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Theres the Buckland Gate, of course; but theyll Baldurs gate xbox player me through that at any time. There werent any gates, you mean, said Gandalf. I think you will find some now. And you might have more trouble even at the Buckland Gate than you think. But youll manage all right. Good-bye, dear friends. Not for the last time, not yet. Good-bye. He turned Shadowfax off the Road, and the great horse leaped the green dike that here ran beside it; and then at a cry from Gandalf he was gone, racing towards the Barrow-downs like a wind from the North. H OM EWARD B O U ND 997 Well here we are, just the four of us that started out together, said Merry. We have left all the rest behind, one after another. It seems almost like a dream that has slowly faded. Not to me, said Frodo. To me it feels more like falling asleep again. Chapter 8 THE SCOURING O F THE SHIRE It was after nightfall when, wet and tired, the travellers came at last to the Brandywine, and they found the way barred. At either end of the Bridge there was a great spiked gate; and on the further side of the river they could see that some new houses had been built: two-storeyed with narrow straight-sided windows, bare and dimly lit, all very gloomy and un-Shirelike. They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and the lights in the windows went out. A voice shouted in the dark: Whos that. Be off. You cant come in. Cant you read the notice: No admittance between sundown and sunrise. Of course we cant read the notice in the dark, Sam shouted back. And if hobbits of the Shire are to be kept out in the wet on a night like this, Ill tear down your notice when I find it. Here that a window slammed, and a crowd of hobbits with lanterns poured out of the house on the left. They opened the further gate, and some came over the bridge. When they saw the travellers they seemed frightened. Come along. said Merry, recognizing one of the hobbits. If you dont know me, Hob Hayward, you ought to. I am Merry Brandybuck, and I should like to know what all this is about, and what a Bucklander like you is doing here. You used to be on the Hay Gate. Bless me. Its Master Merry, to be sure, and all dressed up for fighting. said old Hob. Why, they said you was dead. Lost in the Old Forest by all accounts. Im pleased to see you alive after all. Then stop gaping at me through the bars, and open the gate. said Merry. Im sorry, Master Merry, but we have orders. Whose orders. The Chiefs up at Bag End. Chief. Chief. Do you mean Mr. Lotho. said Frodo. I suppose so, Mr. Baggins; but we have to say just the Chief nowadays. Do you indeed. said Frodo. Well, I am glad he has dropped the Baggins at any rate. But it is evidently high time that the family dealt with him and put him in his place. A hush fell on the hobbits beyond the gate. It wont do no good T HE SC O Baldurs gate xbox player G O F TH E SH IRE 999 talking that way, said one. Hell get to hear of it. And if you make so much noise, youll wake steam download low usage Chiefs Big Man. We shall wake him up in a way that will surprise him, said Merry. If you mean that your precious Chief has been hiring ruffians out of the wild, then weve not come back too soon. He sprang from his pony, and seeing the notice in the light of the lanterns, he tore it down and threw it over the gate. The hobbits backed away and made no move to open it. Come on, Pippin. said Merry. Baldurs gate xbox player is enough. Merry and Pippin climbed the gate, and the hobbits fled. Another horn sounded. Out of the bigger house on the right a large heavy figure appeared against a light in the doorway. Whats all this, he snarled as he came forward. Gate-breaking. You clear out, or Ill break your filthy little necks. Then he stopped, for he had caught the gleam of swords. Bill Ferny, said Merry, if you dont open that gate in ten seconds, youll regret it. I shall set steel to you, if you dont obey. And when you have opened the gates you will go through them and never return. You are a ruffian and a highway-robber. Bill Ferny flinched and shuffled to the gate and unlocked it. Give me the key. said Merry. But the ruffian flung it at his head and then darted out into the darkness. As he passed the ponies one of them let fly with his heels and just caught him as he ran. He went off with a yelp into the night and was never heard of again. Neat work, Bill, said Sam, meaning the pony. So much for your Big Man, said Merry. Well see the Chief later. In the meantime we want a lodging for the night, and as you seem to have pulled down the Bridge Inn and built this dismal place instead, youll have to put us up. I am sorry, Mr. Merry, said Hob, but it isnt allowed. What isnt allowed. Taking in folk off-hand like, and eating extra food, and all that, said Hob. Whats the matter with the place. said Merry. Has it been a bad year, or what. I thought it had been a fine summer and harvest. Well no, the years been good enough, said Hob. We grows a lot of food, but we dont rightly know what becomes of it. Its all these gatherers and sharers, I reckon, going round counting and measuring and taking off to storage. They do more gathering than sharing, and we never see most of the stuff again. Oh come. said Pippin yawning. This is all too tiresome for me tonight. Weve got food in our bags. Just give us a room to lie down in. Itll be better than many places I have seen. 1000 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS The hobbits at the gate still seemed ill at ease, evidently some rule or other was being broken; but there was no gainsaying four such masterfultravellers, all armed, and two ofthem uncommonly large and strong-looking. Frodo ordered the gates to be locked again. There was some sense at any rate in keeping a guard, while ruffians were still about. Then the four companions went into the hobbit guard-house and made themselves as comfortable as they could. It was a bare and ugly place, with a mean little grate that would not allow a good fire. In the upper rooms were little rows of hard beds, and on every wall there was a notice and a list of Rules. Pippin tore them down. There was no beer and very little food, but with what the travellers brought and shared out they all made a fair meal; and Pippin broke Rule 4 by putting most of next days allowance of wood on the fire. Well now, what about a smoke, while you tell us what has been happening in the Shire. he said. There isnt no pipe-weed now, said Hob; at least only for the Chiefs men. All the stocks seem to have gone. We do hear that waggon-loads of it went away down the old road out of the Southfarthing, over Sarn Ford way. That would be the end o last year, after you left. But it had been going away quietly before that, in a small way. That Lotho-- Now you shut up, Hob Hayward. cried several of the others. You know talk o that sort isnt allowed. The Chief will hear of it, and well all be in trouble. He link hear naught, if some of you here werent sneaks, rejoined Hob hotly. All right, all right. said Sam. Thats quite enough. I dont want to hear no more. No welcome, no beer, no smoke, and a lot of rules and orc-talk instead. I hoped Baldurs gate xbox player have a rest, but I can see theres work and trouble ahead.

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Proud and grave he stood for a moment as he spoke to the guard, and Pippin gazing at him saw how closely he resembled his brother Boromir whom Pippin had liked click the following article the first, admiring the great mans lordly but kindly manner. Yet suddenly for Faramir his heart was strangely moved with a feeling that he had not known before. Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Elder Race. He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings. Faramir. he cried aloud with the others. Faramir. And Faramir, T HE SIEGE O F G ON DO R 811 catching his strange voice among the clamour of the men of the City, turned and looked down at him and was amazed. Whence come you. he said. A halfling, and in the livery of the Tower. Whence. But with that Gandalf stepped to his side and spoke. He came with me from the land of the Halflings, he said. He came with me. But let us not tarry here. There is much to say and to do, and you are weary. He shall come with us. Indeed he must, for if he does not forget his new duties more easily than I do, he must attend on his lord again within this hour. Come, Pippin, follow us. So at length they came to the private chamber of the Lord of the City. There deep seats were set about a brazier legedns charcoal; and wine was brought; and there Pippin, hardly noticed, stood behind the chair of Denethor and felt his weariness little, so eagerly did he listen to legemds that was said. When Faramir had taken white bread and drunk a draught of wine, he sat upon a low chair at his fathers left hand. Removed a little upon the other side sat Gandalf in a chair of carven wood; and he seemed at first to be asleep. For at the beginning Faramir spoke only of the errand upon which he had been sent out ten redesm before, and he brought tidings of Ithilien and of movements of the Enemy and his allies; and he told of the fight on the road when the men of Harad and their great beast were overthrown: a captain reporting to his master such matters as had often been heard before, small things of border-war that now seemed useless and petty, shorn of their renown. Then suddenly Faramir looked Apex legends apex pack redeem code Pippin. But now we come to strange matters, he said. For this is not the first halfling that I have seen walking out of northern legends into the Southlands. At that Gandalf sat up and gripped the arms of his chair; but he said nothing, and with a look stopped the exclamation on Pippins lips. Denethor looked at their faces and nodded his head, as though in sign that he had read much there before it was spoken. 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