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O yes, Shelob will get him, not Sme´agol: he promised; he wont hurt Master at all. But hes got you, you nassty filthy little sneak. He spat on Sams neck. Fury at the treachery, and desperation at the delay when his master was in deadly peril, gave to Sam a sudden violence and strength that was far beyond anything that Gollum had expected from this slow stupid hobbit, as he thought him. Not Gollum himself could have twisted more quickly or more fiercely. His hold on Sams mouth slipped, and Sam ducked and lunged forward again, trying to tear away from the grip on his neck. His sword was still in his hand, and on his left arm, hanging by its thong, was Faramirs staff. Desperately he tried to turn and stab his enemy. But Gollum was too quick. His long right arm shot out, and he grabbed Sams wrist: his fingers were like a vice; slowly and relentlessly he bent the hand down and forward, till with a cry of pain Sam released the sword and it fell to the ground; and all the while Gollums other hand was tightening on Sams throat. Then Sam played his last trick. With all his strength he pulled away and got his feet firmly planted; then suddenly he drove his legs against the ground and with his whole force hurled himself backwards. Not expecting even this simple trick from Sam, Gollum fell over with Sam on top, and he received the weight of the sturdy hobbit in his stomach. A sharp hiss came out of him, and for a second his hand upon Sams throat loosened; but his fingers still gripped the sword-hand. Sam tore himself forward and away, and stood up, and then quickly he wheeled away to his right, pivoted on the wrist held by Gollum. Laying hold of the staff with his left hand, Sam swung it up, and down it came with a whistling crack on Gollums outstretched arm, just below the elbow. With a squeal Gollum let go. Then Sam waded in; not waiting to change the staff from left to right he dealt another savage blow. Quick as a snake Gollum slithered aside, and the stroke aimed at his head fell across his back. The staff cracked and broke. That was enough for him. Grabbing from behind was an old game of his, and seldom had he failed in it. But this time, misled by spite, he had made the mistake of speaking and gloating before he had both hands on his victims neck. Everything had gone wrong with his beautiful plan, since that horrible light had so unexpectedly appeared in the darkness. And now he was face to face with a furious enemy, little less than his own size. This fight was not for him. Sam swept up his sword from the ground and raised it. Gollum squealed, and springing aside on to all fours, he jumped away in one big bound like a frog. Before S HE L OBS LAIR 727 Sam could reach him, he was off, running with amazing speed back towards the tunnel. Sword in hand Sam went after him. For the moment he had forgotten everything else but the red fury in his brain and the desire to kill Gollum. But before he could overtake him, Gollum was gone. Then as the dark hole stood before him and the stench came out to meet him, like a clap of thunder the thought of Frodo and the monster smote upon Sams mind. He spun round, and rushed wildly up the path, calling and calling his masters name. He was too late. So far Gollums plot had succeeded. Chapter 10 THE CHOICES O F MASTER SAMWISE Frodo was lying face upward on the ground and the monster was bending over him, so intent upon her victim that she took no heed of Sam and his cries, until he was close at hand. As he rushed up he saw that Frodo was already bound in cords, wound about him from ankle to shoulder, and the monster with her great forelegs was beginning half to lift, half to drag his body away. On the near side of him lay, gleaming on the ground, his elvenblade, where it had fallen useless from his grasp. Sam did not wait to wonder what was to be done, or whether he was brave, or loyal, or filled with rage. He sprang forward with a yell, and seized his masters sword in his left hand. Then he charged. No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands Honey select steam its fallen mate. Disturbed as if out of some gloating dream by his small yell she turned slowly the dreadful malice of her glance upon him. But almost before she was aware that a fury was upon her greater than any she had known in countless years, the shining sword bit upon her foot and shore away the claw. Sam sprang in, inside the arches of her legs, and with a quick upthrust of his other hand stabbed at the clustered eyes upon her lowered head. One great eye went article source. Now the miserable creature was right under her, for the moment out of the reach of her sting and of her claws. Her vast belly was above him with its putrid light, and the stench of it almost smote him down. Still his fury held for one more blow, and before she could sink upon him, smothering him and all his little impudence of courage, he slashed the bright elven-blade across her with desperate strength. But Shelob was not as dragons are, no softer spot had she save only her eyes. Knobbed and pitted with corruption was her age-old hide, but ever thickened from within with layer on layer of evil growth. The blade scored it with a dreadful gash, but those hideous folds could not be pierced by any strength of men, not though Elf or Dwarf should forge the steel or the hand of Beren or of Tu´rin wield it. She yielded to the stroke, and then heaved up the great bag of her belly high above Sams head. Poison frothed and bubbled from the wound. T HE CHOIC ES O F MASTER SAMWI SE 729 Now splaying her legs she drove her huge bulk down on him again. Too soon. For Sam still stood upon his feet, and dropping his own sword, with both hands he held the elven-blade point upwards, fending off that ghastly roof; and so Shelob, with the driving force of her own cruel will, with strength greater than any warriors hand, thrust herself upon a bitter spike. Deep, deep it pricked, as Sam was crushed slowly to the ground. No such anguish had Shelob ever known, or dreamed of knowing, in all her long world of wickedness. Not the doughtiest soldier of old Gondor, nor the most savage Orc entrapped, had ever thus endured her, or set blade to her beloved flesh. A shudder went through her. Heaving up again, wrenching away from the pain, she bent her writhing limbs beneath her and sprang backwards in a convulsive leap. Sam had fallen to his knees by Frodos head, his senses reeling in the foul stench, his two hands still gripping the hilt of the sword. Through the mist before his eyes he was aware dimly of Frodos face, and stubbornly he fought to master himself and to drag Honey select steam out of the swoon that was upon him. Slowly he raised his head and saw her, only a few paces away, eyeing him, her beak drabbling a spittle of venom, and a green ooze trickling from below her wounded eye. There she crouched, her shuddering belly splayed upon the ground, the great bows of her legs quivering, as she gathered herself for another spring this time to crush and sting to death: no little bite of poison to still the struggling of her meat; this time to slay and then to rend. Even as Sam himself crouched, looking at her, seeing his death in her eyes, a thought came to him, as if some remote voice had spoken, and he fumbled in his breast with his left hand, and found what he sought: cold and hard and solid it seemed to his touch in a phantom world of horror, the Phial of Galadriel. Galadriel. he said faintly, and then he heard voices far off but clear: the crying of the Elves as they walked under the stars in please click for source beloved shadows of the Shire, and click the following article music of the Elves as it came through his sleep in the Hall of Fire in the house of Elrond. Gilthoniel A Elbereth. And then his tongue was loosed and his voice cried in a language which he did not know: A Elbereth Gilthoniel o menel palan-diriel, le nallon sı´ dinguruthos. A tiro nin, Fanuilos. 730 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS And with that he staggered to his feet and was Samwise the hobbit, Hamfasts son, again. Now come, you filth. he cried. Youve hurt my master, you brute, and youll pay for it. Were going on; but well settle with you first. Come on, and taste it again. As if his indomitable spirit had set its potency in motion, the glass blazed suddenly like a white torch in his hand. It flamed like a star that leaping from the firmament sears the dark air with intolerable light. No such terror out of heaven had ever burned in Shelobs face before. The beams of it entered into her wounded head and scored it with unbearable pain, and the dreadful infection of light spread from eye to eye. She fell back beating the air with her forelegs, her sight blasted by inner lightnings, her mind in agony. Then turning her maimed head away, she rolled aside and began to crawl, claw by claw, towards the opening in the dark cliff behind. Sam came on. He was reeling like a drunken man, but he came on. And Shelob cowed at last, shrunken in defeat, jerked and quivered as she tried to hasten from him. She reached the hole, and squeezing down, leaving a trail of green-yellow slime, she slipped in, even as Sam hewed a last stroke at her dragging legs. Then he fell to the ground. Shelob was gone; and whether she lay long in her lair, nursing her malice and her misery, and in slow years of darkness healed herself from within, rebuilding her clustered eyes, until with hunger like death she spun once more her dreadful snares in the glens of the Mountains of Shadow, this tale does not tell. Sam was left alone. Wearily, as the evening of the Nameless Land fell upon the place of battle, he crawled back to his master. Master, dear master, he said, but Frodo did not speak. As he had run forward, eager, rejoicing to be free, Shelob with hideous speed had come behind and with one Honey select steam stroke had stung him in the neck. He lay now pale, and heard no voice, and did not move. Master, dear master. said Sam, and through a long silence waited, listening in vain. Then as quickly as he could he cut away the binding cords and laid his head upon Frodos breast and to his mouth, but no stir of life could he find, nor feel the faintest flutter of the heart. Often he chafed his masters hands and feet, and touched his brow, but all were cold. Frodo, Mr. Frodo. he called. Dont leave me here alone. Its your Sam calling. Dont go where I cant follow. Wake up, See more. Frodo. O wake up, Frodo, article source dear, me dear. Wake up. T HE Honey select steam ES O F MASTER SAMWI SE 731 Then anger surged over him, and he ran about his masters body in a rage, apex png the air, and smiting the stones, and shouting challenges. Presently he came back, and bending looked at Frodos face, pale beneath him in the dusk. And suddenly he saw that he was in the picture that was revealed to him in the mirror of Galadriel in Lo´rien: Frodo with a pale face lying fast asleep under fallout 4 next gen update leak great dark cliff. Or fast asleep he had thought then. Hes dead. he said. Not asleep, dead. And as he said it, as if the words had set the venom to its work again, it seemed to him that the hue of the face grew livid green. And then black despair came down on him, and Sam bowed to the ground, and drew his grey hood over his head, and night came into his heart, and he knew no more. When at last the blackness passed, Sam looked up and shadows were about him; but for how many minutes or hours the world had gone dragging on he could not tell. He was still in the same place, and still his master lay beside him dead. The mountains had not crumbled nor the earth fallen into ruin. What shall I do, what shall I do. he said. Did I come all this way with him for nothing. And then he remembered his own voice speaking words that at the time he did not understand himself, of duty game pass x the beginning of their journey: I have something to do before the end. I must see it through, sir, if you understand. But what can I do. Not leave Mr. Frodo dead, unburied on the top of the mountains, and go home. Or go on. Go on. he repeated, and for a moment doubt and fear shook him. Go on. Is that what Please click for source got to do. And leave him. Then at last he began to weep; and going to Frodo he composed his body, and folded his cold hands upon his breast, and wrapped his cloak about him; and he laid his own sword at one side, and the staff that Faramir had given at the other. If Im to go on, he said, then I must take your sword, by your leave, Mr. Frodo, but Ill put this one to lie by you, as it lay by the old king in the barrow; and youve got your beautiful mithril coat from old Mr. Bilbo. And your star-glass, Mr. Frodo, you did lend it to me and Ill need it, for Ill be always in the dark now. Its too good for me, and the Lady gave it to you, but maybe shed understand. Do you understand, Mr. Frodo. Ive got to go on. But he could not go, not yet. He knelt and held Frodos hand and could not release it. And time went by and still he knelt, holding his masters hand, and in his heart keeping a debate. Now he tried to find strength to tear himself away and go on a 732 T HE L ORD O F THE R Click the following article lonely journey for vengeance. If once he could go, his anger would bear him down all the roads of the world, pursuing, until he had him at last: Gollum. Then Gollum would die in a corner. But that was not what he had set out to do. It would not be worth while to leave his master for that. It would not bring him back. Nothing would. They had better both be dead together. And that too would be a lonely journey. He looked on the bright point of the sword. He thought of the places behind where there was a black brink and an empty fall into nothingness. There was no escape that way. That was to do nothing, not even to grieve. That was not what he had set out to do. What am I to do then. he cried again, and now he seemed plainly to know the hard answer: see it through. Another lonely journey, and the worst. What. Me, alone, go to the Fallout 4 intro skip mod of Doom and all. He quailed still, but the resolve grew. What. Me take the Ring from him. The Council gave it to him. But the answer came at once: And the Council gave him companions, so that the errand should not fail. And you are the last of all the Company. The errand must not fail. I wish I wasnt the last, he groaned. I wish old Gandalf was here, or somebody. Why am I left all alone to make up my mind. Im sure to go wrong. And its not for me to go taking the Ring, putting myself forward. But you havent put yourself forward; youve been put forward. And as for not being the right and proper person, why, Mr. Frodo wasnt, as you might say, nor Mr. Bilbo. They didnt choose themselves. Ah well, I must make up my own mind. I will make it up. But Ill be sure to go wrong: thatd be Sam Gamgee all over. Let me see now: if were found here, or Mr. Frodos found, and that Things on him, well, the Enemy will get it. And thats the end of all of us, of Lo´rien, and Rivendell, and the Shire and all. And theres no time to lose, or itll be the end anyway. The wars begun, and more than likely things are all going the Enemys way already. No chance to go back with It and get advice or permission. No, its sit here till they come and kill me over masters body, and gets It; or take It and go. He drew a deep breath. Then take It, it is. He stooped. Very gently he undid the clasp at the neck and slipped his hand inside Frodos tunic; then with his other hand raising the head, he kissed the cold forehead, and softly drew the chain over it. And then the head lay quietly back again in rest. No change came over the still face, and by that more than by all other tokens Sam was convinced at last that Frodo had died and laid aside the Quest. T HE CHOIC ES O F MASTER SAMWI SE 733 Good-bye, master, my dear. he murmured. Forgive your Sam. Hell come back to this spot when the jobs done if he manages it. And then hell not leave you again. Rest you quiet till I come; and may no foul creature come anigh you. And if the Lady could hear me and give me one wish, I would wish to come back and find you again. Good-bye. And then he bent his own neck and put the chain upon it, and at once his head was bowed to the ground with the weight of the Ring, as if a great stone had been strung on him. But slowly, as if the weight became less, or new strength grew in him, he raised his head, and then with a great effort got to more info feet and found that he could walk and bear his burden. And for a moment he lifted up the Phial and looked down at his master, and the light burned gently now with the soft radiance of the evening-star in summer, and in that light Frodos face was fair of hue again, pale but beautiful with an Elvish beauty, as of one who has long passed the shadows. And with the bitter comfort of that pubg game meaning xbox 360 sight Sam turned and hid the light and stumbled on into the growing dark. He had not far to go. The tunnel was some way behind; the Cleft a couple of hundred yards ahead, or less. The path was visible in the dusk, a deep rut worn in ages of passage, running now gently up in a long trough with cliffs on either side. The trough narrowed rapidly. Soon Sam came to a long flight of broad shallow steps. Now the orc-tower was right above him, frowning black, and in it the red eye glowed. Now he was hidden in the dark shadow under it. He was coming to the top of the steps and was in the Cleft at last. Ive made up my mind, he kept saying to himself. But he had not. Though he had done his best to think it out, what he was doing was altogether against the grain of his nature. Have I got it wrong. he muttered. What ought I to have done. As the sheer sides of the Cleft closed about him, before he reached the actual summit, before he looked at last on the path descending into the Nameless Land, he turned. For a moment, motionless in intolerable doubt, he looked back. He could still see, like a small blot in the gathering gloom, the mouth of the tunnel; and he thought he could see or guess where Frodo lay. He fancied there was a glimmer on the ground apex xbox series x settings there, fallout heal console command perhaps it was some trick of his tears, as he peered out at that high stony place where all his life had fallen in ruin. If only I could have my wish, my one wish, he sighed, to go back and find him. Then at last he turned to the road in front and took a few steps: the heaviest and the most reluctant he had ever taken. 734 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS Only a few steps; and now only a few more and he would be going down and would never see that high place again. And then suddenly he heard cries and voices. He stood still as stone. Orc-voices. They were behind him and before him. A noise of tramping feet and harsh shouts: Orcs were coming up to the Cleft from the far side, from some entry to the tower, perhaps. Tramping feet and shouts behind. He wheeled round. He saw small red lights, https://strategygames.cloud/game/word-games.php, winking away below there as they issued from the tunnel. At last the hunt was up. The red eye of the tower had not been blind.
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