Valar Guild

March 15, 2020 Sunday Meeting

Landroval:
Eonwe
Erkenbrand
Fangorn
Nar
Varda

Ithil:
Dis
Falco
Fangorn
Varda

Anor:
Fangorn
Varda

Two Towers "The Road to Isengard"

But late in the night the watchmen cried out and all awoke. The moon was gone.
Stars were shining above; but over the ground there crept a darkness blacker than the night. On both sides of the river it rolled towards them, going northward.
"Stay where you are!" said Gandalf. "Draw no weapons! Wait! and it will pass you by!"

A mist gathered about them. Above them a few stars still glimmered faintly; but on either side there arose walls of impenetratable gloom; they were in a narrow lane between moving towers of shadow.
Voices they heard, whisperings and groanings and an endless rustling sigh; the earth shook under them.
Long it seemed to them that they sat and were afraid; but at last the darkness and the rumour passed, and vanished between the mountain's arms.

Away south upon the Hornburg, in the middle night men heard a great noise, as a wind in the valley, and the ground trembled; and all were afraid and no one ventured to go forth.
But in the morning they went out and were amazed; for the slain orcs were gone, and the trees also.
Far down into the valley of the Deep the grass was crushed and trampled brown, as if giant herdsmen had pastured great droves of cattle there;
but a mile below the Dike a huge pit had been delved in the earth, and over it stones were piled into a hill.
Men believed that the Orcs whom they had slain were buried there; but whether those who had fled into the wood were with them, none could say, for no man ever set foot upon that hill.
The Death Downs it ws afterwards called, and no green grass would grow there.
But the strange trees were never seen in Deeping Coomb again; they had returned at night, and had gone far away to the dark dales of Fangorn.
Thus they were avenged upon the Orcs.