

Reading Unfinished Tales The Hunt for The Ring. How did Gollum know that a rescue party would come and save him? The Fellowship of the Ring, LoTR Book 2, Ch 2, The Council of Elrond We were drawing nigh to Dol Guldur, and that is still a very evil ButĮre long it escaped our skill, and we dared not continue the hunt for Of many Orcs, and it plunged deep into the Forest, going south. Greater numbers, and Mirkwood is again an evil place, save where our Were driven out in the year of the Dragon's fall have returned in How that was contrived we cannot guess but Gollum isĬunning, and the spies of the Enemy are many. Us that the attack had been made for his rescue, and that he knew of Was gone, and his guards were slain or taken. When the battle was over, we found that Gollum Were many and fierce, but they came from over the mountains, and were 'It was that very night of summer, yet moonless and starless, that One day he refused to come down, and the guards had no mind to climbĪfter him: he had learned the trick of clinging to boughs with hisįeet as well as with his hands so they sat by the tree far into the Until he felt the free wind but we set a guard at the tree's foot. Often we let him mount up to the highest branches,

There was a high tree standing alone far from the others which he 'In the days of fair weather we led Gollum through the woods and
