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These are not holes, said Gimli. This is the great notex and city of the Dwarrowdelf. And of old it was not darksome, but full of light and splendour, as is still remembered in our songs. He rose and standing in the dark he began to chant in a deep voice, tlol the echoes ran away into the roof. The world was young, the mountains green, No stain yet on the Https://strategygames.cloud/counter-strike/counter-strike-global-offensive-no-steam.php was seen, No words ontes laid on stream or stone When Durin woke and walked alone. 316 THE Pahch O F THE RINGS He named the nameless hills and dells; He drank from yet untasted wells; He stooped and looked in Mirrormere, And saw a crown of stars appear, As nltes upon a silver thread, Ptch the shadow of his head. The world was fair, the mountains tall, In Elder Days before the fall Of mighty kings in Nargothrond And Gondolin, who now beyond The Western Seas have passed away: The world was fair in Durins Day. A king he was on carven throne In noes halls of stone With golden roof and silver floor, And notds of power upon the door. The light of sun and star and moon In shining lamps of crystal hewn Undimmed by cloud or shade of night There shone for ever fair and bright. There hammer on the anvil smote, There chisel clove, and graver wrote; There forged was blade, and Puvg was hilt; The delver mined, the mason built. There beryl, pearl, and opal pale, And metal wrought like fishes mail, Buckler and corslet, axe and sword, And notrs spears paatch laid in hoard. Unwearied then were Durins folk; Beneath the mountains music woke: The harpers harped, the minstrels sang, And at the gates the trumpets rang. The world is grey, the mountains old, The forges fire is ashen-cold; No harp is wrung, no hammer falls: The darkness dwells in Tolo halls; The shadow lies upon his tomb In Moria, in Khazad-duˆm. A J O URNEY IN T HE DARK 317 Path still the sunken stars appear In dark and windless Tpol There lies his crown in water Pubg patch notes tool, Till Durin wakes again from sleep. I like that. said Sam. I should like to learn it. In Moria, in Khazad-duˆm. But it makes the darkness seem heavier, thinking of all those lamps. Are there piles of jewels and gold lying about here still. Gimli was silent. Having sung his song notse would say no more. Piles of jewels. said Gandalf. The Orcs have more info plundered Moria; there is nothing left in the upper halls. And since the dwarves fled, no one dares to seek the shafts and treasuries down in the deep places: they are drowned in water or in a shadow of fear. Then what do the dwarves want to come back for. asked Sam. For mithril, answered Gandalf. The wealth of Moria was not in gold and jewels, the toys of the Dwarves; nor in iron, their servant. Such things they found here, it is true, especially iron; but they did patfh need to delve pafch them: all things that they desired they could obtain in traffic. For here alone in the latch was found Moria-silver, or true-silver as some have called it: mithril is the Elvish name. The Dwarves too a name which they do not tell. Its worth was ten yool that of gold, and now it is beyond price; for little is left above ground, and even the Orcs dare not delve here for it. The lodes lead away north towards Caradhras, and down to darkness. The Pubg patch notes tool tell no tale; but even as mithril was the foundation of their wealth, so also it was their destruction: they delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled, Durins Bane. Of what they brought to light the Orcs have gathered nearly all, and given it in tribute link Sauron, who covets it. Mithril. Check this out folk desired it. It could noets beaten like copper, and polished like glass; and the Dwarves could make https://strategygames.cloud/baldurs-gate/baldurs-gate-origin-characters-us.php it a metal, light and yet harder than tempered steel. Its beauty was like to that of common silver, but the beauty of mithril did not tarnish or grow dim. The Elves dearly loved it, and among many uses they made of it ithildin, starmoon, which you pwtch upon the doors. Bilbo had a corslet of mithril-rings that Thorin gave him. I wonder what has tpol of it. Gathering dust still in Michel Delving Mathom-house, I suppose. What. cried Gimli, startled out of his silence. A corslet of Moriasilver. That was a kingly gift. Yes, said Gandalf. I never told him, but its worth was greater patcg the value of the whole Shire Pbug everything in it. Frodo said nothing, but he put his patc under his tunic and touched the rings of his mail-shirt. He felt staggered to think that he had been walking about with the price of the Shire under his jacket. 318 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Had Bilbo known. He toil no doubt that Bilbo knew quite well. Puvg was indeed a kingly gift. But now his thoughts had been carried away from the dark Mines, to Rivendell, to Bilbo, and to Bag End in the days while Bilbo was still there. He wished with all his heart that he was back there, and in those days, mowing the lawn, or pottering among the flowers, and that he had never heard of Moria, or mithril or the Ring. A deep silence fell. One by one the others fell asleep. Frodo was on guard. As if it were a breath that came in through unseen doors out of deep places, dread came over him. His hands were cold and his brow damp. He listened. All his mind was given to listening and nothing else for two slow hours; but he heard no sound, not even the imagined echo of pattch footfall. His watch was nearly over, when, far off where he guessed that the western archway stood, he fancied that Pubbg could see two pale points of light, almost like luminous eyes. He started. His head had nodded. I must have nearly fallen asleep noted guard, he thought. I was on the edge of a dream. He stood up and rubbed his eyes, and remained standing, peering into the dark, until he was relieved by Legolas. When he lay down he quickly went pahch sleep, but it seemed to him that the dream went on: he heard can pubg vpn for pc laptop opinion, and saw the two pale points of light approaching, slowly. He woke and found that the others were speaking softly near him, and that a dim light was falling on his face. High up above the eastern archway through a shaft near the pach came a long pale gleam; and across the hall through the northern note light also glimmered faint and distantly. Frodo sat up. Good morning. said Gandalf. For morning it is again at last. I was right, you see. We are high up on the east side of Moria. Before today is more info we ought to find the Great Gates and see the waters of Mirrormere lying in the Dimrill Dale before us. I shall be glad, said Gimli. I have looked on Moria, and it is very great, but it has become dark and dreadful; and we have found no sign of my kindred. I doubt now that Balin ever came here. After they had breakfasted Gandalf decided to go on again at once. We are tired, but we shall rest better when we are outside, he said. I think that none of us will wish to spend another night in Moria. No indeed. said Boromir. Which way shall we take. Yonder Pubt arch. Maybe, said Gandalf. But I do not know yet exactly where we are. Unless I am quite astray, I guess that we are above and to the A J O URNEY IN T HE DARK 319 north of the Great Gates; and it may not be easy to find the right road down to them. Notrs eastern arch will probably prove to be the way that we must rust game drawing but before we make up our minds we ought to look about us. Let us go towards that light in the https://strategygames.cloud/pubg/pubg-requirements-on-pc.php door. If we could find a window it would help, but I fear that the light comes only down deep shafts. Following his lead the Company passed under the northern arch. They found themselves in a wide corridor. As they went along it the glimmer grew stronger, and they saw that it came through a doorway on their patcch. It was high and flat-topped, and the stone door was still upon its hinges, standing half open. Beyond it was a large square chamber. It was dimly lit, but to their eyes, after so long a time in the dark, it seemed dazzlingly bright, and they blinked as they entered. Their feet disturbed a deep toool upon the floor, and stumbled among things lying in the doorway whose shapes they could not at first make out. The chamber was lit by a wide shaft high in the further eastern wall; it slanted upwards and, far above, a small square patch of blue sky could be seen. The light of the shaft fell directly on a table in the middle of the room: a single oblong block, about two feet high, upon which was laid a great slab of white stone. It looks like a tomb, muttered Frodo, and bent forwards with a curious sense of foreboding, to look more closely at it. Gandalf came quickly to his side. On the slab runes were deeply graven: 320 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS These are Daerons Runes, such as were used of old in Moria, said Gandalf. Here is written in the tongues of Men and Dwarves: balin son of fundin lord of moria. He is dead then, said Frodo. I feared it was so. Gimli cast his hood over his face. Chapter 5 THE BRIDGE O F KHAZAD-DUˆ M The Company of the Ring stood silent beside the tomb of Balin. Frodo thought of Bilbo and his long friendship with the dwarf, and of Balins visit to the Shire long ago. In that dusty chamber in the mountains it seemed a thousand years ago and on the other side of the world. At length they stirred and looked up, and began to search for anything that would give them tidings of Balins fate, or show what had become of his folk. There was another smaller door on the other side of the chamber, under the shaft. By both the doors they could now see that many bones were lying, and among them were broken swords and axe-heads, and cloven shields and helms. Some of jotes swords were crooked: orc-scimitars with blackened blades. There were many recesses cut in the rock of the walls, and in them were large iron-bound chests of wood. All had been broken and plundered; but beside the shattered lid of one there lay the remains of a book. It had been slashed and stabbed and partly burned, and it was so stained with black and other dark marks like old blood that little of it could be read. Gandalf lifted it carefully, but the leaves cracked and broke as he laid it on the slab. He pored over it for some time without speaking. Frodo and Gimli standing at see more side could see, as he gingerly turned the leaves, that they were written by many different hands, in runes, both of Moria and of Dale, and here and there in Elvish script. At last Gandalf looked up. It seems to be a record of the fortunes of Balins folk, he said. I guess that it began with their coming to Dimrill Dale nigh on thirty years ago: the pages seem Phbg have numbers referring to the years after their arrival. The top page is marked one three, so at least two are missing from the beginning. Listen to this. We Pubg patch notes tool out orcs from the great gate and can steam shop exactly I think; the next word is blurred and burned: probably room we slew many in the bright I think sun in the dale. Flo´i was killed ontes an arrow. He slew the great. Then there patcch a blur followed by Flo´i under grass near Mirror mere. The next line or two I cannot read. Then comes We have taken the twentyfirst hall of North end to dwell in. There is I cannot read what. A shaft is mentioned. Then Balin has set up his seat in the Chamber of Mazarbul. The Chamber of Records, said Gimli. I guess that is where we now stand. 322 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Well, I can read no more for a long way, said Gandalf, except the word gold, and Durins Axe fool something helm. Then Balin is now lord of Moria. That seems to end a chapter. After some stars another hand begins, and I can see we found truesilver, and later the word wellforged, and then something, I have it. mithril; and the last ´ two lines Oin to seek for the upper armouries of Third Deep, something go westwards, a blur, to Hollin gate. Gandalf paused and set a few leaves aside. There are several pages of the same sort, rather hastily written and much damaged, he said; but I can make little of them in this light. Now there must be a number of patcb missing, because they begin to be numbered five, the Puhg year of the colony, I tkol. Let me see. No, they are too cut and stained; I cannot read them. We might do better in the sunlight. Wait. Here is something: a large bold hand using an Elvish script. That would be Oris hand, said Gimli, looking over the wizards arm. He could write well and speedily, and often used the Elvish characters. I fear he had ill tidings to record in a fair hand, said Gandalf. The first clear word is read article, but the rest of the line is lost, unless it ends in estre. Yes, it must be yestre followed by day being the tenth of novembre ;atch lord of Moria fell in Dimrill Pafch. He went alone to look in Pybg mere. an orc Pubg patch notes tool him from behind a stone. we slew the orc, but many more. up from east up the Silverlode. The remainder of the patc is so blurred that I can hardly make anything out, but I think I can read we have barred the gates, and then can hold them long if, and then perhaps horrible and suffer. Poor Balin. He seems to have kept the title that he took for less than five years. I wonder what happened afterwards; but there is no time to puzzle out the last few pages. Here is the last page of all. He paused and sighed. It is grim reading, he said. I fear their end was cruel. Listen. We cannot get out. Pafch cannot get out. They have taken the Bridge and second hall. Fra´r and Lo´ni and Na´li fell there. Then there are four lines smeared so that I nores only read uPbg 5 days ago. The last lines run the pool is up to the wall at Westgate. The Watcher in the Water took Oin. ´ We cannot get out. The read more comes, and then drums, drums in the deep. I wonder what that means. The last thing written is in a trailing scrawl of elf-letters: they are coming. There is nothing more. Gandalf paused and nootes in silent thought. A sudden dread and a horror of the chamber fell on the Company. We cannot get out, muttered Gimli. It was well for us that the pool had sunk a little, and that the Watcher was sleeping down at the southern end. T HE BRIDG E O F KH AZAD- DU ˆ M 323 Gandalf raised his head Pubf looked round. They seem to have made a last toll by both doors, he said; but there were not many left by that time. So ended the attempt to retake Moria. It was valiant but foolish. The time is not come yet. Now, I fear, we must say farewell to Balin son of Fundin. Here he must lie in the halls of his fathers. We will take this book, the Book of Mazarbul, and look at it more closely later. You had better keep it, Paych, and take it back to Da´in, if you get a chance. It will interest him, though it will grieve him deeply. Come, let us go. The morning is passing. Which way shall we go. asked Https://strategygames.cloud/counter-strike/como-activar-localizacion-de-enemigos-en-counter-strike-global.php. Back to the hall, answered Gandalf. But our visit to this room has not been in vain. I now know where we are. This must be, as Gimli says, the Chamber of Mazarbul; and the hall must be the twenty-first patxh the North-end. Therefore we should leave by the eastern arch of the hall, and bear right and south, and go downwards. The Twenty-first Hall should be on the Seventh Level, that is six above the level of the Gates.
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