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upon the steep sides of the ... hills. Long now it seemed to the
travellers since they had ridden from Isengard, longer even than
[? the] time of their weary journey.(4)
Day again was fading. Dim lay the high dale about them.
Night had already come beneath the great woods of murmuring
firs that clothed the steep mountain-sides. But now the travellers
rode down a steep track and passing out of the scented sighing
gloom of the pines they [?followed a] ...... they found them-
selves at the... where it passed into a wider vale. The long vale
of Harrowdale. Dark on the right loomed the vast tangled
mass of Dunharrow, its great peak now lost to sight, for they
were crawling at its feet. Lights twinkled before them on the
other side of the valley, across the river Snowborn (5) white and
fuming on its stones. They were come at last at the end of many
days to the old mountain homes of folk forgotten - to the Hold

of Dunharrow. Long it seemed since they rode from Isengard.
[?It was] ... days since they rode from Isengard, but it seemed
..., with little else but weary riding. So King Theoden came
back to his people.
As dusk fell they came to the river and the old stone bridges
that [?were there]. There they sounded a horn. Horns answered
gladly from above. Now they climbed up a winding path which
brought them slowly up to a wide upland field set back into the
side of the great [?bones of Dunharrow. Treeclad walls half
embraced it].(6) The Snowborn issued and fell down with a
waterfall. The rock behind was full of caves that had been bored
and cut with great labour in the rock walls. Legend said that
here was a dwelling and a [?holy] place of forgotten men in the
Dark Years - [? before ever] the ships came to Belfalas or
Gondor was built. What had become of them? Vanished, gone
away, to mingle with the people of Dunland or the folk of
Lebennin by the sea. Here the Eorlingas had made a stronghold,
but they were not a mountain folk, and as the days grew better
while Sauron was far away they passed down the vale and built
Edoras at the north of Harrowdale. But ever they kept the Hold
of Dunharrow as a refuge. There still dwelt some folk reckoned
as Rohir, and the same in speech, but dark with grey eyes. The
blood of the forgotten men ran in their veins.
Now all [? about] the vale on [? flat] sides of the Snowborn
they saw ... and ... of men, fires kindled. The [?upland plain]
was filled [? too]. Trumpets rang, glad was the cry of men to
welcome Theoden.
Eowyn comes forth and greets Theoden and Aragorn.
Gandalf's message tells her to hold assembly at Dunharrow.
This is not the House of Eorl. But [? that is guarded]. Here
we will [?hold) the feast of victory so long delayed, and the
[ale >] ... ale (7) of Hama and all who fell.
The torchlit stone hall.
Merry sat beside Theoden as was promised.(8)