"GL4" - читать интересную книгу автора (vol06)

single bell rang out' (p. 395). As noticed before, my father at this stage

saw all the meetings and discussions at Rivendell as constituting a single
chapter, and had given the number and title 'XII. The Council of
Elrond' to the third phase chapter which begins with Frodo waking up at
Rivendell (p. 362).
The manuscript is partly in ink and partly in pencil, but though very
rough is legible throughout. Being in the first stage of composition it is
full of alterations, phrases or whole passages constantly rewritten in the
act of composition; and many other corrections, made to passages which
at the time of writing had been allowed to stand, are probably pretty well
contemporary. In general I give the text in its final form, but with more
important changes indicated.

'Bless me!' said Gandalf. 'That is the warning bell for the
council. We had better make our way there at once.'
Bilbo and Frodo (and Sam [added: uninvited]) followed him
down many stairs and passages towards the western wing of the
house, until they came to the porch where Frodo had found his
friends the evening before. But now the light of a clear autumn
morning was glowing in the valley. The sky was high and cool
above the hill-tops; and in the bright air below a few golden leaves
were fluttering from the trees. The noise of bubbling waters came
up from the foaming river-bed. Birds were singing and a whole-
some peace lay on the land, and to Frodo his dangerous flight and
the rumours of the dark shadow growing in the world outside
seemed now only like memories of a troubled dream.
But the faces that were turned to meet him were grave.' Elrond
was there and several others were already seated about him in
silence. Frodo saw Glorfindel and Gloin, and Trotter (sitting in a
corner).
Elrond welcomed Frodo and drew him to a seat at his knee and
presented him to the company, saying: 'Here my friends is the
hobbit who by fortune and courage has brought the Ring to
Rivendell. This is Frodo son of Drogo.' He then pointed out and
named those whom Frodo had not seen before. There was a
younger dwarf at Gloin's side, [Burin the son of Balin )] his son
Gimli.(16) There were three counsellors of Elrond's own household:
Erestor his kinsman (a man of the same half-elvish folk known
as the children of Luthien), " and beside him two elflords of
Rivendell. There was a strange elf clad in green and brown,
Galdor, a messenger from the King of the Wood-elves in Eastern
Mirkwood.(18) And seated a little apart was a tall man of noble face,
but dark and sad.
'Here,' said Elrond, turning to Gandalf, 'is Boromir from the

Land of Ond, far in the South. He arrived in the night, and brings
tidings that must be considered.'

It would take long to tell of all the things that were spoken