shiremaiden:LOTR CHAPTERS: THE TWO TOWERS - Chapter Eight: The Road to Isengard The ring beyond wa
shiremaiden: LOTR CHAPTERS: THE TWO TOWERS - Chapter Eight: The Road to Isengard The ring beyond was filled with steaming water: a bubbling cauldron, in which there heaved and flowed a wreckage of beams and spars, chests and casks and broken gear. Twisted and leaning pillars reared their splintered stems above the flood, but all the roads were drowned. Far off, it seemed, half veiled in winding cloud, there loomed the island rock. Still dark and tall, unbroken by the storm, the tower of Orthanc stood. Pale waters lapped about its feet.The king and all his company sat silent on their horses, marvelling, perceiving that the power of Saruman was overthrown; but how they could not guess. -- source link