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end, as you know well, Aragorn', answered Gandalf, his tone
sharpened by anxiety. 'But we must go on. It is no good our
delaying the passage of the mountains. Further south there are
no passes, till one comes to the Gap of Rohan. I do not trust that
way, since the fall of Saruman. Who knows which side now the
marshals of the Horse-lords serve?'
'Who knows indeed!' said Trotter. 'But there is another way,
and not by the pass beneath Caradhras: the dark and secret way
that we have spoken of.'
'And I will not speak of it again. Not yet. Say nothing to the
others, I beg. Nor you, Frodo,' said Gandalf, turning suddenly
towards him. 'You have listened to our words, as is your right
as Ring-bearer. But I will not say any more until it is plain that
there is no other course.'
'We must decide before we go further,' said Gandalf.
'Then let us weigh the matter in our minds, while the others
rest and sleep,' answered Trotter.

Since the speakers of the last two speeches are out of order with the
preceding conversation, it was at this point that my father 'realised'
that it was Trotter and not Gandalf who especially feared Moria, and
at once changed the text of the passage accordingly.
Gandalf s words to the Company at the end of his discussion with
Trotter, and the whole account of the snowstorm, are very much as in

FR (pp. 300 - 2), though in the latter part of this chapter the actual
wording underwent more development later to reach the FR text than
had been the case till now. Boromir says that he was born in the Black
Mountains (see VI.436, note 31); and the reference to Bilbo alone of
hobbits remembering the Fell Winter of the year 1311 is absent.
Another use of names from the legends of the Elder Days, immediately
rejected, appears in Boromir's words about the snowstorm: 'I wonder
if the Enemy has anything to do with it? They say in my land that he
can govern the storms in [struck out: Mountains of Shadow Daedeloth
Delduath] the Mountains of Shadow that lie on the confines of
Mordor.'(23)
In Frodo's dream, as he fell into a snow-sleep, Bilbo's voice said:
Snowstorm on December the ninth (in the original version 2 Decem-
ber, VI.424; in FR 12 January). The journey from Rivendell to Hollin
had taken 'some ten days' (p. 165); and a chronological scheme that
seems clearly to derive from this time and to fit this narrative gives the
date of departure from Rivendell as the evening of Thursday 24
November. According to this scheme the Company reached Hollin on
6 December, the journey from Rivendell having thus taken eleven days
(and twelve nights), and 'Snow on Caradras' is dated 9 December.
The liquor that Gandalf gives to the Company from his flask is still
called 'one of Elrond's cordials', as in VI.424, and the name miruvor
does not appear. Gandalf, as the flame sprang up from the wood, said:
'I have written Gandalf is here in signs that even the blind rocks could
read', but he does not say, as he thrusts his staff into the faggot, naur