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Or must I do so myself. Thereupon the door which Beregond held shut with his left hand was wrenched open, and there behind him stood the Lord of the City, tall and fell; a light like flame was in his eyes, and he held a drawn sword. But Gandalf sprang up the steps, and the men fell back from him and covered their eyes; for his coming was like the incoming of a white light into a dark place, and he came with great anger. He lifted up his hand, and in the very stroke, the sword of Denethor flew up and left his grasp and fell behind him in the shadows of the house; and Denethor stepped backward before Gandalf as one amazed. What is this, my lord. said the wizard. The houses of the dead are no places for the living. And why do men fight here in the Hallows when there is war enough before the Gate. Or has our Enemy come even to Rath Dı´nen. Since when has the Lord of Gondor been answerable to thee. said Denethor. Or may I not command my own servants. You may, said Gandalf. But others may contest your will, when it is turned to madness and evil. Where is your son, Faramir. He lies within, said Denethor, burning, already burning. They have set a fire in his flesh. But soon all shall be burned. The West has failed. It shall all go up in a great fire, and all shall be ended. Ash. Ash and smoke blown away on the wind. Then Gandalf seeing the madness that was on him feared that he had already done some evil deed, and he thrust forward, with Beregond and Pippin behind him, while Denethor gave back until he stood beside the table within. But there they found Faramir, still dreaming in his fever, lying upon the table. Wood was piled under it, and high all about it, and all was drenched with oil, even the garments of Faramir and the coverlets; but as yet no fire had been set to the fuel. Then Gandalf revealed the strength that lay hid in him, even as the light of his power was hidden under his grey mantle. He leaped up on to the faggots, and raising the sick man lightly he sprang down again, and bore him towards the door. But as he did so Faramir moaned and called on his father in his dream. Denethor started as one waking from a trance, and the flame died in his eyes, and he wept; and he said: Do not take my son from me. He calls for me. He calls, said Gandalf, but you cannot come to him yet. For he must seek healing on the threshold of death, and maybe find it not. Whereas your part is to go out to the battle of your City, where maybe death awaits you. This you know in your heart. He will not wake again, said Denethor. Battle is vain. Why T HE PYRE O F DENE THOR 853 should we wish to live longer. Why should we not go to death click to see more by side. Authority is not given to you, Steward of Gondor, to order the hour of your death, answered Gandalf. And only the heathen kings, under the domination of the Dark Power, did thus, slaying themselves in pride and despair, murdering their kin to ease their own death. Then passing through the door he took Faramir from the deadly house and laid him on the bier on which he https://mobilestrategygames.cloud/counter-strike/counter-strike-minecraft-igrat.php been brought, and which had now been set in the porch. Denethor followed him, and stood trembling, looking with longing on the face of his son. And for a moment, while all were silent and still, watching the Lord in his throes, he wavered. Come. said Gandalf. We are needed. There is much that you can yet do. Then suddenly Denethor laughed. He stood up tall and proud again, and stepping swiftly back to the table he lifted from it the pillow on which his head had lain. Then coming to the doorway he drew aside the covering, and lo. he had between his hands a palantı´r. And as he held it up, it seemed to those that looked on that the globe began to glow with an inner flame, so that the lean face of the Lord was lit as with a red fire, and it seemed cut out of hard stone, sharp with black shadows, noble, proud, and terrible. His eyes glittered. Pride and despair. he cried. Didst thou think that the eyes of the White Tower were blind. Nay, I have seen more than thou knowest, Grey Baldurs gate hag. For thy hope is but ignorance. Go then and labour in healing. Go forth and fight. Vanity. For a little space you may Baldurs gate hag on the field, for a day. But against the Power that now arises there is no victory. To this City only the first finger of its hand has yet been stretched. All the Click here is moving. And even now the wind of thy hope cheats https://mobilestrategygames.cloud/windows/pubg-lite-download-for-pc-windows-10-pro.php and wafts up Anduin a fleet with black sails. The West has failed. It is time for all to depart who would not be slaves. Such counsels will make the Enemys victory certain indeed, said Gandalf. Hope on then. laughed Denethor. Do I not know thee, Mithrandir. Thy hope is to rule in my stead, to stand behind every throne, north, south, or west. I have read thy mind and its policies. Do I not know that this halfling was commanded by thee to keep silence. That he was brought hither to be a spy within my very chamber. And yet in our speech together I have learned the names and purpose of all thy companions. With the left hand thou wouldst use me for a little while as a shield against Mordor, and with the right bring up this Ranger of the North to supplant me. But I say to thee, Gandalf Mithrandir, I will not be thy tool. I 854 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS am Steward of the House of Ana´rion. I will not step down to be the dotard chamberlain of an upstart. Even were his claim proved to continue reading, still he comes but of the line of Isildur. I will not bow to such a one, last of a ragged house long bereft of lordship and dignity. What then would you have, said Gandalf, if your will could have its way. I would have things as they were in all the days of my life, answered Denethor, and in the days of my longfathers before me: to be the Lord of this City in peace, and leave my chair to a son after me, who would be his own master and no wizards pupil. But if doom denies this to me, then I will have naught: neither life diminished, nor love halved, nor honour abated. To me it would not seem that a Steward who faithfully surrenders his charge is diminished in love or in honour, said Gandalf. And at the least you shall not rob your son of his choice while his death is still in doubt. At those words Denethors eyes flamed again, and taking the Stone under his arm he drew a knife and strode towards the bier. But Beregond sprang forward and set himself before Faramir. cried Denethor. Thou hadst already stolen half my sons love. Now thou stealest the hearts of my knights also, so that they rob me wholly of my son at the last. But in this at least thou shalt not defy my will: to rule my own end. Come hither. he cried to his servants. Pubg gameloop control size, if you are not all recreant. Then two of them ran up the steps to him. Swiftly he snatched a torch from the hand of one and sprang back into the house. Before Gandalf could hinder him he thrust the brand amid the fuel, and at once it crackled and roared into flame. Then Denethor leaped upon the table, and standing there wreathed in fire and smoke he took up the staff of his stewardship that lay at his feet and broke it on his knee. Casting the pieces into the blaze he bowed and laid himself on the table, clasping the palantı´r with both hands upon his breast. And it was said that ever after, if any man looked in that Stone, unless he had a great strength of will to turn it to other purpose, he saw only two aged hands withering in flame. Gandalf in grief and horror turned his face away and closed the door. For a while he stood in thought, silent upon the threshold, while those outside heard the greedy roaring of the fire within. And then Denethor gave a great cry, and afterwards spoke no more, nor was ever again seen by mortal men. So passes Denethor, son of Ecthelion, said Gandalf. Then he turned to Beregond and the Lords servants that stood there aghast. T HE PYRE O F DENE THOR 855 And so pass also the days of Gondor that you have known; for good or evil they are ended. Ill deeds have been done here; but let now all enmity that lies between you be put away, for it was contrived by the Enemy and works his will. You have been caught in a net of warring duties that you did not weave. But think, you servants of the Lord, blind in your obedience, that but for the treason of Beregond Faramir, Captain of the White Tower, would now also be burned. Bear away from this unhappy place your comrades who have fallen. And we will bear Faramir, Steward of Gondor, to a place where he can sleep in peace, or die if that be his doom. Then Gandalf and Beregond taking up the bier bore it away towards the Houses of Healing, while behind them walked Pippin with downcast head. But the servants of the Lord stood gazing as stricken men at the house of the dead; and even as Gandalf came to the end of Rath Dı´nen there was a great noise. Looking back they saw the dome of the house crack and smokes issue forth; and then with a rush and rumble of stone it fell in a flurry of fire; but still unabated the flames danced and flickered among the ruins. Then in terror the servants fled and followed Gandalf. At length they came back to the Stewards Door, and Beregond looked with grief at the porter. This deed I shall ever rue, he said; but a madness of haste was on me, and he would not listen, but drew sword against me. Then taking the key that he had wrested from the slain man he closed the door and locked it. This should now be given to the Lord Faramir, he said. The Prince of Dol Amroth is in command in the absence of the Lord, said Gandalf; but since he is not here, I must take this on myself. I bid you keep the key and guard it, until the City is set in order again. Now at last they passed into the high circles of the City, and in the light of morning they went their way towards the Houses of Healing; and these were fair houses set apart for the care of those who were grievously sick, but now they were prepared for the tending of men hurt in battle or dying. They stood not far from the Citadelgate, in the sixth circle, nigh to its southward wall, and about them was a garden and a greensward with trees, the only such place in Baldurs gate hag City. There dwelt the few women that had been permitted to remain in Minas Tirith, since they were skilled in healing or in the service of the healers. But even as Gandalf and his companions came carrying the bier to the main door of the Houses, they heard a great cry that went up from the field before the Gate and rising shrill and piercing into the sky steam family share file, and died away on the wind. So terrible was the cry that 856 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS for a moment all stood still, and yet when it had passed, suddenly their hearts were lifted up in such a hope as they had not known since the darkness came out of the East; and it seemed to them that the light grew clear and the sun broke through the clouds. But Gandalfs face Baldurs gate hag grave and sad, and bidding Beregond and Pippin to take Faramir into the Houses of Healing, he went up on to the walls nearby; and there like a figure carven in white he stood in the new sun and looked out. And he beheld with the sight that was given to him all that had befallen; and when Eomer rode out ´ from the forefront of his battle and stood beside those who lay upon the field, he sighed, and he cast his cloak about him again, and went from the walls. And Beregond and Pippin found him standing in thought before the door of the Houses when they came out. They looked at him, and for a while he was silent. At last he spoke. My friends, he said, and all you people of this city and of the Western lands. Things of great sorrow and renown have come to pass. Shall we weep or be glad. Beyond hope the Captain of our foes has been destroyed, and you have heard the echo of his last despair. But he has not gone without woe and bitter loss. And that I might have averted but for the madness of Denethor. So long has the reach of our Enemy become. Alas. but now I perceive how his will was able to enter into the very heart of the City. Though the Stewards deemed that it was a secret kept only by themselves, long ago I guessed that here in the White Tower, one at least of the Seven Seeing Stones was preserved. In the days of his wisdom Denethor would not presume to use it to challenge Sauron, knowing the limits of his own strength. But his wisdom failed; and I fear that as the peril of his realm grew he looked in the Stone and was deceived: far too often, I guess, since Boromir departed. He was too great to be subdued to the will of the Dark Power, he saw nonetheless only those things which that Power permitted him to see. The knowledge which he obtained was, doubtless, often of service to him; yet the vision of the great might of Mordor that was shown to him fed the despair of his heart until it overthrew his mind. Now I understand what seemed so strange to me. said Pippin, shuddering at his memories as he spoke. The Lord went away from the room where Faramir lay; and it was only when he returned that I first thought he was changed, old and broken. It was in the very hour that Faramir was brought to the Tower that many of us saw a strange light in the topmost chamber, said Beregond. But we have seen that light before, and it has long been rumoured in the City that the Lord would at times wrestle in thought with his Enemy. T HE PYRE O F DENE THOR 857 Alas. then I have guessed rightly, said Gandalf. Thus the will of Sauron entered into Minas Tirith; and thus I have been delayed here. And here I shall still be forced to remain, for I shall soon have other charges, not Faramir only. Now I must go down to meet those who come. I have seen a sight upon the field that is very grievous to my heart, and greater sorrow may yet come to pass. Come with me, Pippin. But you, Beregond, should return to the Citadel and tell the chief of the Guard there what has befallen. It will be his duty, I fear, to withdraw you from the Guard; but say to him that, if I may give him counsel, you should be sent to the Houses of Healing, to be the guard and servant of your captain, and to be at his side when he awakes if that shall ever be again. For by you he was saved from the fire. Go now. I shall return soon. With that he turned away and went with Pippin down towards the lower city. And even as they hastened on their way the wind brought a grey rain, and all the fires sank, and there arose a great smoke before them. Chapter 8 THE HOUSES O F HEALING A mist was in Merrys eyes of tears and weariness when they drew near the ruined Gate of Minas Tirith. He gave little heed to the wreck and slaughter that lay about all. Fire and smoke and stench was in the air; for many engines had been burned or cast into the fire-pits, and many of the slain also, while here and there lay many carcases of the great Southron monsters, half-burned, or broken by stone-cast, or shot through the eyes by the valiant archers of Morthond. The flying rain had ceased for a time, and the sun gleamed up above; but all the lower city was still wrapped in a smouldering reek. Already men were labouring to clear a way through the jetsam of battle; and now out from the Gate came some bearing litters. Gently they laid Eowyn ´ upon soft pillows; but the kings body they covered with a great cloth of gold, and they bore torches about him, and their flames, pale in the sunlight, were fluttered by the wind. So The ´ ´oden and Eowyn came to the City of Gondor, and all who saw them bared their heads and bowed; and they passed through the ash and fume of the burned circle, and went on and up along the streets of stone.

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