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Travellers see lightning over Weathertop

Event Type: General

Age: 3rd Age - Ring War

Dates: October 3, 3018 ~ October 4, 3018

Description:

An event in Frodo's Departure from the Shire and in the prelude to the Attack on the Camp at Weathertop; see either entry for an overview.
The next... night [of crossing the Midgewater Marshes was] almost as comfortless....

As Frodo lay..., it seemed to him that far away there came a light in the eastern sky: it flashed and faded many times. It was not the dawn, for that was still some hours off.

'What is the light?' he said to Strider, who had risen, and was standing, gazing ahead into the night.

'I do not know,' Strider answered. 'It is too distant to make out. It is like lightning that leaps up from the hill-tops.'

Frodo lay down again, but for a long while he could still see the white flashes, and against them the tall dark figure of Strider, standing silent and watchful.

The Fellowship of the Ring, LoTR Book 1, Ch 11, A Knife in the Dark

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Elena Tiriel 11Jul06

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