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He slips away unseen and coming to the boats takes one and
crosses over to the East.
Boromir is now himself frightened and though (half) repent-
ing his own greed for the Ring the curse has not wholly left him.
He ponders what tale he shall tell to the others. Hastening back
to the River he comes upon Sam, who anxious at Frodo's long
absence is coming to the hill-top to find him.
'Where is my master?' says Sam.
'I left him on the hill-top,' said Boromir, but something wild
and odd in his face caused Sam sudden fear. 'What have you
done with him?' 'I have done nothing,' said Boromir. 'It is what
he has done himself: he has put on the ring and vanished! '
'Thank goodness the island is not large,' said Sam in great
alarm, but he thought also to himself: 'And what made him do
that, I should like to know. What mischief has this great fool
been up to?' Without another word to Boromir he ran back to
the camp to find Trotter. 'Master Frodo has disappeared! ' he
cried.
Consternation. The hunt. Some scour the island. But Sam
discovers the fact that a boat is missing. Has Frodo gone East or

West? Trotter decides that they cannot hope to recapture Frodo
against his will, but they must follow him if they can. Which
way?
[Or make Island inaccessible: steep shores. Black birds circle
high above its tall cliffs and central summit. Distant noise of the
falls of Dantruinel.(8) They camp on west shore. Hence when
Frodo is lost they all go after him. Thus Pippin and Merry get
separated.(9) Sam sits alone and so discovers missing boat. He
takes another and goes after Frodo.] [Against this bracketed
passage is written Yes.]

It is clear that my father at once accepted his suggestion in this last
passage that the Company camped on the west bank, not on the island
in the river, because that passage contains the words 'Sam
discovers missing boat. He takes another and goes after Frodo', and
this, as will be seen in a moment, is a necessary element in the story
that follows.

Boromir is for West. In any case he says he is afraid - the Ring
will fall now almost certainly into the Enemy's hands. 'This
madness was set [in] him for that purpose.'(10) He wishes to get
now to Minas-Tirith as quick as possible. Sam goes West [read
East], others East [read West].
Sam picks up trail of Frodo.(11) How? He finds boat knocking
against the bank.(12) A little further he finds a scrap of grey stuff
on a bramble - a great bramble tract has to be crossed. Very
soon Sam discovered that he was lost in a pathless listening
land. But he felt sure his master would steer towards the Fiery
Mt. Away on his right the falls roared. He climbed down into