Placeholder Image

字幕表 動画を再生する

  • Chapter 2 THE SHADOW OF THE PAST 

    話は 9 日、あるいは 99 日で収まりませんでした

  • The talk did not die down in  nine or even ninety-nine days.  

    ビルボ・バギンズ氏の 2 度目の失踪は、ホビット村で、実際に 1 年と 1 日にわたってホビット庄全体で議論され、

  • The second disappearance of Mr. Bilbo  Baggins was discussed in Hobbiton,  

    若いホビットの炉辺の話になったよりもはるかに長い間記憶されていましたそして最終的に、

  • and indeed all over the Shire, for a year  and a day, and was remembered much longer  

    バタンと閃光とともに消え、宝石と金の袋を持って再び現れたマット・バギンズは、

  • than that. It became a fireside-story for  young hobbits; and eventually Mad Baggins,  

    レジェンドのお気に入りのキャラクターになり、すべての本当の出来事が忘れられた後も長く生き続けましたが、その間、

  • who used to vanish with a bang and a flash  and reappear with bags of jewels and gold,  

    近所の一般的な意見は いつもかなりひび割れていた ビルボは、

  • became a favourite character of legend and lived  on long after all the true events were forgotten

    最後にかなり怒って、

  • But in the meantime, the general opinion  in the neighbourhood was that Bilbo,  

    そこで青に流れ落ちた.彼は間違いなくプールや川に落ちて、悲劇的ではあるが、時期尚早ではない

  • who had always been rather cracked, had at last  gone quite mad, and had run off into the Blue.  

    終わりを迎えた.恐ろしい魔法使いは若いフロドを放っておくだろう、

  • There he had undoubtedly fallen intopool or a river and come to a tragic,  

    おそらくあなたは落ち着いて軌道感覚を育てるだろうと彼らは言った、そしてどう見ても魔法使いは

  • but hardly an untimely, end. The  blame was mostly laid on Gandalf

    フロドを放っておいて彼は落ち着いたが、ホビット感覚の成長は 実際、彼はすぐに 奇妙である

  • 'If only that dratted wizard will leave young  Frodo alone, perhaps he'll settle down and  

    というビルボの評判を引き継ぐようになり、

  • grow some hobbit-sense,' they said. And to all  appearance the wizard did leave Frodo alone,  

    喪に服することを拒否し、翌年、彼はビルボの112歳の誕生日を記念してパーティーを開催し、それを彼は

  • and he did settle down, but the growth of  hobbit-sense was not very noticeable. Indeed,  

    100重量級の饗宴と呼んだ。 20人のゲストが招待され、

  • he at once began to carry on Bilbo's reputation  for oddity. He refused to go into mourning;  

    いくつかの食事で雪の降る食べ物と雨の飲み物がありました.ホビットは何人かの人々がかなりショックを受けたと言いますが、

  • and the next year he gave a party in honour  of Bilbo's hundred-and-twelfth birthday,  

    フロドは 慣れるまで

  • which he called a Hundred-weight Feast. But  that was short of the mark, for twenty guests  

    ビルボの誕生日パーティーを毎年行う習慣を続けました.

  • were invited and there were several meals at which  it snowed food and rained drink, as hobbits say

    彼らがどこにいるのか尋ねたとき、ビルバーが死んだとは思わなかった.そして

  • Some people were rather shocked; but Frodo kept up  the custom of giving Bilbo's Birthday Party year  

    彼 は肩をすくめた.ビルドがしたように彼は一人で住んでいた

  • after year until they got used to it. He said that  he did not think Bilbo was dead. When they asked:  

    . バッグ・エンドに出入りすることも多かったフェルコ・バフェットとフレデリカ・バルジャーはそのうちの 2 人でしたが、

  • 'Where is he then?' he shrugged his shoulders. He lived alone, as Bilbo had done; but he had  

    彼の最も親しい友人は、通常ピピンと呼ばれるペレグリン・デュークで、ブランディ・バックと結婚しました。彼の本名は

  • a good many friends, especially among the younger  hobbits (mostly descendants of the Old Took) who  

    マリア・ドクでした。めったに覚えていないので、フロドは彼らと一緒にシャイア中を

  • had as children been fond of Bilbo and often in  and out of Bag End. Folco Boffin and Fredegar  

    歩き回っ た .

  • Bolger were two of these; but his closest friends  were Peregrin Took (usually called Pippin),  

    時が経つにつれてビルベルが行ったように、エルフは時が経つにつれてフロドも外見的に良好な保存の兆候を示していることに気づき始めまし

  • and Merry Brandybuck (his real name was  Meriadoc, but that was seldom remembered).  

    た 。 フロドが通常よりしらふの50歳に近づくまでは

  • Frodo went tramping over the Shire with thembut more often he wandered by himself, and to the  

    そうでは ありませんでした

  • amazement of sensible folk he was sometimes seen  far from home walking in the hills and woods under  

    . しかし 、最初のショックが彼自身の主人であり、バッグエンドのバギンズ氏であることを発見した後、彼らはそれがロト自身を

  • the starlight. Merry and Pippin suspected that  he visited the Elves at times, as Bilbo had done

    奇妙だと考え始めました。将来のことはあまり心配していなかった

  • As time went on, people began to notice that  Frodo also showed signs of good 'preservation':  

    が、半分は知らなかったが、ビルボ

  • outwardly he retained the appearance of a robust  and energetic hobbit just out of his tweens.  

    と一緒に

  • 'Some folk have all the luck,' they  said; but it was not until Frodo  

    行かなかったことへの後悔は着実に大きくなっていった.

  • approached the usually more sober age of  fifty that they began to think it queer

    彼が見たことのない山の 奇妙な

  • Frodo himself, after the first shock, found that  being his own master and the Mr. Baggins of Bag  

    ビジョンが彼の夢の中に現れました.彼は自分自身に言い始めました.

  • End was rather pleasant. For some years he was  quite happy and did not worry much about the  

    彼の心の残りの半分はいつもまだ答えていません

  • future. But half unknown to himself the regret  that he had not gone with Bilbo was steadily  

    . ビルボ・フロドは不安を感じ始め、古い道は行き過ぎたように感じ始め、

  • growing. He found himself wondering at timesespecially in the autumn, about the wild lands,  

    地図を

  • and strange visions of mountains that  he had never seen came into his dreams.  

    見て、その境界の向こうに何があるのか​​疑問に思った

  • He began to say to himself: 'Perhapsshall cross the River myself one day.' To  

    地図 シャイアで作られた

  • which the other half of his  mind always replied: 'Not yet.' 

    ほとんど白い空間を示していたその国境を越えて彼はさらに遠くをさまよい、より多くの場合、一人で、

  • So it went on, until his forties were running outand his fiftieth birthday was drawing near: fifty  

    メアリーと彼の他の友人は彼を心配そうに見ていました

  • was a number that he felt was somehow significant  (or ominous); it was at any rate at that age that  

    。シャイアでは、

  • adventure had suddenly befallen Bilbo. Frodo  began to feel restless, and the old paths  

    外の世界で奇妙なことが起こっているという噂があり、ガンダルフは当時

  • seemed too well-trodden. He looked at maps, and  wondered what lay beyond their edges: maps made  

    数年間現れたり、メッセージを送ったりしていなかったため、フロドは彼がエルブできるすべてのニュースを集めました シャイア をめったに歩かなかった人々が、

  • in the Shire showed mostly white spaces beyond  its borders. He took to wandering further afield  

    夕方に森の中を西に通り過ぎて戻ってこないのを見ることができたが、

  • and more often by himself; and Merry and his other  friends watched him anxiously. Often he was seen  

    彼らは中つ国を離れようとしていて、もはやその問題には関心がなく、

  • walking and talking with the strange wayfarers  that began at this time to appear in the Shire

    道には異常な数のドワーフがいた古代東部-ウェストロードはシャイアを通り抜けて

  • There were rumours of strange things happening in  the world outside; and as Gandalf had not at that  

    灰色のヘイブンで終わり、オオカミはブルーマウンテンで彼らの心に向かう途中で常にそれを使用していました.

  • time appeared or sent any message for several  years, Frodo gathered all the news he could.  

    支配されたドワーフが言った

  • Elves, who seldom walked in the Shire, could now  be seen passing westward through the woods in the  

    ように、彼らは遠く離れた場所からのホビットの主要なニュースソースでした。

  • evening, passing and not returning; but they were  leaving Middle-earth and were no longer concerned  

    リトルとホビットはそれ以上尋ねませんでしたが、今ではフロド

  • with its troubles. There were, however, dwarves on  the road in unusual numbers. The ancient EastWest  

    は西側に避難を求めている遠い国の 奇妙なドワーフによく会い 、敵とモルドールの地の

  • Road ran through the Shire to its end at the  Grey Havens, and dwarves had always used it on  

    ささやきを話しました 。彼らの記憶の背景には影がありましたが、それは

  • their way to their mines in the Blue MountainsThey were the hobbits' chief source of news from  

    不吉で不穏なものでし

  • distant partsif they wanted any: as a rule  dwarves said little and hobbits asked no more.  

    たモルドールの古い要塞は再建された ダークタワーはそこから設置された

  • But now Frodo often met strange dwarves of far  countries, seeking refuge in the West. They  

    力は遠く広く広がっていた はるか東と南に

  • were troubled, and some spoke in whispers  of the Enemy and of the Land of Mordor

    戦争があり、恐怖が高まっていた オークは山で再び増えていた 荒らしは海外ではもはや

  • That name the hobbits only knew in legends of  the dark past, like a shadow in the background  

    鈍感ではなくなったしかし、狡猾で恐ろしい武器で武装し、

  • of their memories; but it was ominous and  disquieting. It seemed that the evil power  

    これらすべてよりも恐ろしい生き物のささやきのヒントがありましたが

  • in Mirkwood had been driven out by the White  Council only to reappear in greater strength in  

    、名前はほとんどありませんでした

  • the old strongholds of Mordor. The Dark Tower  had been rebuilt, it was said. From there the  

    . フロドの 50 歳の春のある夜、バイウォーターのグリーン ドラゴンでの会話は、

  • power was spreading far and wide, and away far  east and south there were wars and growing fear.  

    ほとんどのホビットが まだ彼らを笑ってい

  • Orcs were multiplying again in the mountainsTrolls were abroad, no longer dull-witted,  

    たにもかかわらず、シャイアの快適な心の中でさえ噂が聞かれたことを示していました

  • but cunning and armed with dreadful weaponsAnd there were murmured hints of creatures more  

    。 サム・ガムジは暖炉のそばの片隅に座っていて、彼の反対側にはテッド・

  • terrible than all these, but they had no name. Little of all this, of course, reached the ears  

    サンディマン・ザ・ミラーの息子がいて、他の素朴なホビットたちが彼らの奇妙な話を聞いていた

  • of ordinary hobbits. But even the deafest and  most stay-at-home began to hear queer tales;  

    .最近あなたがここでしていることを確認するために、サムはテッドが言った、あなたが聞くならあなたがすると言ったが、

  • and those whose business took them to the borders  saw strange things. The conversation in The Green  

    私は 家でサメの話や子供の話を遠くまで聞くことができる.

  • Dragon at Bywater, one evening in the spring of  Frodo's fiftieth year, showed that even in the  

    そのうちの

  • comfortable heart of the Shire rumours had been  heard, though most hobbits still laughed at them

    誰が物語を発明したと思いますか? とにかくドラゴンを取ります.テッドは言いません.私が

  • Sam Gamgee was sitting in one corner near  the fire, and opposite him was Ted Sandyman,  

    子供の頃に彼らに言うのを聞いたのですが,今では

  • the miller's son; and there were various  other rustic hobbits listening to their talk

    ドラゴンは1つしかありません.ウォルターとそれは穀物だと彼は言った一般的な笑いを得て大丈夫だと

  • 'Queer things you do hear these  days, to be sure,' said Sam

    サムは他の人たちと一緒に笑っていると言ったが、これらの木の男はどうですかこれらの巨人はあなたが彼らを呼ぶかもしれないように彼らは言う

  • 'Ah,' said Ted, 'you do, if you listen. Butcan hear fireside-tales and children's stories  

    北のムーア人の向こうにある道よりも大きなものは

  • at home, if I want to.' 'No doubt you can,'  

    彼らが私のいとこのハルを すぐに戻ってくると言います 一つには、ブッフォン氏とオーバーヒルのために働き、

  • retorted Sam, 'and I daresay there's more truth  in some of them than you reckon. Who invented  

    彼らが見た狩猟のために北ファーリーに行きます. ある

  • the stories anyway? Take dragons now.' 'No thank 'ee,' said Ted, 'I won't.  

    人は、おそらくあなたの家でしたと 言いました. 楡の木と

  • I heard tell of them when I was a youngsterbut there's no call to believe in them now.  

    ウォーキング歩幅が 1 インチだった場合、彼が見たのは 1 インチでは

  • There's only one Dragon in Bywater, and that's  Green,' he said, getting a general laugh

    なかったに違いないニレの木はそうではありませんでしたが、これは歩いていました 。ノース ムーアズには

  • 'All right,' said Sam, laughing with the rest.  'But what about these Tree-men, these giants,  

    レルム ツリーはありませんが、あらゆる種類の ことわざはありません。 ある人がテッドに言った 笑ったり拍手したりした

  • as you might call them? They do say that one  bigger than a tree was seen up away beyond the  

    聴衆はテッドが点を取ったと思っているようだった それでも同じように サムは言った 私たちの家のそばにいる他の人たちがシャイア・クロッシングを渡っている奇妙な人々を見たことを否定することはできないと

  • North Moors not long back.' 'Who's they?' 

    言っ た

  • 'My cousin Hal for one. He works for MrBoffin at Overhill and goes up to the  

    国境に戻った 創設者たちはこれまでにないほど忙しかったし、エルフが西に移動していると聞いた.彼らは

  • Northfarthing for the hunting. He saw one.' 'Says he did, perhaps. Your Hal's always  

    白い塔の向こうにある港に行くと言っている

  • saying he's seen things; and maybe  he sees things that ain't there.' 

    サムはぼんやりと腕を振った. 彼らは シャイアの西側の国境を越えて

  • 'But this one was as big as an elm  tree, and walkingwalking seven  

    古い塔を通り過ぎて海までどれだけ離れているかを知っていた

  • yards to a stride, if it was an inch.' 'Then I bet it wasn't an inch. What he  

    が、そこにある道 には灰色の避難所が立っていたというのは古い伝統であり、そこからエルフの船が出航し、二度と戻ってこなかった

  • saw was an elm tree, as like as not.' 'But this one was walking, I tell you;  

    .そして海を航海し、彼らは西に向かいます。私たちが言ったサムは、

  • and there ain't no elm tree on the North Moors.' 'Then Hal can't have seen one,' said Ted. There  

    悲しげにそして厳粛に頭を振って言葉を半分唱えましたが、テッドはよく笑いました。

  • was some laughing and clapping: the audience  seemed to think that Ted had scored a point

    古い話を信じるなら、それは新しいことではありません。

  • 'All the same,' said Sam, 'you can't deny that  others besides our Halfast have seen queer folk  

    私にとって何が重要なのかわかり ません。 彼らがそれをしているのを見たことも、シャワーを浴びている人も

  • crossing the Shirecrossing it, mind you: there  are more that are turned back at the borders. The  

    見たことがありません

  • Bounders have never been so busy before. 'And I've heard tell that Elves are moving  

    。初期の頃、

  • west. They do say they are going to the  harbours, out away beyond the White Towers.'  

    ホビットが知っていたようなエルフについての物語の断片や半分覚えている物語は、常に彼を最も深く感動させていました.

  • Sam waved his arm vaguely: neither he nor  any of them knew how far it was to the Sea,  

    公正な人々は彼のニュースを知ることができないので、これらの部分にもいくつかあります.私が働いている今、バギンズ氏がいると彼は言いました.彼

  • past the old towers beyond the western borders  of the Shire. But it was an old tradition that  

    は私に言った、彼らは航海していると彼はエルフについて少し知っていて、ああ、ビルボ氏はもっとお金のことを知っていた私が子供の頃に彼と話していたああ、

  • away over there stood the Grey Havens, from which  at times elven-ships set sail, never to return

    彼らは両方ともひびが入ったテッドに言ったビルボはひびが入った

  • 'They are sailing, sailing, sailing over the Sea,  

    フロドのひび割れムーンシンのYou'll Never Walkからニュースを受け取ります元気

  • they are going into the West and leaving us,'  said Sam, half chanting the words, shaking  

    な友達 私は家にいます 大丈夫です あなたは健康です 彼はマグカップを空にして騒々しく出かけ

  • his head sadly and solemnly. But Ted laughed. 'Well, that isn't anything new, if you believe the  

    まし た

  • old tales. And I don't see what it matters to me  or you. Let them sail! But I warrant you haven't  

    バッグとガーデニング、明日は天気が良ければ忙しい一日になるだろうが、

  • seen them doing it; nor anyone else in the Shire.' 'Well, I don't know,' said Sam thoughtfully.  

    草は急速に成長していたが、サムはため息を

  • He believed he had once seen an Elf in the  woods, and still hoped to see more one day.  

    ついた後、ガーデニングよりももっと頭に浮かんだ

  • Of all the legends that he had heard in his early  years such fragments of tales and half-remembered  

    。大雨が降り、太陽が沈み、涼しげな淡い夜が静かに夜へと消えていった彼は

  • stories about the Elves as the hobbits  knew, had always moved him most deeply.  

    ホビット村を通り、初期の星空の下を歩いて家に帰り、丘の上を静かにそして思慮深く口笛を吹いていた

  • 'There are some, even in these parts, as know  the Fair Folk and get news of them,' he said.  

    ガンダルフが 3年後の

  • 'There's Mr. Baggins now, that I work for. He told  me that they were sailing and he knows a bit about  

    長い不在の後に再び現れたのはちょうどこの時だった

  • Elves. And old Mr. Bilbo knew more: many's the  talk I had with him when I was a little lad.' 

    彼は離れていたパーティーの後にフロドを簡単に訪問し、 彼をよく見た

  • 'Oh, they're both cracked,' said Ted. 'Leastways  old Bilbo was cracked, and Frodo's cracking.  

    後 、次の 1 年か 2 年の間に再び出かけました。議論しない

  • If that's where you get your news  from, you'll never want for moonshine.  

    ロト が彼のことを見たり聞いたりして から9年以上が経ち、

  • Well, friends, I'm off home. Your good health!'  He drained his mug and went out noisily

    フロドの健康状態や行動についての小さなニュースに主に興味を持っているようでした

  • Sam sat silent and said no more. He had a good  deal to think about. For one thing, there was a  

    . その夜、サムが家に 帰り

  • lot to do up in the Bag End garden, and he would  have a busy day tomorrow, if the weather cleared.  

    、トワイライトが薄れつつあるとき、すべてをあきらめていた. かつて慣れ親しんだ

  • The grass was growing fast. But Sam  had more on his mind than gardening.  

    書斎の窓をタップする 音がした. フロド

  • After a while he sighed, and got up and went out

    は古い友人を驚きと大喜びで歓迎した.

  • It was early April and the sky  was now clearing after heavy rain.  

    いつものようにフロドはあなたの写真を返信しましたが、

  • The sun was down, and a cool pale evening  was quietly fading into night. He walked  

    グリー ですがガンダルフは年をとっているように見え、より多くのケアが疲れ

  • home under the early stars through Hobbiton and  up the Hill, whistling softly and thoughtfully

    ていました. 魔法使いは書斎の開いた窓のそばにフロダと座っていた

  • It was just at this time that Gandalf reappeared  after his long absence. For three years after the  

    囲炉裏には短い火がともされていたが、太陽は暖かく、風は南から吹いていた

  • Party he had been away. Then he paid Frodobrief visit, and after taking a good look at  

    すべてが新鮮に見え、春の新緑がきらめいていた野原と

  • him he went off again. During the next year or two  he had turned up fairly often, coming unexpectedly  

    木の指先でガンダルフは80年近く前の春のことを考えていた.ビルボが

  • after dusk, and going off without warning before  sunrise. He would not discuss his own business  

    ハンカチなしでバッグエンドを使い果たしたとき.彼の髪はおそらくその時よりも白く

  • and journeys, and seemed chiefly interested  in small news about Frodo's health and doings

    、彼のひげと眉毛はおそらくより長かった.彼の顔はより注意と知恵に満ちていましたが、

  • Then suddenly his visits had ceased. It was over  nine years since Frodo had seen or heard of him,  

    彼の目は相変わらず明るく、 彼は

  • and he had begun to think that the wizard  would never return and had given up  

    煙の輪を同じ活力で吸い、吹き飛ばしました

  • all interest in hobbits. But that evening, as  Sam was walking home and twilight was fading,  

    。嘆きながら、彼はガンダルフがもたらした知らせの暗い影を感じた

  • there came the once familiar  tap on the study window

    昨夜、彼は沈黙を破った あなたは私の指輪について奇妙なことを私に話し始めた ガンダルフは言っ

  • Frodo welcomed his old friend with surprise and  great delight. They looked hard at one another

    た、そしてあなたはそのようなことは日が暮れるまで残されていると言ったのでやめた もうやめた方が いい

  • 'All well eh?' said Gandalf. 'You  look the same as ever, Frodo!' 

    と思いませんか 指輪は危険だとおっしゃいます 多くの

  • 'So do you,' Frodo replied; but secretly he  thought that Gandalf looked older and more  

    点でどのように魔法使いに答えますか 最初に考えたことよりもはるかに強力です

  • careworn. He pressed him for news of himself  and of the wide world, and soon they were deep  

    非常に強力で、終わりそれは定命の種族の誰をも完全に打ち負かすだろう

  • in talk, and they stayed up far into the night. Next morning after a late breakfast, the wizard  

    それは彼を所有するだろう

  • was sitting with Frodo by the open window of  the study. A bright fire was on the hearth,  

    ずっと前に多くのエルフの指輪があなたがそれらを呼ぶように魔法の指輪になり、それらはもちろんさまざま

  • but the sun was warm, and the wind was  in the South. Everything looked fresh,  

    な種類のもので、より強力なものもあれば、より強力なものも

  • and the new green of spring was shimmering in  the fields and on the tips of the trees' fingers

    あれば、そうでないものもあったオーブンに完全に成長しました スミス 彼らは

  • Gandalf was thinking of a spring, nearly  eighty years before, when Bilbo had run out  

    ささいなことでしたが、それでも私の心には危険です 大きな指輪の人間にとっては危険です 力の指輪 彼らは危険でした

  • of Bag End without a handkerchief. His hair  was perhaps whiter than it had been then,  

    大きな指輪の1つを保持している人間のフロドは死ぬことはありません

  • and his beard and eyebrows were perhaps longerand his face more lined with care and wisdom; but  

    が、成長したり手に入れたりすることはありませんより多くの人生は、毎分続くまで継続するだけであり、意識であり

  • his eyes were as bright as ever, and he smoked and  blew smoke-rings with the same vigour and delight

    、リングを頻繁に使用して自分自身を見えなくする場合、彼は衰退し、最終的には永久に見えなくなり、

  • He was smoking now in silence, for Frodo  was sitting still, deep in thought.  

    リング を 支配する闇の力の目の前でトワイライトを歩きます。

  • Even in the light of morning he felt the dark  shadow of the tidings that Gandalf had brought.  

    または後で、彼が強いか、そもそも善意を持っているが、強

  • At last he broke the silence. 'Last night you began to  

    さも善意も持続しない場合、遅かれ早かれ、闇の力が彼をむさぼり食うでしょう

  • tell me strange things about my ringGandalf,' he said. 'And then you stopped,  

    。 f 芝生を刈っているサム・ガムジが庭からやってきた

  • because you said that such matters were best  left until daylight. Don't you think you had  

    このアストロドのことをどれくらい長く知っていましたか そしてビルボは彼があなた

  • better finish now? You say the ring is dangerousfar more dangerous than I guess. In what way?' 

    に言った以上のことをどれだけ知っていましたか

  • 'In many ways,' answered the wizard. 'It is far  more powerful than I ever dared to think at first,  

    私 はあなたの世話をすることを約束したにもかかわらず、彼は

  • so powerful that in the end it would utterly  overcome anyone of mortal race who possessed it.  

    リング が 非常に美しいと思った.

  • It would possess him. 'In Eregion long ago many Elven-rings were made,  

    彼は リング

  • magic rings as you call them, and they  were, of course, of various kinds:  

    自体が原因であるとは思っていませんでしたが、世話をする必要があるものは

  • some more potent and some less. The lesser  rings were only essays in the craft before  

    常に同じサイズまたは重さであるとは限らず、奇妙な方法で収縮または膨張し

  • it was full-grown, and to the Elven-smiths  they were but triflesyet still to my mind  

    、あった場所で突然指から滑り落ちる可能性があることを 発見しました タイト はい、彼は彼の最後の

  • dangerous for mortals. But the Great Ringsthe Rings of Power, they were perilous

    手紙でフロドが言ったことを私に警告したので、私は常にそれを彼のチェーンに留めていました本当に賢明なことにガンダルフは言いましたが、彼の長寿命に関しては、肘は

  • 'A mortal, Frodo, who keeps one of the Great  Rings, does not die, but he does not grow or  

    リングとまったく接続されていませんでした。

  • obtain more life, he merely continues, until at  last every minute is a weariness. And if he often  

    彼はとても誇りに思っていた彼は落ち着きがなくなり不安になっていましたが、彼は

  • uses the Ring to make himself invisible, he fadeshe becomes in the end invisible permanently,  

    リングが制御されている兆候を示しました.フロドにもう一度尋ねました.ガンダルフは言いません.

  • and walks in the twilight under the eye  of the Dark Power that rules the Rings.  

    フロドを知っているのは賢い人だけです。この指輪は

  • Yes, sooner or laterlater, if he is  strong or well-meaning to begin with,  

    まあ、最後の試練があると言う人がいるかどうかはまだわかりませんが、彼が

  • but neither strength nor good purpose will last –  sooner or later the Dark Power will devour him.' 

    最初に推測し始めたのはいつだったのか、彼が記憶を振り返って考え始めたのはいつだったのか、私の推測に

  • 'How terrifying!' said FrodoThere was another long silence.  

    疑い の余地はありません。 五軍の戦いの直前に闇の森から暗黒の力を追い払った

  • The sound of Sam Gamgee cutting  the lawn came in from the garden

    が、ビルボはこの指輪が私の心に影を落としているのを見つけた。それから私は

  • 'How long have you known this?' asked Frodo  at length. 'And how much did Bilbo know?' 

    まだ 何を 恐れていたのか わからない。

  • 'Bilbo knew no more than he told you, I am  sure,' said Gandalf. 'He would certainly never  

    最初から明らかだったのに、ビルボがどのようにして優勝したかという奇妙な話を聞いたのですが、

  • have passed on to you anything that he thought  would be a danger, even though I promised to  

    ついに彼から真実を聞いたときは信じられませんでした

  • look after you. He thought the ring was very  beautiful, and very useful at need; and if  

    リングに自分の主張を持ち込もうとしていたとき、それを見ました 疑う余地はありませんゴラムのように、誕生日プレゼントに

  • anything was wrong or queer, it was himselfHe said that it wasgrowing on his mind”,  

    リーを 贈る あまりにも似すぎていて安心できなかった明らかにリングには不健全な力があり、

  • and he was always worrying about itbut he did not suspect that the ring  

    すぐにキーパーに働きかけました.これが最初の本当の警告でした.すべてがうまくいかなかったということです.ビルボには、

  • itself was to blame. Though he had found  out that the thing needed looking after;  

    そのようなリングは使用しない方がよいとよく言いましたが、彼はそれに憤慨し、すぐに腹を立てた

  • it did not seem always of the same size or  weight; it shrank or expanded in an odd way,  

    私にできることは他にほとんどなかった 私は彼からそれを奪うことができず、もっと大きな害を及ぼさずにはいられなかった

  • and might suddenly slip offfinger where it had been tight.' 

    そして私にはそうする権利がなかった とにかく彼は見て待っていないでください 私はおそらく白紙のソドムに相談したかもしれませ

  • 'Yes, he warned me of that in  his last letter,' said Frodo,  

    ん何かがいつも私を引き留めていた 彼がフロドに尋ねたのは誰ですか 私は彼のことを聞いたことがありません

  • 'so I have always kept it on its chain.' 'Very wise,' said Gandalf. 'But as for his long  

    ガンダルフのアバターは彼女の言葉に答えました 彼のことは気にしません 彼は私の命令の首長であり

  • life, Bilbo never connected it with the ring at  all. He took all the credit for that to himself,  

    、評議会の長である賢明な人の間で彼の知識は素晴らしいですそのプライドはそれとともに大きくなり、

  • and he was very proud of it. Though he was getting  restless and uneasy. Thin and stretched he said.  

    エルフの指輪の大小の支配者は彼の領地であり、彼は長い間それを研究して、

  • A sign that the ring was getting control.' 'How long have you known all this?'  

    彼らの製作の失われた秘密を求めてきましたが、指輪が評議会で議論されたとき、彼はできる限りのことをしまし

  • asked Frodo again. 'Known?' said Gandalf. 'I  

    た彼の指輪を見せてくれ恐怖に逆らって言ったので、誰が寝坊するかもしれないか不安に

  • have known much that only the Wise know, FrodoBut if you meanknown about this ring”, well,  

    思っていましたが、それでも私は待っていました私はビルバとうまくいっていることを知っていましたそして年が経ちましたはい彼らは過ぎ去りましたそして

  • I still do not know, one might say. There islast test to make. But I no longer doubt my guess

    彼らは彼に触れないようでした彼は年齢の兆候を見せませんでしたリゾットは再び私に落ちましたが、私は再び私に落ちました

  • 'When did I first begin to guess?' he  mused, searching back in memory. 'Let  

    結局のところ、彼は母親の側で長寿の家族の出身であると自分に言い聞かせました. まだ待つ時間はあります. 私は彼が家を出るその夜まで待ってい

  • me seeit was in the year that the White  Council drove the Dark Power from Mirkwood,  

    まし た .

  • just before the Battle of Five  Armies, that Bilbo found his ring.  

    サルマンは、何か暗くて致命的なものが働いていることをついに知ったのを和らげることができました.

  • A shadow fell on my heart then, though  I did not know yet what I feared.  

    それ以来、私はそれの真実を見つけるのにほとんどの年を費やしてきました

  • I wondered often how Gollum came by a Great Ringas plainly it wasthat at least was clear from  

    . ガンダルフ

  • the first. Then I heard Bilbo's strange story of  how he hadwonit, and I could not believe it.  

    は、リングとその効果についてすべてを知っている力はこの世界に1つしかなく

  • When I at last got the truth out of him, I  saw at once that he had been trying to put  

    、私が知る限り、その力は存在しないと

  • his claim to the ring beyond doubt. Much  like Gollum with hisbirthday-present”.  

    言いました. 賢者の中で ホビットのことをすべて知っている世界

  • The lies were too much alike for my comfortClearly the ring had an unwholesome power that  

    ホビットの法則に参加する唯一の人 あいまいな知識の枝

  • set to work on its keeper at once. That was the  first real warning I had that all was not well. I  

    ですが、驚きに満ちています それらは可能な限り最も柔らかいバターであ​​り、それでも時には古い木の根と同じくらい頑丈です

  • told Bilbo often that such rings were better left  unused; but he resented it, and soon got angry.  

    ほとんどの賢者よりもはるかに長くリングに抵抗する人もいると思いますもちろん、

  • There was little else that I could do. I could  not take it from him without doing greater harm;  

    ピルパについて心配する必要はないと思います.もちろん、彼は

  • and I had no right to do so  anyway. I could only watch  

    長年リングを所有して使用していたので、影響がなくなる

  • and wait. I might perhaps have consulted Saruman  the White, but something always held me back.' 

    までに 長い時間がかかる可能性があります。 彼は何年もとても幸せに生きていけるかも

  • 'Who is he?' asked Frodo. 'I  have never heard of him before.' 

    しれない 彼がそれを手放したときのよう

  • 'Maybe not,' answered Gandalf. 'Hobbits  are, or were, no concern of his.  

  • Yet he is great among the Wise. He is the  chief of my order and the head of the Council.  

    4ビルボは去りました 私はあなたのことを深く心配しており、これらすべてのチャーミングでばかげた無力な軌道について、

  • His knowledge is deep, but his pride has  grown with it, and he takes ill any meddling.  

    闇の力がシャイアを克服し た場合、あなたの親切で陽気な愚かなホーンブロワーがスプレースカードルで膨らみ、残りがそうでない場合、それは

  • The lore of the Elven-rings, great and smallis his province. He has long studied it,  

    世界にとって最も重大な打撃になるでしょう 私に

  • seeking the lost secrets of their making; but  when the Rings were debated in the Council,  

    ばかげたパッケージが奴隷になったということでフレドはそれを閉じたが、なぜ彼に尋ねるべきなのか、なぜ

  • all that he would reveal to us of  his ring-lore told against my fears.  

    彼 は奴隷を欲しがるのか、

  • So my doubt sleptbut uneasilyStill I watched and I waited

    彼らはあなたに真実を教えてくれる

  • 'And all seemed well with Bilbo. And the years  passed. Yes, they passed, and they seemed not  

    .あなたの身の安全は過ぎた 彼はあなたを必要としない 彼は

  • to touch him. He showed no signs of age. The  shadow fell on me again. But I said to myself:  

    もう何年もあなたのしもべを持っている でも彼は二度とあなたを忘れないだろう 悪意 と復讐

  • After all he comes of a long-lived family on  his mother's side. There is time yet. Wait!” 

    のようなものが存在するオービッツが幸せで自由であるよりも、惨めな奴隷が彼を喜ばせるようになることを

  • 'And I waited. Until that  night when he left this house.  

    願っている 復讐はフロドの復讐だと言ったが、これがビルブーと私と私たちの指輪と何をしているのかまだ理解していない.

  • He said and did things then that filled me with  a fear that no words of Saruman could allay.  

    ガンダルフは本当の危険を知らないが、あなたは

  • I knew at last that something dark and deadly was  at work. And I have spent most of the years since  

    そうするだろうと私は言った.ここで迷子になったが、私に指輪を渡す時が来た

  • then in finding out the truth of it.' 'There wasn't any permanent harm done,  

    フロドはビーチのポケットからそれを取り出し、ベルトから

  • was there?' asked Frodo anxiously.  'He would get all right in time,  

    ぶら下がったチェーンに分類された.

  • wouldn't he? Be able to rest in peace, I mean?' 'He felt better at once,' said Gandalf. 'But there  

    まるでそれかフロド自身が何らかの形でガンダルフがそれに触れるのをためらったかのように非常に重い ガンダルフは

  • is only one Power in this world that knows  all about the Rings and their effects;  

    それを持ち上げた 純粋で純金でできているように見えた 刻印が見えるか 彼は

  • and as far as I know there is no Power in  the world that knows all about hobbits.  

    フロドに何もないと答えた非常に明白で、傷や摩耗の兆候を示すことはありません。

  • Among the Wise I am the only one that goes in  for hobbit-lore: an obscure branch of knowledge,  

    それからフロドの驚きを見てください。魔法使いはそれ

  • but full of surprises. Soft as butter they can  be, and yet sometimes as tough as old tree-roots.  

    を火の燃える隅 の真ん中に突然投げました

  • I think it likely that some would resist the Rings  far longer than most of the Wise would believe.  

    。彼は威厳のある声でフロドに剛毛の眉の下からちらりと見させ

  • I don't think you need worry about Bilbo

  • 'Of course, he possessed the ring for many  years, and used it, so it might take a long  

    . 窓に近づく

  • while for the influence to wear offbefore it  was safe for him to see it again, for instance.  

    とハサミの音が庭からかすか

  • Otherwise, he might live on for years, quite  happily: just stop as he was when he parted  

    に 聞こえた.

  • with it. For he gave it up in the end of his own  accord: an important point. No, I was not troubled  

    フローターが小さくなった

  • about dear Bilbo any more, once he had let the  thing go. It is for you that I feel responsible

    手のひらでそれを受け取ったのはとてもクールだと思いますそれはそれを保持するよりも厚く重くなったように見えました

  • 'Ever since Bilbo left I have been deeply  concerned about you, and about all these  

    フロドがしたようにガンをよく見ると彼は今、細い線が最高のペンよりも細かいのを見た

  • charming, absurd, helpless hobbits. It  would be a grievous blow to the world,  

    外側のリングに沿って走っているストロークと流れるような文字を形成しているように見える火の線の中で

  • if the Dark Power overcame the Shire; if all your  kind, jolly, stupid Bolgers, Hornblowers, Boffins,  

    彼らは鋭く明るく輝いていましたが、まるで非常に深い炎の

  • Bracegirdles, and the rest, not to mention  the ridiculous Bagginses, became enslaved.' 

    ような格子から出ているかのように遠く離れていましたフロドは震える声でガンダルフとは言いませんでしたが、

  • Frodo shuddered. 'But why should we be?' he  asked. 'And why should he want such slaves?' 

    文字は古代モードのエルフです。言語はモルドールの言語です

  • 'To tell you the truth,' replied Gandalf,  'I believe that hithertohitherto, mark  

    が、これは共通の言語で言うと、1 つのリングでそれら

  • youhe has entirely overlooked the existence  of hobbits. You should be thankful. But your  

    すべてを支配するのに十分な距離にあり、1 つのリングでそれらすべてを支配することができます

  • safety has passed. He does not need youhe has  many more useful servantsbut he won't forget  

    。エルフの法で知られている エルフの王たちのための 3 つの指輪

  • you again. And hobbits as miserable slaves would  please him far more than hobbits happy and free.  

    空の下の 7 つのドワーフの君主のための 石のホールの 9 死ぬ運命にある人間の男性のための

  • There is such a thing as malice and revenge.' 'Revenge?' said Frodo. 'Revenge for what?  

    1 つ 影が 1 つのリングを鳴らしているモルドールの地の闇の玉座にいる闇の君主の

  • I still don't understand what all this has  to do with Bilbo and myself, and our ring.' 

    ためのルールそれらすべてを見つけるための1つのリング 彼は

  • 'It has everything to do with it,' said Gandalf.  'You do not know the real peril yet; but  

    一時 停止

  • you shall. I was not sure of it myself whenwas last here; but the time has come to speak.  

    し、深い声でゆっくりと言いました。これは、それらすべてを支配するための1つのリングをマスターすること

  • Give me the ring for a moment.' Frodo took it from his breeches-pocket,  

    です 。

  • where it was clasped to a chain that hung from his  

    彼の力の大幅な弱体化 彼はそれを大いに望んでいるが、彼はそれを手に入れてはならない

  • belt. He unfastened it and handed it slowly  to the wizard. It felt suddenly very heavy,  

    フロドは沈黙し、動かない恐怖が巨大な手を伸ばしているように見えた 暗い雲が

  • as if either it or Frodo himself was in  some way reluctant for Gandalf to touch it

    東に昇り、彼を飲み込むために迫ってきたように、このリングスタミット 地球上でどのように行われたかそれは私にやってくる

  • Gandalf held it up. It looked to  be made of pure and solid gold.  

    [音楽]

  • 'Can you see any markings on it?' he asked. 'No,' said Frodo. 'There are none.  

    始まりは暗黒の年にさかのぼる 今では法律の達人だけがそれを覚えている

  • It is quite plain, and it never  shows a scratch or sign of wear.' 

    春が冬に移ったときにここに座っていたはずの話をあなたにすべて話すとし

  • 'Well then, look!' To Frodo's astonishment  and distress the wizard threw it suddenly  

    たら偉大な暗黒卿、あなたが聞いた噂は

  • into the middle of a glowing corner of  the fire. Frodo gave a cry and groped  

    本当 です。彼は確かに再び復活し、マークウッドのホールドを離れ、

  • for the tongs; but Gandalf held him back. 'Wait!' he said in a commanding voice, giving  

    モルドールの暗黒の塔にある彼の古代の要塞に

  • Frodo a quick look from under his bristling brows. No apparent change came over the ring.  

    戻ってきました 昔話の境界線はいつも後休息中の敗北 影は

  • After a while Gandalf got up, closed the shutters  outside the window, and drew the curtains.  

    別の形を取り、グローブは再び私の中で起こる必要はなかった

  • The room became dark and silent, though the clack  of Sam's shears, now nearer to the windows, could  

    マイクは言った フロドはそう言った 私はガンダルフを言った そしてそのような時代を見るために生きているすべての人がそうするが

  • still be heard faintly from the garden. Formoment the wizard stood looking at the fire; then  

    、それは彼らが私たちが持っているすべてを決定することではない決定することは、すでにフロドが与えられたときに何をすべきかです 私たちの時間は

  • he stooped and removed the ring to the hearth with  the tongs, and at once picked it up. Frodo gasped

    黒く見え始めています 敵は急速に非常に強くなりつつあります

  • 'It is quite cool,' said Gandalf. 'Take it!'  Frodo received it on his shrinking palm: it seemed  

    彼の計画は成熟にはほど遠いと思いますが、彼らは成熟しています 私たちはそれに懸命に取り組む必要があり

  • to have become thicker and heavier than ever. 'Hold it up!' said Gandalf. 'And look closely!' 

    ます非常に難しいはずですが、この恐ろしいチャンスがなかったとしても、

  • As Frodo did so, he now saw fine lines, finer than  the finest pen-strokes, running along the ring,  

    敵はまだ彼に力と知識を与えて打ち負かしたり抵抗したりするための1つのことを欠いています

  • outside and inside: lines of fire that seemed  to form the letters of a flowing script.  

    最後の防御を破り、2番目の闇ですべての土地をカバーします 私たちはすべてのエルフの中で最も美しい指輪です

  • They shone piercingly bright, and yet  remote, as if out of a great depth.

    ロード は彼から隠し、彼の手は彼らに触れたり敬礼

  • 'I cannot read the fiery letters,'  said Frodo in a quavering voice

    したりしませんでしたドワーフの王が所有していましたが、彼は3つを回復し、ドラゴンが消費した残りの

  • 'No,' said Gandalf, 'but I can. The  letters are Elvish, of an ancient mode,  

    9つを誇り高く偉大な定命の男性に与えました。彼らは

  • but the language is that of Mordorwhich I will not utter here.  

    ずっと前に彼ら を捕まえた エルは1つの支配下にあり、彼らはリングになりました レイス シャドウ

  • But this in the Common Tongue  is what is said, close enough

    彼の偉大な影の下で彼の最も恐ろしい使用人はずっと前に

  • One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them

    9人が海外を歩いてから何年も経っていますが、もう一度グロスをシャットダウンすることも知っています

  • One Ring to bring them all  and in the darkness bind them

    。シャイアの朝でさえそのようなことを話さない

  • It is only two lines ofverse long known in Elven-lore

    ので、彼が集めたのは9つです.7もそうでなければそれらは破壊されます

  • Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone

    .3つはまだ隠されていますが、もはや彼を悩ませることはありません

  • Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne 

    。その指輪は彼自身のものであり、彼は自分の以前の力の大部分をそこに移し、

  • In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them

    他のすべてを支配できるようにしました。彼はそれを

  • One Ring to bring them  

    回復します。彼らと一緒に裸にされ、

  • all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor  

    彼はこれまで以上に強くなり、これは恐ろしい偶然の写真です。

  • where the Shadows lie.' He paused, and then said slowly in a deep voice:  

    彼は、エルフがそれを破壊した

  • 'This is the Master-ring, the One Ring to rule  them all. This is the One Ring that he lost many  

    と信じていました。だったそして

  • ages ago, to the great weakening of his powerHe greatly desires itbut he must not get it.' 

    、彼はそれを求めています、そして彼のすべての考えはそれに向けられています.

  • Frodo sat silent and motionless. Fear seemed  to stretch out a vast hand, like a dark cloud  

    それは彼の大きな希望であり、私たちの大きな恐怖です. なぜそれが破壊されなかったのか、

  • rising in the East and looming up to engulf  him. 'This ring!' he stammered. 'How, how  

    フロドは叫びました.彼にとって非常に貴重な

  • on earth did it come to me?' 'Ah!' said Gandalf. 'That is a very long story.  

    彼は指輪を手に握りしめ、まるですでに暗い指がそれを

  • The beginnings lie back in the Black Yearswhich only the lore-masters now remember. If I  

    つかもうとして奪われているのを見たかの

  • were to tell you all that tale, we should still be  sitting here when Spring had passed into Winter

    ように 、それは彼から奪われたと ガンダルフは言った。

  • 'But last night I told you of Sauron the Great,  

    西洋人の男が彼らの助けに来ました

  • the Dark Lord. The rumours that you have heard  are true: he has indeed arisen again and left  

    古代史の章はどこにあるのか思い出してみるのも良いかもしれません.その時も悲しみがありました

  • his hold in Mirkwood and returned to his  ancient fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor.  

    そして暗いが偉大な勇気と偉大な行為を集めています .いつか 無駄にならないでしょう.

  • That name even you hobbits have heard oflike a shadow on the borders of old stories.  

    その物語またはあなた は、それを最もよく知っている 人によって、

  • Always after a defeat and a respite, the  Shadow takes another shape and grows again.' 

    次の瞬間 に4人で語られるのを 聞くでしょう. サウロンを打倒した西洋人のエレンデール

  • 'I wish it need not have  happened in my time,' said Frodo

    王 彼ら自身がその行為で亡くなったが、

  • 'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all  who live to see such times. But that is  

    息子はサウロンの手から指輪を切り取り、それを自分のものにした。その後、サウロンは打ち負かされ、

  • not for them to decide. All we have to decide  is what to do with the time that is given us.  

    彼の精神は逃げ出し、彼の影が働き材で再び形になるまで長い間隠されていたが

  • And already, Frodo, our time is beginning to look  black. The Enemy is fast becoming very strong.  

    、指輪は失われ、中に落ちた。グレートリバーと行方不明になった外国人は、

  • His plans are far from ripe, I think, but  they are ripening. We shall be hard put to  

    川の東岸に沿って北に行進し、グラッデンフィールドの近くで、

  • it. We should be very hard put to it, even  if it were not for this dreadful chance

    山のオークに道を譲られ、ほとんどすべての人々が殺され、彼は水に飛び込んだが、

  • 'The Enemy still lacks one thing to give  him strength and knowledge to beat down  

    リングは彼から滑り落ちた彼が泳いでいるときに指を鳴らし、オークは彼を見て、矢で彼を殺しました

  • all resistance, break the last defences, and  cover all the lands in a second darkness.  

    ガンダルフのボールとそこの暗いプールとグラッデンフィールドで、彼はリングが

  • He lacks the One Ring

    知識と伝説から消え去ったと言いましたそしてその歴史の多くは今では知られています

  • 'The Three, fairest of all, the Elf-lords hid  from him, and his hand never touched them or  

    賢者評議 会 はこれ以上発見できませんでしたが、ついに物語を続けることができます。ずっと前に、

  • sullied them. Seven the Dwarf-kings possessedbut three he has recovered, and the others the  

    彼らは荒野の端にある グレートリバー

  • dragons have consumed. Nine he gave to Mortal  Men, proud and great, and so ensnared them.  

    のほとりに住んでいたと思います。

  • Long ago they fell under the dominion  of the One, and they became Ringwraiths,  

    そして静かに――彼らは 川が大好きで、よく川

  • shadows under his great Shadow, his most terrible  servants. Long ago. It is many a year since  

    で 泳いだり、葦で小さなボートを作ったりしていたので、店の父親の父親に似たような

  • the Nine walked abroad. Yet who knows? As the  Shadow grows once more, they too may walk again.  

    ホビット族だったと思います 。最も裕福で、民俗スターンの祖母と賢明で古い

  • But come! We will not speak of such  things even in the morning of the Shire

    法律によって支配されていました。彼らはその家族の中で最も好奇心旺盛で好奇心旺盛なスメアゴルと呼ばれ、

  • 'So it is now: the Nine he has gathered to  himself; the Seven also, or else they are  

    ルーツと始まりに興味を持ち、彼が掘った深いプールに飛び込みました。 彼は緑の山脈にトンネルを掘って 木々や

  • destroyed. The Three are hidden still. But that  no longer troubles him. He only needs the One;  

    成長する植物を掘り起こし、彼は丘の上を見上げるのをやめた

  • for he made that Ring himself, it is his, and he  let a great part of his own former power pass into  

    葉や木々や花が空中に開いている彼の頭と彼の目は下を向いていた

  • it, so that he could rule all the others. If he  recovers it, then he will command them all again,  

    . 彼らがボートに乗ってグラットンフィールドに降りたときは、

  • wherever they be, even the Three, and all that  has been wrought with them will be laid bare,  

    それほど速くも強くもありませんでした。

  • and he will be stronger than ever. 'And this is the dreadful chance, Frodo.  

    そこでは、アイリスと花の咲く葦の大きなベッドがありました。エンバク

  • He believed that the One had perished; that the  Elves had destroyed it, as should have been done.  

    突然、大きな魚が釣り針を取り、

  • But he knows now that it has not perished,  

    自分がどこにいるのかを知る前に、引きずり出されて水の底まで引きずり込まれ、

  • that it has been found. So he is seeking itseeking it, and all his thought is bent on it.  

    それから

  • It is his great hope and our great fear.' 'Why, why wasn't it destroyed?' cried Frodo.  

    釣り糸を放しました。湧き

  • 'And how did the Enemy ever come to lose it, if  he was so strong, and it was so precious to him?'  

    上がると、彼は一掴みの泥の中で髪に雑草をはねかけ、川岸まで泳いだ。

  • He clutched the Ring in his hand, as if he saw  already dark fingers stretching out to seize it

    泥を洗い流すと、手には美しい金色の指輪があり

  • 'It was taken from him,' said Gandalf. 'The  strength of the Elves to resist him was greater  

    、それは太陽の下で輝いていたので、彼の心は嬉しかったけど、スメアゴルは

  • long ago; and not all Men were estranged from  them. The Men of Westernesse came to their aid.  

    木の後ろから彼を見ていて、ディーグルが指輪の上でほくそ笑んでいると、後ろからそっと近づいてきて、ベーグルを

  • That is a chapter of ancient history which it  might be good to recall; for there was sorrow  

    教えてください私 の愛するサー・スミ​​グルが彼の友人の肩越しに

  • then too, and gathering dark, but great valourand great deeds that were not wholly vain.  

    なぜくすぐったいと言ったのですか、なぜならそれは私の誕生日だから

  • One day, perhaps, I will tell you  all the tale, or you shall hear  

    ですsmeagle 気にしない deagle があなたにプレゼントをくれたと言ったが、

  • it told in full by one who knows it best. 'But for the moment, since most of all you  

    私はこれを見つけた

  • need to know how this thing came to you, and that  will be tale enough, this is all that I will say.  

    、そして私はそれを維持するつもりです 本当にあなたは smeagle への私の愛であり、彼はイーグルを喉で捕まえた

  • It was Gil-galad, Elven-king and Elendil  of Westernesse who overthrew Sauron, though  

    金が見えたので首を 絞めた 彼はとても明るく美しい指に指輪をはめた ディーグル

  • they themselves perished in the deed; and Isildur  Elendil's son cut the Ring from Sauron's hand and  

    がどうなったのか誰にもわからなかった 彼は家から遠く離れた場所で殺害され、彼の体は

  • took it for his own. Then Sauron was vanquished  and his spirit fled and was hidden for long years,  

    巧妙に隠され、スムイーグルが一人で戻ってきた そして

  • until his shadow took shape again in Mirkwood. 'But the Ring was lost. It fell into the Great  

    彼が指輪をはめていたときに

  • River, Anduin, and vanished. For Isildur was  marching north along the east banks of the River,  

    彼の家族の誰も彼を見ることができなかったことに気付いた

  • and near the Gladden Fields he was  waylaid by the Orcs of the Mountains,  

    彼は 彼は

  • and almost all his folk were slain. He leaped  into the waters, but the Ring slipped from his  

    彼の発見に非常に満足し、それを隠し

  • finger as he swam, and then the Orcs  saw him and killed him with arrows.' 

    、秘密を見つけるためにそれを使用し、彼の知識を曲がった悪意のある用途に使用しました 。

  • Gandalf paused. 'And there in the dark pools amid  the Gladden Fields,' he said, 'the Ring passed  

    彼が非常に不人気になり、彼のすべての親族に見えると敬遠されたのも不思議ではありません.彼らは

  • out of knowledge and legend; and even so much  of its history is known now only to a few, and  

    彼 を 蹴り 、彼は足を噛みました.

  • the Council of the Wise could discover no moreBut at last I can carry on the story, I think

    そして彼に遠くに行くように言いました、そして彼の祖母は平和を望んで

  • 'Long after, but still very long  ago, there lived by the banks of  

  • the Great River on the edge of Wilderlandclever-handed and quiet-footed little people.  

    を家族から追放し、彼を

  • I guess they were of hobbit-kind; akin to  the fathers of the fathers of the Stoors,  

    彼らの穴から追い出しました彼は山から流れ落ちる小川に来て、目

  • for they loved the River, and often swam  in it, or made little boats of reeds.  

    に見えない指で深いプールで魚を捕まえ、生で食べたある日、

  • There was among them a family of high reputefor it was large and wealthier than most,  

    とても暑く、プールの上でかがんでいると、頭の後ろが焼けるように感じました

  • and it was ruled by a grandmother of the folkstern and wise in old lore, such as they had.  

    水からのまばゆい光が彼の濡れた目を塗りつぶす彼は

  • The most inquisitive and curious-minded  of that family was called Sméagol.  

    太陽のことをほとんど忘れていたので不思議に思った.そして最後に

  • He was interested in roots and  beginnings; he dived into deep pools;  

    彼は見上げて彼女に拳を振った.そこから小川が湧き出た霧のかかった山脈

  • he burrowed under trees and growing plants; he  tunnelled into green mounds; and he ceased to  

    、そして彼は突然涼しくなるだろうと思ったそれらの山々の下の日陰は太陽が

  • look up at the hill-tops, or the leaves on  trees, or the flowers opening in the air:  

    私を見ることができなかったそれらの山の根は根であるに違いない確かに

  • his head and his eyes were downward. 'He had a friend calledagol, of similar sort,  

    そこには発見されていない偉大な秘密が埋もれているに 違いない 初め、彼は

  • sharper-eyed but not so quick and strong. Ontime they took a boat and went down to the Gladden  

    夜に高地を旅し、暗い小川が流れ出る小さな洞窟を見つけ、

  • Fields, where there were great beds of iris and  flowering reeds. There Sméagol got out and went  

    ウジ虫のように丘の中心へと進み、

  • nosing about the banks butagol sat in the boat  and fished. Suddenly a great fish took his hook,  

    雨が影に流れ込んだこと を知らずに姿を消しました。 ウィ彼の力が再び成長し始めたとき、彼と製作者でさえ

  • and before he knew where he was, he was dragged  out and down into the water, to the bottom.  

    それについて何も学ぶことができなかった ゴラムは

  • Then he let go of his line, for he thought  he saw something shining in the river-bed;  

    叫んだ フロド・ゴッサム これはまさにビルボが会ったゴーレムの生き物であり、

  • and holding his breath he grabbed at it

    どれほど嫌なことか 私はそれが悲しい話だと思う 魔法使いはそうかもしれないと言った

  • 'Then up he came spluttering, with weeds in his  hair and a handful of mud; and he swam to the  

    私が知っているいくつかのホビット でさえ、他の人に起こった

  • bank. And behold! when he washed the mud awaythere in his hand lay a beautiful golden ring;  

    .ゴラムがホビットと関係があるとは信じられない.しかし 遠くから

  • and it shone and glittered in the sun, so that  his heart was glad. But Sméagol had been watching  

    フロドはいくらか の熱を持って言った. ホビットが自分自身で行うよりも多く

  • him from behind a tree, and asagol gloated  over the ring, Sméagol came softly up behind

    、ビルボの物語でさえ、王権は私たちの心と記憶の背景に

  • '“Give us that, Déagol, my love,” said  Sméagol, over his friend's shoulder

    非常によく似ていたことを 示唆しています

  • '“Why?” saidagol. '“Because it's my birthday, my love,  

    。 even an elf think of the riddles they

  • and I wants it,” said Sméagol. '“I don't care,” saidagol. “I have  

    both knew for one thing yes said Frodo though other folk beside Hobbit asked riddles and much

  • given you a present already, more than I could  afford. I found this, and I'm going to keep it.” 

    of the same sort and Hobbits don't cheat Gollum meant to cheat all the time he was just trying

  • '“Oh, are you indeed, my love,” said Sméagol; and  he caughtagol by the throat and strangled him,  

    to put Bob bilber off his guard and I dare say it amused his weakness to start a game which might

  • because the gold looked so bright and  beautiful. Then he put the ring on his finger

    end in providing him with an easy victim but if he lost would not hurt him only too true I

  • 'No one ever found out what had become ofagolhe was murdered far from home, and his body was  

    fear said Gandalf where there was something else in it I think which you do not see it

  • cunningly hidden. But Sméagol returned alone; and  he found that none of his family could see him,  

    even Gollum was not wholly ruined he had proved tougher than even one of the wise would

  • when he was wearing the ring. He was very  pleased with his discovery and he concealed it;  

    have guessed there's a hobbit might there was a little corner of his mind that was still his own

  • and he used it to find out secrets, and he put  his knowledge to crooked and malicious uses.  

    light came through it just threw a [ __ ] in the dark light out of the past

  • He became sharp-eyed and keen-eared for all  that was hurtful. The ring had given him power  

    it was actually Pleasant I think to hear a kindly voice again bringing up memories of wind and trees

  • according to his stature. It is not to be wondered  at that he became very unpopular and was shunned  

    some of the grass and such forgotten things that of course could only make

  • (when visible) by all his relationsThey kicked him, and he bit their feet.  

    the evil part of him angrier in the end unless it could become unless it could be

  • He took to thieving, and going about muttering  to himself, and gurgling in his throat.  

    cute Gandalf's side alas there is little hope of that for him yet not no hope

  • So they called him Gollum, and cursed him, and  told him to go far away; and his grandmother,  

    no not though he possessed the ring so long almost as far back as he can remember for it was long

  • desiring peace, expelled him from the  family and turned him out of her hole

    since he h ad worn it much the black darkness it was seldom needed Sydney had never faded

  • 'He wandered in loneliness, weepinglittle for the hardness of the world,  

    he's thin and tough still but the thing was eating up his mind of course and the torment had become

  • and he journeyed up the River, till he came to  a stream that flowed down from the mountains,  

    almost unbearable all the great secrets under the mountains had turned out to be just an empty night

  • and he went that way. He caught fish in deep pools  with invisible fingers and ate them raw. One day  

    there was nothing more to find out nothing worth doing only nasty furtive eating and resentful

  • it was very hot, and as he was bending overpool, he felt a burning on the back of his head,  

    remembering he was all together wretched he hated the dog and he hated the light more

  • and a dazzling light from the water pained his  wet eyes. He wondered at it, for he had almost  

    he hated everything and the ring most of all what do you mean said Frodo surely the rig

  • forgotten about the Sun. Then for the last  time he looked up and shook his fist at her

    was his precious and the only thing he cared for but if he hated it why didn't he get rid of it or

  • 'But as he lowered his eyes, he saw far  ahead the tops of the Misty Mountains,  

    go I'll go away or and and leave it you ought to begin to understand Fred after all you have heard

  • out of which the stream came. And he thought  suddenly: “It would be cool and shady under  

    said Gandalf he hated and loved it as he hated and loved himself he could not get rid of it

  • those mountains. The Sun could not watch me thereThe roots of those mountains must be roots indeed;  

    he had no will left in the matter a ring of power looks after itself rotor it may

  • there must be great secrets buried there which  have not been discovered since the beginning.” 

    slip off treacherously but it's keep her never abandons it at most he plays wit h the idea of

  • 'So he journeyed by night up into the highlands,  

    handing it to someone else's girl and that only at an early stage when it first begins to grip

  • and he found a little cave out  of which the dark stream ran;  

    but as far as I know Bilbo alone in history has ever gone beyond playing and really done it he

  • and he wormed his way like a maggot into the heart  of the hills, and vanished out of all knowledge.  

    needed all my help too and even so he would never have just forsaken it or cast it aside

  • The Ring went into the shadows with him, and even  the maker, when his power had begun to grow again,  

    it was not Gollum Frodo but the ring itself that decided things the ring left him what just

  • could learn nothing of it.' 'Gollum!'  

    in time to meet Bill bear said Frodo wasn't an orchestra did better there is no laughing matter

  • cried Frodo. 'Gollum? Do you mean that this  is the very Gollum-creature that Bilbo met?  

    said Gandalf not for you it was a strangest event in the whole history of the ring so far

  • How loathsome!' 'I think it is a sad story,'  

    purpose arrival just at that time and putting his hand on it blindly in the dark

  • said the wizard, 'and it might have happened to  others, even to some hobbits that I have known.' 

    there was more than one power at work photo the ring was trying to get back to its Master it had

  • 'I can't believe that Gollum was connected with  hobbits, however distantly,' said Frodo with some  

    slipped from issue to his hand and betrayed him and when chance came it called poor deagle and

  • heat. 'What an abominable notion!' 'It is true all the same,'  

    he was murdered and after that Golem and it had devoured him it could make no further use of him

  • replied Gandalf. 'About their origins, at any  rate, I know more than hobbits do themselves.  

    he was too small and mean and as long as it stayed with him he would never leave his deep pool again

  • And even Bilbo's story suggests the kinshipThere was a great deal in the background of  

    so now when its master was awake once more and sending out his dark thought

  • their minds and memories that was very similarThey understood one another remarkably well,  

    from mirkwood it abandoned Gollum only to be picked up by the most unlikely person image

  • very much better than a hobbit would understandsay, a Dwarf, or an Orc, or even an Elf. Think  

    Bilbo from the Shire behind that there was something else at work

  • of the riddles they both knew, for one thing.' 'Yes,' said Frodo. 'Though other folks besides  

    Beyond any design of the Ring Maker I can put it to no planer then by saying that bilber was

  • hobbits ask riddles, and of much the same sortAnd hobbits don't cheat. Gollum meant to cheat  

    meant to find the ring and knocked by its maker in which case you also Were Meant to have it

  • all the time. He was just trying to put poor  Bilbo off his guard. And I daresay it amused  

    and that may be an encouraging thought it is not said Frodo so I'm not sure that I understand you

  • his wickedness to start a game which might  end in providing him with an easy victim,  

    but how have you learned all this about the ring and about Gollum do you really know it

  • but if he lost would not hurt him.' 'Only too true, I fear,' said Gandalf.  

    all or are you just guessing still Gandalf looked at Frodo his eyes glinted I knew much

  • 'But there was something else in it,  I think, which you don't see yet.  

    and I have learned much he answered but I am not going to give an account of all my doings to you

  • Even Gollum was not wholly ruined. He had proved  tougher than even one of the Wise would have  

    the history of Orlando and isildura and the wandering is known to all the wise

  • guessedas a hobbit might. There was a little  corner of his mind that was still his own, and  

    your ring is shown to be that one ring by the fire writing alone

  • light came through it, as through a chink in  the dark: light out of the past. It was actually  

    apart from any other evid ence when did you discover that ask Frodo interrupting just now in

  • pleasant, I think, to hear a kindly voice againbringing up memories of wind, and trees, and sun  

    this room of course answer the wizard sharply but I expected to find it I have come back from dark

  • on the grass, and such forgotten things. 'But that, of course, would only make the  

    Journeys and long search to make that final test it is the last proof and all is now only too clear

  • evil part of him angrier in the endunless  it could be conquered. Unless it could be  

    picking up gollum's part and fitting it into the Gap in the history required some thought

  • cured.' Gandalf sighed. 'Alas! there is  little hope of that for him. Yet not no hope.  

    I may have started with guesses about Gollum but I am not guessing now

  • No, not though he possessed the Ring so longalmost as far back as he can remember. For it  

    I know I have seen him you've seen Gollum exclaimed floater with amazement yes

  • was long since he had worn it much: in the black  darkness it was seldom needed. Certainly he had  

    the obvious thing to do of course if one could I tried long ago but I have managed it at last

  • neverfaded”. He is thin and tough still. But  the thing was eating up his mind, of course,  

    then what happened after bilba escaped from him do you know that so clearly what I have told you

  • and the torment had become almost unbearable. 'All thegreat secretsunder the mountains  

    is what Gollum was willing to tell there that not of course in the way that I've reported it

  • had turned out to be just empty night: there was  nothing more to find out, nothing worth doing,  

    Gollum is a liar and you have to sift his words for instance he called the ring his birthday

  • only nasty furtive eating and resentful  remembering. He was altogether wretched.  

    present and he stuck to that he said it came from his grandmother who had lots of beautiful

  • He hated the dark, and he hated light more: he  hated everything, and the Ring most of all.' 

    things of that kind a rid iculous story I have no doubt that smiggle's grandmother was a matriarch

  • 'What do you mean?' said Frodo. 'Surely the  Ring was his Precious and the only thing he  

    a great person in her way but to talk of her possessing many other drinks was absurd and thus

  • cared for? But if he hated it, why didn't  he get rid of it, or go away and leave it?' 

    for giving them away it was a lie but a lie with a grain of Truth the murder of deagle haunted Golem

  • 'You ought to begin to understandFrodo, after all you have heard,'  

    Golan and he had made up a defense repeating to his gracious over and over again as he

  • said Gandalf. 'He hated it and loved  it, as he hated and loved himself.  

    gnawed bones in the dark until he always believed it it was his birthday the eagle

  • He could not get rid of it. He  had no will left in the matter

    ought to have given the ring to him it had previously turned up just so as to be a present

  • 'A Ring of Power looks after itselfFrodo. It may slip off treacherously,  

    it was his birthday present so on and on I endured him as long as I could but the

  • but its keeper never abandons it. At most  he plays with the idea of handing it on to  

    truth was desperately important and in the end I had to be harsh I put the fear of fire on him

  • someone else's careand that only at an  early stage, when it first begins to grip.  

    and wronged the true story out of him bit by bit together with much sniveling and snarling

  • But as far as I know Bilbo alone in history has  ever gone beyond playing, and really done it. He  

    he thought he was misunderstood and illused but when he had it last told me his history

  • needed all my help, too. And even so he would  never have just forsaken it, or cast it aside.  

    as far as the end of the riddle game in bilba's Escape he would not say anymore

  • It was not Gollum, Frodo, but the Ring itself  that decided things. The Ring left him.' 

    except in dark hints some other fea r was on him greater than mine he mutted that he was

  • 'What, just in time to meet Bilbo?' said  Frodo. 'Wouldn't an Orc have suited it better?' 

    going to get his own back people would see if he would stand being kicked and driven into a

  • 'It is no laughing matter,' said Gandalf.  'Not for you. It was the strangest event  

    hole and then robbed Gollum had good friends now good friends and very strong they would help him

  • in the whole history of the Ring so  far: Bilbo's arrival just at that time,  

    Baggins would pay for it that was his chief thought he hated Bilbo and cursed his name

  • and putting his hand on it, blindly, in the dark. 'There was more than one power at work, Frodo.  

    what is more he knew where he came from but how did he find that out asked Frodo well as for the

  • The Ring was trying to get back to its master. It  had slipped from Isildur's hand and betrayed him;  

    name Wilbur very foolishly told Gollum himself and after that it would not be difficult to

  • then when a chance came it caught pooragoland he was murdered; and after that Gollum,  

    discover his country when Scotland came out oh yes out his longing for the ring proved

  • and it had devoured him. It could make no  further use of him: he was too small and mean;  

    stronger than his fear of the Orcs or even the light after a year or two he left the mountains

  • and as long as it stayed with him he  would never leave his deep pool again.  

    you see they're still Bound by desire of it the ring was no longer devouring him

  • So now, when its master was awake once more and  sending out his dark thought from Mirkwood, it  

    he began to revive a little he felt old terribly old yet less timid and he was mortally hungry

  • abandoned Gollum. Only to be picked up by the most  unlikely person imaginable: Bilbo from the Shire

    light light of sun and moon he still feared and hated and he always will I think

  • 'Behind that there was something else at workbeyond any design of the Ring-maker. I can put  

    but he was cunning he found out he could hi de from daylight and moonshine and make his way swiftly

  • it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was  meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker.  

    and softly by dead of night with his pale cold eyes and catch small frightened or unweary things

  • In which case you also were meant to have  it. And that may be an encouraging thought.' 

    he grew stronger and Bolder with new food and new air he found his way into mercwood as one

  • 'It is not,' said Frodo. 'Thougham not sure that I understand you.  

    would expect is that where he found him ask Frodo I saw him there answered Gandalf but

  • But how have you learned all this about  the Ring, and about Gollum? Do you really  

    before that he had wandered far ing Bilbo's Trail it was difficult to learn anything from him for

  • know it all, or are you just guessing still?' Gandalf looked at Frodo, and his eyes glinted. 'I  

    certain for his talk was constantly interrupted by curses and threats or desert continents

  • knew much and I have learned much,' he answered.  'But I am not going to give an account of all my  

    he said that's written so no precious little cheat fair question first it did he broke the rules

  • doings to you. The history of Elendil and Isildur  and the One Ring is known to all the Wise.  

    when you're just Twisted Yes precious and we will precious that is a sample of his dog

  • Your ring is shown to be that One  Ring by the fire-writing alone,  

    I don't suppose you want anymore I had weary days of it but from hence dropped among the snarls I

  • apart from any other evidence.' 'And when did you discover  

    even gathered that his padding feet had taken him at last to asgaroth and even to the streets of

  • that?' asked Frodo, interrupting. 'Just now in this room, of course,'  

    Dale listening secretly and peering well the news of the great events went far and wide in Wilder

  • answered the wizard sharply. 'But I expected  to find it. I have come back from dark journeys  

    Lo ndon many had heard Bilbo's name and knew where he came from we had made no secret of our return

  • and long search to make that final test. It is  the last proof, and all is now only too clear.  

    journey to his home in the West gollum's sharp ears would soon learn what he wanted

  • Making out Gollum's part, and fitting it into  the gap in the history, required some thought.  

    then why didn't he track bilba further asked Frodo why did he come to the Shire

  • I may have started with guesses about Gollum, but  I am not guessing now. I know. I have seen him.' 

    ah said Gandalf now we come to it I think Gollum tried to he set out and came back Westward as far

  • 'You have seen Gollum?'  exclaimed Frodo in amazement

    as the Great River but then he turned aside he was not dawned by the distance I am sure

  • 'Yes. The obvious thing to doof course, if one could. I tried  

    wow something else threw him away so my friends think those that hunted him for me

  • long ago; but I have managed it at last.' 'Then what happened after Bilbo escaped from  

    I would elves tracked him first an easy task for them for his Trail was still Fresh then through

  • him? Do you know that?' 'Not so clearly.  

    mercwood and back again it led them though they never caught him the wood was full of the rumor of

  • What I have told you is what Gollum was  willing to tellthough not, of course,  

    him Dreadful Tales even among beasts and birds the Woodman said that there was some new Terror abroad

  • in the way I have reported it. Gollum is  a liar, and you have to sift his words.  

    a ghost that drank blood it climbed trees to find nests it crept into holes to find the Young

  • For instance, he called the Ring his  “birthday-present”, and he stuck to that.  

    it slipped through Windows to find cradles but at the western edge of mirkwoo d the trail turned away

  • He said it came from his grandmother, who had lots  of beautiful things of that kind. A ridiculous  

    it wandered off southwards and passed out of the wood elf's kin and was lost

  • story. I have no doubt that Sméagol's grandmother  was a matriarch, a great person in her way,  

    and then I made a great mistake yes reader and not the first I fear it may prove the worst I'll let

  • but to talk of her possessing many Elven-rings was  absurd, and as for giving them away, it was a lie.  

    the matter be I let him go but I had much else to think of at that time and I still trusted the Lord

  • But a lie with a grain of truth. 'The murder ofagol haunted Gollum,  

    of Solomon well that was years ago I have paid for it since with many Dark and Dangerous days

  • and he had made up a defence, repeating  it to hisPreciousover and over again,  

    the trail was long cold when I took it up again after Bilbo left here and my search would have

  • as he gnawed bones in the dark, until he  almost believed it. It was his birthday. Déagol  

    been in vain but for the help that I had from a friend Aragorn the greatest traveler and Huntsman

  • ought to have given the ring to him. It had  obviously turned up just so as to be a present.  

    of this age of the world together we sought for Gollum down the whole length of wilderland

  • It was his birthday-present, and so on, and on. 'I endured him as long as I could, but the truth  

    without hope and without success but at last when I had given up the Chase and turned to other paths

  • was desperately important, and in the endhad to be harsh. I put the fear of fire on him,  

    Gollum was found my friend returned out of great perils bringing the miserable creature with him

  • and wrung the true story out of him, bit by  bit, together with much snivelling and snarling.  

    what he had been doing he would not say he only wept and called us cruel with many a

  • He thought he was misunderstood and ill-usedBut when he had at last told me his history,  

    Gollum in his throat and when we pres sed him he whined and cringed and rubbed his long

  • as far as the end of the Riddle-game and  Bilbo's escape, he would not say any more,  

    hands licking his fingers as if they paint him as if he remembered some old torture

  • except in dark hints. Some other fear was on him  greater than mine. He muttered that he was going  

    I'm afraid there is no possible doubt he had made a slow sneaking way step by step mile by mile

  • to get his own back. People would see if he would  stand being kicked, and driven into a hole and  

    so South down at last to the land of Mordor

  • then robbed. Gollum had good friends now, good  friends and very strong. They would help him.  

    a heavy silence fell in the room Fredo could hear his heart beating even outside everything seemed

  • Baggins would pay for it. That was his chief  thought. He hated Bilbo and cursed his name.  

    still no sound of Sam's shears could now be heard yes to Mordor said Gandalf alas Mordor draws all

  • What is more, he knew where he came from.' 'But how did he find that out?' asked Frodo

    wicked things and the dark power was bending all its will to gather them there the Ring of

  • 'Well, as for the name, Bilbo very foolishly  told Gollum himself; and after that it would not  

    the enemy would leave its Mark too leave him open to the summons and all folk were Whispering then

  • be difficult to discover his country, once Gollum  came out. Oh yes, he came out. His longing for the  

    of the new shadow in the South and its hatred of the West there were his fine new friends who would

  • Ring proved stronger than his fear of the Orcs, or  even of the light. After a year or two he left the  

    help him in his revenge ratchetful in that land he would learn much too much for his comfort and

  • mountains. You see, though still bound by desire  of it, the Ring was no longer devouring him;  

    sooner or later he looked in Pride on the borders he would be caught and taken for examination

  • he began to revive a little. He felt old, terribly  old, yet less timid, and he was mortally hungry

    that was the way of it I fear when he was foun d he had already been there alone and was on his way

  • 'Light, light of Sun and Moon, he still  feared and hated, and he always will, I think;  

    back on some errand of Mischief but that does not matter much now his worst Mischief was done yes

  • but he was cunning. He found he could hide from  daylight and moonshine, and make his way swiftly  

    alas through him the enemy has learned that the one has been found again he knows where he sealed

  • and softly by dead of night with his pale cold  eyes, and catch small frightened or unwary things.  

    to have fell he knows where Gollum found his ring he knows that it is a great ring for it gave long

  • He grew stronger and bolder with  new food and new air. He found  

    life he knows that it is not one of the three for they have never been lost and they endure no evil

  • his way into Mirkwood, as one would expect.' 'Is that where you found him?' asked Frodo

    he knows that it is not one of the seven or the nine for they are accounted for

  • 'I saw him there,' answered Gandalf,  'but before that he had wandered far,  

    who knows that it is the one and he has at last heard I think of orbits and the Shire

  • following Bilbo's trail. It was difficult  to learn anything from him for certain,  

    the Shire he may be seeking for it now if he has not already found out where it dies

  • for his talk was constantly interrupted by curses  and threats. “What had it got in its pocketses?”  

    indeed right now I fear that he may even think that a long announced his name of packkins

  • he said. “It wouldn't say, no precious. Little  cheat. Not a fair question. It cheated first,  

    has become important this is terrible cried throw down far worse than the worst that

  • it did. It broke the rules. We ought to have  squeezed it, yes precious. And we will, precious!” 

    I imagine from your hints and warnings how kind to have best of friends what am I to do

  • 'That is a sample of his talk. I don't suppose  you want any more. I had weary days of it.  

    for now I am really afraid what am I to do that's a Pity that billboard did not

  • But from hints dropped among the snarlsgathered that his padding feet had taken  

    stab the final creature when he had the chance it was pity that status

  • him at last to Esgaroth, and even to the streets  of Dale, listening secretly and peering. Well,  

    and he has been well rewarded for be sure that he took so Little Help from

  • the news of the great events went far and wide in  Wilderland, and many had heard Bilbo's name and  

    the evil and escaped in the end because he began his ownership of the Ring sir

  • knew where he came from. We had made no secret  of our return journey to his home in the West.  

    I'm sorry said Frodo Italian frightened and I do not feel any pity for Gollum you have not seen him

  • Gollum's sharp ears would  soon learn what he wanted.' 

    Gandalf broke in no and I don't want to said Frodo I can't understand you do you mean to say that you

  • 'Then why didn't he track Bilbo further?'  asked Frodo. 'Why didn't he come to the Shire?' 

    and the elves have let him live on after all those horrible teeths now at any rate he is as bad as an

  • 'Ah,' said Gandalf, 'now we come to it. I  think Gollum tried to. He set out and came back  

    Orc and just an enemy he deserves death deserves it I dare say he does many that live deserve death

  • westward, as far as the Great River. But then he  turned aside. He was not daunted by the distance,  

    and some that die deserve life can you give it to them then do not be too eager to deal out

  • I am sure. No, something else drew him away. So  my friends think, those that hunted him for me

    death and judgment for even the very wise cannot see all ends I have not much hope that Gollum can

  • 'The Wood-elves tracked him first, an easy  task for them, for his trail was still fresh  

    be cured before he dies but there is a chance of it and he is bound up with the fate of the Ring

  • then. Through Mirkwood and back again it  led them, though they never caught him.  

    my heart tells me that he has some part to play yet for good or ill

  • The wood was full of the rumour of himdreadful tales even among beasts and birds.  

    before the end and when that comes the pity of Bilbo May rule the fate of many yours not least

  • The Woodmen said that there was some new  terror abroad, a ghost that drank blood.  

    in any case we did not kill him he is very old and very wretched the wood elves have him in prison

  • It climbed trees to find nests; it  crept into holes to find the young;  

    where they treat him with such kindness as they can find in their wise Hearts all the same

  • it slipped through windows to find cradles. 'But at the western edge of Mirkwood the trail  

    said Frodo even if Bilbo could not kill Gollum I wish he had not kept the ring I wish he had never

  • turned away. It wandered off southwards and passed  out of the Wood-elves' ken, and was lost. And then  

    found it and that I had not got it why did you let me keep it why didn't you make me throw it away or

  • I made a great mistake. Yes, Frodo, and not the  first; though I fear it may prove the worst.  

    or destroy it let you make you said the wizard haven't you been listening to all that I've said

  • I let the matter be. I let him go; forhad much else to think of at that time,  

    you are not thinking of what you are saying I say well as for throwing it away that was obviously

  • and I still trusted the lore of Saruman. 'Well, that was years ago. I have paid for  

    wrong these rings have a way of becoming found in evil hands it might have done great evil worst of

  • it since with many dark and dangerous days. The  trail was long cold when I took it up again, after  

    all it might have fallen into the hands of the enemy indeed it certainly would for this is the

  • Bilbo left here. And my search would have been in  vain, but for the help that I had from a friend:  

    one and he is exerting all his power to find it all draw it to himself of course my dear Frodo

  • Aragorn, the greatest traveller and  huntsman of this age of the world.  

    it was dangerous for you and that has troubled me deeply but there was so much at stake that I had

  • Together we sought for Gollum down the  whole length of Wilderland, without hope,  

    to take some risk though even when I was Far Away there has never been a day when the Shire has not

  • and without success. But at last, when I had  given up the chase and turned to other paths,  

    been guarded by watchful eyes as long as you never used it I did not think that the ring would have

  • Gollum was found. My friend returned out of great  perils bringing the miserable creature with him

    any lasting effect on you note for evil not at any rate for a very long time and you must remember

  • 'What he had been doing he would not say. He  only wept and called us cruel, with many a  

    that nine years ago when I last saw you I still knew little for certain but why not destroy it as

  • gollum in his throat; and when we pressed him he  whined and cringed, and rubbed his long hands,  

    you say should have been done long ago cried Frodo again if you had warned me or even sent me a weird

  • licking his fingers as if they pained himas if he remembered some old torture. But  

    message I would have done away with it would you how would you do that have you ever tried

  • I am afraid there is no possible doubthe had made his slow, sneaking way,  

    no but I suppose one could hammer it or melt it try said Gandalf try now Frodo drew the ring

  • step by step, mile by mile, southdown at last to the Land of Mordor.' 

    out of his pocket again and looked at it it now appeared plain and smooth without Mark or device

  • A heavy silence fell in the roomFrodo could hear his heart beating.  

    that he could see the gold looked very fair and pure and Frodo thought how rich and beautiful

  • Even outside everything seemed still. No  sound of Sam's shears could now be heard

    was its color how perfect was its roundness it was an admirable thing and all together precious

  • 'Yes, to Mordor,' said Gandalf. 'Alas! Mordor  draws all wicked things, and the Dark Power  

    when he took it out he had intended to fling it from him into the very hottest part of the fire

  • was bending all its will to gather them thereThe Ring of the Enemy would leave its mark, too,  

    but he found now that he could not do so not without a great struggle he weighed the ring

  • leave him open to the summons. And all folk were  whispering then of the new Shadow in the South,  

    in his hand hesitating and forcing himself to remember all that Gandalf had told him and then

  • and its hatred of the West. There were his fine  new friends, who would help him in his revenge

    with an effort of will he made a movement as if to cast it away but he found that he had put it

  • 'Wretched fool! In that land he would learn  much, too much for his comfort. And sooner or  

    back in his pocket Gandalf laughed grimly you see already YouTube Frodo cannot easily Let

  • later as he lurked and pried on the borders he  would be caught, and takenfor examination.  

    It Go no will to damage it and I could not make you except by force which would break your mind

  • That was the way of it, I fear. When he was found  he had already been there long, and was on his way  

    but as for breaking the ring force is useless even if you took it and struck it with a heavy

  • back. On some errand of mischief. But that does  not matter much now. His worst mischief was done

    Sledgehammer it would make no dent in it it cannot be unmade by your hands or by my

  • 'Yes, alas! through him the Enemy has  learned that the One has been found again.  

    small fire of course would not melt even ordinary gold this ring has already passed through it

  • He knows where Isildur fell. He knows where Gollum  found his ring. He knows that it is a Great Ring,  

    unscathed and even unheated there is no Smith's Forge in the Shire that could change it at all

  • for it gave long life. He knows that it is not  one of the Three, for they have never been lost,  

    not even the anvils and furnaces of the dwarves could do that it has been said that dragon fire

  • and they endure no evil.  

    could melt and consume the rings of power but there is not now any dragon left on Earth in which

  • He knows that it is not one of the Sevenor the Nine, for they are accounted for.  

    the old fire is hot enough nor was there ever any tracker not even uncalagon the black who could

  • He knows that it is the One. And he has at  last heard, I think, of hobbits and the Shire

    have harmed the one ring the ruling ring for that was made by Sauron himself there is only one way

  • 'The Shirehe may be seeking for it now, if  he has not already found out where it lies.  

    to find the cracks of Doom in the draw drew in a Fire Mountain and cast the ring in there if you

  • Indeed, Frodo, I fear that he may even think  that the long-unnoticed name of Baggins  

    could put it beyond the grasp of the enemy forever I do really wish to destroy it tried Frodo oh well

  • has become important.' 'But this is terrible!'  

    to have it destroyed I am not made for peris quests I wish I'd never seen the ring why you

  • cried Frodo. 'Far worse than the worst thatimagined from your hints and warnings. O Gandalf,  

    did come to me I was I chosen such questions cannot be answered said kanta you may be sure

  • best of friends, what am I to do? For  now I am really afraid. What am I to do?  

    that it was not for any Merit that others do not possess not for power or wisdom at any rate

  • What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that  vile creature, when he had a chance!' 

    but you have been chosen and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have

  • 'Pity? It was Pity that stayed his handPity, and Mercy: not to strike without need.  

    but I have so little of any of these things that you are wise and Powerful will you not

  • And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure  that he took so little hurt from the evil,  

    take the ring no cried Gandalf springing to his feet without power I should have power

  • and escaped in the end, because he began  his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity.' 

    to great and terrible and over me the ring would gain a power still greater and more

  • 'I am sorry,' said Frodo. 'But I am frightenedand I do not feel any pity for Gollum.' 

    deadly his eyes flashed and his face was lit by a fire with him do not tempt me for I do

  • 'You have not seen him,' Gandalf broke in. 'No, and I don't want to,' said Frodo. 'I can't  

    not wish to become like the dark lord himself yet the way of the Ring to my heart is by pity

  • understand you. Do you mean to say that you, and  the Elves, have let him live on after all those  

    for weakness and the desire of strength to cut do not tempt me I dare not take it not even to

  • horrible deeds? Now at any rate he is as bad as  an Orc, and just an enemy. He deserves death.' 

    keep it safe the wish to wield it would be too great for my strength I shall have such need of it

  • 'Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live  deserve death. And some that die deserve life.  

    great perils lie before me he went to the windows and Drew aside the curtains in the shutters

  • Can you give it to them? Then do not be too  eager to deal out death in judgement. For  

    sunlight streamed back again into the room Sam passed along the path outside whistling

  • even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not  much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies,  

    and now said the wizard turning back to Frodo the decision lies with you

  • but there is a chance of it. And he is bound  up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells  

    but I will always help you he laid his hand on Schroeder's shoulder I will help

  • me that he has some part to play yet, for good  or ill, before the end; and when that comes,  

    you bear this burden as long as it is yours to Bear we must do something soo n

  • the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many –  yours not least. In any case we did not kill him:  

    the enemy is moving there was a long silence Gandalf sat down again and puffed at his pipe

  • he is very old and very wretched. The Wood-elves  have him in prison, but they treat him with such  

    as if lost in thought his eyes seemed closed but under the lids he was watching Frodo intently

  • kindness as they can find in their wise hearts.' 'All the same,' said Frodo, 'even if Bilbo could  

    Frodo gazed fixitly at the red Embers of the hearth until they filled all his vision and he

  • not kill Gollum, I wish he had not kept the Ring.  I wish he had never found it, and that I had not  

    seemed to be looking down into profound Wells of Fire he was thinking of the fabled cracks

  • got it! Why did you let me keep it? Why didn't  you make me throw it away, or, or destroy it?' 

    of Doom and the terror of the fiery Mountain well said Gandalf at last what are you thinking about

  • 'Let you? Make you?' said the wizard. 'Haven't  you been listening to all that I have said?  

    have you decided what to do no answered Frodo coming back to himself out of darkness and finding

  • You are not thinking of what you are saying. But  as for throwing it away, that was obviously wrong.  

    to his surprise that it was not dark and that out of the window he could see the Sun at Garden

  • These Rings have a way of being found. In evil  hands it might have done great evil. Worst of all,  

    or perhaps yes as far as I understand what you have said the ring

  • it might have fallen into the hands of  the Enemy. Indeed it certainly would;  

    at least for the present whatever it may do to me whatever it may do it will be slow

  • for this is the One, and he is exerting all  his power to find it or draw it to himself

    slow to evil if you keep it with that purpose said Gandalf I hope so said Frodo but I hope

  • 'Of course, my dear Frodo, it was dangerous  for you; and that has troubled me deeply.  

    that you may find some other better keeper soon but in the meantime it seems that I am a danger

  • But there was so much at stake that I had  to take some riskthough even when I was  

    a danger to all that live near me they cannot keep the ring and stay here

  • far away there has never been a day when the  Shire has not been guarded by watchful eyes.  

    I ought to leave back end to Shire leave everything and go away he sighed I should like

  • As long as you never used it, I did not think that  the Ring would have any lasting effect on you,  

    to say the Shire if I could though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid

  • not for evil, not at any rate forvery long time. And you must remember  

    and doubtful hurts I felt that an earthquake or invasion of dragons might be good for them

  • that nine years ago, when I last saw  you, I still knew little for certain.' 

    but I don't feel like that now I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind safe and comfortable

  • 'But why not destroy it, as you say should  have been done long ago?' cried Frodo again.  

    find Wandering more bearable I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold

  • 'If you had warned me, or even sent memessage, I would have done away with it.' 

    even if my feet cannot stand there again of course I've sometimes thought of going away

  • 'Would you? How would you do  that? Have you ever tried?' 

    but I imagined there's a kind of holiday a series of Adventures like bilbos are better

  • 'No. But I suppose one  could hammer it or melt it.' 

    peace in Exile flight from danger into Danger drawing it after me and I suppose I must go alone

  • 'Try!' said Gandalf. 'Try now!' Frodo drew the Ring out of his pocket  

    if I am to do that and save the Shire but I feel very small and very uprooted and well desperate

  • again and looked at it. It now appeared plain and  smooth, without mark or device that he could see.  

    the enemy is so strong and terrible he did not tell Gandalf but as he was speaking a great

  • The gold looked very fair and pure, and Frodo  thought how rich and beautiful was its colour,  

    desire to follow Bilbo flamed up in his heart to follow Bilbo and even perhaps to find him again

  • how perfect was its roundness. It was an admirable  thing and altogether precious. When he took it out  

    it was so strong that it overcame his fear he could almost have run out there and then

  • he had intended to fling it from him into the very  hottest part of the fire. But he found now that he  

    down the road without his hat as Bilbo had done on a similar morning long ago

  • could not do so, not without a great struggleHe weighed the Ring in his hand, hesitating,  

    my dear floater exclaimed Gandalf Hobbits really are amazing creatures as I have said before you

  • and forcing himself to remember all that Gandalf  had told him; and then with an effort of will  

    can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month and yet after a hundred years

  • he made a movement, as if to cast it awaybut  he found that he had put it back in his pocket

    I hardly expected you but Wilbur made no mistake in choosing his hair though he little thought

  • Gandalf laughed grimly. 'You see? Already  you too, Frodo, cannot easily let it go,  

    how important it would prove I'm afraid you are right the ring will not be able to stay hidden

  • nor will to damage it. And I could notmakeyou  – except by force, which would break your mind.  

    in the Shia much longer and for your own sake as well as for others you will have to go and leave

  • But as for breaking the Ring, force is  useless. Even if you took it and struck  

    the name of Baggins behind you that name will not be safe to have outside the Shire or in the wild

  • it with a heavy sledge-hammerit would make no dint in it.  

    I will give you a traveling name now when you go as Mr Underhill

  • It cannot be unmade by your hands, or by mine. 'Your small fire, of course, would not melt  

    but I don't think you need to go alone not if you know anyone you can trust and who would

  • even ordinary gold. This Ring has already passed  through it unscathed, and even unheated. But there  

    be willing to g o by your side and that you would be willing to take into unknown perils

  • is no smith's forge in this Shire that could  change it at all. Not even the anvils and  

    but if you look for a companion carefully inducing and be careful of what you say

  • furnaces of the Dwarves could do that. It has been  said that dragon-fire could melt and consume the  

    the enemy has many spies and many ways of hearing suddenly he stopped as if listening Frodo

  • Rings of Power, but there is not now any dragon  left on earth in which the old fire is hot enough;  

    became aware that all was very quiet inside and outside Gandalf crept to one side of the window

  • nor was there ever any dragon, not even Ancalagon  the Black, who could have harmed the One Ring, the  

    then with a darty sprang to the sill and thrust the lower arm out and downwards

  • Ruling Ring, for that was made by Sauron himself. 'There is only one way: to find the Cracks of  

    there was a squawk and up came Sam gangi's curly head hold by one ear well well bless my beard said

  • Doom in the depths of Orodruin, the Fire-mountainand cast the Ring in there, if you really wish to  

    Gundam Sam Game Jesus now what may you be doing ah sir nothing at least I was just trimming the

  • destroy it, to put it beyond the  grasp of the Enemy for ever.' 

    grass border under the window if you follow me he picked up the shares and exhibited them as

  • 'I do really wish to destroy it!' cried Frodo.  'Or, well, to have it destroyed. I am not made  

    evidence I don't said Gandalf grimly it is some time since I heard the sound of your shears how

  • for perilous quests. I wish I had never seen the  Ring! Why did it come to me? Why was I chosen?' 

    long have you been eavesdropping eavesdropping sir I don't follow you making your part there

  • 'Such questions cannot be answered,' said  Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not  

    ain't no Eves in back again and that's a fact don't be a fool what have you heard and why did

  • for any merit that others do not possessnot for power or wisdom, at any rate. But  

    you l isten Gandalf's eyes flashed and his brows stuck out like bristles Mr Proto sir cried Sam

  • you have been chosen, and you must therefore use  such strength and heart and wits as you have.' 

    Quaker let him hurt me sir don't ever turn me into anything not unnatural my old dad would

  • 'But I have so little of any  of these things! You are wise  

    take on so I mean I meant no harm oh my honor sir he won't hurt you said Frodo hardly able

  • and powerful. Will you not take the Ring?' 'No!' cried Gandalf, springing to his feet.  

    to keep from laughing although he was himself startled and rather puzzled he knows as well

  • 'With that power I should have power too great  and terrible. And over me the Ring would gain  

    as I do that you mean no harm but just you happen to answer his question straight away

  • a power still greater and more deadly.' His eyes  flashed and his face was lit as by a fire within.  

    well sure said Sam dithering a little I heard a great deal that I didn't rightly understand about

  • 'Do not tempt me! For I do not wish to become  like the Dark Lord himself. Yet the way of the  

    an enemy and rings and Mr bilboo Sir and dragons in her fiery mountain and an ulcer I listened

  • Ring to my heart is by pity, pity for weakness  and the desire of strength to do good. Do not  

    because I couldn't help myself if you know what I mean nor blessed me sir but I do love Tales of

  • tempt me! I dare not take it, not even to keep it  safe, unused. The wish to wield it would be too  

    that sort and I believe them too whatever Ted may say oh sir I would really love to see them

  • great for my strength. I shall have such  need of it. Great perils lie before me.' 

    couldn't you take me to see elster when you go suddenly Gandalf laughed come inside he

  • He went to the window and drew  aside the curtains and the shutters.  

    shouted and putting out both his arms he lifted the astonished Sam she has grass clippings and

  • Sunlight streamed back again into the roomSam passed along the path outside whistling.  

    all right through the window and stood him on the floor take you to see elves eh he said eyeing Sam

  • 'And now,' said the wizard, turning back  to Frodo, 'the decision lies with you.  

    closely but with a smile flickering on his face so you heard that Mr Frodo is going away I did Sir

  • But I will always help you.' He laid his hand  on Frodo's shoulder. 'I will help you bear this  

    and that's why I choked what you heard seemingly I tried not to sir but it burst out at me I was so

  • burden, as long as it is yours to bear. But we  must do something, soon. The Enemy is moving.' 

    upset it can't be helped Sam said Frodo sadly he had suddenly realized that flying out to the Shire

  • There was a long silence. Gandalf sat  down again and puffed at his pipe,  

    would mean more painful partings and merely saying farewell to the familiar Comforts of Bag End

  • as if lost in thought. His eyes  seemed closed, but under the lids  

    I shall have to go but and here he looked hard at Sam if you really care about me you will keep

  • he was watching Frodo intently. Frodo gazed  fixedly at the red embers on the hearth,  

    that Dead secret see if you don't if you even breathe the word of what you've heard here then

  • until they filled all his vision, and he seemed  to be looking down into profound wells of fire.  

    I hope Gandalf will turn you into a spotted Toad and fill the garden full of grass snakes

  • He was thinking of the fabled Cracks of  Doom and the terror of the Fiery Mountain

    Sam fell to his knees trembling get up Sam said Gandalf I have thought of something

  • 'Well!' said Gandalf at last. 'What are you  thinking about? Have you decided what to do?' 

    better than that something to shut your mouth and punish you properly for listening [Music]

  • 'No!' answered Frodo, coming back to himself  out of darkness, and finding to his surprise  

    you shall go away with Mr Frodo me ter cried Sam springing up like a dog invited for a walk

  • that it was not dark, and that out of the  window he could see the sunlit garden.  

    and all right he shouted and then burst into tears

  • 'Or perhaps, yes. As far as I understand  what you have said, I suppose I must keep  

  • the Ring and guard it, at least for  the present, whatever it may do to me.' 

  • 'Whatever it may do, it  will be slow, slow to evil,  

  • if you keep it with that purpose,' said Gandalf. 'I hope so,' said Frodo. 'But I hope that you may  

  • find some other better keeper soon. But in  the meanwhile it seems that I am a danger,  

  • a danger to all that live near me. I  cannot keep the Ring and stay here.  

  • I ought to leave Bag End, leave the Shireleave everything and go away.' He sighed

  • 'I should like to save the Shire, if I could –  though there have been times when I thought the  

  • inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and  have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of  

  • dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel  like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire  

  • lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall  find wandering more bearable: I shall know  

  • that somewhere there is a firm footholdeven if my feet cannot stand there again

  • 'Of course, I have sometimes  thought of going away,  

  • but I imagined that as a kind of holiday, a  series of adventures like Bilbo's or better,  

  • ending in peace. But this would mean  exile, a flight from danger into danger,  

  • drawing it after me. And I suppose I must go  alone, if I am to do that and save the Shire.  

  • But I feel very small, and very uprooted, and well  – desperate. The Enemy is so strong and terrible.' 

  • He did not tell Gandalf, but as he  was speaking a great desire to follow  

  • Bilbo flamed up in his heartto follow  Bilbo, and even perhaps to find him again.  

  • It was so strong that it overcame his fearhe could almost have run out there and then  

  • down the road without his hat, as Bilbo  had done on a similar morning long ago

  • 'My dear Frodo!' exclaimed Gandalf.  'Hobbits really are amazing creatures,  

  • as I have said before. You can learn all that  there is to know about their ways in a month,  

  • and yet after a hundred years they  can still surprise you at a pinch.  

  • I hardly expected to get such an answer, not  even from you. But Bilbo made no mistake in  

  • choosing his heir, though he little thought how  important it would prove. I am afraid you are  

  • right. The Ring will not be able to stay hidden  in the Shire much longer; and for your own sake,  

  • as well as for others, you will have to goand leave the name of Baggins behind you.  

  • That name will not be safe to have, outside the  Shire or in the Wild. I will give you a travelling  

  • name now. When you go, go as Mr. Underhill. 'But I don't think you need go alone. Not if  

  • you know of anyone you can trust, and who would  be willing to go by your sideand that you  

  • would be willing to take into unknown perilsBut if you look for a companion, be careful  

  • in choosing! And be careful of what you  say, even to your closest friends! The  

  • enemy has many spies and many ways of hearing.' Suddenly he stopped as if listening. Frodo became  

  • aware that all was very quiet, inside and outsideGandalf crept to one side of the window. Then with  

  • a dart he sprang to the sill, and thrust a long  arm out and downwards. There was a squawk, and up  

  • came Sam Gamgee's curly head hauled by one ear. 'Well, well, bless my beard!' said Gandalf. 'Sam  

  • Gamgee is it? Now what may you be doing?' 'Lor bless you, Mr. Gandalf,  

  • sir!' said Sam. 'Nothing! Leastways I was just  trimming the grass-border under the window,  

  • if you follow me.' He picked up his  shears and exhibited them as evidence

  • 'I don't,' said Gandalf grimly. 'It is some time  since I last heard the sound of your shears.  

  • How long have you been eavesdropping?' 'Eavesdropping, sir? I don't follow you,  

  • begging your pardon. There ain't no  eaves at Bag End, and that's a fact.' 

  • 'Don't be a fool! What have you heardand why did you listen?' Gandalf's eyes  

  • flashed and his brows stuck out like bristles. 'Mr. Frodo, sir!' cried Sam quaking. 'Don't let  

  • him hurt me, sir! Don't let him turn me into  anything unnatural! My old dad would take on  

  • so. I meant no harm, on my honour, sir!' 'He won't hurt you,' said Frodo,  

  • hardly able to keep from laughing, although he was  himself startled and rather puzzled. 'He knows,  

  • as well as I do, that you mean no harm. But just  you up and answer his questions straight away!' 

  • 'Well, sir,' said Sam dithering a little. 'I  heard a deal that I didn't rightly understand,  

  • about an enemy, and rings, and Mr. Bilbo, sirand dragons, and a fiery mountain, andand  

  • Elves, sir. I listened because I couldn't help  myself, if you know what I mean. Lor bless me,  

  • sir, but I do love tales of that sort. Andbelieve them too, whatever Ted may say. Elves,  

  • sir! I would dearly love to see them. Couldn't  you take me to see Elves, sir, when you go?' 

  • Suddenly Gandalf laughed. 'Come inside!'  he shouted, and putting out both his arms  

  • he lifted the astonished Sam, shearsgrass-clippings and all, right through  

  • the window and stood him on the floor. 'Take you  to see Elves, eh?' he said, eyeing Sam closely,  

  • but with a smile flickering on his face.  'So you heard that Mr. Frodo is going away?' 

  • 'I did, sir. And that's why I choked: which  you heard seemingly. I tried not to, sir,  

  • but it burst out of me: I was so upset.' 'It can't be helped, Sam,' said Frodo sadly.  

  • He had suddenly realized that flying  from the Shire would mean more painful  

  • partings than merely saying farewell  to the familiar comforts of Bag End.  

  • 'I shall have to go. But' – and here he looked  hard at Sam – 'if you really care about me, you  

  • will keep that dead secret. See? If you don't, if  you even breathe a word of what you've heard here,  

  • then I hope Gandalf will turn you into a spotted  toad and fill the garden full of grass-snakes.' 

  • Sam fell on his knees, trembling. 'Get up, Sam!'  said Gandalf. 'I have thought of something better  

  • than that. Something to shut your mouthand punish you properly for listening.  

  • You shall go away with Mr. Frodo!' 'Me, sir!' cried Sam, springing up like a dog  

  • invited for a walk. 'Me go and see Elves and allHooray!' he shouted, and then burst into tears.

Chapter 2 THE SHADOW OF THE PAST 

話は 9 日、あるいは 99 日で収まりませんでした

字幕と単語

ワンタップで英和辞典検索 単語をクリックすると、意味が表示されます