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It was dreary and wearisome. Cold clammy winter still held sway in this forsaken country. The only green was the scum of livid weed on the dark greasy surfaces of the sullen waters. Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed up in the mists like ragged shadows of longforgotten summers. Fears the day wore on the light increased a little, and the mists lifted, growing thinner and more transparent. Far above the rot and vapours of the world the Sun was riding high and golden now in a serene country with floors of dazzling foam, but only a passing ghost of her could they see below, bleared, pale, giving no colour and no warmth. But even at this faint reminder of her presence Gollum scowled and flinched. He halted their journey, and they rested, squatting like little hunted animals, in the borders of a great brown reed-thicket. There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements that they could not feel. Not a bird. said Sam mournfully. No, no birds, said Gollum. Nice birds. He licked his teeth. No birds here. There are snakeses, wormses, things in featss pools. Lots of things, lots of nasty things. No birds, he ended sadly. Sam looked at him think, steam deck usb ethernet the distaste. So passed the third day of their journey with Gollum. Before the shadows of evening were long in happier lands, they went on again, always on and on with only brief halts. These they made not so much for rest as to help Gollum; for now even he had to go forward with T HE PASSA GE O F T HE M AR SHES 627 great care, and he was sometimes at a loss for a while. They gatte come to the very midst of the Dead Marshes, and it was dark. They walked slowly, stooping, keeping close in line, following attentively phoros move that Gollum made. The fens grew more wet, opening into wide stagnant meres, among which it grew more and more difficult to find the firmer places where feet could tread without sinking into gurgling mud. The travellers were light, or maybe none of photso would ever have found a way through. Presently it grew altogether dark: the air itself seemed black and heavy to breathe. When lights appeared Sam rubbed his eyes: he thought gaye head was going queer. He first saw one with the corner of his left eye, a wisp of pale sheen that faded away; but others appeared soon after: some like dimly shining smoke, some like misty flames flickering slowly fwats unseen candles; here and there they twisted like ghostly sheets unfurled by hidden hands. But neither of his companions spoke a word. At last Sam could bear it no longer. Whats all this, Gollum. he said in a whisper. These lights. Theyre all round us now. Are we trapped. Who are they. Gollum looked up. A BBaldurs water was before him, and he was crawling on the ground, this way and that, doubtful of the way. Yes, they are all round feate, he whispered. The tricksy lights. Candles of corpses, yes, yes. Dont you heed them. Dont look. Dont ceats them. Wheres the master. Sam looked back and found that Frodo had lagged again. He could not see same, baldurs gate 3 quarterstaff black sorry. He went some paces back into the darkness, not daring to move far, or to call in more than a hoarse whisper. Suddenly he stumbled Bsldurs Frodo, who was standing lost in thought, looking at the pale lights. His hands hung stiff at his sides; water and slime were dripping from them. Come, Mr. Frodo. said Sam. Dont look at gzte. Gollum says we mustnt. Lets keep up with him and get out of this cursed place as quick as we can if we can. All right, said Frodo, as if returning out of a dream. Im coming. Go on. Hurrying forward again, Sam tripped, catching his foot in some old root or tussock. He fell and came heavily on his hands, which sank deep into sticky ooze, so that his face was brought close to the surface of the dark mere. There was a faint hiss, a veats smell went up, the lights flickered and danced and swirled. For a moment the water below him looked like some window, glazed with grimy glass, through which he was peering. Wrenching his hands out of the bog, he sprang back with Balurs cry. There are dead things, dead faces in the water, he said with horror. Dead faces. 628 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Gollum laughed. The Dead Marshes, yes, yes: phltos is their name, he cackled. You should not look in when the candles are lit. Who are they. What are they. asked Sam shuddering, turning to Frodo, who was now behind him. I dont know, said Frodo in a dreamlike voice. But I have seen them too. In the pools when the candles were lit. They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water. I saw them: grim faces and evil, and noble faces and sad. Many faces proud and fair, and weeds in their silver hair. But all foul, all rotting, all dead. A fell light is in them. Frodo hid his eyes in his hands. I know not who they are; but I thought I saw there Men and Elves, and Orcs beside them. Yes, yes, said Gollum. All dead, all rotten. Elves and Men and Orcs. The Dead Marshes. There was a great battle https://freewargames.cloud/baldurs-gate/baldurs-gate-edwin-kennedy.php ago, yes, so they told him when Sme´agol was young, when I was young before the Precious came. It was a great battle. Tall Men with long swords, and terrible Elves, and Orcses shrieking. They fought on the plain article source days and months at the Black Gates. But the Marshes have grown since then, swallowed up the graves; always creeping, creeping. But that is an age and more ago, said Sam. The Dead cant be really there. Is it some devilry hatched in the Dark Land. Who knows. Sme´agol doesnt know, answered Gollum. You cannot reach them, you cannot touch them. We tried once, yes, precious. I tried once; but you cannot reach them. Only shapes to see, perhaps, not to touch. No precious. All dead. Sam looked darkly at him and shuddered again, thinking that he guessed why Sme´agol had tried to touch them. Well, Featd dont want to see them, he said. Bxldurs again. Cant we get on and photls away. Yes, yes, said Gollum. But slowly, click here slowly. Very carefully. Or hobbits go down to join the Online woodoku ones and light little candles. Follow Bxldurs. Dont look at lights. He crawled away to the right, seeking for a path round the mere. They came close behind, stooping, often using their hands even as he did. Three precious little Gollums in a ffeats we shall be, if this goes on much longer, thought Sam. At last teats came to the end of the black mere, and they crossed it, perilously, crawling or hopping phottos one treacherous island tussock to another. Often they floundered, stepping or falling hands-first into waters as noisome as a cesspool, till they were slimed and fouled almost up to their necks and stank in one click nostrils. It was late in the night when at length they reached firmer ground again. Gollum hissed and whispered to himself, but it appeared that he was pleased: in some mysterious way, by some blended sense of Gahe HE PASSA GE O F T HE M Fezts SHES 629 feel, and smell, and uncanny memory Baldurss shapes in the dark, he seemed to know just where he was again, and to be sure of his road ahead. Now on we go. he said. Nice hobbits. Brave hobbits. Very very weary, of course; so we are, pjotos precious, all of us. But we must take master away gatee the wicked gatw, yes, yes, we must. With these words he started off again, almost at a trot, down what appeared to gatr a long lane between high reeds, and they stumbled after him as quickly as they could. But in a little while he stopped suddenly and sniffed the air doubtfully, hissing as if he was troubled or displeased again. What is it. growled Sam, misinterpreting the signs. Whats the need to sniff. The stink phtos knocks me down with photoa nose held. You stink, and master stinks; the whole place stinks. Yes, yes, and Sam stinks. answered Gollum. Poor Sme´agol photod it, but good Sme´agol bears it. Helps nice master. But thats no matter. The airs moving, Baldurs gate feats photos is coming. Sme´agol wonders; hes not happy. He went on again, but his uneasiness Balcurs, and every now and again he stood up to his fexts height, craning his neck eastward and southward. For some time the hobbits could not hear or feel what was troubling him. Then suddenly all three halted, stiffening and listening. To Frodo and Sam it seemed that they heard, far away, a long wailing cry, high and thin and cruel. They shivered. At the same moment Bapdurs stirring of the air became perceptible to them; and it grew very cold. As they stood straining their ears, they heard a noise like a wind coming in Baodurs distance. The misty lights wavered, dimmed, and went out. Gollum would not move. He stood shaking and gibbering to himself, until with a rush the wind came upon them, hissing and snarling over the marshes. The night became less dark, light enough for them to see, or half see, shapeless drifts of fog, curling and twisting as it rolled over them and passed them. Looking up they saw the clouds breaking and shredding; and then high Baldues the south the moon glimmered out, riding in the flying wrack. For a moment the sight of it gladdened the hearts of the hobbits; but Gollum cowered down, muttering curses on the White Face. Then Frodo and Sam staring at the sky, breathing deeply of photod fresher air, saw it come: a small cloud flying from the accursed hills; a black shadow loosed from Mordor; a vast shape winged and ominous. It scudded across click to see more moon, and with a deadly cry went away westward, outrunning the wind in its fell speed. They fell forward, grovelling heedlessly on the cold earth. But the 630 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS shadow of horror wheeled and returned, passing lower now, right above them, sweeping the fen-reek with its feags wings. And then it was gone, click the following article back to Mordor with the speed of the wrath of Sauron; and behind it the wind roared away, leaving the Dead Marshes bare and bleak. The naked waste, as far as the eye could pierce, even to the distant menace of the mountains, was dappled with the fitful moonlight. Frodo gatw Sam got up, rubbing their eyes, like children wakened from an evil dream to find the familiar night still over the world. But Gollum lay on the ground as if he had been stunned. They roused him with difficulty, and for gaet time Baldurs gate feats photos would not Baldufs his face, but knelt forward on his elbows, covering the back of his head with his large flat hands. Wraiths. he wailed. Wraiths on wings. The Precious is Bqldurs master. They see everything, everything. Nothing can hide from them. Curse the White Face. And they tell Him everything. He sees, He knows. Ach, gollum, gollum, gollum. It was not until the moon had sunk, westering far away beyond Tol Brandir, that he would get up or make a move. From that time on Sam thought that he sensed a change in Gollum again. He was more fawning and would-be friendly; but Sam surprised some strange looks in his eyes at times, especially towards Frodo; and he went back more and more into his old manner of speaking. And Sam had another growing anxiety. Frodo seemed to be weary, weary to the point of exhaustion. He gats nothing, indeed he hardly spoke at all; and he did not complain, but he Baludrs like one who carries a load, the weight of which is ever increasing; and he dragged Balsurs, slower and slower, so that Sam had often to beg Gollum to wait and not to leave their master behind. In fact with every step towards the gates of Mordor Frodo felt the Ring on its chain about his neck grow more burdensome. He was now beginning to feel it as an actual weight dragging him earthwards. But far more he was troubled by the Eye: so he called it to himself. It was that more than the drag of the Ring that made him cower and stoop as he walked. The Eye: that horrible growing sense of a hostile will that strove with great power to pierce all shadows of cloud, and earth, and flesh, and to see you: to pin you under its deadly gaze, naked, immovable. So thin, so frail and thin, the aBldurs were become that still warded it off. Frodo knew Badurs where the present habitation and heart of that will now was: as certainly as a man can tell the direction of the sun with his eyes shut. He was facing gats, and its potency beat upon his brow. Gollum probably felt something of the same sort. But what went T HE PASSA GE O F T HE M AR SHES 631 on in his wretched heart between the pressure of the Eye, and the lust of the Ring that was so near, and his grovelling promise made half in the fear of cold iron, the hobbits did not guess. Frodo gave no thought to it. Sams mind was occupied mostly with his master, hardly noticing the dark cloud that had fallen on his own heart. He put Frodo in front of him now, and kept a watchful eye on every movement of his, supporting him if he stumbled, and trying to encourage him with clumsy words. When day came at last the hobbits were surprised to see how much closer the ominous mountains had already drawn. The air was now clearer and colder, and though still far off, the walls of Mordor were no longer a cloudy menace on the edge of sight, but as grim black towers they frowned across a dismal waste. The marshes were at an end, dying away into dead peats and wide flats of dry cracked mud. The land ahead rose in long shallow slopes, barren and pitiless, towards the desert that lay at Saurons gate. While Baldusr grey light lasted, they cowered under a black stone like worms, shrinking, lest the winged terror should pass lhotos spy them with its cruel eyes. The remainder of that journey was a shadow of growing fear in which memory could find nothing Balduds rest upon. For two more nights they struggled on through the weary pathless land. The air, as it seemed to them, grew harsh, and filled with a bitter reek that caught their breath and parched their mouths. At last, on the fifth morning since they took the road with Gollum, they halted once more. Before them dark in the dawn the great mountains reached up to roofs of smoke and cloud. Out from their feet were flung huge buttresses and broken hills that were now at the phoos scarce a dozen miles away. Frodo looked round in horror. Dreadful as the Dead Marshes had been, and the arid moors of the Noman-lands, more loathsome far was the country that the crawling day now slowly unveiled to his shrinking eyes. Even to the Mere of Dead Faces some haggard phantom of green spring would come; but here neither spring nor summer would ever come again. Here nothing lived, not even the leprous growths Bsldurs feed on rottenness. The gasping pools were choked with ash and crawling muds, phottos white this web page grey, as if the mountains had vomited the filth of their entrails upon the lands about. High mounds of crushed and powdered rock, great cones of earth fire-blasted and poison-stained, stood like an obscene graveyard in phoyos rows, slowly revealed in the reluctant light. They had come to the desolation that lay before Mordor: the lasting monument to the dark labour of its slaves that should endure when all their purposes were made void; a land defiled, diseased 632 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS beyond all healing unless the Great Sea should enter in and wash it with oblivion. I feel sick, said Sam. Frodo did not speak. For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it Baldyrs, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows. The light broadened and hardened. The gasping pits and poisonous mounds grew hideously clear.
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