some in the … brother.’
2.02.104 {p} ‘But in that … therein:
2.02.105 {qt} The Great Ring … dim.
2.02.106 {p} ‘And after these … it.
2.02.107 {qt} It was hot … pain.
2.02.108 {p} ‘When I read … revealed.
2.02.109 {p} ‘At once I … guess.’
2.02.110 {p} ‘There is little … him.’
2.02.111 {p} ‘Yes, long and … wield.
2.02.112 {p} ‘And if that … read:
2.02.113 {qt} Ash nazg durbatulûk, … krimpatul.’
2.02.114 {p} The change in … ears.
2.02.115 {p} ‘Never before has … more.
2.02.116 {p} ‘And let us … betrayed:
2.02.117 {qt} One Ring to … them.
2.02.118 {p} ‘Know also, my … here.’
2.02.119 {ps} All sat silent … him?’
2.02.120 {p} ‘He is in … errand.’
2.02.121 {p} ‘Alas! alas!’ cried … escaped.’
2.02.122 {p} ‘Escaped?’ cried Aragorn. … trust?’
2.02.123 {p} ‘Not through lack … thoughts.’
2.02.124 {p} ‘You were less … halls.
2.02.125 {p} ‘Now come!’ said … Council.’
2.02.126 {p} Glóin rose and … night.
2.02.127 {p} ‘It was that … maintained.
2.02.128 {p} ‘We have failed … way.’
2.02.129 {p} ‘Well, well, he … foreseen.
2.02.130 {p} ‘And now I … gone.
2.02.131 {ps} ‘At the end … year.
2.02.132 {p} ‘“Gandalf!” he cried. … Shire.”
2.02.133 {p} ‘“Your information was … need.”
2.02.134 {p} ‘“I have an … black.”
2.02.135 {p} ‘I knew then … it.
2.02.136 {p} ‘“The Enemy must … guess.”
2.02.137 {p} ‘“What do you … I.
2.02.138 {p} ‘“I have been … Shire.”
2.02.139 {p} ‘“The Shire,” I … asked.
2.02.140 {p} ‘“Saruman the White,” … late.”
2.02.141 {p} ‘And that message … Nine.
2.02.142 {p} ‘“I will go … said.
2.02.143 {p} ‘“Then you must … off.
2.02.144 {p} ‘“Stay a moment!” … Orthanc.”
2.02.145 {p} ‘“I will do … him.
2.02.146 {ps} ‘I could not … mistake!
2.02.147 {p} ‘However, I wrote … gate.
2.02.148 {p} ‘Late one evening … it.
2.02.149 {p} ‘But I rode … finger.
2.02.150 {p} ‘“So you have … heart.
2.02.151 {p} ‘“Yes, I have … him.
2.02.152 {p} ‘“Have you indeed, … not.”
2.02.153 {p} ‘I looked at … strength.”
2.02.154 {p} ‘“That may be … Shire?”
2.02.155 {p} ‘“The Nine have … me.”
2.02.156 {p} ‘“Radagast the Brown!” … Colours!”
2.02.157 {p} ‘I looked then … bewildered.
2.02.158 {p} ‘“I liked white … said.
2.02.159 {p} ‘“White!” he sneered. … broken.”
2.02.160 {p} ‘“In which case … wisdom.”
2.02.161 {p} ‘“You need not … choice.”
2.02.162 {p} ‘He drew himself … see.
2.02.163 {p} ‘“And listen, Gandalf, … means.”
2.02.164 {p} ‘“Saruman,” I said, … ears.”
2.02.165 {p} ‘He looked at … contrived?”
2.02.166 {p} ‘He came and … eyes.
2.02.167 {p} ‘“Saruman,” I said, … offer?”
2.02.168 {p} ‘He was cold … end.”
2.02.169 {p} ‘“Until what end?”
2.02.170 {p} ‘“Until you reveal … Grey.”
2.02.171 {p} ‘“That may not … it.
2.02.172 {ps} ‘They took me … North.
2.02.173 {p} ‘That the Nine … away.’
2.02.174 {p} ‘I saw you!’ … hair.’
2.02.175 {p} Gandalf paused astonished … think.’
2.02.176 {p} ‘Then it was … thread.
2.02.177 {p} ‘At first I … me.
2.02.178 {p} ‘That was the … me.
2.02.179 {p} ‘So it was … me.
2.02.180 {p} ‘“How far can … Gwaihir.
2.02.181 {p} ‘“Many leagues,” said … burdens.”
2.02.182 {p} ‘“Then I must … before.”
2.02.183 {p} ‘“Then I will … White.
2.02.184 {p} ‘“Are the Men … faith.
2.02.185 {p} ‘“They pay a … delayed.”
2.02.186 {ps} ‘He set me … him.’
2.02.187 {p} ‘Then he must … land.’
2.02.188 {p} ‘Nor is it … ago.’
2.02.189 {p} ‘The shadow of … return?’
2.02.190 {p} ‘Not this at … old.’
2.02.191 {p} ‘True indeed!’ said … Hobbiton.
2.02.192 {p} ‘But fear grew … End.
2.02.193 {p} ‘“I can’t abide … times.
2.02.194 {p} ‘“Worst is a … innkeeper.
2.02.195 {p} ‘“Butterbur they call … spot.’
2.02.196 {p} ‘What did you … could.’
2.02.197 {p} Gandalf laughed. ‘Don’t … Strider.
2.02.198 {p} ‘“Strider!” I cried, … joy.
2.02.199 {p} ‘“Yes, sir, I … say.”
2.02.200 {p} ‘“Ass! Fool! Thrice … when.”
2.02.201 {ps} ‘So I stayed … them.
2.02.202 {p} ‘I do not … wrath.
2.02.203 {p} ‘I galloped to … old.
2.02.204 {p} ‘At sunrise I … attacked.
2.02.205 {p} ‘I reached here … indeed.
2.02.206 {p} ‘And that, Frodo, … think.
2.02.207 {p} ‘Well, the Tale … it?’
2.02.208 {ps} There was a … again.
2.02.209 {p} ‘This is grievous … roads.
2.02.210 {p} ‘The Barrow-wights we … Council.’
2.02.211 {p} ‘He would not … Gandalf.
2.02.212 {p} ‘Could we not … Ring.’
2.02.213 {p} ‘No, I should … them.’
2.02.214 {p} ‘But within those … harmless?’
2.02.215 {p} ‘No,’ said Gandalf, … enough.’
2.02.216 {p} ‘But in any … come.’
2.02.217 {p} ‘I know little … overthrown?’
2.02.218 {p} ‘I have not … they.’
2.02.219 {p} ‘Then if the … it.’
2.02.220 {p} ‘But Gandalf has … it.’
2.02.221 {p} ‘Then,’ said Glorfindel, … safe.’
2.02.222 {p} ‘Not safe for … one.’
2.02.223 {p} ‘And that we … Middle-earth.’
2.02.224 {p} ‘Long yet will … strong.’
2.02.225 {p} ‘And yet its … guard.’
2.02.226 {p} ‘Then,’ said Erestor, … us?’
2.02.227 {p} ‘None here can … Fire.’
2.02.228 {ps} Silence fell again. … spoke.
2.02.229 {p} ‘I do not … deem.
2.02.230 {p} ‘The Men of … victory!’
2.02.231 {p} ‘Alas, no,’ said … it.’
2.02.232 {p} ‘Nor I,’ said Gandalf.
2.02.233 {p} Boromir looked at … Men.’
2.02.234 {p} ‘Who can tell?’ … day.’
2.02.235 {p} ‘May the day … have.’
2.02.236 {p} ‘Then be comforted,’ … Gondor.’
2.02.237 {p} ‘Still it might … away.’
2.02.238 {p} ‘Balin will find … late.’
2.02.239 {p} ‘Ah, alas!’ cried … say?’
2.02.240 {p} The Elves returned … purpose.’
2.02.241 {p} ‘But what then … Glóin.
2.02.242 {p} ‘We know not … belief.’
2.02.243 {p} ‘Yet all the … ever.’
2.02.244 {p} ‘Thus we return … me.’
2.02.245 {p} ‘Despair, or folly?’ … reckoning.’
2.02.246 {p} ‘At least for … elsewhere.’
2.02.247 {ps} ‘Very well, very … start?’
2.02.248 {p} Boromir looked in … memories.
2.02.249 {p} ‘Of course, my … back.’
2.02.250 {p} Bilbo laughed. ‘I … they?’
2.02.251 {p} ‘The messengers who … Ring.’
2.02.252 {p} ‘Exactly! And who … dinner?’
2.02.253 {ps} No one answered. … voice.
2.02.254 {p} ‘I will take … way.’
2.02.255 {ps} Elrond raised his … struck?
2.02.256 {p} ‘But it is … them.’
2.02.257 {p} ‘But you won’t … floor.
2.02.258 {p} ‘No indeed!’ said … not.’
2.02.259 {p} Sam sat down, … head.