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Frodo, Sam, and Gollum cross the Noman-lands

Event Type: General

Age: 3rd Age - Ring War

Dates: March 2, 3019 ~ March 4, 3019

Description:

When day came at last the hobbits were surprised to see how much closer the ominous mountains had already drawn.... [Though] still far off, the walls of Mordor were no longer a cloudy menace on the edge of sight, but as grim black towers they frowned across a dismal waste. The marshes were at an end, dying away into dead peats and wide flats of dry cracked mud. The land ahead rose in long shallow slopes, barren and pitiless, towards the desert that lay at Sauron's gate.

While the grey light lasted, they cowered under a black stone like worms, shrinking, lest the winged terror should pass and spy them with its cruel eyes.... For two more nights they struggled on through the weary pathless land. The air, as it seemed to them, grew harsh, and filled with a bitter reek that caught their breath and parched their mouths.

At last, on the fifth morning since they took the road with Gollum, they halted once more. Before them dark in the dawn the great mountains reached up to roofs of smoke and cloud. Out from their feet were flung... broken hills... scarce a dozen miles away. Frodo looked round in horror. Dreadful as the Dead Marshes had been, and the arid moors of the Noman-lands, more loathsome far was the country that the crawling day now slowly unveiled to his shrinking eyes.

The Two Towers, LoTR Book 4, Ch 2, The Passage of the Marshes

Contributors:
Elena Tiriel 3Mar08

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