LR 2.03 The Ring Goes South

2.03.000 {h} The Ring Goes South
2.03.001 {p} Later that day … companion.
2.03.002 {p} ‘It’s most unfair,’ … cheek!’
2.03.003 {p} ‘Rewards!’ said Frodo. … good.’
2.03.004 {p} ‘I don’t wonder,’ … on.’
2.03.005 {p} ‘That’s what I … party.’
2.03.006 {p} ‘Then you certainly … yet.’
2.03.007 {p} ‘Nothing decided!’ cried … hours.’
2.03.008 {p} ‘Talking,’ said Bilbo. … off.’
2.03.009 {p} ‘You were wrong,’ … surprised.’
2.03.010 {p} ‘Well, anyway,’ said … Gandalf?’
2.03.011 {p} ‘Yes,’ said the … here.’
2.03.012 {p} ‘Ah!’ said Sam … come.’
2.03.013 {p} ‘That can’t be … back.
2.03.014 {lg} When winter first … fare.
2.03.015 {p} But that I … luck.’
2.03.016 {p} ‘I am afraid … Riders.’
2.03.017 {p} ‘I thought they … Merry.
2.03.018 {p} ‘You cannot destroy … you.’
2.03.019 {p} So great was … off.’
2.03.020 {p} ‘How long do … gone.
2.03.021 {p} ‘Oh, I don’t … ending?’
2.03.022 {p} ‘Yes, several, and … Frodo.
2.03.023 {p} ‘Oh, that won’t … after?’
2.03.024 {p} ‘It will do … Frodo.
2.03.025 {p} ‘Ah!’ said Sam. … wonder.’
2.03.026 {ps} For a while … song.
2.03.027 {p} So the days … valley.
2.03.028 {ps} The hobbits had … Elrond.
2.03.029 {p} In no region … North.
2.03.030 {p} ‘Eight out of … shapeless.
2.03.031 {p} ‘If that is … longer.’
2.03.032 {ps} Elrond summoned the … Ring-bearer?’
2.03.033 {p} ‘I do,’ said … Sam.’
2.03.034 {p} ‘Then I cannot … yourself.
2.03.035 {p} ‘And I will … Mordor.
2.03.036 {p} ‘The Company of … labours.
2.03.037 {p} ‘For the rest, … closely.’
2.03.038 {p} ‘Strider!’ cried Frodo.
2.03.039 {p} ‘Yes,’ he said … Frodo.’
2.03.040 {p} ‘I would have … Boromir.’
2.03.041 {p} ‘I am,’ said … man.’
2.03.042 {p} ‘There remain two … send.’
2.03.043 {p} ‘But that will … Frodo.’
2.03.044 {p} ‘That is because … Elrond.
2.03.045 {p} ‘Neither does Frodo,’ … him.’
2.03.046 {p} ‘You speak gravely,’ … going.’
2.03.047 {p} ‘Then, Master Elrond, … Company.’
2.03.048 {p} ‘Let it be … depart.’
2.03.049 {ps} The Sword of … West.
2.03.050 {p} Aragorn and Gandalf … Bilbo.
2.03.051 {p} In those last … adventures.
2.03.052 {p} On the morning … inside.
2.03.053 {p} ‘Here is your … know?’
2.03.054 {p} He took from … expect.’
2.03.055 {p} Frodo accepted it gratefully.
2.03.056 {p} ‘Also there is … crystal.
2.03.057 {p} ‘It’s a pretty … on.’
2.03.058 {p} ‘I should look … Frodo.
2.03.059 {p} ‘Just what I … voice.
2.03.060 {p} ‘Very well, I … jacket.
2.03.061 {p} ‘Just a plain … tune.
2.03.062 {p} ‘I cannot thank … Frodo.
2.03.063 {p} ‘Don’t try!’ said … softly.
2.03.064 {lg} I sit beside … been;
2.03.065 {lg} Of yellow leaves … hair.
2.03.066 {lg} I sit beside … see.
2.03.067 {lg} For still there … green.
2.03.068 {lg} I sit beside … know.
2.03.069 {lg} But all the … door.
2.03.070 {p} It was a … Rivendell.
2.03.071 {p} ‘You should fear … way.’
2.03.072 {ps} The Company took … war-horn.
2.03.073 {p} ‘Loud and clear … feet.
2.03.074 {p} ‘Slow should you … you.’
2.03.075 {p} ‘Maybe,’ said Boromir. … night.’
2.03.076 {p} Gimli the dwarf … Mountain.
2.03.077 {p} All were well … Bree.
2.03.078 {p} The stay in … come.
2.03.079 {p} ‘That animal can … depressed.
2.03.080 {ps} Their farewells had … darkness.
2.03.081 {p} Sam was standing … ebb.
2.03.082 {p} ‘Bill, my lad,’ … nothing.
2.03.083 {p} Sam eased the … all.
2.03.084 {p} ‘Rope!’ he muttered. … now.’
2.03.085 {ps} At that moment … road.’
2.03.086 {p} ‘Faithless is he … Gimli.
2.03.087 {p} ‘Maybe,’ said Elrond, … nightfall.’
2.03.088 {p} ‘Yet sworn word … Gimli.
2.03.089 {p} ‘Or break it,’ … faces!’
2.03.090 {p} ‘Good…good luck!’ cried … Farewell!’
2.03.091 {ps} Many others of … dusk.
2.03.092 {p} They crossed the … night.
2.03.093 {ps} At the Ford … Rivendell.
2.03.094 {p} Gandalf walked in … way.
2.03.095 {p} At first it … swamps.
2.03.096 {ps} They had been … sun.
2.03.097 {p} Away in the … red.
2.03.098 {p} Gandalf stood at … dangerous.’
2.03.099 {p} ‘Dangerous or not, … face.
2.03.100 {p} ‘But the mountains … night.’
2.03.101 {p} ‘No,’ said Gandalf. … them?’
2.03.102 {p} ‘Yes I did, … thing.’
2.03.103 {p} ‘I need no … Shathûr.
2.03.104 {p} ‘Only once before … Bundushathûr.
2.03.105 {p} ‘There the Misty … Nanduhirion.’
2.03.106 {p} ‘It is for … springs.’
2.03.107 {p} ‘Dark is the … soon.’
2.03.108 {p} ‘May you have … then—’
2.03.109 {p} He paused.
2.03.110 {p} ‘Yes, and where … Merry.
2.03.111 {p} ‘To the end … there.’
2.03.112 {p} ‘That is true,’ … ago.’
2.03.113 {ps} That morning they … talking.
2.03.114 {p} ‘What is the … Wind?’
2.03.115 {p} ‘No indeed,’ he … it.’
2.03.116 {p} Gandalf looked up … heard?’
2.03.117 {p} ‘I hope that … before.’
2.03.118 {p} ‘Then we must … watch.’
2.03.119 {ps} It was Sam’s … wind.
2.03.120 {p} ‘What’s that, Strider? … nearer.
2.03.121 {p} ‘Lie flat and … heard.
2.03.122 {p} Not until they … Gandalf.
2.03.123 {p} ‘Regiments of black … watched.’
2.03.124 {p} ‘And in that … right.’
2.03.125 {p} ‘Luckily our fire … again.’
2.03.126 {ps} ‘Well if that … hot.’
2.03.127 {p} ‘Well, you can … south.’
2.03.128 {p} ‘Too warm, I … reckoning.
2.03.129 {p} All that day … faded.
2.03.130 {p} Guided by Aragorn … land.
2.03.131 {p} It was the … shivered.
2.03.132 {p} ‘Did you see … ahead.
2.03.133 {p} ‘No, but I … cloud.’
2.03.134 {p} ‘It was moving … wind.’
2.03.135 {ps} Nothing further happened … blood.
2.03.136 {p} There was a … back.
2.03.137 {p} ‘Winter deepens behind … Aragorn?’
2.03.138 {p} Frodo overheard these … anxiously.
2.03.139 {p} ‘I think no … serve?’
2.03.140 {p} ‘Who knows indeed!’ … of.’
2.03.141 {p} ‘But let us … way.’
2.03.142 {p} ‘We must decide … Gandalf.
2.03.143 {p} ‘Then let us … Aragorn.
2.03.144 {ps} In the late … abandoned.
2.03.145 {p} ‘From signs that … ready.’
2.03.146 {p} ‘I will add … bear.’
2.03.147 {p} ‘And Bill could … mournfully.
2.03.148 {p} ‘Very well,’ said … death.’
2.03.149 {ps} The Company set … ravine.
2.03.150 {p} Laboriously they climbed … sleeve.
2.03.151 {p} They went on. … seen.
2.03.152 {p} ‘I don’t like … Brandywine.
2.03.153 {p} Gandalf halted. Snow … boots.
2.03.154 {p} ‘This is what … Aragorn?’
2.03.155 {p} ‘That I feared … winter.’
2.03.156 {p} ‘I wonder if … allies.’
2.03.157 {p} ‘His arm has … away.’
2.03.158 {p} ‘His arm has … Gandalf.
2.03.159 {ps} While they were … trudged.
2.03.160 {p} The Company halted … above.
2.03.161 {p} ‘We cannot go … us.’
2.03.162 {p} ‘I do call … he.’
2.03.163 {p} ‘Caradhras was called … lands.’
2.03.164 {p} ‘It matters little … Gandalf.
2.03.165 {p} ‘But what can … shivering.
2.03.166 {p} ‘Either stop where … else.’
2.03.167 {p} ‘And it is … now.’
2.03.168 {p} ‘Shelter!’ muttered Sam. … house.’
2.03.169 {ps} The Company now … clouds.
2.03.170 {p} They huddled together … buried.
2.03.171 {p} A great sleepiness … that!
2.03.172 {p} But I wanted … snow.
2.03.173 {p} ‘This will be … ourselves.’
2.03.174 {p} ‘Give them this,’ … round!’
2.03.175 {p} As soon as … louder.
2.03.176 {p} ‘What do you … us.’
2.03.177 {p} ‘You may make … no.’
2.03.178 {p} But though they … sputtered.
2.03.179 {p} ‘If there are … Anduin.’
2.03.180 {p} But the Company … wall.
2.03.181 {p} But the wood … fell.
2.03.182 {ps} The fire burned … on.
2.03.183 {p} ‘The night is … off.’
2.03.184 {p} ‘If any dawn … Gimli.
2.03.185 {p} Boromir stepped out … quieter.’
2.03.186 {p} Frodo gazed wearily … altogether.
2.03.187 {p} As the light … snow.
2.03.188 {p} Gimli looked up … better.’
2.03.189 {p} To this all … cliff.
2.03.190 {p} ‘If Gandalf would … heart.
2.03.191 {p} ‘If Elves could … snow.’
2.03.192 {p} ‘Well,’ said Boromir, … guess.’
2.03.193 {p} ‘Then let us … Aragorn.
2.03.194 {p} Aragorn was the … walking.
2.03.195 {p} Legolas watched them … Elf.’
2.03.196 {p} With that he … snow.
2.03.197 {p} ‘Farewell!’ he said … turn.
2.03.198 {ps} The others waited … again.
2.03.199 {p} An hour, maybe, … slope.
2.03.200 {p} ‘Well,’ cried Legolas … toes.’
2.03.201 {p} ‘Ah, it is … escape.’
2.03.202 {p} ‘But happily your … Elves.’
2.03.203 {p} ‘But how are … hobbits.
2.03.204 {p} ‘Have hope!’ said … you.’
2.03.205 {p} He lifted up … went.
2.03.206 {p} They came at … arrive.
2.03.207 {p} After a while … them.
2.03.208 {p} ‘Enough, enough!’ cried … broader.
2.03.209 {p} As Legolas had … before.
2.03.210 {p} The morning was … pass.
2.03.211 {p} Frodo’s legs ached. … air.
2.03.212 {p} ‘The birds again!’ … down.
2.03.213 {p} ‘That cannot be … night-fall!’
2.03.214 {p} A cold wind … them.