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The Fellowship climbs the snowy slopes of Caradhras.As they climb through the glistening, fresh snow beneath the great blue sky, Frodo looses his footing and falls, rolling down the slope towards Aragorn. Who helps him to his feet after he stopped him from rolling. Freya runs over as Frodo notices the ring missing. The Ring lies in the snow, glistening.Boromir sees the Ring and picks it up by its chain.
"Boromir, give the Ring to Frodo" Aragorn tells him.Boromir walks slowly down the slope to the Ranger and the Hobbit. Aragorn's hand is on the hilt of his sword.
"As you wish, I care not" he says giving Frodo the ring. Before ruffling his hair.Freya and Frodo looks on suspiciously; Aragorn releases his grip from his sword.As the Fellowship labors onwards through the high snow banks, Legolas runs out ahead. His step is light and he moves with ease across the top of the snow, staring into the blinding storm.
"There's a fowl voice on the air" he states.
"It's Saruman!" Gandalf shouts.With a rending echo, a horde of rock slabs and boulders falls from the mountain's arms. The Fellowship shove themselves flat against the sheer cliff wall to avoid the onslaught of stone. Gimli covering Freya with his body.
"He's trying to bring down the mountain! Gandalf, we must turn back!" Aragorn shouts. Gandalf disagrees and steps out onto the ledge, rising on the snow.
"Losto Caradhras, sedho, hodo, nuitho i 'ruith!" he yells. (Translation:Sleep, Caradhras, be still, lie still, hold your wrath!). The wizard's voice is drowned out by a more terrible cry in the maelstrom. Away above him where he stands, a great black wall-cloud towers over Redhorn.
Lightning strikes the tip of Caradhras, sending a second avalanche of white ice onto the Fellowship. Legolas snatches Gandalf from the edge, pulling him against the cliff just before the ice-fall hits. Gimli doing the same with Freya again. The avalanche cascades over the Fellowship, and snow buries them completely.
After a moment, they emerge. "We must get off the mountain! Make for the Gap of Rohan and take the west road to my city!" Boromir cries.
"The Gap of Rohan takes us too close to Isengard!" Aragorn shouts back.
"If we cannot pass over the mountain, let us go under it. Let us go through the mines of Moria" Gimli suggests.In Gandalf's eyes there is a shadow of doubt, of fear that lies unsaid. He is conflicted.
"Let the Ring bearer decide" Gandalf states.Boromir shouts through the snowstorm, holding Merry and Pippin to him. Both are cold and extremely pale. Aragorn holding the other three who look just as bad.
"We cannot stay here! This will be the death of the Hobbits!" he shouts.
"Frodo?" Gandalf asks him. Frodo looks at his older sister before making a decision.
"We will go through the mines" he tells Gandalf.
"So be it" Gandalf states. The Fellowship passes south, along the misty shadow of an aqueduct's ruins. While Frodo goes up front to speak with Gandalf. Freya staying with Aragorn, Sam and the pony Bill.
"The Walls... of Moria!" Gimli exclaims.The Fellowship stands and looks upon a vast cliff face."Dwarf doors are invisible when closed" he states.He knocks his axe against a rock. The Fellowship moves along the wall, searching for a door.
"Yes, Gimli, their own masters cannot find them, if their secrets are forgotten" Gandalf adds.
"Why doesn't that surprise me?" Legolas mumbles.A foot splashes into shallow water. Frodo gasps, pulling his leg back. A great pool sits beside the rock face.Gandalf approaches the rock between two trees, and runs his hand over the cliff face.
"Now let's see, Ithildin" Gandalf says examining the wall. "It mirrors only starlight... and moonlight" he explains. As he looks up at the black night sky, the moon appears. The silver lines grow bright, outlining a door formed of two columns beneath an arch, with a star in the center."It reads 'The Doors of Durin — Lord of Moria. Speak, friend, and enter'" he reads aloud.
"What do you suppose that means?" Merry asks.
"Oh, it's quite simple. If you are a friend, you speak the password, and the doors will open" Gandalf says matter of factly. "Annon Edhellen, edro hi ammen!" he says and the door remains closed. (Translation:Gate of the Elves, open now for me!). "Fennas Nogothrim, lasto beth lammen" he says and again the door remains closed. (Translation: Doorway of the Dwarf-folk, listen to the word of my tongue).
"Nothing's happening" Pippin states. Gandalf glances at him at him, looking slightly annoyed. He begins to push on the doors, but they remain fast.
"I once knew every spell in all the tongues of Elves... Men... and Orcs" he states.
"What are you going to do, then?" Pippin asks him.
"Knock your head against these doors, Peregrin Took! And if that does not shatter them, and I am allowed a little peace from foolish questions, I will try to find the opening words" he answers. Freya frowns then begins to help Aragorn and Sam release Bill. As a mine, is no place for a pony.
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