Chapter 40: The Fellowship of the Ring
King Elon sent away the so-called Fellowship of the Ring with the attitude of sending the plague god.
In the plot of the movie, the number of the Fellowship of the Ring is less than ten people, including the troublemakers Merry and Piri.
The arrival of Lin Bin and the others is destined to interfere with the plot, there are six of them alone, plus Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Boromo, Frodo and Sam Weis, as well as Grote and Bunyan from Arno, as well as twelve retinues, the number of people in the team directly becomes twenty-seven.
The Twenty-Seven Ring Expeditionary Force had already been repeatedly reduced, otherwise it would have numbered more than three hundred at the beginning, of which two hundred were the attendants and knights that Borromo wanted to bring.
The matter of escorting the One Ring is naturally extremely important to humans, and only humans are currently fighting against orcs, and elves have not been affected.
It is an established fact that the elves left Middle-earth, and it is unknown how many years will be before Sauron is eliminated or not.
Only dwarves? Only the Gimli family came, and the rest of the dwarven families who received the news did not come at all.
The dwarves are a very homely race, and they simply won't leave their place of residence if they can.
There are several reasons why this would be the case.
The first reason is that the dwarves were the richest of all races, and they didn't have to run around for a living, so they didn't have to move around.
The second reason is that the lonely mountain is occupied by the dragon, and the dwarves who are forced to flee are fed up with the warmth and coldness of the world and all kinds of bullying, waiting to recover their vitality.
Furthermore, the dwarves' favorite thing to do is to keep mining and gain wealth, so they don't have the time to socialize.
Another one who received the notice and didn't send anyone over was Rohan.
As one of the human kingdoms, Rohan has always been in a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic society, and is famous for their cavalry warfare among various races.
At present, the king of Rohan, Xiyouton, is controlled by Saruman, so it would be good if he didn't come out to make trouble.
"Will they rally troops?" Frodo, who was riding a horse with Gandalf, had already asked, "The elves don't seem to care about this at all, and the dwarves are the only ones who survived, Gimli." Mankind...... Can I trust Boromo? ”
Frodo was willing to join the Fellowship of the Ring on the condition that several forces gather troops to attack Isenger and rescue Merry and Piri.
Gandalf frowned, not wanting to deceive Frodo, he really didn't know what to say.
It is the elves who are willing to gather an army, and at present, the elves can pull out an army of 3,000 people.
Dwarf? Since the dwarves regained the lonely mountain, they have fallen into civil strife for many years, and the dwarven team that had been assembled to go to the lonely mountain has even become enemies of each other, and even if several dwarf families gather troops, the greatest probability is to continue to fight each other, so as not to fight any Esinger.
The kingdom of mankind is willing to attack Isengard.
After all, if they don't fight, Isinger will definitely go to war with them.
Then here's the problem, Gondor is powerless, and it's good that Rohan doesn't make trouble at the moment.
So, if Frodo, a stupid boy, thinks that someone will gather an army to attack Isengard, he can dream and dream when he falls asleep at night.
"Don't worry." Lin Bin also rode a horse, on Gandalf's and Frodo's side. He smiled and said, "There will be an army going to attack Isengard." It's just that Sam needs help then. ”
Naturally, they left Rivendell and headed east, where the Fellowship of the Ring would eventually destination, Mordor.
Gandalf glanced at Lin Bin suspiciously, patted Frodo's shoulder, and said, "Saruman won't kill Merry and Piri, we can always save them." ”
Lin Bin and others have already discussed, and a team will not stay together like this.
Attacking Isengh is obviously a task to obtain bonus points and side plots, as long as you go to the deep forest to find the Treants, won't there be an army to attack Isengard?
The main force attacking Issinger will be the Treants, and the strength of the divided team does not need to be too strong, for the sake of insurance, there needs to be a Hobbit, Merry and Piary didn't bring it, isn't there also a Sam Wes?
As for Frodo, who said that Sam Weiss was missing, what would he do? And Eve can top it.
Eve has been taking care of the hobbits from the beginning, and despite the fact that she has been scolding the hobbits, she is deliberately trying to enhance her friendship with Frodo.
Sam Wes was brave, but he was still a hobbit.
No matter how weak Eve is, she is still a C-level enhancer, definitely stronger than Sam Weis.
The difference is that Frodo doesn't trust Eve the way he trusts Sam Wes, but without a choice, all problems won't be an obstacle.
They kept heading east, and they didn't know if they were deliberately avoiding or what the situation was, and there was no way to a populated place.
After about eight days of riding at an ordinary pace, Gandalf pointed to the mountains ahead.
"From here on, the horses can no longer be ridden." Gandalf frowned at the attendants and knights, and said, "These people can't follow them anymore when they get here. ”
Porromo had been silent and low-key since he was almost bewitched by the One Ring's success last time, and when he heard this, he said to the attendants and knights, "You all heard it. ”
Gandalf looked at Lin Bin and said, "Brandon...... It's not suitable to continue to follow. ”
Lin Bin just nodded, without extra words.
Even Brandon, who was named, didn't do much, he rode his horse closer to the retinues and knights.
In fact, even if Gandalf didn't mention it, Brandon didn't plan to follow the Fellowship of the Ring in the first place, his mission was to go to Gondor, and the purpose was, of course, to open Gondor's tech tree.
Gandalf looked around the crowd again, nodded, and said, "Abandon the horse, walk!" ”
The team was reduced to only fourteen men.
The place they entered was called the Misty Mountains, a mountain full of strange rocks, not to mention that there was no easy road to follow, and many times they had to avoid the steep slopes.
The loss is that everyone's physical fitness is excellent, and even the oldest Gandalf is also very athletic, and only two hobbits will occasionally cry bitterly.
On many occasions, Gandalf would ask those in the team who could fly to take a look around the area, showing a bit of over-caution.
"Saruman is a white-robed mage, and he lost his mana until the gods noticed that he had been betrayed." Gandalf said very vaguely, not saying that he needed to wait for Saruman to make a big move: "Saruman has a flock of crows as eye ......"
Gandalf was talking......
Hikoshi flew back and said that there was a large flock of crows, which seemed very strange.
Gandalf immediately yelled, "Hide!! ”