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XVI.
THE STORY FORESEEN FROM
LORIEN.

(i)
The Scattering of the Company.

It seems certain that before my father wrote the conclusion of
'Farewell to Lorien' - that is, from the point where the Company
returned to the hythe and departed down the Great River - he began
to write a new and very substantial outline of the way ahead. The
opening pages of this outline are complex, and at the beginning the
text was much altered, though it is clear that my father was changing
the embryonic story as he wrote and that the layers of the text belong
together. The notes are here again an essential part of the elucidation.
At the head of the text he wrote, in a second stage, 'XXI', then
changed it to 'XX continued' and after the opening words 'The
Company sets off from Tongue' wrote in 'XXI'. On the arrangement
of chapters in this outline see pp. 329 - 30.(1)

The Company sets off from Tongue.
They are attacked with arrows.(2)
They come to [struck out: Stony] Stoneait [struck out:
Tolharn] Tollernen (3) [added: sheersided except on North where
there [is] a little shingle beach. It rises to a high brown hill,
higher than the low brown hills on either bank. They land and
camp on the island]. Debate whether to go East or West. Frodo
feels it in his heart that he should go East and crosses over with
Sam to east shore and climbs a hill, and looks out south-east
towards the Gates of Mordor. He tells Sam that he wishes to be
alone for a while and bids him go back [and] guard the boat on
which they had crossed from the Island. Meanwhile Boromir
taking another boat crossed over. He hides his boat in bushes.
[This passage changed to read: Debate whether to go East or
West. Frodo feels it in his heart that he should go East and
climbs the tall hill in the midst of the island. Sam goes with him
but near the top Frodo says to him that he is going to sit on hill
top alone and bids him wait for him. Frodo sits alone and looks

out towards Mordor over Sarn Gebir and Nomen's land.(4)
Meanwhile Boromir has crept away from Company and
climbed hill from west side.]
As Frodo is sitting alone on hill top, Boromir comes suddenly
up and stands looking at him. Frodo is suddenly aware as if
some unfriendly thing is looking at him behind. He turns and
sees only Boromir smiling with a friendly face.
'I feared for you,' said Boromir, 'with only little Sam. It is ill
to be alone on the east side of the River.(5) Also my heart is
heavy, and I wished to talk a while with you. Where there are so
many all speech becomes a debate without end in the conflict of