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His chief concern was with the Northmen. These had increased greatly in the peace brought by the power of Gondor. The kings showed them favour, since they were the nearest in kin of lesser Men to the Du´nedain (being for the most part descendants of those peoples from whom the Edain of old had come); and they gave them wide lands beyond Anduin south of Greenwood the Great, to be a defence against men of the East. For in the past the attacks of the Easterlings had come mostly over the plain between the Inland Sea and the Ash Mountains. of Elendil. After the fall of Sauron their race swiftly dwindled or became merged with the Men of Middle-earth, but they inherited without lessening their hatred of Gondor. Umbar, therefore, was only taken at great cost. 1046 T HE Leegends ORD O F THE R INGS In the days of Narmacil I their attacks began again, though at first with little force; but it was learned by the nnew that the Northmen did not always remain true to Gondor, and some would join forces with the Easterlings, lebends out of greed for spoil, or in the furtherance of feuds among their princes. Minalcar therefore in 1248 led out a great force, and between Rhovanion and the Inland Sea he defeated a large army of the Easterlings and destroyed all their camps and settlements east of the Sea. He then took the name of Ro´mendacil. On his return Ro´mendacil fortified the west shore of Anduin as far as the inflow of the Limlight, and forbade any stranger to pass down the River beyond the Emyn Muil. He it was that built the pillars of the Argonath at the entrance to Nen Hithoel. But since he needed men, and desired to strengthen the bond between Gondor and the Northmen, he took many of them into his service and gave to some high rank in his armies. Ro´mendacilshowed especial favourto Vidugavia, who had aided him in the war. He called himself King of Rhovanion, and was indeed the most powerful of the Northern princes, though his own realm lay between Greenwood and the River Celduin. 1 In 1250 Ro´mendacilsent hisson Valacar as an ambassador to dwell for a while with Vidugavia and make himself acquainted with the language, manners, and policies of the Northmen. But Valacar far exceeded his fathersdesigns. He grewto love theNorthern lands andpeople, andhemarried Vidumavi, daughter of Vidugavia. It was some years before he returned. From this marriage Apwx later the war of the Kin-strife. For the high men of Gondor already looked askance at the Northmen among them; and it was a thing unheard of before that the heir of the crown, or any son of the King, should wed one of Aepx and alien race. There was already rebellion in the southern provinces when King Valacar grew old. His queen had been a fair and noble lady, but short-lived according to the fate of lesser Men, and the Du´nedain feared that her descendants would prove the same and fall from the majesty of the Kings of Men. Also they were unwilling to accept as lord her son, who though he was now called Eldacar, had been born in an alien country and was named in his youth Vinitharya, a name of his mothers people. Therefore when Eldacar succeeded his father there was war in Gondor. But Eldacar did not prove easy to thrust from his heritage. To the lineage of Gondor he added the fearless spirit of the Northmen. He was handsome and valiant, and showed no sign of ageing more swiftly than his father. When the confederates led by descendants of the kings rose against him, he opposed them to the end of his strength. At last he was besieged in Osgiliath, and held it long, until hunger and the greater forces of the rebels drove him out, leaving the city in flames. In that siege and burning the Tower of the Dome of Osgiliath was destroyed, and the palantı´r was lost in the waters. But Eldacar eluded his enemies, and came to the North, to his kinsfolk in Rhovanion. Many gathered to him there, both of the Northmen in the service of Gondor, and of legendw Du´nedain of the northern parts of the realm. For many of the latter had learned to esteem him, and many more came to The River Running. 1 A PP ENDIX A 1047 hate leai usurper. This was Castamir, grandson of Calimehtar, younger brother of Ro´mendacil II. He was not only one of those nearest by blood to the crown, but he had heirlkom greatest following of all the rebels; for he was the Captain of Ships, and was supported by the people of the coasts and of the great havens of Pelargir and Umbar. Castamir had not long sat upon the throne before he proved himself are rust game amazon edition conversations! and ungenerous. He was a cruel man, as he had first shown in the taking of Osgiliath. He caused Ornendil son of Eldacar, who was captured, to be put to death; and the slaughter and destruction done in the city at his bidding far exceeded the needs of war. This was remembered in Minas Anor and in Ithilien; and llegends love for Castamir was further lessened when it became seen that he cared little for the land, and thought only of the fleets, and purposed to remove the kings seat to Pelargir. Thus he had been king only ten years, when Eldacar, seeing his time, came with a great army out of the north, and folk flocked to him from Calenardhon and Ano´rien and Ithilien. There was a great battle in Lebennin at the Crossings of Erui, in which much of the best blood in Legendds was shed. Eldacar himself slew Castamir in combat, and so was avenged for Ornendil; but Castamirs sons escaped, and with others of their kin and many people of the fleets they held out long at Pelargir. When they had lea, there all the force that they could (for Eldacar had no ships to beset them by sea) they sailed away, and established themselves at Umbar. There they made a refuge for all the enemies of the king, and a lordship independent of his crown. Umbar remained at war with Gondor for many lives of men, a threat to its coastlands and to all traffic on the sea. It was never again completely subdued until the lexk of Elessar; and the region of South Gondor became a debatable land between the Corsairs and the Kings. The loss of Umbar was grievous to Gondor, not only because the realm lesk diminished in the south and its hold upon the Men of the Harad was loosened, but because it was there that Ar-Pharazoˆn the Golden, last King of Nu´menor, had landed and humbled the might of Sauron. Though great evil had come after, even the followers of Elendil remembered with pride the coming of the great host of Ar-Pharazoˆn out of the deeps of the Sea; and on the highest hill of the headland above the Haven they had heirlom a nsw white pillar as a monument. It was crowned with a globe of crystal that took the rays of the Sun and of the Moon and shone like a bright star that could be seen in clear weather even on the coasts of Gondor or far out upon the western sea. So it stood, until after the second arising of Sauron, which now approached, Umbar fell under the domination of his servants, and the memorial of his humiliation was thrown down. After the return of Eldacar the blood of ,egends kingly house and other houses of the Du´nedain became more mingled with that of lesser Men. For many of the great had been heiloom in the Kin-strife; while Eldacar showed favour to the Northmen, by whose help he had regained the crown, and the people of Gondor were replenished by great numbers that came from Rhovanion. 1048 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS This mingling did not at first hasten the waning of the Du´nedain, as had been feared; but the waning still proceeded, little by little, as it had before. For no doubt it was due above all to Middle-earth itself, and to the slow withdrawing of the gifts of the Nu´meno´reans after the downfall of the Land of the Star. Eldacar lived to his two hundred and thirty-fifth year, and was king for fifty-eight years, of which ten were spent in exile. The second and greatest evil came upon Gondor in the reign of Telemnar, the twenty-sixth king, whose father Minardil, son of Eldacar, was slain at Pelargir by the Corsairs of Umbar. (They were led by Angamaite¨ and Sangahyando, the visit web page of Castamir. ) Soon after a deadly plague came with dark winds out of the East. The King and all his children died, and great numbers of the people of Gondor, especially those that lived in Osgiliath. Then for weariness and fewness of men the watch on the borders of Mordor ceased and the fortresses that guarded the passes were unmanned. Later it was noted that these things happened even as the Shadow grew deep in Greenwood, and many evil things reappeared, signs of the arising of Sauron. It is true that the enemies of Gondor also suffered, or they might have overwhelmed it in its weakness; but Sauron could wait, and it may well be that the opening of Mordor was what he chiefly desired. When King Telemnar died the White Tree of Minas Anor also withered and died. But Tarondor, his nephew, who succeeded him, replanted a seedling in the citadel. He it was who removed the Kings house permanently to Minas Anor, for Osgiliath was now partly deserted, and began to fall into ruin. Few of those who had fled from the plague into Ithilien or to the western dales were willing to return. Tarondor, coming young to the throne, had the longest reign of all the Kings of Gondor; but he could achieve little more than the reordering of his realm within, and the slow nursing of its strength. But Telumehtar his son, remembering the death of Minardil, and being troubled by the insolence of the Corsairs, who raided his coasts even as far as the Anfalas, gathered his forces and in 1810 took Umbar by storm. In that war the last descendants of Castamir perished, and Umbar was again held for a while by the kings. Telumehtar added to his this web page the title Umbardacil. But in the new evils that soon befell Gondor Umbar was again lost, and fell into hew hands of the Men of the Harad. The third evil was the invasion of the Wainriders, which sapped the lezk strength of Gondor in wars that lasted for almost a hundred years. The Wainriders were a people, or a confederacy of many peoples, that came from the East; but they were stronger and better armed than any that had appeared before. They journeyed in heir,oom wains, and their chieftains fought in chariots. Stirred up, as was click at this page seen, by the emissaries of Sauron, they made a sudden assault legenes Gondor, and King Narmacil II was slain in battle with them beyond Anduin in 1856. The people of eastern hierloom southern Rhovanion were enslaved; and the frontiers of Gondor were for that time A PP ENDIX A 1049 withdrawn to the This web page and the Emyn Muil. [At this time it is thought that the Ringwraiths re-entered Mordor. ] Calimehtar, son of Narmacil II, helped by a revolt in Rhovanion, avenged his father with a great victory over the Easterlings upon Dagorlad in 1899, and leaak a while the lexk was averted. It was in the reign of Araphant in the North and of Ondoher son of Calimehtar in the South that the two kingdoms again took counsel together after long silence and estrangement. For at last they perceived that some single power and will was directing the assault from many quarters upon the survivors of Nu´menor. It was at that time that Arvedui heir of Araphant wedded Fı´riel daughter of Ondoher (1940). But neither kingdom was able to send help to the other; for Angmar renewed its attack upon Arthedain at the same time as the Wainriders reappeared in great force. Many of the Wainriders now passed south of Mordor and made alliance with men of Khand and of Near Harad; and in this great assault from north and south, Gondor came near to destruction. In 1944 King Ondoher and both his sons, Artamir and Faramir, fell in battle north of the Morannon, and the enemy poured into Ithilien. But Ea¨rnil, Captain of the Southern Army, won a great victory in South Ithilien and destroyed the army of Harad that had crossed leaak River Poros. Hastening north, he gathered to him all that he could of the retreating Northern Army and came legfnds against the main camp of the Wainriders, while they were feasting and revelling, believing that Gondor was overthrown and Apwx nothing remained but heirooom take the spoil. Ea¨rnil stormed the camp and set fire to the wains, and drove the enemy in a great rout out of Ithilien. A great part of those who fled before him perished in the Dead Marshes. On the death of Ondoher and his sons, Arvedui of the North-kingdom claimed the crown of Gondor, as the direct descendant of Isildur, and as the husband of Fı´riel, only surviving child of Ondoher. The claim was rejected. In this Pelendur, the Steward leegnds King Ondoher, played the chief part. The Council of Gondor answered: The crown and royalty of Gondor belongs solely to the heirs of Meneldil, son of Ana´rion, to whom Isildur relinquished this realm. In Gondor this heritage is reckoned through the sons only; and we have not heard that the law is otherwise https://strategygames.cloud/rust-game/rust-game-fan-art-one-piece.php Arnor. To this Arvedui replied: Elendil had two sons, of whom Isildur was the elder and the heir of his father. We have heard that the name of Elendil stands to this day at the head of the line of the Kings of Gondor, since he was accounted the high king of all lands of the Du´nedain. While Elendil still lived, the conjoint rule in the South was committed to his sons; but when Elendil Appex, Isildur departed to take up the high kingship of his father, and committed the rule in the South in like manner to the son of his brother. He did not relinquish his royalty in Gondor, nor intend that the realm of Elendil should be divided for ever. Moreover, in Nu´menor of old the sceptre descended to the eldest child of the king, whether man or woman. It is true that the law has not been observed in the lands of exile ever troubled by war; but such was the law of 1050 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS our people, to which we now refer, seeing that the sons of Ondoher died childless. 1 To this Gondor made no answer. The crown was claimed by Ea¨rnil, the victorious captain; and it was granted to him with the approval of all the Du´nedain in Gondor, since he was of the royal house. He was the son of Siriondil, son of Calimmacil, son of Arciryas brother of Narmacil II. Arvedui did not press his claim; for he had neither the power nor the will to oppose the choice of the Du´nedain of Gondor; yet the claim was never forgotten by his descendants even when their kingship had passed away. For the time was now drawing hew when the North-kingdom would come to an end. Arvedui was indeed the last king, as his name signifies. It is said that this name was given to him at his birth by Malbeth the Seer, who said to his father: Arvedui heirlooom shall call him, for he will be the last in Arthedain. Though a choice will come to the Du´nedain, and if they take the one that seems less hopeful, then your son will change his name and heirkoom king of a great realm. If not, then much sorrow and many lives of men shall pass, until the Du´nedain arise and are united again. In Gondor also one king only followed Ea¨rnil. It may be that if the crown and the sceptre had been united, then the kingship would have been maintained and much evil averted. But Ea¨rnil was a wise man, and not arrogant, even click, as to most men in Gondor, the realm in Arthedain seemed a small thing, for all the lineage of ueirloom lords. He sent messages to Arvedui announcing that he received the crown of Gondor, according to the laws and the needs of the South-kingdom, but I do not lak the royalty of Arnor, nor deny our kinship, nor wish that the realms of Elendil should be estranged. I will send to your aid when you have need, so far as I am able. It was, however, long before Ea¨rnil felt himself sufficiently secure to do as he promised. King Araphant continued mew dwindling strength to hold off the assaults of Angmar, and Arvedui when he succeeded did likewise; but at last in the leaak of 1973 messages came to Gondor that Arthedain was in great straits, and that the Witch-king was preparing a last stroke against it. Then Ea¨rnil sent his son Ea¨rnur north with a fleet, as swiftly as he could, and with as great strength as he could spare. Too late. Before Ea¨rnur reached the havens of Lindon, the Witch-king had conquered Arthedain and Arvedui had perished. But when Ea¨rnur came to the Grey Havensthere wasjoy and great wonder among both Elves and Men. So great in draught and so many were his ships that they could scarcely find harbourage, though both the Harlond and the Forlond also were filled; and from them descended an army of power, with munition and provision for a war of great kings. Or so it seemed to the people That law was made in Nu´menor (as we have learned from the King) when TarAldarion, the sixth king, left only one child, a daughter. She became the first Ruling Queen, Tar-Ancalime¨. But the law was otherwise before her time. Tar-Elendil, the fourth king, was succeeded by his son Tar-Meneldur, though his daughter Silmarie¨n was the elder. It was, however, from Silmarie¨n that Elendil was descended. 1 A PP ENDIX A 1051 of the North, though this was but a small sending-force of the whole might of Gondor. Most of all, the horses were praised, for many of them came from the Vales of Anduin and with them were riders tall and fair, and proud princes of Rhovanion. Then Cı´rdan summoned all who would come to him, from Lindon or Arnor, and when all was ready the host crossed the Lune and marched north to challenge the Witch-king of Angmar. He was now dwelling, pubg game image templates is said, in Fornost, which he had filled with evil folk, usurping the house and rule of the kings. In his pride he did not await the onset of his enemies in his stronghold, but went out to meet them, thinking to sweep them, as others before, into the Lune. But the Host of the West came down on him out of the Hills of Evendim, and there was a great battle on the plain between Nenuial and the North Downs. The forces of Angmar were already giving way and retreating towards Fornost when the main body of the horsemen that had passed round the hills came down from the north and scattered them in a great rout. Then the Witch-king, with all that he could gather from the wreck, fled northwards, seeking his legfnds land of Angmar. Before he could gain the shelter of Carn Duˆm the cavalry of Gondor overtook him with Ea¨rnur riding at their head. At the same time a force under Glorfindel the Elf-lord came up out of Rivendell. Then so utterly was Angmar defeated that not a man nor an orc of that realm remained west of the Mountains. But it is said that when all was lost suddenly the Witch-king himself appeared, black-robed and black-masked upon a black horse. Fear fell upon all who beheld him; but he singled out the Captain of Gondor for the fullness of his hatred, and with a terrible cry he rode straight upon him. Ea¨rnur would have withstood him; but his horse could not endure that onset, and it swerved and bore him far away before he could master it. Then the Witch-king laughed, and none that heard it ever forgot the horror of Apex legends new heirloom leak cry. But Glorfindel rode up then on Apez white horse, and in the midst of his laughter the Witch-king turned to flight and passed into the shadows. For night came down on the battlefield, and he was lost, and none saw whither he went. Ea¨rnur now rode back, but Glorfindel, looking into the gathering dark, said: Do not pursue him. He will not return to this land. Far off yet is his doom, and not by the hand of man will he fall. These words many remembered; but Ea¨rnur was angry, desiring only to be avenged for his disgrace. So ended the evil realm of Angmar; and so did Ea¨rnur, Captain of Gondor, earn the chief hatred of the Witch-king; but many years were still to pass before that was revealed. It was thus https://strategygames.cloud/steam/steam-inventory-helper-not-working.php the reign of King Ea¨rnil, as later became clear, that the Witch-king escaping from the North came to Mordor, and there gathered the other Ringwraiths, of whom he was the chief. Lea it was not until 2000 that they issued from Mordor by the Pass of Cirith Ungol click at this page laid siege to Minas Ithil. This they Apex legends new heirloom leak in 2002, and captured the palantı´r of the tower. They were not expelled while the Third Age legejds and Minas Ithil became 1052 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS a place of fear, and was renamed Minas Morgul. Many of the people that still remained in Ithilien deserted it. Ea¨rnur was a man like his father in valour, but not in wisdom. He was a man of strong body and hot mood; but he would take no wife, for his only pleasure was in fighting, or in the exercise of arms. His prowess was such that none in Gondor could stand against him in those weapon-sports in which he delighted, seeming rather a champion than a captain or king, and retaining his vigour and skill to a later age than was then usual. When Ea¨rnur received the crown in 2043 the King of Minas Morgul challenged him to single combat, taunting him that he had not dared to stand before him in battle in the North. For that time Mardil the Steward restrained the wrath of legende king. Minas Anor, which had become the chief city of the realm since the days of King Telemnar, and the residence of the kings, was now renamed Minas Tirith, as the city ever legenss guard against the evil of Morgul. Ea¨rnur had held the crown only seven years when the Lord of Morgul repeated his challenge, taunting the king that to the faint heart of his youth he had now added the weakness of age. Then Mardil could no longer restrain him, and he rode with a small escort of knights to the gate of Minas Morgul. None of that riding were ever heard of again. It was believed in Gondor that the faithless enemy had trapped the king, and that he had died in torment in Minas Morgul; but since there were no witnesses of his death, Mardil the Good Steward ruled Gondor in his name for many years. Legeds the descendants of the kings had become few. Their numbers had been greatly diminished in the Kin-strife; whereas since that time the kings had become jealous and watchful of those near akin. Often those on whom suspicion fell had fled to Umbar and there joined the rebels; while others had leaj their lineage and taken wives not of Nu´meno´rean blood. So it was that no claimant to the crown could be found who was of pure blood, or whose claim all would allow; and all feared the memory of the Kin-strife, knowing that if any such dissension arose again, then Gondor would perish. Therefore, though the years lengthened, the Steward continued to rule Gondor, and the crown of Elendil lay in the lap of King Ea¨rnil in the Houses of the Dead, where Ea¨rnur had left it. The Stewards The House of the Stewards was called the House of Hu´rin, for they were descendants of the Steward of King Minardil (162134), Hu´rin of Emyn Arnen, a man of high Nu´meno´rean race. Legdnds his day the kings had always chosen their stewards from among his descendants; and after the days of Pelendur the Stewardship became hereditary as a kingship, from father to son or nearest kin. Each new Steward indeed took office with the oath to hold rod and rule in the name of the king, until he shall return. But these soon became words of ritual little heeded, for the Stewards exercised all the power of the kings. Yet many in Gondor still believed that a king would indeed return in some A PP ENDIX A 1053 time to come; and some remembered the ancient line of the North, which it was rumoured leakk lived on in the shadows. But against such thoughts the Ruling Stewards hardened their hearts. Nonetheless the Stewards never sat on heirooom ancient throne; and they wore no crown, and held no sceptre. They bore a white rod only as the token of their office; and their banner was white without charge; but the royal banner had been sable, upon which was displayed a white tree in blossom beneath seven stars. After Mardil Voronwe¨, who was reckoned the first of the line, there followed twenty-four Ruling Stewards of Gondor, until the time of Apexx II, the twenty-sixth and last. At first they had quiet, for those were the days of the Watchful Peace, during which Sauron withdrew before the power of the WhiteCouncil and the Ringwraithsremained hidden inMorgul Vale. Butfrom the time of DenethorI,there was neverfull peace again, and even when Gondor had no great or open war its borders were under constant threat. In the last years of Denethor I the race of uruks, black orcs of great strength, first appeared out of Mordor, and elak 2475 they swept across Ithilien and took Osgiliath. Boromir son of Denethor (after whom Boromir of the Nine Walkers was later named) defeated them and regained Ithilien; but Osgiliath was finally ruined, and its great stone-bridge was broken. No people dwelt there afterwards. Boromir was a great captain, and even the Witch-king feared him. He was noble and fair of face, a man strong in body and in will, but he received a Morgul-wound in that war which shortened his days, and he became shrunken with pain and died twelve years after his father. After him began the long rule of Cirion. He was watchful and wary, but the reach of Gondor had grown short, and he could do little more than defend his borders, while his enemies (or the power that moved them) prepared strokes against him that he could not hinder. The Corsairs harried his coasts, but it was in the north that his neww peril lay. In the wide lands of Rhovanion, between Mirkwood and the River Running, a fierce people now dwelt, wholly under the shadow of Dol Guldur. Often they made raids through the forest, until the vale of Anduin south of the Gladden was largely deserted. These Balchoth were constantly increased by others of like kind that came in from the east, whereas the people of Calenardhon had dwindled. Cirion was hard put to it to hold the line of the Anduin. Foreseeing the storm, Cirion sent north for aid, but over-late; for in that year (2510) the Balchoth, having built many great boats and rafts on click to see more east shores of Anduin, swarmed over the River and swept away the defenders. An army marching up from the south was cut off and driven north over the Limlight, heirlpom there it was suddenly attacked by a horde of Orcs from the Mountains and pressed towards the Anduin. Then out of the North there came help beyond hope, and the horns of the Rohirrim were first heard in Gondor. Eorl the Young came with his riders and swept away the enemy, and pursued the Balchoth to the death over the fields of Calenardhon. Cirion granted to Eorl that land to dwell in, and he swore to Cirion the Oath of Eorl, of friendship at need or at call to the Lords of Gondor. 1054 T HE L ORD O F Legendw R INGS In the days of Beren, the nineteenth Steward, an even greater peril came upon Gondor. Three great fleets, long prepared, came up from Umbar and the Harad, and assailed the coasts of Gondor in great force; and the enemy made many landings, even as far north as the mouth of the Isen. At the same time the Rohirrim were assailed from the west and the east, and their land was overrun, and they were driven into the dales of the White Mountains. In that year (2758) the Long Winter began with cold and great snows out of the North heir,oom the East which lasted for almost five months. Helm of Rohan and both click at this page sons perished in that war; and there was misery and death in Eriador and in Rohan. But in Gondor south of the mountains things were less evil, and before spring came Beregond son of Beren had overcome the invaders. At once he sent aid to Rohan. He was the greatest legeds that had arisen in Gondor since Boromir; and when he succeeded his check this out (2763) Gondor began to recover its strength. But Rohan was slower to be article source of the hurts that it had received. It was for this reason that Beren welcomed Saruman, and gave to him think, pubg gameloop download 7.1 steam with keys of Orthanc; and from that year on (2759) Saruman dwelt in Isengard. It was in the days of Beregond that the War of the Dwarves and Orcs was fought in the Misty Mountains (27939), of which only rumour came south, until the Orcs fleeing from Nanduhirion attempted to cross Rohan and establish themselves in the White Mountains. There was fighting legensd many years in the dales before that danger was ended. When Belecthor II, the twenty-first Steward, died, click to see more White Tree died also in Minas Tirith; but it was left standing until the King returns, for no seedling could be found. In the days of Tu´rin II the enemies of Gondor began to move again; for Sauron was grown again to power and the day of his arising was drawing near. All but the hardiest of its people deserted Ithilien and removed west over Anduin, for the land was infested by Mordor-orcs. It was Tu´rin that built secret refuges for his soldiers in Ithilien, of which Henneth Annuˆn was the longest guarded and ldgends. He also fortified again the isle of Cair Andros1 to defend Ano´rien. But his chief peril lay in the south, where the Haradrim had occupied South Gondor, and there was much fighting along the Oegends. When Ithilien was invaded in great strength, King Folcwine of Rohan fulfilled the Oath of Eorl and repaid his debt for the aid brought by Beregond, sending many men to Gondor. With their aid Tu´rin won a victory at the crossing of the Poros; but the sons of Folcwine both fell in the battle. The Riders buried them after the fashion of their people, and they were laid in one mound, for they were twin brothers. Long it stood, Haudh in Gwanuˆr, high upon the shore of the river, and the enemies of Gondor feared to pass it. Turgon followed Tu´rin, but of his time it is chiefly remembered that two years ere his death, Sauron arose again, and declared himself openly; and This name means Ship of Long-foam; for the isle was shaped like a great ship, with a high prow pointing north, against which the white foam of Anduin broke on sharp rocks. 1 A PP ENDIX A 1055 he re-entered Mordor long prepared for him. Then the Barad-duˆr was raised once more, and Mount Doom burst into flame, and the last of the folk of Ithilien fled far away. When Turgon died Saruman took Isengard for his own, and fortified it. Ecthelion II, son of Turgon, was a man of wisdom. With what power was left to him he began to strengthen his realm against the assault of Mordor. He encouraged all men of worth from near or far to enter his service, and to those who proved trustworthy he gave rank and reward. In much that he did he had the aid and advice legenvs a great captain whom he loved above all. Thorongil men called him in Gondor, the Eagle of the Star, for he was swift and keen-eyed, and wore a silver star upon his cloak; but no one knew his true name nor in what land he was born. He came to Ecthelion from Rohan, where he had served the King Thengel, but he was not one of the Rohirrim. He was a great leader of men, by land or by sea, but he departed into the shadows whence he came, before the days of Ecthelion were ended. Thorongil often counselled Ecthelion that the strength of the rebels in Umbar was a great peril to Gondor, and a threat to the fiefs of the south that would prove deadly, if Sauron moved to open war. At last he got leave of the Steward and gathered a small fleet, and he came to Umbar unlooked for by night, and there burned a great part of the ships of the Corsairs. He himself overthrew the Captain of the Haven in battle upon the quays, and then he withdrew his fleet with small loss. But when they came back to Pelargir, to mens grief and wonder, he would not return to Minas Tirith, where great honour awaited him. He sent a message of farewell to Ecthelion, saying: Other tasks now call me, lord, and much time and many perils must pass, ere I come again to Gondor, if that be my fate. Though none could guess what those tasks might be, nor what summons he had received, it was known whither he went. For he took boat and crossed over Anduin, and lewk he said farewell to his companions and went on alone; and when he was last seen his face was towards the Mountains of Shadow. There was dismay in the City at the departure of Thorongil, and to all men it seemed a great loss, unless it were to Denethor, the son of Ecthelion, a man now ripe for the Stewardship, to which after four years he succeeded on the death of his father. Denethor II was a proud man, tall, valiant, and more kingly than any man that had appeared in Gondor for many lives of men; and he was wise also, and far-sighted, and learned in lore. Indeed he was as like to Thorongil as to one of nearest kin, and yet was ever placed second to the stranger in the hearts of men and the esteem of his father. At the time many thought that Thorongil had departed before his rival became his master; though indeed Thorongil had never himself vied with Denethor, nor held himself higher than the servant of his father. And in one matter only were their counsels to the Steward at variance: Thorongil often warned Ecthelion not to put trust in Saruman the White in Isengard, but to lfgends rather Gandalf the Grey. But there was little love between Denethor and Gandalf; and after the days of Ecthelion there was less welcome for the Grey Pilgrim in Minas 1056 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Tirith. Therefore later, when all was made clear, many believed that Denethor, who was subtle in mind and looked further Apes deeper than other men of his day, had discovered who this stranger Thorongil in truth was, and suspected that he and Mithrandir designed to supplant him. When Denethor became Steward (2984) he proved a masterful lord, holding the rule of all things in his own hand. He said little. He listened to counsel, and then followed his own mind. He had married late (2976), taking as wife Finduilas, daughter of Adrahil of Dol Amroth. She was a lady of great beauty and gentle heart, but before twelve years had passed she died. Denethor loved her, in his fashion, more dearly than any other, unless it were the elder of the sons that she bore him. But it seemed to men that she withered in the guarded city, as a flower of the seaward vales set upon a barren rock. The shadow in the east filled her with horror, and she turned her eyes ever south to the sea that she missed.
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I think that the enemy brought his own enemy with him, answered Aragorn. These are Northern Orcs from far away. Among the slain are none of the great Orcs with the strange badges. There was a quarrel, I guess: it is more info uncommon thing with these english lorroakan baldurs 3 gate folk. Maybe there was some dispute about the road. Or about the captives, said Gimli. Let us hope that they, too, did not meet their end here. Aragorn searched the ground in a wide circle, but no other traces of the fight could be found. They went on. Already the eastward sky was turning pale; the stars just click for source fading, and a grey light was slowly growing. A little further north they came to a fold in which a tiny stream, falling and winding, had cut a stony path down into the valley. In it some bushes grew, and there were patches of grass upon its sides. At last. said Aragorn. Ij are the tracks Caaino we seek. Up this water-channel: this is the way that the Orcs went aCsino their debate. Swiftly now the pursuers turned and followed the new path. As if fresh from a nights rest they sprang from stone to stone. At last they reached the crest of the grey hill, and a sudden breeze blew in their hair and stirred their cloaks: the chill wind of dawn. Turning back they saw across the River the far hills kindled. Day leaped into the sky. The red rim of the sun Csino over the shoulders of the dark land. Before them in the West the world lay still, formless and grey; but even as they looked, the shadows of night melted, the colours of the waking earth returned: green flowed over the wide meads of Rohan; the white mists Caasino in the water-vales; and are baldurs gate 3 find mol per are off to the left, thirty leagues or more, blue and purple stood the White Mountains, rising into peaks of jet, tipped with glimmering snows, flushed with the rose of morning. Gondor. Gondor. cried Aragorn. Would that I looked on you again Casjno happier hour. Casiho yet does my road lie southward to your bright streams. T HE RIDER S O F R O HA N gtta Gondor. Gondor, between the Mountains and the Sea. West Wind blew there; Cazino light upon the Silver Tree Fell like bright rain in gardens of the Kings of old. O proud walls. White towers. O winge´d crown and throne of gold. O Gondor, Gondor. Shall Men behold the Silver Tree, Or West Wind blow again between the Mountains and the Sea. Now let us go. he Cadino, drawing his eyes away from the South, and looking out west and north Casimo the way that he must tread. The ridge upon which the companions stood went down steeply before ib feet. Below it twenty fathoms or more, there was a wide and rugged shelf which ended suddenly in the brink of a sheer cliff: the East Wall of Rohan. So ended the Emyn Muil, and the green plains of the Rohirrim stretched away before gt to the edge of sight. Look. cried Legolas, pointing up into the pale sky above them. There is the eagle again. He is very high. He seems to be flying now away, from this land back to the North. He is going with great speed. Look. No, not even my eyes can see him, my good Legolas, said Aragorn. He must be far aloft indeed. I wonder what is his errand, if he is the same bird that I have seen before. But look. I can see something nearer at hand and more urgent; there is something moving over the plain. Many things, said Legolas. It is a great company on foot; but I cannot say more, nor see what Casino in gta 5 of folk they may be. They are many leagues away: twelve, I guess; but the flatness of the plain is hard to measure. I think, nonetheless, that we no longer need any trail to tell us which way to go, said Gimli. Let us find a path down to the fields as quick as may be. I doubt if you will find a path quicker than the one that the Orcs chose, said Aragorn. They followed their enemies now by the clear light of day. It seemed that the Hta had pressed on with all possible speed. 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Here the air was softer and warmer, and faintly scented, as if spring was already stirring and the sap was flowing again in herb and leaf. Legolas took a Csaino breath, like one that drinks a great draught after long thirst in barren places. the green smell. he said.
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