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It’s in the family, as you might say. Why, my grand-dad, and my uncle Andy after him, him that was the Gaffer’s eldest brother, he had a rope-walk over by Tighfield many a year. And I put as fast a ___ over the stump as anyone could have done, in the Shire or out of it.’
‘Well, master, we’re in a fix and no mistake,’ said Sam Gamgee. He
stood _____ly with hunched shoulders beside Frodo, and
peered out with puckered eyes into the gloom.
Rills of water began to run down; soon they grew to a ____ that splashed and fumed on the stones, and spouted out over the cliff like the gutters of a vast roof. ‘I sh
‘All right, I’ll tackle Strider by the camp-fire: he’s less ___. But why all this secrecy? I thought we’d won the battle!’
But always they found its outward faces sheer, high and
impassable, frowning over the plain below; beyond its tumbled skirts
lay ___ festering marshes where nothing moved and not even a bird
was to be seen.
Before Sam could get a hold, long legs and arms were wound
round him pinning his arms, and a clinging grip, soft but horribly
strong, was squeezing him like slowly tightening cords; ____
fingers were feeling for his throat.
‘Easy said,’ objected Sam. ‘Better wait till morning and more light.’ ‘No! Not if I can help it,’ said Frodo with a sudden strange ____ ‘I grudge every hour, every minute. I’m going down to try it out. Don’t you follow till I come back or call!’
Indeed Gollum had suddenly paused again, and his large head on
its scrawny neck was ___ from side to side as if he was listening.
His pale eyes were half unlidded.
‘Then the rope must have broken – ___ed on the rock-edge, I
expect,’ said Frodo
‘Don’t let it ____! Be thankful no longer words were aimed at you. He had his eyes on you. If it is any comfort to your pride, I should say that, at the moment, you and Pippin are more in his thoughts than all the rest of us.