Peter Paul Rubens The Judgment of Paris painting

Peter Paul Rubens The Judgment of Paris paintingJohn William Godward Dolce far niente paintingJohn William Waterhouse Gather Ye Rosebuds while ye may paintingLeonardo da Vinci Leda and the Swan painting
'Things have changed since you came north, Boromir,' answered Gandalf. 'Did you not hear what I told you of mountain-pass our plight has become more desperate, I fear. I see now little hope, if we do not soon vanish from sight for a while, and cover our trail. Therefore I advise that we should go neither over the mountains, nor round them, but under them. That is a road at any rate that the Enemy will least expect us to take.'Saruman? With him I may have of my own ere all is over. But the Ring must not come near Isengard, if that can by any means be prevented. The Gap of Rohan is closed to us while we go with the Bearer.'As for the longer road: we cannot afford the time. We might spend a year in such a journey, and we should pass through many lands that are empty and harbourless. Yet they would not be safe. The watchful eyes both of Saruman and of the Enemy are on them. When you came north, Boromir, you were in the Enemy's eyes only one stray wanderer from the South and a matter of small concern to him: his mind was busy with the pursuit of the Ring. But you return now as a member of the Ring's Company, and you are in peril as long as you remain with us. The danger will increase with every league that we go south under the naked sky.`Since our open attempt on the