Moria was dark and it took Grimnir days to journey through its winding passages and mazelike halls. He got lost a couple times, though, he wouldn't admit it to anyone. Eventually, he stumbled across the throne room of the King. There didn't seem to be a soul alive down here.
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Thoruk found no mithril in this forsaken place. Only cold broken armor and corroded corrugated iron. There were some axes of steel that could be used and were of dwarven make, though, they were frozen cold to the touch. The crossbow bolts were the same. Marco grabbed some for Iver and tried to take a shield but it cracked upon touch from exposure to the elements.
"Let's leave this place." The Gondorian suggested to them both, shivering and hugging onto Iver's back.
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Ahead lay the Dunlending capital and after an hour of walking, the trio wandered into its unpaved dirty streets and ragged little hut-homes. It was pathetic compared to Bree. Rivendell was on another plane of existence. This...this could barely be called a town let alone a village. Many fur-skinned warriors looked out upon them and some women ran into their houses upon seeing strangers. One man spat in their direction when he saw Ha'zi and Dimitri. This place had changed a lot since Cardiloc had been there. The attitudes were the same, yet, long gone were the days of trade and sport. Now it seemed that everyone laxed. Where were the hunters? The riders? The spears and the shields? What of the tribal brotherhoods and the clansmen? Where has their brave warriors gone?
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Before allowing Sigeric to fully ride it down the foothills, Alfrid Kuntsworth III, tossed the Dalishman off with a fancy neigh, sending Sigeric into the dirt, again. Only after this did the horse yield to him and allow him to mount and ride him to the Old Ford. It would be two more days of fast travel on Kuntsworth before he reached the Old Ford and a surprise lay there for him.
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"Aww, yar illiterate!" The man huffed and puffed, grabbing his book and hefting it back behind the bar counter, cheeks red with anger. Deslan's meal had been adequate and now the road awaited him. Unless he would pursue the Butterbur...
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"I shall not lie to you, Master Burgins. Morgoth is the most dangerous foe in Middle-Earth. The very air he breaths is inhospitable to even plantlife. He is our worst nightmare. Yet, it is our duty to fight him? Cowering in fear is nothing to be ashamed of. But it shall not help. If you seek glory, by all means, fight Morgoth. But if you seek survival, then you can run and hide as much as you want but in the end, he will find you and you will be alone when he comes for you. I would rather die fighting than wretched beast than shriveling up like an old crone and burning at the stake." Celeborn said, opening up to the Hobbit.
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Pyrus felt something but nothing happened. He wasn't powerful enough to conjure up chains? What more could he do?
Around him, a hundred and thirty-three of his brother and sister Maiar had begun to arm themselves, unsheating blades, spears, pikes, bows and all manner of weapons. Ahead of them was to be a battle. Pyrus saw twenty-five Ainur standing guard at the Door of Day and blocking their passage to the prison beneath it.
"What is this madness!?" One of them came forward into sight. These were the Guardians of the Gate. Maiar of each Valar selected and sent to defend the gates at all costs.
"Who brought about this rallied bunch?" The Captian of the Guardians demanded.
Pyrus felt Azura's hand on his, "Don't worry, this should be easy. We outnumber them six to one. Stay close to me, okay."
"I REPEAT! BY WHO'S COMMAND DO YE SHOW YOURSELVES?" The Captain shouted as an arrow hit his shoulder, then another, and as he got back up, another, and another, and another and another, until he was all but a porcupine, yet still he raised his mailed fist and spoke, "DEATH UNTO THE ENEMIES OF VALINOR!!" And with a last cry, stood and rushed forward as a hail of arrows took him out. Behind him the other Guardians began to summon their weapons, activate siege craft like ballista and catapults and begin a defensive pike-line. '
Around Pyrus the dissidents of Valinor charged, battle cries erupting into the air. It was Ainur fighting Ainur, Maiar fighting Maiar, brothers and sisters killing their own, it was madness, it was heresy, it was...
The Apocalypse.
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