1. Nothing is evil
in the beginning.Copy !req
2. Here! Over here!Copy !req
3. And there was a time
when the world was so young,Copy !req
4. there had not yet been a sunrise.Copy !req
5. But even then there was light.Copy !req
6. Well, is it finished yet?Copy !req
7. Even you couldn't possibly believe
that old scrap will float.Copy !req
8. It's not going to float.Copy !req
9. It's going to sail.Copy !req
10. - Stop!Copy !req
11. No, don't!Copy !req
12. - Stop, you'll break it!Copy !req
13. Stop! Don't!Copy !req
14. - Come on.
- Stop, you're breaking it! Stop!Copy !req
15. I told you it wouldn't float.Copy !req
16. Get off me!Copy !req
17. Lose your footing again, Galadriel?Copy !req
18. It was a good ship, sister.Copy !req
19. I made it just as you taught me.Copy !req
20. Do you know why a ship floats
and a stone cannot?Copy !req
21. Because the stone sees only downward.Copy !req
22. The darkness of the water is vast
and irresistible.Copy !req
23. The ship feels the darkness as well,Copy !req
24. striving moment by moment
to master her and pull her under.Copy !req
25. But the ship has a secret.Copy !req
26. For unlike the stone,
her gaze is not downward but up.Copy !req
27. Fixed upon the light that guides her,Copy !req
28. whispering of grander things
than darkness ever knew.Copy !req
29. But sometimes the lights shine
just as brightlyCopy !req
30. reflected in the water
as they do in the sky.Copy !req
31. It's hard to say which way is up
and which way is down.Copy !req
32. How am I to know which lights to follow?Copy !req
33. But that seems so simple.Copy !req
34. The most important truths often are.Copy !req
35. But you must learn
to discern them for yourself.Copy !req
36. I won't always be here
to speak them to you.Copy !req
37. You won't?Copy !req
38. Come along. Mother and Father are waiting.Copy !req
39. We had no word for death.Copy !req
40. For we thought our joys would be unending.Copy !req
41. We thought our light would never dim.Copy !req
42. So when the Great Foe, Morgoth,Copy !req
43. destroyed the very light of our home...Copy !req
44. We resisted.Copy !req
45. And a legion of Elves went to war.Copy !req
46. We left Valinor, our home,
and journeyed to a distant realm.Copy !req
47. One filled with untold perils
and strange creatures beyond count.Copy !req
48. A place known as Middle-earth.Copy !req
49. Valaron kalanen!Copy !req
50. Firuvantë!Copy !req
51. They said it would be over quickly,Copy !req
52. but the war left Middle-earth in ruin.Copy !req
53. And would last centuries.Copy !req
54. Now, we learned many words for death.Copy !req
55. In the end, Morgoth would be defeated.Copy !req
56. But not before much sorrow.Copy !req
57. For his Orcs had spread
to every corner of Middle-earth,Copy !req
58. Multiplying ever greaterCopy !req
59. under the command
of his most devoted servant,Copy !req
60. a cruel and cunning sorcerer.Copy !req
61. They called him Sauron.Copy !req
62. My brother vowed to seek him out
and destroy him.Copy !req
63. But Sauron found him firstCopy !req
64. and marked his flesh with a symbol.Copy !req
65. One whose meaning even our wisest
could not discern.Copy !req
66. And there, in the darkness,Copy !req
67. his vow became mine.Copy !req
68. And so, we hunted.Copy !req
69. To the ends of the Earth we hunted Sauron.Copy !req
70. But the trail grew thin.Copy !req
71. Year gave way to year.Copy !req
72. Century gave way to century.Copy !req
73. And for many Elves, the pain of those daysCopy !req
74. passed out of thought and mind.Copy !req
75. More and more of our kindCopy !req
76. began to believe that Sauron
was but a memory.Copy !req
77. And the threat, at last, was ended.Copy !req
78. I wish I could be one of them.Copy !req
79. Commander Galadriel.Copy !req
80. This company has followed you
to the very edge of the world.Copy !req
81. But none who ever dared search
for this last strongholdCopy !req
82. has ever found anything.Copy !req
83. It's been years
since the last Orc was sighted.Copy !req
84. Is it not possible the other commanders
are right and our enemy is no more?Copy !req
85. Night is closing in.Copy !req
86. How long can living flesh endure
where even sunlight fears to tread?Copy !req
87. Perhaps we would be wise to camp here.Copy !req
88. And tomorrow, begin the journey home.Copy !req
89. We are losing the light.Copy !req
90. Commander, wait!Copy !req
91. No. We keep moving.Copy !req
92. Galadriel, stop!Copy !req
93. There's nothing out here.
We should have been there by now.Copy !req
94. We are there.Copy !req
95. This is it.Copy !req
96. This is where the Orcs gathered
after Morgoth's defeat.Copy !req
97. Far more must have escaped,
than we ever imagined.Copy !req
98. My hand is past feeling.Copy !req
99. No.Copy !req
100. This place is so evil,
our torches give off no warmth.Copy !req
101. This way.Copy !req
102. How can you be certain?Copy !req
103. It's colder than the rest.Copy !req
104. A door was filled in here.Copy !req
105. Bring it down.Copy !req
106. What devilry is this?Copy !req
107. These Orcs were meddling
with the powers of the Unseen World.Copy !req
108. Some dark sorcery of old.Copy !req
109. But what was their purpose?Copy !req
110. Surely, it is lost to the ages now.Copy !req
111. Whatever happened here was long ago.Copy !req
112. Water.Copy !req
113. Even stone cannot hide the markCopy !req
114. of one whose very hand
is flame unquenched.Copy !req
115. He was here.Copy !req
116. Sauron was here.Copy !req
117. Tell the others to rest while they can.Copy !req
118. At sunrise we move on.
We'll take the search further north.Copy !req
119. Further north?Copy !req
120. This mark was left as a trail
for Orcs to follow.Copy !req
121. The last time I saw it was on my brother.Copy !req
122. We must follow it.Copy !req
123. The mark is centuries old.Copy !req
124. Whoever left it could be long dead.Copy !req
125. Or lying in wait, gathering strength,Copy !req
126. perfecting whatever dark art
eluded him here.Copy !req
127. We exceeded our orders months ago.Copy !req
128. Surely we must first return home
to take counsel with the High King.Copy !req
129. I promise you there is not a soul
amongst our companyCopy !req
130. who yearns for home more than I.Copy !req
131. I can still feel the light of the Trees
on my face.Copy !req
132. I can still see it.Copy !req
133. And until we are certainCopy !req
134. every trace of our enemy is vanquished...Copy !req
135. I can never return.Copy !req
136. Snow-troll!Copy !req
137. We should never
have come in here.Copy !req
138. We leave soon enough.Copy !req
139. The order is given.Copy !req
140. We march at first light.Copy !req
141. Then you shall do so alone.Copy !req
142. Something's wrong here.
Nothing to hunt.Copy !req
143. Wolves in every thicket.Copy !req
144. Don't you think
it's the least bit strange?Copy !req
145. World's strange.Copy !req
146. If I let 'em pitch-kettle me,Copy !req
147. I'd never get off me barstool.Copy !req
148. - Oi, oi!Copy !req
149. Keep walkin'.Copy !req
150. Why?Copy !req
151. Looked like a badger. Maybe a fox.Copy !req
152. More likely a Harfoot.Copy !req
153. A Harfoot?Copy !req
154. Ugh. Don't care to be seein' none,Copy !req
155. but if you do, watch yourself.Copy !req
156. Dangerous creatures they are.Copy !req
157. You're making it up.Copy !req
158. Come on. Rattle your dags!Copy !req
159. Let's just get to the lake before sundown.Copy !req
160. Clear and clear.Copy !req
161. Nori!Copy !req
162. Nori!Copy !req
163. Nori!Copy !req
164. Nori!Copy !req
165. Travelers? At this time of year?Copy !req
166. - It's an omen, I warrant ya.Copy !req
167. - Mmm-hmm. Bad one. As bad as they come.
- Easy, Malva.Copy !req
168. The last time we had travelers this early,
it was the Great Frost.Copy !req
169. And there's no misremembering
how bleak a season that was.Copy !req
170. More than likely they just got lost,
that's it.Copy !req
171. Has to be the reason.Copy !req
172. You're gonna spoil dinner.Copy !req
173. I've looked high and low again.Copy !req
174. The wee ones are still out there.Copy !req
175. They'll be fine, Goldie.Copy !req
176. Nori's with them. You know Nori.Copy !req
177. Yes. I do.Copy !req
178. Can we turn back now?Copy !req
179. There's 110 things out here
that could kill us.Copy !req
180. Hundred-eleven
if you count you worrying to death.Copy !req
181. You know the rules.
We're not supposed to be out this far.Copy !req
182. Don't be... If we didn't do everything
we weren't supposed to,Copy !req
183. we'd hardly do anything at all.Copy !req
184. Me first!Copy !req
185. Go on, now. Watch the puddle.Copy !req
186. Watch your head.Copy !req
187. This way!Copy !req
188. Nori!Copy !req
189. - I'm stuck.
- I've got you.Copy !req
190. - It's...Copy !req
191. Nori! Ow!Copy !req
192. Enchanting.Copy !req
193. Come on.Copy !req
194. Can we turn back now?Copy !req
195. - Oh, but you haven't even seen it yet.
- Seen what?Copy !req
196. Good place for a hill-troll to hide,
if you ask me.Copy !req
197. Oh, great glory and splendor.Copy !req
198. Oh!Copy !req
199. Nori!Copy !req
200. Mmm.Copy !req
201. Mmm.Copy !req
202. Nori!Copy !req
203. I found something.Copy !req
204. There's something in the mud.Copy !req
205. What is it?Copy !req
206. It looks like a footsie.Copy !req
207. A dog.Copy !req
208. Just a dog.
You know how dogs love berries.Copy !req
209. Is he going to eat our berries?Copy !req
210. Not if he doesn't see us, he isn't.Copy !req
211. Hey. Twos and hands, everyone. Time to go.Copy !req
212. - Wolf.Copy !req
213. You heard your sister. Time to go.Copy !req
214. Go on, now. Come on.Copy !req
215. First one back to camp
gets the first pie at Harvest Fest.Copy !req
216. Let's go.Copy !req
217. Remember, if anybody asks,
we were just out digging for snails.Copy !req
218. "I Palannúmen...
I Alfirimë Nóri...Copy !req
219. "Na metta avantë...Copy !req
220. "Home.Copy !req
221. "For centuries, they have swept
across crag and crevice,Copy !req
222. "washing away the last remnants
of our enemy.Copy !req
223. "Like a spring rain over the bones of a...Copy !req
224. "Dead animal."Copy !req
225. "Spring rain over the bones of a..."Copy !req
226. Herald Elrond.Copy !req
227. At last.Copy !req
228. Yes. It's almost as if I didn't wish
to be found.Copy !req
229. What tidings?Copy !req
230. The Council regrets to inform youCopy !req
231. you won't be permitted
to attend the next session.Copy !req
232. Elf-lords only.Copy !req
233. Is there anything else?Copy !req
234. Yes. Your friend has arrived.Copy !req
235. She's here? Why didn't you say so?Copy !req
236. For the ceremony.Copy !req
237. Galadriel.Copy !req
238. Elrond.Copy !req
239. Lindon receives you with grace.Copy !req
240. With grace, I am received.Copy !req
241. I hear it's said that
when you cross over, you hear a song.Copy !req
242. One whose memory we all carry.Copy !req
243. And you are immersed in a light,Copy !req
244. more intoxicating than any sensation
in all of Middle-earth.Copy !req
245. When I was a child,
it was the only feeling I knew.Copy !req
246. And look at you now.Copy !req
247. Commander of the Northern Armies.
Warrior of the Wastelands.Copy !req
248. I half expected you to arrive
caked in grime and mud.Copy !req
249. This time, frostbite and troll blood.Copy !req
250. And no army.Copy !req
251. Tell me everything.Copy !req
252. This mark's very existence
proves Sauron escaped.Copy !req
253. He's still out there.Copy !req
254. The question now is, where?Copy !req
255. I intend to ask of the King
a fresh company.Copy !req
256. - If he supplies enough to...
- You have only just arrived.Copy !req
257. Must you speak of leaving again so soon?Copy !req
258. You know very well why I must.Copy !req
259. There will be ample time later
to discuss official matters.Copy !req
260. I want to hear about you.Copy !req
261. Your harrowing journey.Copy !req
262. Why, Elrond.Copy !req
263. You really have become a politician.Copy !req
264. You make it sound so grim.Copy !req
265. I am not some courtier
to be placated by idle flattery.Copy !req
266. I demand to speak with the King directly.Copy !req
267. You have made that plain.Copy !req
268. So I will be equally plain.Copy !req
269. It was not your company
who defied you out there,Copy !req
270. but rather you who defied the High King,Copy !req
271. by refusing to heed
any limit placed upon you.Copy !req
272. In an act of magnanimity,Copy !req
273. he has chosen
to honor your accomplishments...Copy !req
274. Rather than dwell upon your insolence.Copy !req
275. Test him againCopy !req
276. and you may find him less receptive
than you might have hoped.Copy !req
277. Are you going
to arrange an audience or not?Copy !req
278. If after the ceremony
that is still your wish,Copy !req
279. you shall have it.Copy !req
280. Ah. She has returned.Copy !req
281. - How fare thee?
- Well and well, Father.Copy !req
282. And look at her!Copy !req
283. You found all that
down by the river bank, did you?Copy !req
284. Mm-hmm.Copy !req
285. Did you hear about the travelers?Copy !req
286. - Travelers?
- Mm-hmm. Hunters.Copy !req
287. Two of them.Copy !req
288. Big as great boulders.Copy !req
289. Right up on that ridge.Copy !req
290. I can't believe I missed them.Copy !req
291. Maybe you ought to stick closer to home,
that way you don't miss anything, hmm?Copy !req
292. You went to the old farm again.Copy !req
293. Didn't you?Copy !req
294. I was careful.Copy !req
295. But the children might not be.Copy !req
296. I'm sorry, I didn't know.Copy !req
297. We never get hunters up here
before the harvest.Copy !req
298. - Mmm.
- Or wolves.Copy !req
299. I wonder if there's trouble down south.Copy !req
300. And what concern is that of yours,
Elanor Brandyfoot?Copy !req
301. Haven't you ever wondered...Copy !req
302. What else is out there?Copy !req
303. How far the river flowsCopy !req
304. or where the sparrows
learn the new songs they sing in spring?Copy !req
305. I can't help but feel
there's wonders in this world.Copy !req
306. Beyond our wanderin'.Copy !req
307. I've told you.Copy !req
308. Countless times.Copy !req
309. Elves have forests to protect.Copy !req
310. Dwarves, their mines.
Men, their fields of grain.Copy !req
311. Even trees have to worry
about the soil beneath their roots.Copy !req
312. But we Harfoots are free
from the worries of the wide world.Copy !req
313. We are but ripples in a long, long stream.Copy !req
314. Our paths set by the passing seasons.Copy !req
315. Nobody goes off trail
and nobody walks alone.Copy !req
316. We have each other. We're safe.Copy !req
317. That is how we survive.Copy !req
318. Go on. Help your father.Copy !req
319. That's your problem.
You see, a wheel's supposed to be round.Copy !req
320. These most valiant of warriorsCopy !req
321. kneel here before us, victorious.Copy !req
322. For though Morgoth fell an Age ago,Copy !req
323. some feared a new evil might arise
from his shadow.Copy !req
324. So for centuries now,Copy !req
325. these soldiers have swept
across crag and crevice,Copy !req
326. washing away the last remnants
of our enemyCopy !req
327. like a spring rain over the bones
of a spoilt carcass.Copy !req
328. And now, at last,Copy !req
329. they return to us in triumph,Copy !req
330. for they have proven beyond any doubtCopy !req
331. that our days of war are over.Copy !req
332. Today...Copy !req
333. Our days of peace begin.Copy !req
334. And as a measure of our gratitude,Copy !req
335. these heroes shall be granted an honorCopy !req
336. unrivaled in all our lore.Copy !req
337. They will be escorted to the Grey HavensCopy !req
338. and granted passage across the sea
to dwell for all eternityCopy !req
339. in the Blessed Realm, the Far West.Copy !req
340. The Undying Lands of Valinor.Copy !req
341. At last, they are going home.Copy !req
342. Are you just going to stand there,
breathing like an Orc?Copy !req
343. It is said the wine of victory is sweetestCopy !req
344. for those in whose bitter trials
it has fermented.Copy !req
345. I do not feel victorious.Copy !req
346. You deserve the honors of this day.Copy !req
347. Your brother would be proud.Copy !req
348. I remember when the first of these
were carved.Copy !req
349. The likeness of one fallen,
preserved upon a living thing.Copy !req
350. I suppose some part of me
always believed my rest would be here,Copy !req
351. with them.Copy !req
352. But instead, I am to leave them.Copy !req
353. This is the gift of your king.Copy !req
354. A gift I have decided to refuse.Copy !req
355. Galadriel, you...Copy !req
356. My brother gave his life hunting Sauron.Copy !req
357. His task is now mine.Copy !req
358. I go to seek the enemy
that escaped us in the north.Copy !req
359. Alone, if I must.Copy !req
360. Ah, yes. Your mystery sigil.Copy !req
361. I shared it with the High King.Copy !req
362. - Then why would...
- Because seeing a sigilCopy !req
363. does not mean you're any closer
to finding Sauron.Copy !req
364. It is over. The evil is gone.Copy !req
365. Then why is it not gone from in here?Copy !req
366. After all you have endured...Copy !req
367. It is only natural to feel conflicted.Copy !req
368. Conflicted?Copy !req
369. I am grateful you have not known evil
as I have.Copy !req
370. But you have not seen what I have seen.Copy !req
371. I've seen my share.Copy !req
372. You have not seen what I have seen.Copy !req
373. Evil does not sleep, Elrond.Copy !req
374. It waits.Copy !req
375. And in the moment of our complacency,Copy !req
376. it blinds us.Copy !req
377. Let us say that all is as you fear,Copy !req
378. and this enemy is out there somewhere,
lying in wait.Copy !req
379. Do you truly believe seeking him out
will satisfy you?Copy !req
380. That one more Orc upon the point
of your blade will bring you peace?Copy !req
381. - If you are wrong...
- I'm not wrong.Copy !req
382. If you are wrong,Copy !req
383. will you lead more Elves
to die in far-off lands?Copy !req
384. To convince yourself you have done enough,Copy !req
385. how many more statues
would you add to this path?Copy !req
386. No one in history
has ever refused the call.Copy !req
387. Do so now, it may never come again.Copy !req
388. You will linger here, an outcast,Copy !req
389. poisoned in dark whispers and dreams.Copy !req
390. And in the West,
do you think my fate would be better?Copy !req
391. Where song would mock the cries
of battle in my ears?Copy !req
392. You say I have won victory
over all the horrors of Middle-earth.Copy !req
393. Yet you would leave them alive in me?Copy !req
394. To take with me?Copy !req
395. Undying, unchanging, unbreaking,Copy !req
396. into the land of winterless spring?Copy !req
397. Only in the Blessed RealmCopy !req
398. can that which is broken in you be healed.Copy !req
399. Go there.Copy !req
400. Go, and I promise you...Copy !req
401. If but a whisper of a rumor
of the threat you perceive proves true,Copy !req
402. I will not rest until it is put right.Copy !req
403. You have fought long enough, Galadriel.Copy !req
404. Put up your sword.Copy !req
405. Without it, what am I to be?Copy !req
406. What you have always been.Copy !req
407. My friend.Copy !req
408. Evenin'.Copy !req
409. Caraes in three moves.Copy !req
410. Hmm.Copy !req
411. Ha!Copy !req
412. Poisoned more likely.Copy !req
413. Poisoned? By who?Copy !req
414. For all we know,
the onion-eyed scut done it himself.Copy !req
415. Has it really been a fortnight already?Copy !req
416. It has.Copy !req
417. Uh, very little to report this go-round,
I'm afraid.Copy !req
418. A couple of shabby disputes,
a bit of uneven dice-handling.Copy !req
419. And... Oh, yes!Copy !req
420. Had a bit of a thrill in here,
Trewsday last.Copy !req
421. Bit of a row over a girl.Copy !req
422. His eye was lazy, hers overactive,
if you take my meaning.Copy !req
423. Do you care for a drink, soldier?Copy !req
424. Well, my well is yours, as ever.Copy !req
425. And the poisoning?Copy !req
426. What poisoning?Copy !req
427. The one you were just discussing.Copy !req
428. No, no, no, no...Copy !req
429. It was but poisoned grass
he was twattlin' about.Copy !req
430. A fellow passed through,
said his grazing's gone rotten.Copy !req
431. That only weeds will grow.Copy !req
432. This fellow, where was he from?Copy !req
433. Didn't say. East, I think.Copy !req
434. On what day was he here?Copy !req
435. - Oh, let it go, knife-ears.Copy !req
436. It's a bloody patch of grass.Copy !req
437. The lot you lump us in with
died off a thousand years ago.Copy !req
438. When are you people gonna let the past go?Copy !req
439. The past is with us all,
whether we like it or not.Copy !req
440. One day, our true king will return.Copy !req
441. And pry us right out
from under your pointy boots.Copy !req
442. - Easy, lad. Quench the fire now.Copy !req
443. Come on, lad.Copy !req
444. Will there be anythin' else then?Copy !req
445. Give me your hand.Copy !req
446. Hmm.Copy !req
447. Alfirin seeds.Copy !req
448. I've not seen this flower
since I was a child.Copy !req
449. Where did you find these?Copy !req
450. I had to trade with another healer
who was passing through.Copy !req
451. We crush the petals to form a salve.Copy !req
452. You crush them?Copy !req
453. Gently.Copy !req
454. Are there healers among your kind?Copy !req
455. There are.Copy !req
456. But we call them artificers.Copy !req
457. Most wounds to our bodies heal
of their own accord,Copy !req
458. so, it is their labor instead to render
hidden truths as works of beauty.Copy !req
459. For beauty has great power
to heal the soul.Copy !req
460. Then I hope
you find alfirin flowers beautiful.Copy !req
461. Until next time, then.Copy !req
462. Soldier.Copy !req
463. Anything to report?Copy !req
464. Nothing out of the ordinary.Copy !req
465. And the well...Copy !req
466. How was it?Copy !req
467. Did you draw some water?Copy !req
468. We are awaited at Ostirith.Copy !req
469. Have you considered
the consequences I might faceCopy !req
470. if the Watchwarden were to discover
what it is that you're doing?Copy !req
471. Afraid I don't take your meaning.Copy !req
472. It's difficult enough
keeping watch over themCopy !req
473. without having to keep
one eye squarely on you.Copy !req
474. Or do you think me blind?Copy !req
475. No. I think you talk too much.Copy !req
476. And you smell of rotten leaves.Copy !req
477. No, I don't.Copy !req
478. Yes, you do.Copy !req
479. My point is this.
Only twice in known historyCopy !req
480. has a pairing between Elves and humans
even been attempted.Copy !req
481. And on each occasion, it ended in tragedy.Copy !req
482. It ended in death.Copy !req
483. You need not remind me.Copy !req
484. Then why do you persist?Copy !req
485. Give me one reason. One.Copy !req
486. Arondir! Médhor!Copy !req
487. The High King has declared
the days of war are over.Copy !req
488. All the far outposts are being disbanded.Copy !req
489. We're leaving.Copy !req
490. - Taking a last look?
- Mm-hmm.Copy !req
491. Seventy-nine years
I've been stationed here.Copy !req
492. I suppose I've grown accustomed to it.Copy !req
493. Can you believe this place
was once a barren scrap of rock?Copy !req
494. It has changed much, Watchwarden.Copy !req
495. But the Men who live here have not.Copy !req
496. The blood of those who stood with Morgoth
still darkens their veins.Copy !req
497. That was long ago, Watchwarden.Copy !req
498. What were you before the war?Copy !req
499. A grower.Copy !req
500. Then you shall be returning home
to far more than you left.Copy !req
501. Honors, title.Copy !req
502. Your life will begin anew.Copy !req
503. But mark this, Arondir,Copy !req
504. that for 79 years, you've kept watch
over the men and women of Tirharad,Copy !req
505. not because of what their ancestors
once did...Copy !req
506. But because of who they still are.Copy !req
507. And be grateful.Copy !req
508. That you need never see them again.Copy !req
509. Careful. That's fire-root powder.
You have to do it slowly.Copy !req
510. Go any slower, I'll be stuck here all day.Copy !req
511. You're in a boil this morning.Copy !req
512. Hardly slept.
Mice were dancing a proper jigCopy !req
513. - under the floorboards.
- Again?Copy !req
514. Last three nights.
Scratchin' and scrapin'.Copy !req
515. What's one of them doing here?Copy !req
516. I heard you were leaving.Copy !req
517. We are.Copy !req
518. Where's the rest of your company?Copy !req
519. Most likely searching for me
at this very moment.Copy !req
520. Then why are you at my home?Copy !req
521. Say what you wish to say.Copy !req
522. I have said it already.Copy !req
523. A hundred times over,
in every way but words.Copy !req
524. - Mother.Copy !req
525. There's a man here for you.Copy !req
526. Mum.Copy !req
527. You heal animals, too?Copy !req
528. - If you could just give her a look.Copy !req
529. She's got some sort of a sickness.Copy !req
530. What manner of sickness?Copy !req
531. It isn't a fever.Copy !req
532. And she doesn't appear to have any sores.Copy !req
533. Where has she been grazing?Copy !req
534. Hmm. She wandered east a few days ago.Copy !req
535. Think she might have ate something?Copy !req
536. What was that, squirted out of her?Copy !req
537. How far east?Copy !req
538. She might've made it
as far as Hordern.Copy !req
539. Where are you going?Copy !req
540. Hordern's a day's journey.
If I leave now, I can reach it by dusk.Copy !req
541. I'm going with you.Copy !req
542. Be quick about it.Copy !req
543. He finds us in here,
he'll knock our teeth out.Copy !req
544. Only spotted it by mistake.Copy !req
545. Stepped on a lucky board.Copy !req
546. So, tell me,Copy !req
547. is it true? About your mum?Copy !req
548. Is what true?Copy !req
549. Heard Waldreg caught herself
and one of the pointiesCopy !req
550. mighty sweet back of his well
the other day.Copy !req
551. Who told you that?Copy !req
552. Everybody.Copy !req
553. It's a lie.Copy !req
554. Maybe that's why your father
run off like he done.Copy !req
555. My father didn't run off.Copy !req
556. Then what happened to him?Copy !req
557. You don't even know, do you?Copy !req
558. Salty rascal's got the King's bounty
down there.Copy !req
559. This is the real bounty.Copy !req
560. Watch it!Copy !req
561. Go on, quick.Copy !req
562. She has passed beyond my sight.Copy !req
563. Galadriel was so certain
her search should continue.Copy !req
564. We foresaw that if it had,Copy !req
565. she might have inadvertently kept alive
the very evil she sought to defeat.Copy !req
566. For the same wind
that seeks to blow out a fireCopy !req
567. may also cause its spread.Copy !req
568. Then the shadow she sought...Copy !req
569. You believe it does exist?Copy !req
570. Set your mind at peace about it.Copy !req
571. What you did was right.Copy !req
572. For Galadriel and for Middle-earth.Copy !req
573. It's hard to see what is right...Copy !req
574. When friendship and duty are mingled.Copy !req
575. Such is the burden of those who leadCopy !req
576. and those who would seek to.Copy !req
577. Galadriel sails to the sunset.Copy !req
578. You and I must look to the new sunrise.Copy !req
579. To that end,Copy !req
580. are you acquainted
with the work of Lord Celebrimbor?Copy !req
581. The greatest of Elven-smiths, of course.Copy !req
582. I've admired his artistry
since I was a child. Why do you ask?Copy !req
583. He is about to embark on a new project.
One of singular importance.Copy !req
584. And we've decided
that you will be working with him.Copy !req
585. But I'll allow you to explain the details,
Lord Celebrimbor.Copy !req
586. First the big people, now the stars.Copy !req
587. Eyes open when they should be sleeping.Copy !req
588. Almost like...Copy !req
589. Like they're watching for something.Copy !req
590. Watching for what?Copy !req
591. A tongue-lashing,
if you don't mind your own cartwheels.Copy !req
592. What is it? What do you see?Copy !req
593. Elanor Brandyfoot,
with your father's nose,Copy !req
594. and always poking it into trouble,Copy !req
595. you are far too curious and meddlesome
to have been born a Harfoot.Copy !req
596. Are you quite certain
you're not part squirrel?Copy !req
597. Sadoc. Sadoc, please.Copy !req
598. Tell me.Copy !req
599. The skies are strange.Copy !req
600. Strange.Copy !req
601. Strange how?Copy !req
602. Nori! Do you have that grease?Copy !req
603. On my way.Copy !req
604. How familiar are you
with the townsfolk of Hordern?Copy !req
605. Very, I should hope. I was born there.Copy !req
606. Why?Copy !req
607. The people of Hordern were known
for having been especially strongCopy !req
608. in their loyalty to Morgoth.Copy !req
609. What did you just say?Copy !req
610. The truth.Copy !req
611. You're talking about my friends.Copy !req
612. Close kin, I know them.
There are good people there.Copy !req
613. That is why I'm here with you.Copy !req
614. Instead of the Watchwarden.Copy !req
615. Bronwyn.Copy !req
616. You're the only kind touch
I've known all my days in this land.Copy !req
617. Hordern.Copy !req
618. Do you know why
a ship floats and a stone cannot?Copy !req
619. Galadriel.Copy !req
620. Give me your hand.Copy !req
621. But sometimes
the lights shine just as brightlyCopy !req
622. reflected in the water
as they do in the sky.Copy !req
623. How am I to know which lights to follow?Copy !req
624. Sometimes we cannot knowCopy !req
625. until we have touched the darkness.Copy !req
626. Galadriel!Copy !req