Sunday, December 7, 2008

Thomas Moran The Morning After painting

Thomas Moran The Morning After paintingThomas Moran The Autumnal Woods Under the Trees paintingThomas Moran The Angry Sea paintingThomas Moran Sunset, Long Island Sound painting
Boromir. `If you go forward, peril will grow with every mile, even if you find a path.'`Peril lies ahead on every southward road,' answered Aragorn. `Wait for us one day. If we do not return in that time, you will know that evil has indeed befallen us. Then you must takewill be to get our boats and baggage to the old portage-way. We have found it, but it lies well back from the water-side here, and runs under the lee of a rock-wall, a furlong or more from the shore. We did not find where the northward landing lies. If it still remains, we must have passed it yesterday night. We might labour far upstream and yet miss it in the fog. I fear we must leave the River now, and make for the portage-way as best we can from here.'`That would not be easy, even if we were all Men,' said Boromir.`Yet such as we are we will try it,' said Aragorn. a new leader and follow him as best you can.'It was with a heavy heart that Frodo saw Aragorn and Legolas climb the steep bank and vanish into the mists; but his fears proved groundless. Only two or three hours had passed, and it was barely mid-day, when the shadowy shapes of the explorers appeared again.`All is well,' said Aragorn, as he clambered down the bank. 'There is a track, and it leads to a good landing that is still serviceable. The distance is not great: the head of the Rapids is but half a mile below us, and they are little more than a mile long. Not far beyond them the stream becomes clear and smooth again, though it runs swiftly. Our hardest task

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