In the event it was three days before they reached the Isen. ( Read more... )

Enedwaith was not, Merry found, a happy or welcoming land. ( Read more... )

Sam wasn’t at all sure what to think. ( Read more... )

Merry was surprised to find that despite his fear of meeting more Uruk-hai, and the strain of long days in the saddle, he was quite enjoying travelling once more.( Read more... )

Déorwine had rightly insisted that Rohirrim and their horses were best suited to a long ride in haste, and had ensured that the King’s Messenger bearing reports for Aragorn of all that was afoot would make certain Meriadoc’s letter reached Éomer King as soon as maybe, whether at Helm’s Deep or Edoras or elsewhere.( Read more... )

Halladan was sitting in the parlour of the Prancing Pony, which had become an office of sorts when he wasn’t at Amon Sûl or Fornost or Annúminas, or somewhere on the long miles between.( Read more... )

II Solmath 1420 SR : Trees
PLANTING had already taken Sam around half the Shire. Once he’d remembered the Lady’s gift and decided how he’d use it, he’d started in Hobbiton and Bywater and circled out.( Read more... )

Four days later Sam sat between Frodo and Rosie, with her parents beyond, to hear Halladan pass his judgements. ( Read more... )

Among the Dúnedain of Arnor the formalities of justice had become quite minimal over the long years since the death of Arvedui, and Halladan had no intention of adopting the lengthy ceremonies and protocols that had accreted in Gondor under the Lords Steward, but he did employ a degree of ritual. ( Read more... )

Sam had found the last few days an increasingly sore trial. ( Read more... )