![]() ![]() I wish to speak with the enemy who has done me so much wrong. ![]() ÂAnd I too will go up,â said the king. âI have been in Orthanc and I know my peril.â This was the only entrance to the tower but many tall windows were cut with deep embrasures in the climbing walls: far up they peered like little eyes in the sheer faces of the horns.Īt the foot of the stairs Gandalf and the king dismounted. Up to the threshold of the door there mounted a flight of twenty-seven broad stairs, hewn by some unknown art of the same black stone. On the eastern side, in the angle of two piers, there was a great door, high above the ground and over it was a shuttered window, opening upon a balcony hedged with iron bars. A few scorings, and small flake-like splinters near the base, were all the marks that it bore of the fury of the Ents. ![]() The many faces of the stone had sharp edges as though they had been newly chiselled. It was black, and the rock gleamed as if it were wet. ![]()
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