Minas Morgul.
The sky is always shrouded in layers of thick clouds.
Around the former "Tower of the Moon" and now the "City of the Dead", Minas Morgul.
On the Ephelduas Mountains, below the Qilisi Ugo Pass.
On a steep and steep mountain road.
Three small figures were struggling to move forward.
These three are naturally the ring bearer Frodo, the gardener and companion Sam, and Gollum.
Since bidding farewell to Faramir in the old capital of Gondor, "Osgiliath".
The two little hobbits, led by Gollum, walked carefully all the way here.
"Huhu..."
The sulfur-smelling mountain wind blowing from the peak of the huge Doomsday Volcano swept over the mountains over and over again.
The three short figures on the steep mountain road finally stopped after advancing hard for a long time.
When the sky became more and more gloomy, it became dark.
Frodo and the three finally prepared to spend the night on a mountain path that was barely flat.
It seems to be because we are getting closer to Mount Doom.
Not only the wind, but also the air was filled with the smell of volcanoes, and even the temperature in the surrounding air was much higher than other places in Middle-earth.
You must know that it is winter at this time.
But here, Frodo and Sam were only wearing short long-sleeved singlets.
The mountains and peaks here are barren and bare rocks, making hunting impossible.
Fortunately, when leaving Lothlorien in the Golden Forest, there were still a few pieces left of the Elf Marching Bread "Lambas" presented by Lady Galadriel.
With the appetite of the two little hobbits and the energy of "Lambas", it is estimated that it will be no problem to support them to reach Mount Doom.
The three hobbits simply ate some marching bread and rested quickly.
Climbing such a steep mountain is exhausting.
Frodo and Sam fell asleep quickly.
Gollum, however, immediately opened his sleepy eyes after hearing the slight snores of the two little hobbits.
Soon, after repeatedly confirming that the two hobbits were asleep, Gollum climbed up on his hands and knees, came to Sam's side, and carefully opened the package that Sam had been carrying.
Quickly find the Elf Panel Rambas wrapped in green leaves.
Gulu showed a ferocious smile, and he immediately crushed a piece of Rambas and sprinkled it on Sam.
Then, he immediately threw all the Rambas in the package towards the nearby cliff.
Watch as the nasty Elf Bread quickly falls off the cliff below and disappears.
Gulu smiled even happier.
At this time, he seemed to suddenly feel something. He turned his head and saw the fat hobbit Sam behind him sitting up and looking at him.
Gulu was shocked.
"What are you doing?"
"What are you doing secretly there?"
Sam asked immediately.
Gollum's mind was racing and he immediately realized that the fat hobbit had not seen what he had just done.
My heart immediately calmed down.
"surreptitiously??"
"No, I just want to see down there."
"Smeagol has been working hard to lead you through secret passages that no one knows about, but you just keep saying that I am sneaky."
"You're such a good companion... aren't you?"
"What a good partner..."
Gulu immediately retorted unwillingly, even using an indignant tone.
finally.
Sam seemed to realize his rudeness and had to apologize: "That's enough, that's enough, shut up!"
"It's my fault this time."
Sam said immediately walking towards Frodo.
"Wake up Frodo..."
"What's wrong?"
"It's time for us to leave..."
"Is it the next day?"
"Why is it still so dark...I forgot, the sky here is always so dark..."
Frodo rolled over and sat up.
Sam then picked up the package and started looking for food.
Soon, he saw the empty green leaves, but the Elf Bread Lambas was missing.
"not good..."
"What's wrong?"
"The elf bread is missing..."
"No way, we only have that little food!"
asked Frodo urgently.
Sam was holding a green leaf in his hand and his expression changed rapidly. Soon, he seemed to have remembered something. He immediately turned to look at Gollum who was watching, and said loudly: "It's him, it must be him!"
"He must have eaten the bread!"
"No, Smeagol won't eat disgusting elf bread."
"It's you."
"Master, what do you think this is?"
Gollum immediately retorted, pointing to the fine powder on the clothes on Sam's shoulders, and with the movement of his hand, the elf panel powder immediately fell to the ground.
Sam's expression changed.
Gulu immediately became arrogant and said loudly: "It's him, it's him. I once saw his former master eating elf bread while sleeping."
"This fat man is a liar, he is a hypocritical liar master..."
"ah!"
Before Gulu finished speaking, he was slapped on the face by the furious Sam and screamed.
Immediately afterwards.
"Pa bang bang..."
Sounds of crisp slaps continued to come.
And Sam’s angry voice: “I’ll beat you to death, you lying liar!”
"Hairless rat!"
"Ugly monster!"
"I'll beat you damn thing to death!"
Sam was stocky and strong.
He was trained by "Teacher" Morgan for a short time together with Frodo.
He suddenly struck, and Gulu couldn't react at all. He was immediately knocked to the ground and eaten by more than a dozen powerful big mouths.
Gulu was stunned for a moment.
Seeing Sam's madness, Frodo immediately stepped forward to stop him.
"Sam stop it!"
"Sam!"
Frodo stretched out his hand to stop the furious Sam, but his foot was stepped on, and his whole body immediately fell to the side, and then fell heavily to the ground.
"Frodo..."
"Master Frodo..."
Seeing Frodo fall, Sam immediately let go of Gollum and rushed towards Frodo.
It was only after Sam held Frodo and screamed for a while that he was sure that Frodo had fainted.
At this time, Gulu, who was standing aside and had blood stains on the corner of his mouth, was dumbfounded.
Frodo, the false master, passed out.
His chance to use Elf Bread to drive away the Fat Hobbit failed, not to mention that he received a severe beating.
This is how to do?
Using Elf Bread was the best way he could think of to get rid of the Fat Hobbit.
Now how to do?
"Damn stinky rat."
As he spoke, Sam stood up, kicked Gollum, and yelled, "Why don't you go find some food for Master Frodo and come back!"
Frodo is unconscious, and he is not too happy bullying the monster Gollum.
"I'm going right now!"
"I'll go right away..."
After being kicked, Gulu didn't dare to say anything and could only look at Sam in fear.
Then he immediately ran towards the mountain road.
When he turned around, Gollum's face, which was facing away from Sam, immediately became extremely twisted and ferocious.
"etc..."
"hold on..."
"We can definitely kill them!"
"One! Definitely! Yes!"
...
Helm's Deep.
In the main hall of the inner city of Horn Keep.
"What?"
"Are you Morgan and the others going to the "Road of the Dead" behind the Black Man Temple?"
"You...how could you not stop them..."
Princess Eowyn of Rohan, who was wearing a beige tight-fitting dress, couldn't help shouting to her brother Éomer immediately after hearing Gandalf's words.
King Théoden, who was sitting on the throne above, couldn't help but worry when he heard the news: "Gandalf, why didn't you stop them?"
"That road... is too dangerous."
For the royal family of Rohan, the Path of the Dead, with its profound lessons, is indeed too dangerous.
Moreover, the place is true to its name. No human being who goes in can come out again.
This time Morgan, Aragorn and those who helped Rohan a lot are going to take the road of death and no return.
This really worried Théoden.
"Aragorn had his reasons..."
Facing King Théoden's words, Gandalf could only say: "Besides, with Morgan and the others here, there shouldn't be much danger."
"Aragorn Morgan's whereabouts have been decided."
"Let's talk about more important things."
"I have received the exact information. Modo is ready to attack Gondor. The army is already advancing towards Gondor."
"Your Majesty, Gondor needs your support."
Gandalf changed his tone and immediately talked about the important matter of his coming to Helm's Deep.
"Modor attacks Gondor..."
After Gandalf finished speaking, Théoden was immediately stunned by the news.
For a while.
After regaining consciousness, Théoden suddenly said calmly: "Rescue Gondor?"
"Tell me...why should I rescue Gondor who stood by and did nothing during Rohan's critical moment?"
The words fell.
Gandalf looked startled. He really didn't expect King Theoden to say that.
However, thinking that Rohan, who had just won the war with difficulty, was indeed not rescued by Gondor in the most difficult time.
Gandalf had no choice but to speak patiently again: "Your Majesty..."
"Modo Sauron is too powerful."
"You must know that this attack on Modo involves not only Modo's army, but also the Dongyi army from the east..."
"Your Majesty, once Gondor cannot stop the Mordor army and is destroyed, then Mordor's next target will definitely be the nearby Rohan..."
"The purpose of Sauron this time is to destroy the whole world and occupy the whole world..."
"No kingdom can survive alone, no one can escape..."
"Only by uniting together can we defeat the Mordor army and defeat Sauron..."
"Your Majesty, don't hesitate any longer..."
"Every day of delay, Modo's army will grow stronger..."
"Gondor can't last that long..."
"Once Gondor is captured by Mordor, there will be no free land in the world..."
"The world will fall completely into darkness..."
"Rohan is among them too..."
Facing King Theoden who was wavering step by step.
Gandalf persuaded him with all his heart.
Finally, Théoden was shaken, raised his head and looked at Gandalf seriously and said: "As long as Gondor lights the beacon, Rohan will obey the ancient covenant."
The words fell.
Gandalf finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The territory of Rohan is vast, and the strength of the hussars is astonishing.
Rohan, whose overall national power is only weaker than Gondor, agreed to send troops, and other small power lords had much easier talk.
King Théoden has agreed.
Gandalf then prepared to leave.
"Gondor doesn't know about this yet. I must rush to Gondor as soon as possible to remind Denethor, the ruling prime minister of Gondor."
"As for our other allies, we still need your Majesty to contact you..."
In front of the Horn Castle, Gandalf was bidding farewell to Théoden and everyone else.
"I've heard some rumors..."
"Forget it, I wish you a smooth journey. I will contact you about allies..."
Théoden looked at Gandalf and nodded.
Soon, after saying goodbye, Gandalf got on Swift Shadow and ran quickly towards the outside of Helm's Deep.
In front of the gate of Hornburg.
The two hobbits, Merry and Pippin, looked at Gandalf's quickly disappearing figure with some reluctance.
The most familiar members of the expedition team all left like this.
Only the two of them were left in Rohan.
It made both of them feel a little bored.
"Tell me to go down and get everyone ready to pack their things. We'll set off tomorrow?"
At this time, Théoden withdrew his gaze and turned to look at Eowen beside him and ordered.
"Where to go?"
Eowyn blurted out, still immersed in the bad news that Morgan was heading to the Path of the Dead.
"Where to go?"
"Of course I know Edoras."
"Saruman is dead, Isengard has been destroyed, and we must prepare for the next war..."
"Go ahead..."
After Théoden finished speaking, he looked at Eowen, whose face was obviously still a little worried, and said warmly: "With Morgan's strength, they may not be able to pass that road, don't worry."
After being seen through her thoughts, Eowen's fair face immediately turned red, and she immediately said: "I know."
After saying that, he turned around and walked quickly towards the door.
Théoden and Éomer couldn't help but sigh in their hearts when they looked at Éowyn's appearance.
...
White mountains.
The warm sunshine in winter shines on you.
But standing in front of the dark cave entrance of the Path of the Dead.
Morgan Alegoras and the Dúnedain "Grey Powerful" rangers felt a chill from the bottom of their hearts.
"This is it."
"Let's go..."
Arag stood at the front of the team, looked at the dark and narrow entrance of the mountain road ahead, and was the first to step in.
Morgan followed behind, leading the black horse Carrot and walked in.
Although Carrot resisted, he walked in anyway.
But when a group of Dúnedain rangers leading horses behind prepared to enter.
Dozens of strong horses immediately stopped working, neighing and kicking...
No matter what, he refused to walk into this long, narrow and cold mountain road.
Aragorn turned back, took a closer look at the black horse following Morgan, and then looked at the group of struggling horses outside the trail under the sun, and could only say: "Take off the things on them and let them go."
Although each of these horses is a strong and fine horse, they have been with this group of Dúnedain rangers for a long time, some have even been together for several years.
However, after the patriarch Aragorn spoke, these rangers had no choice but to untie the saddle reins and let the horses leave no matter how reluctant they were.
Looking at the wild horses running wildly down the mountain one after another, neighing wildly.
Morgan couldn't help but look at the dark horse Carrot beside him.
Although Carrot was very brave, he also followed Morgan into the Mountain of the Dead to save face.
But Morgan could feel the fear in Carrot's heart, the fear of this road.
"Forget it, I know you are afraid..."
Morgan said as he casually began to untie the reins and saddle from Carrot.
The carrot may be able to hold on here at the mountain pass, but it may not be possible once it goes deeper.
Although they didn't get along for long, Morgan could feel that Carrot was smart and a good partner, and he couldn't bear to die here.
"Go, go to Edoras, your hometown..."
"We will meet again one day..."
Morgan said as he led Carrot out of the mountain path, then touched Carrot's long face and said.
As if he understood what Morgan said, the black horse Carrot turned his head and glanced at Morgan, then followed the horses and rushed down the mountain quickly.
"You said it was going to Edoras?"
Gimli looked at the black horse Carrot running away quickly down the mountain, and couldn't help but ask Legolas beside him.
"I don't know, although it's not very far from Edoras."
"But King Théoden and the others are still in Helm's Deep at this time."
Legolas shook his head. It was just a horse, and he didn't like it very much.
"No, King Théoden will return to Edoras soon. He might be on his way by now."
"As for Carrot, he will definitely come back to me."
Morgan came over, looked at the two partners and said.
Listening to Morgan's final words, Gimli rolled his eyes and immediately said: "Then, do the three of us want to make a bet?"
"It's time to go Gimli..."
"The bet can continue on the road."
At this time, Aragorn's voice came.
Morgan glanced at Gimli and said with a smile: "Of course, I will be the boss this time."
After saying that, he immediately followed Aragorn and stepped into the dark and gloomy Road of the Dead.
