I'm glad to see that Gandalf & Aragorn didn't get us totally lost while I was gone. It was sooo nice in the Misty Mountains..golden aspens, dark pines & firs, herds of elk & bighorn sheep..so different from these barren hills we're now travelling through. I really missed everyone -- even the dwarf. Wait! What's that, Arwen? He was singing because I was gone? But he gave me a hug when I got back and said he was glad to see me!?!? [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img] He's got some serious explaining to do now...
--------------------
At first it seemed to the hobbits that although they walked and stumbled until they were weary, they were creeping forward like snails, and getting nowhere. Each day the land looked much the same as it had the day before. Yet steadily the mountains were drawing nearer. South of Rivendell they rose ever higher, and bent westwards; and about the feet of the main range there was tumbled an ever wider land of bleak hills, and deep valleys filled with turbulent waters. Paths were few and winding, and led them often only to the edge of some sheer fall, or down into treacherous swamps.
__________________
"It's impossible to have Frodo without Sam, or Sam without Frodo. They're like two halves of one heart..."
"If your hurts grieve you still and the memory of your burden is heavy, then you may pass into the West..."
|