Part 2973 of 4000 from book19
The light was no more than that of dusk at a dark days end. He took off the Ring movedbook43 it may be by some deep premonition of danger though to himself he thought only that he wished to see more clearly. He was in a land of darkness where the days of the world seemed forgotten and where all who entered were forgotten too. His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts and forgetting his peril he cried aloud Im coming Mr. Far beyond it but almost straight ahead across a wide lake of darkness dotted with tiny fires there was a great burning glow and from it rose in huge columns a swirling smoke dusty red at the roots black above where it merged into the billowing canopy that roofed in all the accursed land.... more