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Then suddenly like a cold touch on his heart he thought of Frodo and Sam. ‘I am forgetting them!’ he said to himself _____. ‘And yet they are more important than all the rest of us. And I came to help them; but now they must be hundreds of miles away, if they are still alive.’ He shivered.
Gollum watched every ____ from hand to mouth, like an expectant dog by a diner’s chair. Only when they had finished and were preparing to rest, was he apparently convinced that they had no hidden dainties that he could share in.
He first saw one with the corner of his left eye, a wisp of pale sheen that faded away; but others appeared soon after: some like dimly shining smoke, some like misty flames flickering slowly above unseen candles; here and there they twisted like ghostly sheets ___ed by hidden hands. But neither of his companions spoke a word.
In fact with every step towards the gates of Mordor Frodo felt the Ring on its chain about his neck grow more _____. He was now beginning to feel it as an actual weight dragging him earthwards. But far more he was troubled by the Eye: so he called it to himself. It was that more than the drag of the Ring that made him cower and stoop as he walked.
While these doubts were passing through Sam’s slow but ____ mind, he stood gazing out towards the dark cliff of Cirith Gorgor. The hollow in which they had taken refuge was delved in the side of a low hill, at some little height above a long trenchlike valley that lay between it and the outer buttresses of the mountain-wall.
About them lay long launds of green grass ____ with celandine and anemones, white and blue, now folded for sleep; and there were acres populous with the leaves of woodland hyacinths: already their sleek bell-stems were thrusting through the mould.
There was running water at the bottom: it was in fact the bed of one of the many small rivers that trickled down from the hills to feed the stagnant pools and ____s beyond. Gollum turned to the right, southward more or less, and splashed along with his feet in the shallow stony stream
Frodo looked round in horror. Dreadful as the Dead Marshes had been, and the ___ moors of the Noman-lands, more loathsome far was the country that the crawling day now slowly unveiled to his shrinking eyes.
It was not difficult, for the ___ was at this point only some fifteen feet deep and about a dozen across.
It seemed good to be ____d, to walk in a land that had only been for a few years
under the dominion of the Dark Lord and was not yet fallen wholly
into decay. But they did not forget their danger, nor the Black Gate
that was still all too near, hidden though it was behind the gloomy
heights.