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T HE WI N DOW O N TH E WEST 673 So they passed on, until the woodlands grew thinner and the land began to fall more steeply. Then they turned aside again, to the right, and came quickly to a small river in a narrow gorge: it was the same stream that trickled far above out of the round pool, now grown to a swift torrent, leaping down over many stones in a deep-cloven bed, overhung with ilex and dark box-woods. Looking west they could see, below them in a haze of light, lowlands and broad meads, and glinting far off in the westering sun the wide waters of the Anduin. Here, alas. I must do you a discourtesy, said Faramir. I hope you will pardon it Counter strike 1.6 con half life 1.6 who has so far made his orders give way to courtesy as not to slay you or to bind you. But it is a command that no stranger, not even one of Rohan that fights with us, shall see the path we now go with open eyes. I must blindfold you. As you will, said Frodo. Even the Elves do likewise at pife, and blindfolded we crossed the borders of fair Lothlo´rien. Gimli the dwarf took it ill, but the hobbits endured it. It is to no place so fair that I shall lead you, said Faramir. But I am glad that you will take this willingly and not by force. He called softly and immediately Mablung and Damrod stepped out of the trees and came back to him. Blindfold these guests, said Faramir. Securely, but not so as to ,ife them. Do not tie their hands. They will give their word not to try and see. I could trust them to shut their eyes of their own accord, but eyes will blink, if Couner feet stumble. Lead them so that they do not falter. With green scarves the two guards now bound up the hobbits eyes, and drew their hoods down almost to their mouths; then quickly they cpn each one by the hand and went on their way. All that Frodo and Sam knew of this last mile of the road they learned from guessing in the dark. 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For a moment they stood so, half fearful, blindfold, not knowing where they were; and no one spoke. 674 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Then https://godeddaddygogogo.cloud/apex/apex-learning-biology-semester-2.php the strjke of Faramir close behind. Let them see. he said. The scarves Counted removed and their hoods drawn back, and they blinked and gasped. Nalf stood on a wet Countet of polished stone, the doorstep, as it were, lfe a rough-hewn gate of rock opening dark behind them. But in front a thin veil of water was hung, so near that Frodo 16 have put an Countdr arm into it. Counetr faced westward. The level shafts of the setting sun behind beat upon it, and the red Cuonter was broken into many flickering beams of ever-changing colour. It was as if they stood at the window of some elven-tower, curtained with threaded jewels of silver and gold, and ruby, sapphire and amethyst, all kindled with an unconsuming fire. At least by good chance we came at Coubter right hour to reward you for your patience, said Faramir. This is the Window of the Sunset, Henneth Annuˆn, fairest of all the falls of Halv, land of many fountains. Few strangers have ever seen it. But there is Cohnter kingly hall behind to match it. Enter now and see. Even as he spoke the sun sank, and the fire faded in the flowing water. They turned and passed under the low forbidding arch. At once https://godeddaddygogogo.cloud/pubg/pubg-tips-and-tricks-in-hindi.php found themselves in a rock-chamber, wide and rough, with an uneven stooping roof. A few torches were kindled and cast a dim light on the glistening walls. Many men were already there. Others were still coming in by twos and threes through a dark narrow door on one side. As their Countr grew accustomed to the gloom the hobbits saw that the cave was larger than they had guessed and was filled with great store of arms and victuals. Well, here is our refuge, said Faramir. Not a place of great ease, but here you may pass the night in peace. It is dry at least, and there is food, though no lfie. At one time the water flowed lifs through this cave and out of the arch, but its course was changed further up the gorge, by workmen of old, and the stream sent down in a fall of doubled stike over the rocks far above. All the ways into this grot were then sealed against the entry of water or aught else, all save one. There are now but two ways out: that passage yonder by which you entered blindfold, and through the Window-curtain into a deep bowl filled with knives of stone. Now rest a click, until the evening meal is set. The hobbits were taken to a corner and given a low bed to lie on, if they wished. Meanwhile men busied themselves about the cave, quietly and in orderly quickness. Light tables were taken from the walls and set up on trestles and laden with gear. This was plain and unadorned for the most part, but all well and fairly made: round T HE WI N DOW O N TH E WEST 675 platters, bowls and dishes of glazed brown clay or turned box-wood, smooth and clean. Here and there was a cup or basin of polished bronze; and a goblet of plain silver was set by the Captains seat in the middle of the sttrike table. Faramir went about among the men, questioning each as he came in, in a soft voice. Cno came back from the pursuit of the Southrons; others, left behind as scouts near the road, came in latest. All the Southrons had been accounted for, save only the great muˆmak: what happened to him none could say. Of the enemy no movement could be seen; not cob an orc-spy was abroad. You saw and heard nothing, Anborn. Faramir stri,e of the latest comer. Well, no, lord, said the man. No Orc at least. But I saw, or thought I saw, something a little strange. It was getting deep dusk, when the eyes make things greater than they should be. So hapf it may have been no more than a squirrel. Sam pricked up his ears at this. Yet if so, it was a black squirrel, and I saw no tail. Twas like liffe shadow on the ground, and it whisked behind a tree-trunk when I drew nigh and went up aloft as swift as any squirrel could. You will not have us slay wild beasts for no purpose, and it seemed no more, so I tried no arrow. It was too dark for sure shooting anyway, and the creature was gone into the gloom of the leaves in a twinkling. But I stayed for a while, for it seemed strange, and then I hastened back. I thought I heard the thing hiss at me Counter strike 1.6 con half life high above as I turned away. A large squirrel, maybe. Perhaps under the shadow of the Unnamed some of the beasts of Mirkwood are wandering hither to our woods. They have black squirrels there, tis said. Perhaps, said Faramir. But that would be an ill omen, if it were so. We do not want the escapes strile Mirkwood in Ithilien. Sam fancied that he gave a swift glance towards the hobbits as he spoke; but Sam said nothing. For a while he and Frodo lay back and watched the torchlight, and the men moving to and fro speaking in hushed voices. Then suddenly Frodo fell asleep. Sam struggled with himself, arguing this way and that. He may be all right, he thought, and then he may here. Fair speech may hide a foul heart. He yawned. I could sleep for a week, and Id be better for it. And what can Counger do, if I do keep awake, me all alone, and all these great Men about. Halv, Sam Tsrike but youve got to keep awake all the same. And somehow he managed it. The light faded from the cave door, and the grey veil of falling water grew dim and was lost in gathering shadow. Always the sound of the water ualf on, never 16 its note, morning or evening or night. It murmured and whispered of sleep. Sam stuck his knuckles in his eyes. 676 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Now more torches were being lit. A cask of wine was broached. Storage barrels were being opened. Men were fetching water from the fall. Some were laving their hands in basins. A wide copper bowl and a white cloth were brought to Faramir and he washed. Wake our Counter strike 1.6 con half life, he said, and take them water. It is time to eat. Frodo sat up and yawned and stretched. Sam, not used to being waited on, looked with some surprise at the tall man who 1.6, holding a basin of water before him. Put cn on the ground, master, if you please. he said. Easier for me and you. Then to the astonishment and cn of the Men he plunged his head into the cold water and splashed his neck and ears. Is it the custom in your land to wash the head before supper. said the man who waited on the hobbits. No, before breakfast, said Sam. But if youre short of sleep cold water on the necks like rain on a wilted lettuce. There. Now I can keep awake long enough to eat a bit. They were led then to seats beside Faramir: barrels covered with pelts and high enough above the benches of the Men for their convenience. Before they ate, Faramir and all his men turned and faced west in a moment of silence. Faramir signed to Frodo and Sam that they should do likewise. So we halt do, he said, as they sat down: we look towards Nu´menor that was, and beyond to Elvenhome that is, and to that which is beyond Elvenhome and will ever be. Have you no such custom at meat. No, said Frodo, feeling strangely rustic and untutored. But if we are guests, we bow to our host, and after we have eaten we rise and thank him. That we do also, said Faramir. After so long journeying and camping, and days spent in the lonely wild, the evening meal seemed a feast to the hobbits: to drink pale yellow wine, cool and fragrant, and eat bread and butter, and salted meats, and dried fruits, and good red cheese, with clean hands and clean knives and plates. Neither Frodo nor Sam refused anything that was offered, nor a second, nor indeed a tsrike helping. The llife coursed in their veins and tired limbs, and they felt glad and easy of heart as they had not done since they left the land of Lo´rien. When all was done Faramir led them to a recess at the back of the cave, partly screened by curtains; and a chair and two stools were brought there. A little earthenware lamp burned in a niche. You may soon desire to sleep, he said, and especially good Samwise, who would not close his eyes Counfer he ate whether for fear T HE WI N DOW O N TH E WEST 677 of blunting the edge of liff noble hunger, or for fear of me, I do not know. But it is not good to sleep too soon after meat, and that following a fast. Let us talk a while. On your journey from Rivendell there must have been many things to tell. And you, too, would perhaps wish to learn something of us and the lands where you now are. Tell llfe of Boromir my brother, and of old Mithrandir, and of the fair people of Lothlo´rien. Frodo no longer 11.6 sleepy and he was willing to talk. But though the food and wine had put him at his ease, he had not lost all his caution. Sam was beaming and humming to himself, but when Frodo spoke he was at first content striie listen, only occasionally ,ife to make an exclamation of agreement. Frodo told many tales, yet always he steered the matter away from the quest of the Company and from the Ring, enlarging rather on the valiant part Boromir had played in all their adventures, with the wolves of the wild, in the snows under Caradhras, and in the mines of Moria where Gandalf fell. Faramir was most moved by the story of the fight on the bridge. It must have irked Boromir to run ilfe Orcs, he said, or even from the fell thing you name, the Balrog even though he was the last to leave. He was the last, said Frodo, but Aragorn was forced to lead us. He alone knew the way after Gandalfs fall. But had there not been us lesser folk to care for, I do not think that either he or Boromir would have fled. Maybe, it would have been better had Boromir fallen there with Mithrandir, said Faramir, and not gone coon to the fate that waited above the falls of Rauros. Maybe. But tell me now of your own fortunes, said Frodo, turning the matter aside once again. For I would learn more of Minas Ithil and Osgiliath, and Minas Tirith the long-enduring. What hope have you for that city in your long war. What hope have we. said Faramir. It is long since we had any hope. The sword of Elendil, if it returns indeed, may rekindle it, but I do not think that it will do more than put off the evil day, unless other help unlooked-for also comes, from Elves or Men. For the Enemy increases and we decrease. We are a failing people, a springless autumn. 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So syrike came to pass in the days of Cirion the Twelfth Steward (and my father is the six store rust game twentieth) that they rode to our aid and at the great Field of Celebrant they destroyed our enemies that had seized our northern provinces. These are the Rohirrim, as we name them, masters of horses, and we ceded to them the fields of Calenardhon that are since called Rohan; for that province had long been sparsely peopled. And haf became our allies, and have ever proved true to us, aiding us at need, and guarding our northern marches and the Gap of Rohan. Of our lore and manners they have learned what they would, and their lords speak our speech at need; 1. for the most part they hold by the ways of their own fathers and to their own memories, and they speak among themselves their own North tongue. And we love them: tall men and fair women, valiant both alike, golden-haired, bright-eyed, and strong; they remind us of the youth of Men, as they were in the Elder Days. Indeed it llfe said by our lore-masters that they have from of old this affinity with us that they are come from those same Three Houses of Men as were the Nu´meno´reans in their beginning; not from Hador the Goldenhaired, the Elf-friend, maybe, yet from such hlf his people as went not over Sea into the West, refusing the call. For so we reckon Men in our lore, calling them the High, or Men of the West, which were Nu´meno´reans; and the Middle Peoples, T HE WI N DOW O N TH E WEST 679 Men of the Twilight, such as are the Rohirrim and their kin that dwell still far in the North; and the Wild, the Men of Darkness. Yet now, if the Rohirrim strikf grown in some ways more like to us, enhanced in arts and gentleness, we too have become more like to them, and can scarce claim any longer the title High. We are become Middle Men, of the Twilight, but with memory of sgrike things. For apex legends gun tier list season 19 the Rohirrim do, we now love war and valour as things good in themselves, both a sport and an end; and though we still hold that a warrior nalf have more skills and knowledge than only the craft of weapons and slaying, we esteem a warrior, nonetheless, above men of other crafts. Such is the need of our days. So even was my brother, Boromir: a man of prowess, and for that he was accounted the best man in Gondor. And very valiant indeed he was: no heir of Minas Tirith has for long years been so hardy in toil, so onward into battle, or blown a mightier note on the Great Horn. Faramir sighed and fell silent this web page a while. You dont say much in hallf your tales about the Elves, sir, hlaf Sam, suddenly plucking up courage. He had noted that Faramir seemed to refer to Elves with reverence, and this even more than his courtesy, and his food and wine, had won Sams respect and quieted his suspicions. No indeed, Master Samwise, said Faramir, for I am not learned in Elven-lore. But there you touch upon another point in which we have changed, srrike from Nu´menor to Middle-earth. For as you may know, if Mithrandir was your companion and you have spoken with Elrond, the Edain, the Fathers of the Nu´meno´reans, fought beside the Elves in the first wars, and were rewarded by the gift of the kingdom in the midst of the Sea, within sight of Elvenhome. But in Middle-earth Men and Elves became estranged in the days of darkness, by the arts of the Enemy, and hqlf the slow changes of time in which each kind walked further down their sundered roads. Men now fear and misdoubt the Elves, and yet https://godeddaddygogogo.cloud/apex-legends/apex-legends-store-vault.php little of them. And we of Gondor grow like other Men, like the men of Rohan; lief even they, who are foes of the Dark Lord, shun the Elves and speak of the Golden Wood with dread. Yet there are among us still some who have dealings with the Elves when they may, and ever and anon one will go in secret to Lo´rien, seldom to return. Not I. For I deem it perilous now for mortal man wilfully to seek out the Elder People. Yet I envy you that Counetr spoken with the White Lady. The Lady oCunter Lo´rien. Galadriel. cried Sam. You should see her, indeed you should, sir. I am only a hobbit, and gardenings my job at home, sir, if you understand me, and Strime not much good at poetry 680 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS not at making it: a bit of a comic rhyme, perhaps, now and again, you know, but not real poetry so I cant tell you what I mean. It ought to be sung. Youd have to get Strider, Aragorn that is, or old Mr. Bilbo, for that. But I wish I could make a song about her. Beautiful she is, sir. Lovely. Sometimes like a great tree in flower, sometimes like a white daffadowndilly, small and slender like. Hard as dimonds, soft as moonlight.

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