Book VI, Chapter 2: All Looking Pretty
Sam: "We're screwed."
Frodo: "Whatever."
(They listen to an ARGUMENT between two orcs and LEARN the Gollum is HANGING around. They TRUDGE along, get MISTAKEN for orcs and are forced to MARCH to Udûn. It's all looking pretty GRIM for the Hobbits but LOTS of Orc companies RUN into each other and so they ESCAPE in the CONFUSION. Frodo FAINTS.)
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Book V, Chapter 3: A Taste Of How It Feels
Éomer: "We've had it."
(Merry is CONFUSED about why everyone is so UPSET, ASKS about the Paths of the Dead and FINALLY gets a TASTE of how it FEELS not to get a STRAIGHT ANSWER.)
* * *
(Théoden RECIEVES
the Red Arrow from Gondor and TELLS the messenger
(Hirgon) that it will take a WEEK for the Riders
of Rohan to come Gondor's RESCUE.)
Hirgon: "We're all going to be
dead by then - still you might give the Orcs and
Southerners a nasty shock."
Théoden: "True, true."
* * *
(Merry is ANNOYED
at the idea of being left BEHIND, falls ASLEEP
and wakes up to FIND that DARKNESS has FLOWED out
of MORDOR [don't ask]. Théoden ORDERS the Muster
of Rohan; Merry gets some ARMOUR and the Riders
of Rohan SING. Merry is ORDERED to stay with
Éowyn, but a Rider (Dernhelm) has a PROVERB to
SHARE and OFFERS to HIDE him under his CLOAK
[don't ask] and take him to war.)
Merry: "Yippee!"
(Dernhelm's horse isn't too BOTHERED about
the extra WEIGHT because Dernhelm is SMALLER than
MOST. As they get CLOSER to Gondor, everyone gets
DEPRESSED.)