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doubting wills.'
'My heart too is heavy,' said Frodo, 'for I feel that here
doubts must be resolved; and I foresee the breaking up of our
fair company, and that is a grief to me.'
'Many griefs have we had,' said Boromir, and fell silent.
There was no sound; only the cold rustle of the chill East wind
in the withered heather. Frodo shivered.
Suddenly Boromir spoke again.
'It is a small thing that lies so heavy on our hearts, and
confuses our purposes,' said Boromir. [Here include conversa-
tion written above and bring down to Boromir's attempt to
seize the Ring.]

This last sentence was written continuously with the preceding text.
The conversation referred to is found on two pages of the 'August
1940' examination paper, written in pencil so faint and rapid that my
father went over it more clearly in ink, although, so far as the
underlying text can be made out, he followed it almost exactly. This
obviously preceded the new outline into which it is inserted, and was a
development from the scene in the previous Plot ('The Story Foreseen
from Moria') given on p. 208, where the debate, Boromir's intervention,
and Frodo's flight wearing the Ring all take place 'at Angle': here the
scene is set 'at the Stone Hills, whence Eredwethion (6) can be glimpsed'
(these words being visible in the underlying text also). In the notes
given on p. 233 the 'parting of the ways' took place 'at Stonehills'; in
the outlines for 'Farewell to Lorien' (pp. 268 - 9) the debate and the
'scene with Boromir' follow the landing on Tolondren and the ascent
into the Green Hills, or the Emyn Rhain.

Conversation of Boromir and Frodo at the Stone Hills,
whence Eredwethion can be glimpsed like a smudge of grey,
and behind it a vague cloud lit beneath occasionally by a fitful
glow.

'It is a small thing from which we suffer so much woe,' said
Boromir. 'I have seen it but once for an instant, in the house of
Elrond. Could I not have a sight of it again?'
Frodo looked up. His heart went suddenly cold. He caught a
curious gleam in Boromir's eye, though his face otherwise was
friendly and smiling as of old.
'It is best to let it lie hid,' he answered.
'As you will. I care not,' said Boromir. 'Yet I will confess that
it is of the Ring that I wish to speak. (Yet hidden or revealed I
would wish now to speak to you of the Ring?)... [sic]
Boromir says that Elrond etc. are all foolish. 'It is mad not to
use the power and methods of the Enemy: ruthless, fearless.
Many elves, half-elves, and wizards might be corrupted by it -
but not so a true Man. Those who deal in magic will use it for
hidden Power. Each to his kind. You, Frodo, for instance, being
a hobbit and desiring peace: you use it for invisibility. Look