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‘My men are weary with battle,’ said the King; ‘and I am weary also. For I have ridden far and slept little. Alas! My old age is not ___ed nor due only to the whisperings of Wormtongue. It is an ill that no leech can wholly cure, not even Gandalf.’
As the second day of their riding drew on, the heaviness in the air
increased. In the afternoon the dark clouds began to overtake them:
a sombre canopy with great ____ edges flecked with dazzling
light.
‘Nay, we are too few to defend the Dike,’ said The´oden. ‘It is a mile long or more, and the ____ in it is wide.’ ‘At the ____ our rearguard must stand, if we are pressed,’ said Eomer.
‘Not far ahead now lies Helm’s Dike, an ancient trench and ____ scored across the
coomb, two ____s below Helm’s Gate. There we can turn and
give battle.’
The outing begins by Thursday noon, when the recreational vehicles start rumbling into town and their owners set up ____.
A wall, too, the men of old had made from the Hornburg to the southern cliff, barring the entrance to the gorge. Beneath it by a wide ____ the Deeping-stream passed out.
He halted their journey, and they rested, ___ting like little
hunted animals, in the borders of a great brown reed-thicket. There
was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver
of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small
air-movements that they could not feel.
The spears
of the Riders were tipped with fire as the last shafts of light kindled
the steep faces of the peaks of Thrihyrne: now very near they stood
on the northernmost arm of the White Mountains, three jagged horns
staring at the sunset. In the last red glow men in the ____ saw
a black speck, a horseman riding back towards them.
And the people were troubled in their minds; for the heaps of ___ were too great for burial or for burning.
Between the Dike and the eaves of that nameless wood only two open ____ lay.