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<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<script
async
src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-M8HP2ZV3Z1"
></script>
<script>
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
function gtag() {
dataLayer.push(arguments);
}
gtag("js", new Date());
gtag("config", "G-M8HP2ZV3Z1");
</script>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<title>The Lord of the Rings</title>
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.svg" type="image/svg+xml" />
<link href="/src/rootSize.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="/src/rootTypography.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="/src/rootColor.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="/src/rootAnimation.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="/src/rootMisc.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="/src/reset.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="/src/themes.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="/src/_1_mapLayer/mapLayer.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="/src/_1_mapLayer/paths.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="/src/_1_mapLayer/ring.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="/src/_1_mapLayer/crows.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link
href="/src/_1_mapLayer/mapButtons/mapButtons.css"
rel="stylesheet"
/>
<link href="/src/_2_paperLayer/paperLayer.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="/src/_3_timelineLayer/timelineLayer.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="/src/_4_storyLayer/storyLayer.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="/src/_4_storyLayer/header.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link
href="/src/_4_storyLayer/tombLight/tombLight.css"
rel="stylesheet"
/>
<link href="/src/_4_storyLayer/staff.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="/src/_4_storyLayer/doorLight.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="/src/_5_loreLayer/loreLayer.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link
href="/src/_5_loreLayer/characters/details.css"
rel="stylesheet"
/>
<link href="/src/_6_mapSizeButton/mapSizeButton.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="/src/_7_soundLayer/soundLayer.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="/src/_8_frameLayer/frameLayer.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="/src/_9_vignetteLayer/vignetteLayer.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src="/src/_1_mapLayer/pan.ts" type="module" defer></script>
<script
src="/src/_1_mapLayer/mapButtons/mapButtons.ts"
type="module"
defer
></script>
<script
src="/src/_3_timelineLayer/timelineLayer.ts"
type="module"
defer
></script>
<script
src="/src/_4_storyLayer/fadeParagraphs.ts"
type="module"
defer
></script>
<script
src="/src/_4_storyLayer/addStateObservers.ts"
type="module"
defer
></script>
<script
src="/src/_4_storyLayer/tombLight/tombLight.ts"
type="module"
defer
></script>
<script
src="/src/_5_loreLayer/characters/createFieldset.ts"
type="module"
defer
></script>
<script
src="/src/_5_loreLayer/characters/createDetails.ts"
type="module"
defer
></script>
<script
src="/src/_5_loreLayer/loreButtons.ts"
type="module"
defer
></script>
<script
src="/src/_6_mapSizeButton/mapSizeButton.ts"
type="module"
defer
></script>
<script
src="/src/_7_soundLayer/soundLayer.ts"
type="module"
defer
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</head>
<!-- State -->
<body
data-screen="sound"
data-ring-location="rivendell"
data-map-size="small"
data-character="gandalf"
data-scroll-y="0"
>
<section class="soundLayer">
<h2>Sound?</h2>
<button data-value="on" type="button">Yes</button>
<button data-value="off" type="button">No</button>
</section>
<div class="mapLayer">
<!-- Allows other things (paths, ring, ...) to be positioned based on map size -->
<div class="mapLayout">
<img
class="map middleEarth"
src="/images/maps/middleEarth.avif"
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<h1>Lord of the Rings - prototype</h1>
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<h2>
<span>Chapter 3</span>
<span>THE RING GOES SOUTH</span>
</h2>
<p>...</p>
<p>
The Company took little gear of war, for their hope was in
secrecy not in battle. Aragorn had Andûril but no
other weapon, and he went forth clad only in rusty green and
brown, as a Ranger of the wilderness. Boromir had a long
sword, in fashion like Andûril but of less lineage,
and he bore also a shield and his war-horn.
</p>
<p>
‘Loud and clear it sounds in the valleys of the
hills,’ he said, ‘and then let all the foes of
Gondor flee!’ Putting it to his lips he blew a blast,
and the echoes leapt from rock to rock, and all that heard
that voice in Rivendell sprang to their feet.
</p>
<p>
‘Slow should you be to wind that horn again,
Boromir,’ said Elrond, ‘until you stand once
more on the borders of your land, and dire need is on
you.’
</p>
<p>
‘Maybe,’ said Boromir. ‘But always I have
let my horn cry at setting forth, and though thereafter we
may walk in the shadows, I will not go forth as a thief in
the night.’
</p>
<p>
Gimli the dwarf alone wore openly a short shirt of steel-
rings, for dwarves make light of burdens; and in his belt
was a broad-bladed axe. Legolas had a bow and a quiver, and
at his belt a long white knife. The younger hobbits wore the
swords that they had taken from the barrow; but Frodo took
only Sting; and his mail-coat, as Bilbo wished, remained
hidden. Gandalf bore his staff, but girt at his side was the
elven-sword Glamdring, the mate of Orcrist that lay now upon
the breast of Thorin under the Lonely Mountain.
</p>
<p>
All were well furnished by Elrond with thick warm clothes,
and they had jackets and cloaks lined with fur. Spare food
and clothes and blankets and other needs were laden on a
pony, none other than the poor beast that they had brought
from Bree.
</p>
<p>
The stay in Rivendell had worked a great wonder of change on
him: he was glossy and seemed to have the vigour of youth.
It was Sam who had insisted on choosing him, declaring that
Bill (as he called him) would pine, if he did not come.
</p>
<p>
‘That animal can nearly talk,’ he said,
‘and would talk, if he stayed here much longer. He
gave me a look as plain as Mr. Pippin could speak it: if you
don’t let me go with you, Sam, I’ll follow on my
own.’ So Bill was going as the beast of burden, yet he
was the only member of the Company that did not seem
depressed.
</p>
<p>
Their farewells had been said in the great hall by the fire,
and they were only waiting now for Gandalf, who had not yet
come out of the house. A gleam of firelight came from the
open doors, and soft lights were glowing in many windows.
Bilbo huddled in a cloak stood silent on the door- step
beside Frodo. Aragorn sat with his head bowed to his knees;
only Elrond knew fully what this hour meant to him.
</p>
<p>The others could be seen as grey shapes in the darkness.</p>
<p>
Sam was standing by the pony, sucking his teeth, and staring
moodily into the gloom where the river roared stonily below;
his desire for adventure was at its lowest ebb.
</p>
<p>
‘Bill, my lad,’ he said, ‘you
oughtn’t to have took up with us. You could have
stayed here and et the best hay till the new grass
comes.’ Bill swished his tail and said nothing.
</p>
<p>
Sam eased the pack on his shoulders, and went over anxiously
in his mind all the things that he had stowed in it,
wondering if he had forgotten anything: his chief treasure,
his cooking gear; and the little box of salt that he always
carried and refilled when he could; a good supply of
pipe-weed (but not near enough, I’ll warrant); flint
and tinder; woollen hose; linen; various small belongings of
his master’s that Frodo had forgotten and Sam had
stowed to bring them out in triumph when they were called
for. He went through them all.
</p>
<p>
‘Rope!’ he muttered. ‘No rope! And only
last night you said to yourself: ‘‘Sam, what
about a bit of rope? You’ll want it, if you
haven’t got it.’’ Well, I’ll want
it. I can’t get it now.’
</p>
<p>
At that moment Elrond came out with Gandalf, and he called
the Company to him. ‘This is my last word,’ he
said in a low voice. ‘The Ring-bearer is setting out
on the Quest of Mount Doom. On him alone is any charge laid:
neither to cast away the Ring, nor to deliver it to any
servant of the Enemy nor indeed to let any handle it, save
members of the Company and the Council, and only then in
gravest need. The others go with him as free companions, to
help him on his way. You may tarry, or come back, or turn
aside into other paths, as chance allows. The further you
go, the less easy will it be to withdraw; yet no oath or
bond is laid on you to go further than you will. For you do
not yet know the strength of your hearts, and you cannot
foresee what each may meet upon the road.’
</p>
<p>
‘Faithless is he that says farewell when the road
darkens,’ said Gimli.
</p>
<p>
‘Maybe,’ said Elrond, ‘but let him not vow
to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.’
</p>
<p>
‘Yet sworn word may strengthen quaking heart,’
said Gimli.
</p>
<p>
‘Or break it,’ said Elrond. ‘Look not too
far ahead! But go now with good hearts! Farewell, and may
the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you.
May the stars shine upon your faces!’
</p>
<p>
‘Good ... good luck!’ cried Bilbo, stuttering
with the cold. ‘I don’t suppose you will be able
to keep a diary, Frodo my lad, but I shall expect a full
account when you get back. And don’t be too long!
Farewell!’
</p>
<p>
Many others of Elrond’s household stood in the shadows
and watched them go, bidding them farewell with soft voices.
There was no laughter, and no song or music. At last they
turned away and faded silently into the dusk.
</p>
<p>
They crossed the bridge and wound slowly up the long steep
paths that led out of the cloven vale of Rivendell; and they
came at length to the high moor where the wind hissed
through the heather. Then with one glance at the Last Homely
House twinkling below them they strode away far into the
night.
</p>
<p>
At the Ford of Bruinen they left the Road and turning
southwards went on by narrow paths among the folded lands.
Their purpose was to hold this course west of the Mountains
for many miles and days. The country was much rougher and
more barren than in the green vale of the Great River in
Wilderland on the other side of the range, and their going
would be slow; but they hoped in this way to escape the
notice of unfriendly eyes. The spies of Sauron had hitherto
seldom been seen in this empty country, and the paths were
little known except to the people of Rivendell.
</p>
<p>
Gandalf walked in front, and with him went Aragorn, who knew
this land even in the dark. The others were in file behind,
and Legolas whose eyes were keen was the rearguard.
</p>
<p>
The first part of their journey was hard and dreary, and
Frodo remembered little of it, save the wind. For many
sunless days an icy blast came from the Mountains in the
east, and no garment seemed able to keep out its searching
fingers. Though the Company was well clad, they seldom felt
warm, either moving or at rest. They slept uneasily during
the middle of the day, in some hollow of the land, or hidden
under the tangled thorn-bushes that grew in thickets in many
places. In the late afternoon they were roused by the watch,
and took their chief meal: cold and cheerless as a rule, for
they could seldom risk the lighting of a fire. In the
evening they went on again, always as nearly southward as
they could find a way.
</p>
<p>
At first it seemed to the hobbits that although they walked
and stumbled until they were weary, they were creeping for-
ward like snails, and getting nowhere. Each day the land
looked much the same as it had the day before. Yet steadily
the mountains were drawing nearer. South of Rivendell they
rose ever higher, and bent westwards; and about the feet of
the main range there was tumbled an ever wider land of bleak
hills, and deep valleys filled with turbulent waters. Paths
were few and winding, and led them often only to the edge of
some sheer fall, or down into treacherous swamps.
</p>
<p>
They had been a fortnight on the way when the weather
changed. The wind suddenly fell and then veered round to the
south. The swift-flowing clouds lifted and melted away, and
the sun came out, pale and bright. There came a cold clear
dawn at the end of a long stumbling night-march. The
travellers reached a low ridge crowned with ancient holly-
trees whose grey-green trunks seemed to have been built out
of the very stone of the hills. Their dark leaves shone and
their berries glowed red in the light of the rising sun.
</p>
<p>
Away in the south Frodo could see the dim shapes of lofty
mountains that seemed now to stand across the path that the
Company was taking. At the left of this high range rose
three peaks; the tallest and nearest stood up like a tooth
tipped with snow; its great, bare, northern precipice was
still largely in the shadow, but where the sunlight slanted
upon it, it glowed red.
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<p>
Gandalf stood at Frodo’s side and looked out under his
hand. ‘We have done well,’ he said. ‘We
have reached the borders of the country that Men call
Hollin; many Elves lived here in happier days, when Eregion
was its name. Five-and- forty leagues as the crow flies we
have come, though many long miles further our feet have
walked. The land and the weather will be milder now, but
perhaps all the more dangerous.’
</p>
<p>
‘Dangerous or not, a real sunrise is mighty
welcome,’ said Frodo, throwing back his hood and
letting the morning light fall on his face.
</p>
<p>
‘But the mountains are ahead of us,’ said
Pippin. ‘We must have turned eastwards in the
night.’
</p>
<p>
‘No,’ said Gandalf. ‘But you see further
ahead in the clear light. Beyond those peaks the range bends
round south-west. There are many maps in Elrond’s
house, but I suppose you never thought to look at
them?’
</p>
<p>
‘Yes I did, sometimes,’ said Pippin, ‘but
I don’t remember them. Frodo has a better head for
that sort of thing.’
</p>
<p>
‘I need no map,’ said Gimli, who had come up
with Legolas, and was gazing out before him with a strange
light in his deep eyes. ‘There is the land where our
fathers worked of old, and we have wrought the image of
those mountains into many works of metal and of stone, and
into many songs and tales. They stand tall in our dreams:
Baraz, Zirak, Shathûr.
</p>
<p>
‘Only once before have I seen them from afar in waking
life, but I know them and their names, for under them lies
Khazad-dûm, the Dwarrowdelf, that is now called the
Black Pit, Moria in the Elvish tongue. Yonder stands
Barazinbar, the Redhorn, cruel Caradhras; and beyond him are
Silvertine and Cloudyhead: Celebdil the White, and Fanuidhol
the Grey, that we call Zirakzigil and Bundushathûr.
</p>
<p>
‘There the Misty Mountains divide, and between their
arms lies the deep-shadowed valley which we cannot for- get:
Azanulbizar, the Dimrill Dale, which the Elves call
Nanduhirion.’
</p>
</div>
<div class="intersector" data-ring-location="hollin2">
<p>
‘It is for the Dimrill Dale that we are making,’
said Gandalf. ‘If we climb the pass that is called the
Redhorn Gate, under the far side of Caradhras, we shall come
down by the Dimrill Stair into the deep vale of the Dwarves.
There lies the Mirrormere, and there the River Silverlode
rises in its icy springs.’
</p>
<p>
‘Dark is the water of Kheled-zâram,’ said
Gimli, ‘and cold are the springs of Kibil-nâla.
My heart trembles at the thought that I may see them
soon.’
</p>
<p>
‘May you have joy of the sight, my good dwarf !’
said Gandalf. ‘But whatever you may do, we at least
cannot stay in that valley. We must go down the Silverlode
into the secret woods, and so to the Great River, and
then——’
</p>
<p>He paused.</p>
<p>‘Yes, and where then?’ asked Merry.</p>
<p>
‘To the end of the journey – in the end,’
said Gandalf. ‘We cannot look too far ahead. Let us be
glad that the first stage is safely over. I think we will
rest here, not only today but tonight as well. There is a
wholesome air about Hollin. Much evil must befall a country
before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt
there.’
</p>
<p>
‘That is true,’ said Legolas. ‘But the
Elves of this land were of a race strange to us of the
silvan folk, and the trees and the grass do not now remember
them. Only I hear the stones lament them:
<em
>deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they
builded us; but they are gone</em
>. They are gone. They sought the Havens long ago.’
</p>
<p>
That morning they lit a fire in a deep hollow shrouded by
great bushes of holly, and their supper-breakfast was
merrier than it had been since they set out. They did not
hurry to bed afterwards, for they expected to have all the
night to sleep in, and they did not mean to go on again
until the evening of the next day. Only Aragorn was silent
and restless.
</p>
<p>
After a while he left the Company and wandered on to the
ridge; there he stood in the shadow of a tree, looking out
southwards and westwards, with his head posed as if he was
listening. Then he returned to the brink of the dell and
looked down at the others laughing and talking.
</p>
<p>
‘What is the matter, Strider?’ Merry called up.
‘What are you looking for? Do you miss the East
Wind?’
</p>
<p>
‘No indeed,’ he answered. ‘But I miss
something. I have been in the country of Hollin in many
seasons. No folk dwell here now, but many other creatures
live here at all times, especially birds. Yet now all things
but you are silent. I can feel it. There is no sound for
miles about us, and your voices seem to make the ground
echo. I do not understand it.’
</p>
<p>
Gandalf looked up with sudden interest. ‘But what do
you guess is the reason?’ he asked. ‘Is there
more in it than sur- prise at seeing four hobbits, not to
mention the rest of us, where people are so seldom seen or
heard?’
</p>
<p>
‘I hope that is it,’ answered Aragorn.
‘But I have a sense of watchfulness, and of fear, that
I have never had here before.’ ‘Then we must be
more careful,’ said Gandalf. ‘If you bring a
Ranger with you, it is well to pay attention to him,
especially if the Ranger is Aragorn. We must stop talking
aloud, rest quietly, and set the watch.’
</p>
<div class="intersector" data-crows="true">
<p>
It was Sam’s turn that day to take the first
watch, but Aragorn joined him. The others fell asleep.
Then the silence grew until even Sam felt it. The
breathing of the sleepers could be plainly heard. The
swish of the pony’s tail and the occasional
movements of his feet became loud noises. Sam could hear
his own joints creaking, if he stirred. Dead silence was
around him, and over all hung a clear blue sky, as the
Sun rode up from the East. Away in the South a dark
patch appeared, and grew, and drove north like flying
smoke in the wind.
</p>
<p>
‘What’s that, Strider? It don’t look
like a cloud,’ said Sam in a whisper to Aragorn.
He made no answer, he was gazing intently at the sky;
but before long Sam could see for himself what was
approaching. Flocks of birds, flying at great speed, were
wheeling and circling, and traversing all the land as if
they were searching for something; and they were
steadily drawing nearer.
</p>
<p>
‘Lie flat and still!’ hissed Aragorn, pulling
Sam down into the shade of a holly-bush; for a whole
regiment of birds had broken away suddenly from the main
host, and came, flying low, straight towards the ridge.
Sam thought they were a kind of crow of large size. As
they passed overhead, in so dense a throng that their
shadow followed them darkly over the ground below, one
harsh croak was heard.
</p>
<p>
Not until they had dwindled into the distance, north and
west, and the sky was again clear would Aragorn rise.
Then he sprang up and went and wakened Gandalf.
</p>
<p>
‘Regiments of black crows are flying over all the
land between the Mountains and the Greyflood,’ he
said, ‘and they have passed over Hollin. They are
not natives here; they are
<em>crebain </em>out of Fangorn and Dunland. I do not
know what they are about: possibly there is some trouble
away south from which they are fleeing; but I think they
are spying out the land. I have also glimpsed many hawks
flying high up in the sky. I think we ought to move again
this evening. Hollin is no longer wholesome for us: it
is being watched.’
</p>
</div>
<p>
‘And in that case so is the Redhorn Gate,’ said
Gandalf; ‘and how we can get over that without being
seen, I cannot imagine. But we will think of that when we
must. As for moving as soon as it is dark, I am afraid that
you are right.’
</p>
<p>
‘Luckily our fire made little smoke, and had burned
low before the
<em>crebain </em>came,’ said Aragorn. ‘It must
be put out and not lit again.’
</p>
<p>
‘Well if that isn’t a plague and a
nuisance!’ said Pippin. The news: no fire, and a move
again by night, had been broken to him, as soon as he woke
in the late afternoon. ‘All because of a pack of
crows! I had looked forward to a real good meal tonight:
something hot.’
</p>
<p>
‘Well, you can go on looking forward,’ said
Gandalf.
</p>
<p>
‘There may be many unexpected feasts ahead for you.
For myself I should like a pipe to smoke in comfort, and
warmer feet. However, we are certain of one thing at any
rate: it will get warmer as we get south.’
</p>
<p>
‘Too warm, I shouldn’t wonder,’ muttered
Sam to Frodo. ‘But I’m beginning to think
it’s time we got a sight of that Fiery Mountain, and
saw the end of the Road, so to speak. I thought at first
that this here Redhorn, or whatever its name is, might be
it, till Gimli spoke his piece. A fair jaw-cracker
dwarf-language must be!’ Maps conveyed nothing to
Sam’s mind, and all distances in these strange lands
seemed so vast that he was quite out of his reckoning.
</p>
<p>
All that day the Company remained in hiding. The dark birds
passed over now and again; but as the westering Sun grew red
they disappeared southwards. At dusk the Company set out,
and turning now half east they steered their course towards
Caradhras, which far away still glowed faintly red in the
last light of the vanished Sun. One by one white stars
sprang forth as the sky faded.
</p>
<p>
Guided by Aragorn they struck a good path. It looked to
Frodo like the remains of an ancient road, that had once
been broad and well planned, from Hollin to the
mountain-pass. The Moon, now at the full, rose over the
mountains, and cast a pale light in which the shadows of
stones were black. Many of them looked to have been worked
by hands, though now they lay tumbled and ruinous in a
bleak, barren land.
</p>
<p>
It was the cold chill hour before the first stir of dawn,
and the moon was low. Frodo looked up at the sky. Suddenly
he saw or felt a shadow pass over the high stars, as if for
a moment they faded and then flashed out again. He shivered.
‘Did you see anything pass over?’ he whispered
to Gandalf, who was just ahead.
</p>
<p>
‘No, but I felt it, whatever it was,’ he
answered. ‘It may be nothing, only a wisp of thin
cloud.’
</p>
<p>
‘It was moving fast then,’ muttered Aragorn,
‘and not with the wind.’
</p>
<p class="dinkus">* * *</p>
<p>
Nothing further happened that night. The next morning dawned
even brighter than before. But the air was chill again;
already the wind was turning back towards the east. For two
more nights they marched on, climbing steadily but ever more
slowly as their road wound up into the hills, and the
mountains towered up, nearer and nearer. On the third morn-
ing Caradhras rose before them, a mighty peak, tipped with
snow like silver, but with sheer naked sides, dull red as if
stained with blood.
</p>
<p>
There was a black look in the sky, and the sun was wan. The
wind had gone now round to the north-east. Gandalf snuffed
the air and looked back.
</p>
<p>
‘Winter deepens behind us,’ he said quietly to
Aragorn. ‘The heights away north are whiter than they
were; snow is lying far down their shoulders. Tonight we
shall be on our way high up towards the Redhorn Gate. We may
well be seen by watchers on that narrow path, and waylaid by
some evil; but the weather may prove a more deadly enemy
than any. What do you think of your course now,
Aragorn?’
</p>
<p>
Frodo overheard these words, and understood that Gandalf and
Aragorn were continuing some debate that had begun long
before. He listened anxiously.
</p>
<p>
‘I think no good of our course from beginning to end,
as you know well, Gandalf,’ answered Aragorn.
‘And perils known and unknown will grow as we go on.
But we must go on; and it is no good our delaying the
passage of the moun- tains. Further south there are no
passes, till one comes to the Gap of Rohan. I do not trust
that way since your news of Saruman. Who knows which side
now the marshals of the Horse-lords serve?’
</p>
<p>
‘Who knows indeed!’ said Gandalf. ‘But
there is another way, and not by the pass of Caradhras: the
dark and secret way that we have spoken of.’
</p>
<p>
‘But let us not speak of it again! Not yet. Say
nothing to the others, I beg, not until it is plain that
there is no other way.’
</p>
<p>
‘We must decide before we go further,’ answered
Gandalf.
</p>
<p>
‘Then let us weigh the matter in our minds, while the
others rest and sleep,’ said Aragorn.
</p>
<p>
In the late afternoon, while the others were finishing their
breakfast, Gandalf and Aragorn went aside together and stood
looking at Caradhras. Its sides were now dark and sullen,
and its head was in grey cloud. Frodo watched them,
wondering which way the debate would go. When they returned
to the Company Gandalf spoke, and then he knew that it had
been decided to face the weather and the high pass. He was
relieved. He could not guess what was the other dark and
secret way, but the very mention of it had seemed to fill
Aragorn with dismay, and Frodo was glad that it had been
abandoned.
</p>
<p>
‘From signs that we have seen lately,’ said
Gandalf, ‘I fear that the Redhorn Gate may be watched;
and also I have doubts of the weather that is coming up
behind. Snow may come. We must go with all the speed that we
can. Even so it will take us more than two marches before we
reach the top of the pass. Dark will come early this
evening. We must leave as soon as you can get ready.’
</p>
<p>
‘I will add a word of advice, if I may,’ said
Boromir. ‘I was born under the shadow of the White
Mountains and know something of journeys in the high places.
We shall meet bitter cold, if no worse, before we come down
on the other side. It will not help us to keep so secret
that we are frozen to death. When we leave here, where there
are still a few trees and bushes, each of us should carry a
faggot of wood, as large as he can bear.’
</p>
<p>
‘And Bill could take a bit more, couldn’t you,
lad?’ said Sam. The pony looked at him mournfully.
</p>
<p>
‘Very well,’ said Gandalf. ‘But we must
not use the wood – not unless it is a choice between
fire and death.’
</p>
</div>
<div class="intersector" data-ring-location="caradhras1">
<p>
The Company set out again, with good speed at first; but
soon their way became steep and difficult. The twisting and
climbing road had in many places almost disappeared, and was
blocked with many fallen stones. The night grew deadly dark
under great clouds. A bitter wind swirled among the rocks.
By midnight they had climbed to the knees of the great
mountains. The narrow path now wound under a sheer wall of
cliffs to the left, above which the grim flanks of Caradhras
towered up invisible in the gloom; on the right was a gulf
of darkness where the land fell suddenly into a deep ravine.
</p>
<p>
Laboriously they climbed a sharp slope and halted for a
moment at the top. Frodo felt a soft touch on his face. He
put out his arm and saw the dim white flakes of snow settling
on his sleeve.
</p>
<p>
They went on. But before long the snow was falling fast,
filling all the air, and swirling into Frodo’s eyes.
The dark bent shapes of Gandalf and Aragorn only a pace or
two ahead could hardly be seen.
</p>
<p>
‘I don’t like this at all,’ panted Sam
just behind. ‘Snow’s all right on a fine
morning, but I like to be in bed while it’s falling. I
wish this lot would go off to Hobbiton! Folk might welcome
it there.’ Except on the high moors of the North-
farthing a heavy fall was rare in the Shire, and was
regarded as a pleasant event and a chance for fun. No living
hobbit (save Bilbo) could remember the Fell Winter of
<span>1311</span>, when white wolves invaded the Shire over
the frozen Brandywine. Gandalf halted. Snow was thick on his
hood and shoulders;
</p>
<p>it was already ankle-deep about his boots.</p>
<p>
‘This is what I feared,’ he said. ‘What do
you say now, Aragorn?’
</p>
<p>
‘That I feared it too,’ Aragorn answered,
‘but less than other things. I knew the risk of snow,
though it seldom falls heavily so far south, save high up in
the mountains. But we are not high yet; we are still far
down, where the paths are usually open all the
winter.’
</p>
<p>
‘I wonder if this is a contrivance of the
Enemy,’ said Boromir. ‘They say in my land that
he can govern the storms in the Mountains of Shadow that
stand upon the borders of Mordor. He has strange powers and
many allies.’
</p>
<p>
‘His arm has grown long indeed,’ said Gimli,
‘if he can draw snow down from the North to trouble us
here three hundred leagues away.’
</p>
<p>‘His arm has grown long,’ said Gandalf.</p>
<p>
While they were halted, the wind died down, and the snow
slackened until it almost ceased. They tramped on again. But
they had not gone more than a furlong when the storm
returned with fresh fury. The wind whistled and the snow
became a blinding blizzard. Soon even Boromir found it hard
to keep going. The hobbits, bent nearly double, toiled along
behind the taller folk, but it was plain that they could not
go much further, if the snow continued. Frodo’s feet
felt like lead. Pippin was dragging behind. Even Gimli, as
stout as any dwarf could be, was grumbling as he trudged.
</p>
<p data-sound="wind">
The Company halted suddenly, as if they had come to an
agreement without any words being spoken. They heard eerie
noises in the darkness round them. It may have been only a
trick of the wind in the cracks and gullies of the rocky
wall, but the sounds were those of shrill cries, and wild
howls of laughter. Stones began to fall from the
mountain-side, whist- ling over their heads, or crashing on
the path beside them. Every now and again they heard a dull
rumble, as a great boulder rolled down from hidden heights
above.
</p>
<p>
‘We cannot go further tonight,’ said Boromir.
‘Let those call it the wind who will; there are fell
voices on the air; and these stones are aimed at us.’
</p>
<p>
‘I do call it the wind,’ said Aragorn.
‘But that does not make what you say untrue. There are
many evil and unfriendly things in the world that have
little love for those that go on two legs, and yet are not
in league with Sauron, but have purposes of their own. Some
have been in this world longer than he.’
</p>
<p>
‘Caradhras was called the Cruel, and had an ill
name,’ said Gimli, ‘long years ago, when rumour
of Sauron had not been heard in these lands.’
</p>
<p>
‘It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat
off his attack,’ said Gandalf.
</p>
<p>
‘But what can we do?’ cried Pippin miserably. He
was leaning on Merry and Frodo, and he was shivering.
</p>
<p>
‘Either stop where we are, or go back,’ said
Gandalf. ‘It is no good going on. Only a little
higher, if I remember rightly, this path leaves the cliff
and runs into a wide shallow trough at the bottom of a long
hard slope. We should have no shelter there from snow, or
stones – or anything else.’
</p>
<p>
‘And it is no good going back while the storm
holds,’ said Aragorn. ‘We have passed no place
on the way up that offered more shelter than this cliff-wall
we are under now.’
</p>
<p>
‘Shelter!’ muttered Sam. ‘If this is
shelter, then one wall and no roof make a house.’
</p>