"GL4" - читать интересную книгу автора (vol06)

Elflords, but now he is blind as far as they are concerned. He
cannot make rings until he has regained the master ring. And also
his mind is moved by revenge and hatred of the Elves and Men
that (disputed him?).
'Now is the time for true speaking. Tell me, Elrond, if the Three
Rings still are? And tell me, Gloin, if you know it, whether any of
the Seven remain?'
'Yes, the Three still are,' said Elrond, 'and it would be ill indeed
if Sauron should discover where they be, or have power over their

rulers; for then perhaps his shadow would stretch even to the
Blessed Realm.'
'Yes! Some of the Seven remain,' said Gloin. 'I do not know
whether I have the right to reveal this, for Dain did not give me
orders concerning it. But Thrain of old had one that descended
from his sires. We do not now know where it is. We think it was
taken from him, ere you found him in the dungeons long ago [or
maybe it was lost in Moria].' Yet of late we have received secret
messages from Mordor demanding all such rings as we have or
know of. But there are others still in our power. Dain has one - and
on that his fortune is founded: his age, his wealth, and (....... ?)
future. Yet of late we have received secret messages from Mordor
bidding us yield up the rings to the Master, and threatening us and
all our allies of Dale with war.(13) It is on this account that I am now
come to Rivendell. For the messages have asked often concerning
one Bilbo, and offered us peace if we would obtain from him
(willing or unwilling) his ring. That they said they would accept in
lieu of all. I now understand why. But our hearts are troubled, for
we guess that King Brand's heart is afraid, and that the Dark Lord
will (move?) eastern men to some evil. Already there is war upon
the (southern?) borders. And (of course that matter whereof?) I
seek counsel, the disappearance of Balin and his people, is now
(revealed?) as part of the same evil.'
Boromir the (lord? Land?) of Ond. These men are besieged by
wild men out of the East. They send to the (F..... ?) of Balin of
Moria. He promised assistance.

Here this text ends. Against the passage beginning '"Yes! Some of the
Seven remain," said Gloin' my father wrote: 'No! This won't do -
otherwise the dwarves would have been more suspicious of Bilbo.'
In this text, again, there is an apparent contradiction of the 'August
1939 papers: Bilbo gives his mailcoat to Frodo at Rivendell, and had
therefore taken it with him when he left Bag End - a story that first
appears under the date August 1939' (p. 371, $2), whereas it is also
proposed there that the 'Odo-story' be abandoned - a story that is
expressly present here. - The Fellowship of the Ring is to consist of five
'Shire hobbits', Frodo, Sam, Merry, Folco, and Odo, with Trotter,
Gandalf, Glorfindel, and the dwarf Frar (> Burin).
Whatever the relative age of these texts, and they can scarcely be far
apart, there have now appeared the younger Dwarf, Balin's son, who had