The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the Two Towers, the Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, epic, Fairy Tales; Folk Tales; Legends & Mythology, Classics, Collections & Anthologies, Small Town & Rural, General
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2009-04-20T05:04:32+00:00

BOOK FOUR

Chapter 1

THE TAMING OF SMÉAGOL

‘Well, master, we’re in a fix and no mistake,’ said Sam Gamgee. He stood despondently with hunched shoulders beside Frodo, and peered out with puckered eyes into the gloom.

It was the third evening since they had fled from the Company, as far as they could tell: they had almost lost count of the hours during which they had climbed and laboured among the barren slopes and stones of the Emyn Muil, sometimes retracing their steps because they could find no way forward, sometimes discovering that they had wandered in a circle back to where they had been hours before. Yet on the whole they had worked steadily eastward, keeping as near as they could find a way to the outer edge of this strange twisted knot of hills. But always they found its outward faces sheer, high and impassable, frowning over the plain below; beyond its tumbled skirts lay livid festering marshes where nothing moved and not even a bird was to be seen.

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