![]() Then they turned a shoulder of the Downs and it was hidden from view. They looked back and saw the top of the old mound on the hill, and from it the sunlight on the gold went up like a yellow flame. Fighting had not before occurred to any of them as one of the adventures in which their flight would land them.Īt last they set off. Their new weapons they hung on their leather belts under their jackets, feeling them very awkward, and wondering if they would be of any use. When the wind has passed over it, it is no more, And its place acknowledges it no longer. As for man, his days are like grass As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. The hobbits did not understand his words, but as he spoke they had a vision as it were of a great expanse of years behind them, like a vast shadowy plain over which there strode shapes of Men, tall and grim with bright swords, and last came one with a star on his brow. The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever. 'Few now remember them,' Tom murmured, 'yet still some go wandering, sons of forgotten kings walking in loneliness, guarding from evil things folk that are heedless.' ![]() 'Sharp blades are good to have, if Shire-folk go walking, east, south, or far away into dark and danger.' Then he told them that these blades were forged many long years ago by Men of Westernesse: they were foes of the Dark Lord, but they were overcome by the evil king of Carn Dûm in the Land of Angmar. 'Old knives are long enough as swords for hobbit-people,' he said. Whether by some virtue in these sheaths or because of the spell that lay on the mound, the blades seemed untouched by time, unrusted, sharp, glittering in the sun. Then the Lordsaid, My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years. And they took as their wives any they chose. They gleamed as he drew them from their black sheaths, wrought of some strange metal, light and strong, and set with many fiery stones. When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. Terraria: How To Get The Blade of Grass Sword (1.4 Journeys End) Zeroster 19. He bade them lie there 'free to all finders, birds, beasts, Elves or Men, and all kindly creatures' for so the spell of the mound should be broken and scattered and no Wight ever come back to it.įor each of the hobbits he chose a dagger, long, leaf-shaped, and keen, of marvellous workmanship, damasked with serpent-forms in red and gold. Most of these he made into a pile that glistened and sparkled on the grass. An event in Frodo's Departure from the Shire see that entry for an overview: Tom went up to the mound, and looked through the treasures.
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