LR 3.08 The Road to Isengard

3.08.000 {h} The Road to Isengard
3.08.001 {p} So it was … wood.
3.08.002 {p} Suddenly there was … strong.
3.08.003 {p} ‘Forty-two, Master Legolas!’ … you?’
3.08.004 {p} ‘You have passed … legs!’
3.08.005 {p} ‘Welcome, Éomer, sister-son!’ … indeed.’
3.08.006 {p} ‘Hail, Lord of … said.
3.08.007 {p} ‘Unlooked-for?’ said Gandalf. … here.’
3.08.008 {p} ‘But you did … White!’
3.08.009 {p} ‘That may be. … night.’
3.08.010 {p} Then they all … his.
3.08.011 {p} Gandalf laughed long … proved.’
3.08.012 {p} ‘Then if not … learn?’
3.08.013 {p} ‘It is not … rang.
3.08.014 {lg} Ere iron was … ago.’
3.08.015 {p} ‘And what may … Théoden.
3.08.016 {p} ‘If you would … Gandalf.
3.08.017 {p} ‘To Isengard?’ they cried.
3.08.018 {p} ‘Yes,’ said Gandalf. … things.’
3.08.019 {p} ‘But there are … Théoden.
3.08.020 {p} ‘Nevertheless to Isengard … moon!’
3.08.021 {p} ‘Nay!’ said Théoden. … counsel.’
3.08.022 {p} ‘I wish to … ride?’
3.08.023 {p} ‘My men are … Gandalf.’
3.08.024 {p} ‘Then let all … fight.’
3.08.025 {p} The King then … behind.
3.08.026 {p} ‘It was only … back.’
3.08.027 {p} ‘I will tend … Aragorn.
3.08.028 {ps} The king now … Deep.
3.08.029 {p} No Orcs remained … mercy.
3.08.030 {p} The Men of … work.
3.08.031 {p} ‘Help now to … been.’
3.08.032 {p} The men of … alive.
3.08.033 {p} In the midst … Gate.
3.08.034 {p} The Orcs were … peril.
3.08.035 {p} ‘Let the Orcs … counsel.’
3.08.036 {ps} In the afternoon … meet.’
3.08.037 {p} The sun was … them.
3.08.038 {p} The Riders came … seen.
3.08.039 {p} Legolas and Gimli … wood.
3.08.040 {p} ‘It is hot … ears?’
3.08.041 {p} ‘Yes,’ said Gandalf.
3.08.042 {p} ‘What has become … Legolas.
3.08.043 {p} ‘That, I think, … Gandalf.
3.08.044 {ps} They rode in … it.
3.08.045 {p} ‘These are the … thought.’
3.08.046 {p} ‘No, no!’ said … strangling.’
3.08.047 {p} ‘Not of all … guess.’
3.08.048 {p} ‘Then that is … it.
3.08.049 {p} ‘Strange are the … glance!’
3.08.050 {p} ‘And I would … in!’
3.08.051 {p} ‘You have not … starlight.
3.08.052 {p} ‘And, Legolas, when … them.’
3.08.053 {p} ‘Then I will … made.’
3.08.054 {p} ‘No, you do … return.’
3.08.055 {p} ‘You move me, … Deep.’
3.08.056 {p} ‘That would not … me.’
3.08.057 {p} ‘You have my … Gandalf?’
3.08.058 {p} ‘About fifteen leagues, … night.’
3.08.059 {p} ‘And when we … guess.’
3.08.060 {p} ‘I do not … behind.’
3.08.061 {ps} At last the … cry.
3.08.062 {p} ‘There are eyes!’ … before.’
3.08.063 {p} The others, surprised … back.
3.08.064 {p} ‘No, no!’ cried … eyes!’
3.08.065 {p} ‘Stay, Legolas Greenleaf!’ … time.’
3.08.066 {p} Even as he … sword-hilts.
3.08.067 {p} ‘You need no … all.’
3.08.068 {p} So it seemed … vanished.
3.08.069 {p} ‘Herdsmen!’ said Théoden. … strange.’
3.08.070 {p} ‘They are the … matter.’
3.08.071 {p} The king was … Sun.’
3.08.072 {p} ‘You should be … not.’
3.08.073 {p} ‘Yet also I … Middle-earth?’
3.08.074 {p} ‘It may,’ said … begun!’
3.08.075 {ps} The company turned … rocks.
3.08.076 {p} ‘The carrion-fowl have … Éomer.
3.08.077 {p} They rode now … place.
3.08.078 {p} The road dipped … sand.
3.08.079 {p} ‘This is become … too?’
3.08.080 {p} ‘So it would … Gandalf.
3.08.081 {p} ‘Alas!’ said Théoden. … Mark?’
3.08.082 {p} ‘This is our … Come!’
3.08.083 {p} They rode down … banks.
3.08.084 {p} ‘Look!’ said Gandalf. … here.’
3.08.085 {p} And they saw … spears.
3.08.086 {p} ‘Here lie all … Gandalf.
3.08.087 {p} ‘Here let them … Isen!’
3.08.088 {p} ‘Is this your … night!’
3.08.089 {p} ‘With the help … return.’
3.08.090 {p} ‘And glad shall … there.’
3.08.091 {p} With that the … anew.
3.08.092 {p} There was an … sky.
3.08.093 {p} ‘What do you … burning.’
3.08.094 {p} ‘There is ever … dry.’
3.08.095 {p} ‘Maybe he is,’ … can.’
3.08.096 {p} They camped beside … northward.
3.08.097 {p} ‘Stay where you … by!’
3.08.098 {p} A mist gathered … arms.
3.08.099 {ps} Away south upon … Orcs.
3.08.100 {ps} The king and … done.
3.08.101 {p} At dawn they … land.
3.08.102 {p} It was not … led.
3.08.103 {p} After they had … ahead.
3.08.104 {ps} Beneath the mountain’s … idle.
3.08.105 {p} This was its … chains.
3.08.106 {p} Many houses there … green.
3.08.107 {p} To the centre … Mind.
3.08.108 {p} A strong place … strength.
3.08.109 {p} This was the … saw.
3.08.110 {ps} Now Gandalf rode … stones.
3.08.111 {p} At last Gandalf … Isengard.
3.08.112 {p} But the doors … ruin.
3.08.113 {p} The ring beyond … feet.
3.08.114 {p} The king and … smoke.
3.08.115 {ps} For a moment … king.
3.08.116 {p} ‘Welcome, my lords, … guests.’
3.08.117 {p} ‘Doubtless he would!’ … bottle?’
3.08.118 {p} ‘No, good sir, … best.’
3.08.119 {p} ‘And what about … marvel!’
3.08.120 {p} ‘You speak for … wine.’
3.08.121 {p} ‘One thing you … comforts!’
3.08.122 {p} ‘Well-earned?’ said Gimli. … that!’
3.08.123 {p} The Riders laughed. … Holbytlan?’
3.08.124 {p} ‘Hobbits, if you … Pippin.
3.08.125 {p} ‘Hobbits?’ said Théoden. … truth.’
3.08.126 {p} Merry bowed; and … hobbits.’
3.08.127 {p} ‘My people came … said.’
3.08.128 {p} ‘It could indeed, … Merry.
3.08.129 {p} ‘For one thing,’ … mouths.’
3.08.130 {p} ‘That is not … plant…’
3.08.131 {p} ‘You do not … Merry?’
3.08.132 {p} ‘Away on the … triumphantly.
3.08.133 {p} ‘And is Orthanc … Gandalf.
3.08.134 {p} ‘There is the … stair.’
3.08.135 {p} ‘Yes, a tall … door-tree.’
3.08.136 {p} ‘It is past … mind?’
3.08.137 {p} ‘He left a … bowed.
3.08.138 {p} Gandalf laughed. ‘That … things.’
3.08.139 {p} ‘I will come … Farewell!’
3.08.140 {p} The hobbits bowed … polite.’