LR 3.06 The King of the Golden Hall

3.06.000 {h} The King of the Golden Hall
3.06.001 {p} They rode on … day.
3.06.002 {p} Hours passed and … West.
3.06.003 {ps} A bitter chill … ahead.
3.06.004 {p} ‘Look!’ he cried, … gold.
3.06.005 {p} ‘Speak, Legolas!’ said … us!’
3.06.006 {p} Legolas gazed ahead, … asleep.’
3.06.007 {p} ‘Edoras those courts … seat.’
3.06.008 {ps} The morning was … uplands.
3.06.009 {p} At the foot … turf.
3.06.010 {p} ‘Look!’ said Gandalf. … sleep.’
3.06.011 {p} ‘Seven mounds upon … built.’
3.06.012 {p} ‘Five hundred times … us.’
3.06.013 {p} ‘But to the … it.
3.06.014 {p} ‘That, I guess, … Men.’
3.06.015 {p} ‘It runs thus … it.
3.06.016 {lg} Where now the … returning?
3.06.017 {p} Thus spoke a … evening.’
3.06.018 {p} With these words … Edoras.
3.06.019 {p} There sat many … Gandalf.
3.06.020 {p} ‘Well do I … answered?’
3.06.021 {p} ‘It is the … swift!’
3.06.022 {p} ‘We are no … coming?’
3.06.023 {p} A troubled look … gates.’
3.06.024 {p} ‘Wormtongue?’ said Gandalf, … man.
3.06.025 {p} ‘Yes, I will … deem.’
3.06.026 {p} ‘Well do you … hall.’
3.06.027 {p} ‘Strange names you … comrades.
3.06.028 {p} After some time … them.’
3.06.029 {ps} The dark gates … men.
3.06.030 {ps} ‘There are the … you!’
3.06.031 {p} He turned and … tongue.
3.06.032 {p} ‘Hail, comers from … Speech.
3.06.033 {p} ‘I am the … enter.’
3.06.034 {p} Then Legolas gave … me.’
3.06.035 {p} Wonder came into … said.
3.06.036 {p} Aragorn stood a … man.’
3.06.037 {p} ‘It is the … Háma.
3.06.038 {p} ‘It is not … Gondor.’
3.06.039 {p} ‘This is the … strangers.
3.06.040 {p} ‘This is idle … wisdom.’
3.06.041 {p} ‘Truly,’ said Aragorn. … Andúril.’
3.06.042 {p} ‘Whatever its name … Edoras.’
3.06.043 {p} ‘Not alone!’ said … alone!’
3.06.044 {p} ‘Come, come!’ said … Aragorn!’
3.06.045 {p} Slowly Aragorn unbuckled … heir.’
3.06.046 {p} The guard stepped … command.’
3.06.047 {p} ‘Well,’ said Gimli, … master.’
3.06.048 {p} The guard still … doors.’
3.06.049 {p} ‘Foolishness!’ said Gandalf. … me.’
3.06.050 {p} Aragorn laughed. ‘Every … enter?’
3.06.051 {p} ‘The staff in … in.’
3.06.052 {ps} The guards now … knees.
3.06.053 {p} ‘Behold Eorl the … Celebrant.’
3.06.054 {ps} Now the four … eyes.
3.06.055 {p} There was a … destroyed.’
3.06.056 {p} Slowly the old … indeed.
3.06.057 {p} ‘I greet you,’ … chair.
3.06.058 {p} ‘You speak justly, … eyes.
3.06.059 {p} ‘You are held … need.’
3.06.060 {p} ‘That is so,’ … four!’
3.06.061 {p} ‘The courtesy of … hall.’
3.06.062 {p} ‘Then it is … Dwimordene.’
3.06.063 {p} Gimli strode a … stone.
3.06.064 {lg} In Dwimordene, in … Men.
3.06.065 {p} Thus Gandalf softly … voice.
3.06.066 {p} ‘The wise speak … falls.’
3.06.067 {p} He raised his … hearth.
3.06.068 {p} In the gloom … face.
3.06.069 {ps} ‘Now Théoden son … promptings.’
3.06.070 {p} Slowly Théoden left … knocked.
3.06.071 {p} ‘Open!’ he cried. … forth!’
3.06.072 {p} The doors rolled … hill.
3.06.073 {p} ‘Send your guards … him.’
3.06.074 {p} ‘Go, Éowyn sister-daughter!’ … past.’
3.06.075 {p} The woman turned … gone.
3.06.076 {p} ‘Now, lord,’ said … again!’
3.06.077 {p} From the porch … glass.
3.06.078 {p} ‘It is not … Théoden.
3.06.079 {p} ‘No,’ said Gandalf. … prop!’
3.06.080 {p} From the king’s … sky.
3.06.081 {p} ‘Dark have been … done?’
3.06.082 {p} ‘Much,’ said Gandalf. … Wormtongue?’
3.06.083 {p} ‘It is true,’ … hall.’
3.06.084 {p} ‘A man may … Gandalf.
3.06.085 {p} ‘That may be. … return.
3.06.086 {ps} When Háma had … nearby.
3.06.087 {p} ‘There is no … guessed.’
3.06.088 {p} Quickly now Gandalf … East.
3.06.089 {p} ‘Verily,’ said Gandalf, … while.’
3.06.090 {p} The others too … flame.
3.06.091 {p} Slowly Théoden sat … hands.
3.06.092 {p} ‘Your fingers would … Gandalf.
3.06.093 {p} Théoden rose and … breath.
3.06.094 {p} ‘Take this, dear … master.
3.06.095 {p} ‘How comes this?’ … stick?
3.06.096 {p} ‘It is my … me.’
3.06.097 {p} ‘To lay at … Éomer.
3.06.098 {p} For a moment … moved.
3.06.099 {p} ‘Will you not … Gandalf.
3.06.100 {p} Slowly Théoden stretched … arms.
3.06.101 {lg} Arise now, arise, … Eorlingas!
3.06.102 {ps} The guards, thinking … said.
3.06.103 {p} ‘Westu Théoden hál!’ … grief!’
3.06.104 {p} ‘Take back your … counsel?’
3.06.105 {p} ‘You have yourself … stake.’
3.06.106 {p} ‘This counsel seems … eaten.’
3.06.107 {p} ‘Nay, lord,’ said … together.’
3.06.108 {p} ‘Now indeed there … Éomer.
3.06.109 {p} ‘Hope, yes,’ said … hills!’
3.06.110 {p} ‘Nay, Gandalf!’ said … better.’
3.06.111 {p} ‘Then even the … Eorlingas!’
3.06.112 {p} ‘But your people … place?’
3.06.113 {p} ‘I will take … counsellor.’
3.06.114 {ps} At that moment … gems.
3.06.115 {p} ‘Here, lord, is … missed.’
3.06.116 {p} ‘You lie,’ said … keeping.’
3.06.117 {p} ‘And he now … you?’
3.06.118 {p} ‘Assuredly not, lord,’ … it?’
3.06.119 {p} ‘I will,’ said … noon!’
3.06.120 {p} ‘Dear lord!’ cried … Mark?’
3.06.121 {p} ‘If this is … sword.’
3.06.122 {p} ‘Mercy, lord!’ whined … away!’
3.06.123 {p} ‘You have my … faith.’
3.06.124 {p} Wormtongue looked from … hopeful.’
3.06.125 {p} Éomer laughed. ‘And … it?’
3.06.126 {p} ‘Nay, Éomer, you … steps.’
3.06.127 {p} Éomer grasped his … hand.
3.06.128 {p} ‘Éowyn is safe … service.’
3.06.129 {p} ‘You lie,’ said Wormtongue.
3.06.130 {p} ‘That word comes … him.’
3.06.131 {p} ‘Do you hear … merciful.’
3.06.132 {p} Slowly Wormtongue rose. … stair.
3.06.133 {p} ‘After him!’ said … it.’
3.06.134 {p} ‘And if any … Éomer.
3.06.135 {p} One of the … defiled.
3.06.136 {ps} ‘Now my guests, … allows.’
3.06.137 {p} They passed back … assembled.
3.06.138 {p} At the king’s … Saruman.
3.06.139 {p} ‘How far back … keeping.
3.06.140 {p} ‘But when I … destruction?’
3.06.141 {p} ‘I owe much … tongue.’
3.06.142 {p} ‘Say also,’ said … face.’
3.06.143 {p} ‘Indeed my eyes … sword!’
3.06.144 {p} ‘Whether I came … us.’
3.06.145 {p} ‘You choose well,’ … well!’
3.06.146 {ps} Now men came … Eorl.
3.06.147 {p} ‘May it keep … boy.’
3.06.148 {p} Gimli bowed. ‘I … fight.’
3.06.149 {p} ‘It may well … Théoden.
3.06.150 {p} The king now … coming!’
3.06.151 {p} Théoden drank from … smile.
3.06.152 {p} When they had … nearby.
3.06.153 {p} ‘Behold! I go … stay?’
3.06.154 {p} No man spoke.
3.06.155 {p} ‘Is there none … trust?’
3.06.156 {p} ‘In the House … Háma.
3.06.157 {p} ‘But Éomer I … House.’
3.06.158 {p} ‘I said not … gone.’
3.06.159 {p} ‘It shall be … them!’
3.06.160 {p} Then the king … escape.’
3.06.161 {p} ‘Speak not so!’ … nearby.
3.06.162 {p} ‘The king shall … us.’
3.06.163 {ps} The king now … sun.
3.06.164 {p} Gimli walked with … saddlebow.’
3.06.165 {p} ‘A safer seat … rider.’
3.06.166 {p} ‘And a Dwarf … axe.
3.06.167 {p} At the gate … horse.
3.06.168 {p} ‘Hail, Gimli Glóin’s … Wood.’
3.06.169 {p} ‘I will forget … end.’
3.06.170 {p} ‘So be it!’ … will.’
3.06.171 {p} ‘I thank you … us.’
3.06.172 {p} ‘It shall be … us!’
3.06.173 {p} ‘Where is Shadowfax?’ … Gandalf.
3.06.174 {p} ‘Running wild over … willows.’
3.06.175 {p} Gandalf whistled and … arrow.
3.06.176 {p} ‘Were the breath … wizard.
3.06.177 {p} ‘The gift seems … horses.’
3.06.178 {p} ‘I thank you, … sun.
3.06.179 {p} ‘Behold the White … words.
3.06.180 {p} ‘Our King and … Eorlingas!’
3.06.181 {p} The trumpets sounded. … West.
3.06.182 {p} Far over the … house.