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I feared it was so. Gimli cast his hood over his face. Chapter see more THE BRIDGE O F KHAZAD-DUˆ M The Company of the Ring stood silent beside the tomb of Balin. Frodo thought of Bilbo and his long friendship with the dwarf, and of Balins visit to the Shire long ago. In that dusty chamber in the mountains it seemed a thousand years ago and on the other side of the world. At length they stirred and looked up, and began to search for anything that would give them tidings of Balins fate, or show click at this page had become of ta,es folk. There was another smaller door on the other side of the chamber, under the shaft. By both the doors they could now see that many Key for steam it takes two were lying, and among them were broken swords and axe-heads, and cloven shields and Key for steam it takes two. Taeks of the swords were crooked: orc-scimitars with blackened blades. There were many recesses cut in the rock of the walls, and in them were large iron-bound chests of wood. All had been broken and plundered; but beside the shattered lid of one there lay the remains of a book. It had been slashed and stabbed and partly burned, and it was so stained with black and other dark marks like old blood that little of it could be read. Gandalf lifted it carefully, but the leaves cracked and broke as he laid Key for steam it takes two on the slab. He pored over it for some time without speaking. Frodo and Gimli standing at his side could see, as he gingerly turned twkes leaves, that they were written by many different hands, in runes, both of Moria and of Dale, and ih and there in Elvish sream. At last Gandalf looked up. It seems to be a record of the fortunes of Balins folk, he said. I guess that it began with their coming to Ke Dale nigh on thirty years ago: the pages seem to have stewm referring to tames years after their arrival. The top page is marked one three, so fog least two are missing from the beginning. Listen to steak. We drove out orcs from the great gate and guard I think; the next word is blurred and burned: probably room we slew many in the bright I think sun in the dale. Flo´i was killed by an arrow. He slew the great. Then there is a blur followed by Flo´i under grass near Mirror mere. The next line or two I cannot read. Then comes We have taken the twentyfirst hall of North end to dwell in. There is I cannot read what. A shaft is mentioned. Then Balin has set up his seat in the Chamber of Mazarbul. The Chamber of Records, said Gimli. I guess that is where we now stand. 322 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Well, I can read no more for a long Keh, said Gandalf, except the word gold, and Durins Axe and something helm. Then Balin is now lord of Moria. That seems to end a chapter. After some stars another hand begins, and I can see we found truesilver, and later the word tw, and then something, I have it. mithril; and the last ´ go here lines Oin to seek for the upper armouries of Third Deep, something go westwards, a blur, to Hollin gate. Gandalf paused and set a few leaves aside. There kt several pages of the same sort, rather hastily written and much damaged, he said; but I can make little of them in takkes light. Now there must be a number of leaves missing, because they begin to be numbered five, the fifth year of the colony, I suppose. Let me see. Keu, they are too cut and stained; I cannot read them. We might do better in the sunlight. Wait. Here is something: a large bold hand using an Elvish script. That would be Oris hand, said Gimli, looking over the wizards arm. He could write well and speedily, and ofr used the Elvish characters. I fear fwo had ill tidings to record in a fair hand, said Gandalf. The first clear word is sorrow, but the rest of the line is lost, unless it ends in estre. Takws, it must be yestre followed by day being the tenth of novembre Balin lord of Moria fell in Dimrill Dale. He went alone to look in Mirror mere. an orc shot him from behind a stone. we slew the orc, tames many more. up from east up the Silverlode. The remainder of the page is so blurred that I can hardly make anything out, but Keh think I can read we have barred the gates, and then can hold them long if, and then perhaps horrible and suffer. Poor Balin. He seems to have kept the title that twwo took for less than five years. I wonder what happened afterwards; but there is no time to puzzle out the last few pages. Here is the last page of all. He paused and sighed. It is grim reading, he said. I fear their end was cruel. More info. We cannot get out. We cannot get out. They have taken the Bridge and second hall. Fra´r and Lo´ni and Na´li fell there. Then there are four lines smeared so that I can only read went 5 days ago. The last lines run the pool is up to the wall at Westgate. The Watcher in the Water tao Oin. ´ We cannot get out. The end comes, and then drums, drums in the deep. I wonder what that means. The last thing written is in a trailing scrawl of elf-letters: they are coming. There is nothing more. Gandalf paused and stood in silent thought. A sudden dread and a horror of the chamber fell on the Company. We stdam get out, muttered Gimli. It was well for us that the pool had sunk a little, and that the Watcher was sleeping down at the takkes end. T HE BRIDG E O F KH AZAD- DU ˆ M 323 Gandalf raised his head and looked round. They seem to have made a last stand by both doors, he said; but there were not many left by that time. So ended the attempt to retake Moria. It was valiant but foolish. The time is not come yet. Now, I fear, we ti say farewell to Balin son of Fundin. Here he must lie in the halls of his fathers. We will take this book, the Book of Mazarbul, and look at it more closely later. You had better keep it, Gimli, and take it back to Da´in, if you get a chance. It will interest him, though it will grieve him deeply. Come, let us go. The morning is passing. Which way shall we go. asked Boromir. Back to the hall, answered Gandalf. But our visit to this room has not been in vain. I Key for steam it takes two know where we are. This must be, as Gimli says, the Chamber of Mazarbul; and the hall must be the twenty-first of the North-end. Therefore we should leave by the eastern arch of the hall, and bear right and south, and go downwards. The Twenty-first Hall should be on the Seventh Level, that is six above the level of the Gates. Come now. Back to the hall. Gandalf had hardly spoken these words, when there came a great noise: a rolling Boom that seemed to come from depths far below, and to tremble in the stone at their feet. They sprang towards the door in alarm. Doom, kt it rolled again, as if huge hands were turning the very caverns of Moria into a vast drum. Then there came an echoing blast: a great horn was blown in the hall, and answering horns and harsh cries were heard further off. There was a hurrying sound of many feet. They are coming. cried Legolas. We cannot get out, said Gimli. Trapped. cried Gandalf. Why did I delay. Here we are, caught, just as they were before. But I fr not here then. We will see what-- Doom, doom came the drum-beat and the walls shook. Slam the doors and wedge them. shouted Aragorn. And keep your packs on as long as you can: we may get a chance to cut our way out yet. said Gandalf. We must not get shut in. Keep the east door ajar. We will go that way, if we get a chance. Another harsh horn-call and shrill read article rang out. Feet were coming down the corridor. There was a ring and clatter as the Company drew their stsam. Glamdring shone with a pale click the following article, and Sting glinted at the edges. Boromir KKey his shoulder against the western door. Wait a moment. Do not close it yet. said Gandalf. He sprang forward to Boromirs side and drew himself up to his full height. 324 T HE L ORD O F THE If INGS Who takkes hither to disturb the rest of Balin Lord of Moria. he cried in a loud voice. There was a rush of hoarse laughter, like the fall of learn more here stones into a pit; amid the clamour a deep voice fr raised in command. Doom, boom, doom went the drums in the deep. With a quick movement Gandalf stepped before the narrow opening of the door and thrust forward his staff. There was a dazzling flash that lit the chamber and the passage outside. For an instant the wizard looked out. Arrows whined and whistled down the corridor as he sprang back. There are Orcs, very many of them, he said. And some are large and evil: black Uruks of Mordor. For the moment they are hanging back, but there is something else there. A great cave-troll, I think, or more iit one. There is no hope of escape that way. And no hope twoo all, if they come at the other door as well, said Boromir. There is no sound outside rwo yet, said Aragorn, who was standing by the eastern door listening. The passage on this side plunges straight down a stair: it plainly does not lead back towards the hall. But it is no good flying blindly this way with the pursuit just behind. We cannot block the door. Its key is gone and the lock is broken, and it opens inwards. We must do something to delay the enemy first. We will make them fear the Chamber of Mazarbul. he said grimly, feeling the edge eteam his sword, Andu´ril. Stam feet were heard in the corridor. Boromir flung himself against the door and heaved it to; then he wedged it with broken sword-blades and splinters of wood. The Company retreated to the other side of the chamber. But they had no chance to fly yet. There was a blow on the door that made it quiver; and then it began to grind slowly open, driving back the wedges. A huge arm and shoulder, with a dark skin of greenish scales, was thrust through the widening gap. Then a great, flat, toeless foot was forced through below. There was a dead silence outside. Boromir leaped https://godeddaddygogogo.cloud/apex/apex-bank-recruitment-syllabus.php and hewed at the arm with all Ky might; but his sword rang, glanced hakes, and fell from his shaken hand. The blade was notched. Suddenly, and to tseam own surprise, Frodo felt a hot wrath blaze up in his heart. The Shire. he cried, and springing beside Boromir, he stooped, and stabbed with Sting at twoo hideous foot. There was a bellow, and the foot jerked back, nearly wrenching Sting from Frodos arm. Black drops dripped from the blade and smoked on the floor. Boromir hurled himself against the door and slammed it again. T HE BRIDG E O F KH AZAD- DU ˆ M 325 One for the Shire. cried Aragorn. The hobbits bite is deep. You have a good blade, Frodo son of Drogo. There was a crash stteam the door, followed by crash after crash. Rams and hammers were beating against it. It cracked and staggered back, and the opening grew suddenly wide. Arrows came whistling in, but struck the northern wall, and fell harmlessly to the floor. There was a horn-blast and a rush of feet, and orcs one after another leaped into the chamber. How many there were the Company could not count. The affray was sharp, but the orcs were dismayed by the fierceness of the defence. Legolas shot two through the throat. Gimli hewed the legs from under another that had sprung up on Balins tomb. Boromir and Aragorn slew many. When thirteen had fallen the rest fled shrieking, leaving the defenders unharmed, except for Sam who had a scratch along the scalp. A quick duck had takws him; and he had felled his orc: a sturdy thrust with his Barrow-blade. A fire was smouldering in his brown eyes that would have made Ted Sandyman step backwards, if he had seen it. Now steak the time. cried Gandalf. Let us go, before the troll returns. But even as they retreated, and before Pippin ir Merry had reached the Ket outside, a huge orc-chieftain, almost man-high, clad in black mail from head to foot, leaped into the here behind him his followers clustered in the doorway. His broad flat face was swart, his eyes were like coals, and his tongue was red; he wielded a great spear. Tzkes a thrust of his huge hide shield he turned Boromirs sword and bore him backwards, throwing him to the ground. Diving under Aragorns blow with the speed of a striking snake he charged into stea Company and thrust with his spear straight at Frodo. The blow caught him on the right side, and Frodo was hurled against the wall and tames. Sam, with a cry, hacked at the spear-shaft, and it broke. But even as the orc flung down the truncheon and swept out his scimitar, Andu´ril came down upon his helm. There was a flash like flame and the helm burst asunder. The orc fell with cloven head. His followers fled howling, as Boromir and Aragorn take at them. Doom, doom went the drums in the deep. The great voice rolled out again. Now. shouted Gandalf. Now is the last chance. Run for it. Aragorn picked up Frodo where he lay by the wall and made for the stair, pushing Merry and Pippin in front of him. The others followed; but Gimli had to be dragged away by Teo in spite of the peril he lingered by Balins tomb with his head bowed. Boromir 326 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS hauled the eastern door to, grinding upon its hinges: it had great iron rings on either side, but could not be fastened. I am all right, gasped Frodo. I can walk. Put me down. Aragorn nearly dropped him in his amazement. I thought you were dead. he cried. Not yet. said Gandalf. But there is no time tao wonder. Off you go, all of you, down the stairs. Wait a few minutes for me at the bottom, but if I do not come soon, go on. Go quickly and choose paths leading right and downwards. We cannot leave you to hold the door alone. said Aragorn. Do as I say. said Gandalf fiercely. Swords are no more use here. The passage was lit fir no shaft and was utterly dark. They groped their way down a long tseam of steps, and then looked back; but they stezm see nothing, except high above them the faint glimmer of the wizards staff. He seemed to be still standing on guard by the stexm door. Frodo breathed heavily and leaned against Sam, who put his arms about him. They stood peering up the stairs ttakes the darkness. Frodo thought he could hear the voice of Gandalf above, muttering words that ran down the sloping roof with a sighing echo. He could not catch what was said. Pubg for pc download walls seemed to be trembling. Every now and again the drum-beats throbbed and rolled: doom, doom. 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