LR 5.04 The Siege of Gondor

5.04.000 {h} The Siege of Gondor
5.04.001 {p} Pippin was roused … thunder.
5.04.002 {p} ‘What is the … yawning.
5.04.003 {p} ‘Past the second … duties.’
5.04.004 {p} ‘And will he … breakfast?’
5.04.005 {p} ‘No! I have … order.’
5.04.006 {p} Pippin looked ruefully … said.
5.04.007 {p} ‘You know quite … more.
5.04.008 {ps} Before long he … him:
5.04.009 {p} ‘Well, Master Peregrin, … wish.’
5.04.010 {p} Pippin had an … answer.
5.04.011 {p} ‘What would you … service?’
5.04.012 {p} ‘I thought, sir, … duties.’
5.04.013 {p} ‘I will, when … sing?’
5.04.014 {p} ‘Yes,’ said Pippin. … course.’
5.04.015 {p} ‘And why should … thankless.’
5.04.016 {p} Pippin’s heart sank. … abroad.
5.04.017 {p} Presently Denethor waved … clad!’
5.04.018 {p} It was as … spirits.
5.04.019 {p} It was dark … storm.
5.04.020 {ps} About the eleventh … before.
5.04.021 {p} It was the … drear.
5.04.022 {p} Already it seemed … Guard.
5.04.023 {p} In some other … sighed.
5.04.024 {p} ‘You are weary … Beregond.
5.04.025 {p} ‘Yes,’ said Pippin, … East?’
5.04.026 {p} ‘Nay,’ said Beregond, … Darkness?’
5.04.027 {p} ‘Yes,’ said Pippin, … news.’
5.04.028 {ps} Suddenly as they … despair.
5.04.029 {p} At last Beregond … below.’
5.04.030 {p} Reluctantly Pippin climbed … away.
5.04.031 {p} ‘Black Riders!’ muttered … us!’
5.04.032 {p} Another long screech … note.
5.04.033 {p} ‘Faramir! The Lord … Faramir!’
5.04.034 {p} With that Beregond … calling.
5.04.035 {p} ‘Gandalf!’ he cried. … encouragement.
5.04.036 {p} But now the … dark.
5.04.037 {p} Pippin watched, and … walls.
5.04.038 {p} It was not … man.
5.04.039 {p} Pippin pressed forward … wings.
5.04.040 {p} ‘Faramir!’ he cried … amazed.
5.04.041 {p} ‘Whence come you?’ … Whence…?’
5.04.042 {p} But with that … us!’
5.04.043 {ps} So at length … said.
5.04.044 {p} When Faramir had … renown.
5.04.045 {p} Then suddenly Faramir … Southlands.’
5.04.046 {p} At that Gandalf … seen.
5.04.047 {p} As his story … up.
5.04.048 {p} ‘Cirith Ungol? Morgul … valley?’
5.04.049 {p} ‘I parted with … keeping.’
5.04.050 {p} Gandalf paced the … parted?’
5.04.051 {p} ‘Some twenty-five leagues … father.
5.04.052 {p} ‘Ill?’ cried Denethor, … keeping.
5.04.053 {p} ‘My son, your … Boromir!’
5.04.054 {p} ‘If what I … me.’
5.04.055 {p} ‘Would that have … death.’
5.04.056 {p} ‘So be it,’ … Faramir.
5.04.057 {p} ‘So be it!’ … gone.’
5.04.058 {p} ‘Do you wish … exchanged?’
5.04.059 {p} ‘Yes, I wish … gift.’
5.04.060 {p} For a moment … him.’
5.04.061 {p} ‘Stir not the … me!’
5.04.062 {p} ‘Comfort yourself!’ said … son.’
5.04.063 {p} The face of … deem.’
5.04.064 {p} ‘What then is … Gandalf.
5.04.065 {p} ‘Enough to perceive … madness.’
5.04.066 {p} ‘And the Lord … done?’
5.04.067 {p} ‘Neither. But most … dead.’
5.04.068 {p} ‘You think, as … slaves.’
5.04.069 {p} ‘And where will … yet.’
5.04.070 {p} ‘Nonetheless I do … us.’
5.04.071 {p} For a moment … shoulders.
5.04.072 {p} ‘If I had! … Osgiliath?’
5.04.073 {p} ‘It is not … said.’
5.04.074 {p} ‘Not enough, I … there.’
5.04.075 {p} ‘There and elsewhere … chair.
5.04.076 {p} ‘You are weary, … told.’
5.04.077 {p} ‘Let us not … Faramir.
5.04.078 {p} ‘Then we will … sterner.’
5.04.079 {ps} All now took … hand.
5.04.080 {p} ‘Tell me,’ he … Frodo.’
5.04.081 {p} Gandalf put his … him.’
5.04.082 {p} Gandalf stood for … may!’
5.04.083 {p} ‘But,’ said Pippin.
5.04.084 {p} ‘But what?’ said … tonight.’
5.04.085 {p} ‘Gollum,’ said Pippin. … wrong?’
5.04.086 {p} ‘I cannot answer … night!’
5.04.087 {ps} The next day … wept.
5.04.088 {p} And now Faramir … Rohan?’
5.04.089 {p} In truth Faramir … wait.
5.04.090 {p} ‘Yet,’ said Denethor, … passage.’
5.04.091 {p} ‘That was but … force.’
5.04.092 {p} ‘And what of … passage.’
5.04.093 {p} ‘Much must be … will.’
5.04.094 {p} Then all were … it.’
5.04.095 {p} ‘I do so,’ … Denethor.
5.04.096 {p} ‘Then farewell!’ said … me!’
5.04.097 {p} ‘That depends on … Denethor.
5.04.098 {p} Gandalf it was … Farewell!’
5.04.099 {ps} So now the … said.
5.04.100 {p} ‘Yes, he will … Edoras.’
5.04.101 {ps} It was night … River.’
5.04.102 {p} With those ill-boding … long.
5.04.103 {ps} The next day, … outnumbered.
5.04.104 {p} ‘If he wins … bidding.’
5.04.105 {p} ‘Then I am … eastward.
5.04.106 {ps} The bells of … heard.
5.04.107 {p} ‘They have taken … coming!’
5.04.108 {p} ‘Where is Faramir?’ … fallen!’
5.04.109 {p} It was Gandalf … away.
5.04.110 {p} ‘Is Faramir come?’ … asked.
5.04.111 {p} ‘No,’ said Gandalf. … feared.’
5.04.112 {p} ‘Not – the … terror.
5.04.113 {p} Denethor laughed bitterly. … brand.’
5.04.114 {p} He stood up … timid.’
5.04.115 {p} ‘Yet now under … despair.’
5.04.116 {p} ‘Then, Mithrandir, you … overmatched?’
5.04.117 {p} Pippin trembled, fearing … before.
5.04.118 {p} ‘Nay, I came … horsemen.’
5.04.119 {p} ‘And we also … Denethor.
5.04.120 {p} ‘We are likely … north-east.’
5.04.121 {p} ‘Some have accused … down.’
5.04.122 {ps} Time passed. At … Osgiliath.
5.04.123 {p} ‘The enemy,’ men … folk?’
5.04.124 {p} It drew now … together.
5.04.125 {p} The watchers held … yet.’
5.04.126 {ps} Now the main … kill.
5.04.127 {p} The retreat became … ground.
5.04.128 {p} And then a … head.
5.04.129 {p} ‘Amroth for Gondor!’ … Faramir!’
5.04.130 {p} Like thunder they … hand.
5.04.131 {p} The Nazgûl screeched … on.
5.04.132 {p} But Denethor did … he?
5.04.133 {p} Last of all … field.
5.04.134 {p} ‘Faramir! Faramir!’ men … lay.
5.04.135 {p} The Prince Imrahil … son’s.
5.04.136 {ps} So now at … morning.
5.04.137 {p} ‘There is no … come.’
5.04.138 {ps} The Gate was … red.
5.04.139 {p} Busy as ants … work.
5.04.140 {p} At first men … stood.
5.04.141 {p} ‘Nay,’ they said, … come.’
5.04.142 {p} But the engines … down.
5.04.143 {p} Soon there was … hills.
5.04.144 {p} In vain men … despair.
5.04.145 {p} The Nazgûl came … death.
5.04.146 {ps} During all this … defence.
5.04.147 {p} No hours so … wrath.
5.04.148 {p} ‘Do not weep, … Gandalf?’
5.04.149 {p} ‘Comfort me not … ruinous.
5.04.150 {p} ‘I sent my … out.’
5.04.151 {p} Men came to … stay.’
5.04.152 {ps} So it was … years.
5.04.153 {p} And yet – … gate.
5.04.154 {ps} Far behind the … dark.
5.04.155 {ps} Messengers came again … silently.
5.04.156 {p} ‘The first circle … unmanned.’
5.04.157 {p} ‘Why? Why do … burn!’
5.04.158 {p} The messengers without … fled.
5.04.159 {p} Now Denethor stood … him.
5.04.160 {p} ‘Farewell!’ he said. … Farewell!’
5.04.161 {p} ‘I will not … me.’
5.04.162 {p} ‘Do as you … Faramir.
5.04.163 {ps} Pippin left him … Pippin.
5.04.164 {p} Out from the … Tree.
5.04.165 {p} All was silent, … Stewards.
5.04.166 {p} A porter sat … burden.
5.04.167 {p} There Pippin, staring … voice.
5.04.168 {p} ‘Here we will … Farewell!’
5.04.169 {p} ‘By your leave, … madmen.’
5.04.170 {p} At the door … comes!’
5.04.171 {p} ‘Who is the … Wanderer?’
5.04.172 {p} ‘The Grey Wanderer … Beregond.
5.04.173 {p} ‘Whither do you … cried.
5.04.174 {p} ‘To find Mithrandir,’ … answered.
5.04.175 {p} ‘The Lord’s errands … him.’
5.04.176 {p} ‘Yes,’ said Pippin, … Street.’
5.04.177 {p} Beregond bowed his … dead.’
5.04.178 {p} ‘No,’ said Pippin, … once.’
5.04.179 {p} ‘Then you must … battle.’
5.04.180 {p} ‘I know. The … happening.’
5.04.181 {p} ‘The Lord does … command.’
5.04.182 {p} ‘Well, you must … can.’
5.04.183 {p} He ran on, … shadow.
5.04.184 {ps} Ever since the … wall.
5.04.185 {p} The drums rolled … it.
5.04.186 {p} But about the … up.
5.04.187 {p} Grond crawled on. … place.
5.04.188 {p} Grond crawled on. … still.
5.04.189 {p} The drums rolled … stroke.
5.04.190 {p} Then the Black … stone.
5.04.191 {p} Thrice he cried. … ground.
5.04.192 {ps} In rode the … face.
5.04.193 {p} All save one. … Dínen.
5.04.194 {p} ‘You cannot enter … Go!’
5.04.195 {p} The Black Rider … laughter.
5.04.196 {p} ‘Old fool!’ he … blade.
5.04.197 {ps} Gandalf did not … dawn.
5.04.198 {p} And as if … last.