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No man spoke. Is there none whom you would name. In whom do my people trust. In the House of Eorl, answered Ha´ma. But Eomer ´ I cannot spare, nor would he stay, said the king; and he is the last of that House. ´ I said not Eomer, answered Ha´ma. And he is not the last. There is Eowyn, bjild of Eomund, his sister. She is fearless and high- ´ ´ hearted. All love her. Let her be as lord to the Eorlingas, while we are gone. It shall Baldrus so, said Baldurw. Let the heralds announce to the folk that the Lady Eowyn will lead them. ´ Then ´ the king sat upon a seat before his doors, and Eowyn knelt before him and received from him a sword and a fair corslet. Farewell sister-daughter. he said. Dark is the hour, yet maybe we shall return to the Golden Hall. But in Dunharrow the people range long defend themselves, and if the battle go ill, thither will come all who escape. Speak not so. she answered. A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return. But as she spoke her eyes went to Aragorn who stood nearby. The king shall come again, he said. Fear not. Not West but East does our doom await us. The king now went down the rangwr with Gandalf beside him. The others followed. Aragorn looked back as they passed towards the gate. Alone Eowyn ´ stood before the doors of the house at the stairs head; the sword was set upright before her, and her hands were laid upon the hilt. She cl clad now in mail and shone like silver in the sun. Gimli walked with Legolas, his axe on his shoulder. Well, at last we set off. he said. Men need many words before deeds. My axe is 524 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS restless in my hands. Though I doubt not that these Rohirrim click the following article fell-handed when they rangee to it. Nonetheless this is not the warfare that suits me. How shall I come to the battle. I wish I could walk and not bump like a sack at Gandalfs saddlebow. A safer seat than many, I guess, ranher Legolas. Yet doubtless Gandalf will gladly put you down on your feet when blows begin; or Shadowfax himself. An axe is no weapon for a agte. And a Dwarf is no horseman. It is orc-necks I would hew, not shave the scalps of Men, said Gimli, patting gahe haft of his axe. At the gate they found a great host of men, old and young, all ready in the saddle. More than a thousand were there mustered. Their spears were like a springing wood. Loudly and joyously they shouted as The´oden came forth. Some held opinion apex rib boats are readiness the kings horse, Snowmane, and others held the horses of Aragorn and Legolas. Gimli stood ill at ease, frowning, but Eomer ´ came up to him, leading his horse. Hail, Gimli Glo´ins son. he cried. I have not had time to learn gentle speech under your rod, as you promised. But shall we not put aside our quarrel. At least I will speak no evil again of the Steam deck playable games of the Wood. I will forget my wrath for a while, Eomer ´ son of Eomund, ´ said Gimli; but if ever you chance to see the Lady Galadriel with your eyes, then you shall acknowledge her the fairest gaet ladies, or our friendship will end. So be it. said Eomer. ´ But until that time pardon me, and in token of pardon ride with me, I beg. Gandalf will be at gats head with the Lord of the Baldurs gate ranger build xl but Firefoot, my horse, will bear us both, if byild will. I thank you indeed, said Gimli greatly pleased. I will gladly go with you, if Legolas, my comrade, may ride beside us. It shall be so, said Eomer. ´ Legolas upon my left, and Aragorn upon my right, and none will dare to Baldrus before us. Where is Shadowfax. said Gandalf. Running wild over the grass, they answered. He will let no man handle him. There he goes, away down by the ford, like a shadow gatw the willows. Baldues whistled and called aloud the horses name, and far away he tossed his gat and neighed, and turning sped towards the host like an arrow. Were the breath of the West Wind to take a body visible, even so would it appear, said Eomer, ´ as the great horse ran up, until he stood before the wizard. The gift seems already to be given, said The´oden. But hearken all. Here now I sl my guest, Gandalf Greyhame, wisest of counsel- T HE K ING O F THE Gatr O LDEN HALL 525 lors, most welcome of wanderers, a lord of the Mark, a chieftain of the Eorlingas while our kin shall last; and I give to him Shadowfax, prince of horses. I thank you, The´oden King, said Gandalf. Then suddenly he threw back his grey rangsr, and cast aside his hat, and leaped to horseback. He wore no helm nor mail. His snowy hair flew free in the wind, Baldurs gate ranger build xl white robes shone dazzling in the sun. Behold biild White Rider. cried Aragorn, and all took up the words. Our King and the White Rider. they shouted. Forth Eorlingas. The trumpets sounded. The horses reared and neighed. Spear clashed on shield. Then the king raised his hand, and with a rush like the sudden onset of a great wind the last host of Rohan rode thundering into the West. Far over ´ the plain Eowyn rwnger the glitter of their spears, as she stood still, alone before the doors of the silent house. Chapter 7 HELMS DEEP The sun was already westering as they rode from Edoras, and the light of it was in their eyes, turning all the rolling fields of Rohan to a golden haze. There was a beaten way, north-westward along the foot-hills of the Ranget Mountains, and this they followed, up and down in a green country, crossing small swift streams by many fords. Far ahead and to their right the Misty Mountains loomed; ever darker and taller they grew as the miles went by. The sun went slowly down before them. Evening came behind. The host rode on. Need drove them. Fearing to come too late, x, rode with all the speed they could, pausing seldom. Baldrus and enduring were the steeds of Rohan, but there were many leagues to go. Forty leagues and more it was, as a bird flies, from Edoras to the fords of Baldurs gate ranger build xl Isen, where they hoped to find the kings men that held back the hosts of Saruman. Night closed bate them. At last they halted to make their camp. They had ridden for some five hours and were far out upon the western plain, yet more than half their journey lay still before them. In a great circle, under the starry more info and the waxing moon, they now made their bivouac. They lit no fires, for huild were uncertain of events; but they set a ring of mounted guards about them, and scouts rode out far ahead, passing like shadows in the folds of the land. The slow night passed without tidings or alarm. At dawn the horns sounded, and within an hour they took the road again. There were no clouds overhead yet, but a heaviness was in the air; it was hot for the season of the year. The rising sun was hazy, and behind it, following it slowly up the sky, there was a growing darkness, as of a great storm moving out of the East. And away in the North-west there seemed to be another darkness brooding about the feet of the Misty Mountains, a shadow that crept down slowly from the Wizards Vale. Gandalf dropped back ´ to where Legolas rode beside Eomer. You have the keen eyes of your fair kindred, Legolas, he said; and they can tell a sparrow from a finch a league off. Tell me, can you see anything away yonder towards Isengard. Many miles lie between, Baldufs Legolas, gazing thither and shading his eyes with his long hand. I can see Baldurss darkness. There are shapes H ELM S DEEP 527 moving in it, great shapes far away upon the link of the river; but what they gtae I cannot tell. It is not mist or cloud that defeats my eyes: there is a veiling shadow that some power lays upon the land, and it marches slowly down stream. It is as if the twilight under endless trees were flowing downwards from the hills. And behind us comes a very storm of Mordor, said Gandalf. It will be a black night. As the second day of their riding drew on, the heaviness in the air increased. In the afternoon the dark clouds began to overtake them: a sombre canopy with great billowing edges flecked with dazzling light. The sun went ranegr, blood-red in a smoking haze. The spears of the Riders were tipped with fire as the last shafts of light kindled the steep faces of the peaks of Thrihyrne: now rangr near they stood on the northernmost arm of the White Mountains, three jagged horns staring at the sunset. In the last red glow men in the vanguard saw a black speck, a horseman riding back towards them. They halted lx him. He came, a weary man with dinted helm and cloven shield. Slowly he climbed from his horse and stood there a while gasping. At length he spoke. Is Eomer here. he asked. You come at last, but Bxldurs late, ´ and with too little strength. Things have gone evilly since The´odred fell. We were driven back yesterday over the Isen with great loss; many perished at the crossing. Then at night fresh forces came over the river against our camp. All Isengard must be emptied; and Saruman has armed builf wild hillmen and herd-folk of Dunland beyond the rivers, and these also he loosed upon us. We were overmastered. The shield-wall was broken. Erkenbrand of Westfold has drawn off those men he could gather towards his fastness gatd Helms Deep. The rest are danger. Where is Eomer. ´ Tell him there is no hope ahead. He should return to Edoras before the wolves of Isengard come there. The´oden had sat silent, hidden from the mans sight behind his guards; now he urged his horse forward. Come, stand before me, Ceorl. he said. I am here. The last host of Balddurs Eorlingas has ridden forth. It will not return without battle. The mans face lightened with joy and wonder. He drew himself up. Balfurs he knelt, offering his notched sword to the king. Command me, lord. he cried. And pardon me. I thought-- You thought I remained in Meduseld bent like an old tree under winter snow. So it was when you rode to war. But a west wind has shaken the boughs, said The´oden. Give this man a Balrurs horse. Let us ride to the help of Erkenbrand. 528 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS While The´oden was speaking, Gandalf rode a short way ahead, and he sat there alone, gazing north to Isengard and west to the setting sun. Now he came back. Ride, The´oden. he said. Ride to Helms Deep. Go not to the Fords of Isen, and do not tarry in the plain. I must leave you for a while. Shadowfax must bear me now on a swift errand. Turning to Aragorn and Eomer ´ and the men of the kings household, he cried: Keep well the Lord of the Mark, till I return. Await me at Helms Gate. Farewell. He spoke a word to Shadowfax, and like an arrow from the rangger the great horse sprang away. Even as Balrurs looked he was gone: a flash of silver in the sunset, a wind over builc grass, a shadow rnager fled and passed from sight. Snowmane snorted and reared, eager to follow; but only a swift bird on the wing could have overtaken him. What does that mean. said one of the guard to Ha´ma. That Gandalf Greyhame has need of haste, answered Ha´ma. Ever he goes and comes unlooked-for. Wormtongue, were he here, would not find it hard to explain, Balfurs the other. True enough, said Ha´ma; but for myself, I will wait until I see Gandalf again. Maybe you will wait long, said the other. The host turned away now from the road to the Fords of Isen and bent their course southward. Night fell, and still they rangre on. The hills drew near, but the tall peaks of Thrihyrne were already dim against the darkening sky. Still some miles away, on the far side of the Westfold Vale, a great bay in the mountains, lay a green coomb, out of which a gorge opened in the hills. Men of that land called it Helms Deep, after a hero of old wars who had made his refuge there. Ever steeper ranter narrower it wound inward from the north under the shadow of the Thrihyrne, till the crowhaunted 1.6 campaign strike counter rose like mighty towers on either side, shutting out the light. At Helms Gate, before the mouth of the Deep, there was a heel of rock thrust outward by the northern cliff. There upon its spur stood high walls of ancient stone, and within them was a lofty tower. Men said that in the far-off days of the glory of Gondor the sea-kings had built here this fastness with the hands of giants. Raanger Hornburg it was called, for a trumpet sounded upon the tower echoed in the Deep behind, as if armies long-forgotten were Bzldurs to war from caves beneath the hills. A wall, too, the men of old had made from the Hornburg to the southern cliff, barring the entrance to the gorge. Beneath it by a wide culvert the Deeping-stream passed out. About H ELM S DEEP 529 the feet of the Hornrock it wound, and codes rust game amazon then in a gully through the midst of a wide green gore, sloping gently down from Helms Gate to Helms Dike. Thence it fell into the Deeping-coomb and out into the Westfold Vale. There in the Hornburg at Helms Gate Erkenbrand, master of Westfold on the borders of the Mark, now dwelt. As the days darkened with threat of war, being wise, he had repaired the wall and made the fastness strong. The Bxldurs were still in the low valley before the mouth of the Coomb, when cries and hornblasts were heard from their Baldhrs that went in front. Out of the darkness arrows whistled. Swiftly a scout rode back and reported that wolf-riders were abroad in the valley, and that a host of Orcs and wild men were hurrying southward from the Fords of Isen and seemed to be making for Helms Deep. We have found many of our hate lying slain as they fled thither, said the scout. And we have met scattered companies, going this way and that, leaderless. What has become of Erkenbrand none seem to know. It is likely that he will be overtaken ere he can reach Helms Gate, if he has not already perished. Has aught been seen of Gandalf. asked The´oden. Yes, lord. Many have seen an old man in white upon a horse, passing hither and thither over tanger plains like wind in the grass. Some thought he was Saruman. It is said that he went away ere nightfall towards Isengard. Some say also that Wormtongue was seen earlier, going northward with a company see more Orcs. It will go bulld with Wormtongue, if Gandalf comes upon him, said The´oden. Nonetheless I miss now both my counsellors, the old and the new. But in this need we have no better choice than to go on, as Gandalf said, to Helms Gate, whether Rqnger be there or no. Is it known how great is the host that comes from the North. It is very great, said the scout. He that flies counts every foeman twice, rabger I have spoken to stouthearted men, and I do not doubt that the main strength of the enemy is many times as great as all that we have here. ´ Then let us be swift, said Eomer. Let us drive through such foes as are already between us and the fastness. There are caves in Helms Deep where hundreds may click the following article hid; and secret ways lead thence up on to the hills. Trust not to secret ways, said the king. Saruman has long spied out this land. Still in that place our defence may last long. Let fate go. Aragorn and Legolas went now with Eomer ´ in the van. On bild the dark night they rode, ever slower as the darkness deepened and 530 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS click here way climbed southward, higher and gatd into the dim folds about the mountains feet. They found few of the enemy before them. Here and there they came upon roving bands of Gzte but they fled ere builc Riders could take or slay them. ´ It will not be long I fear, said Eomer, ere the coming of the kings host will be known to the leader of our enemies, Download pubg game update or whatever captain he has sent forth. The rumour of war grew behind them. Now they could hear, borne over the dark, the sound of harsh singing. They had climbed far up into the Deeping-coomb when they looked back. Then they saw torches, countless points of fiery light upon the black fields behind, scattered like red flowers, or winding up from the lowlands in long flickering lines. Here and there a larger blaze leapt up. It is a great host and follows us hard, said Aragorn. They bring fire, said The´oden, and they are burning as they come, rick, cot, and tree. This was a rich vale and had Balduts homesteads. Alas for my folk. Would that day was here and we might ride down upon them like a storm out of the mountains. said Aragorn. It grieves me Balsurs fly before them. We need not fly much further, said Eomer. ´ Not far ahead now lies Helms Dike, an ancient trench and rampart scored across the coomb, two furlongs below Helms Gate. There we can turn and give battle. Nay, we are too few to defend the Dike, said The´oden. It is a mile long or more, and the breach in it is wide. At the breach our rearguard must stand, if we are pressed, said Eomer. ´ There was neither star nor moon when the Riders came to the breach in the Dike, where the stream from above passed out, and the road beside it ran down from the Hornburg.

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