The 285th Chapter Rohan War (4)

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"My rowan tree..."

In this large valley south of the Misty Mountains and east of Essinger, in this ancient forest, there is an old and distant voice.

"Your brilliance is dazzling... under the summer sun... your crown is golden and red... like a tall crown..."

When Gandalf and Anne met Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas who had entered Fangorn Forest, the tall tree man Treebeard was carrying two little hobbits, Pippin and Merry, in the deep forest. Walked in Fangorn's deep woods.

Then, in his boredom, Treebeard chanted to the two hobbits in the old accents that their tree shepherds love. Because the tree shepherd speaks slowly and has a very long tone, it often takes a long time for him to read a short paragraph, until the two little hobbits sitting on him are drowsy. land.

"What a beautiful poem..."

Treebeard, who felt very good about himself, didn't notice the half-drooped eyelids of the two hobbits, so he decided to change to another song and continue singing for a while.

For so many years, very few people who could talk to it entered Fangorn Forest and saw him alive. Therefore, Treebeard did not intend to give up this opportunity to chat with outsiders.

"Treesbeard, how far are we likely to go?"

Pippin the Hobbit, sitting in a fork above Treebeard's head, was growing impatient, and they had been wandering Fangorn Forest for half a day now!

However, until now, they didn't seem to have reached their destination? Wherever you look, there are all those ancient trees with strange shapes. If Treebeard hadn't brought them with him and let the two of them go by themselves, they would have lost their way!

"Please don't rush..."

"Perhaps, you will think it's a little far away...my home is deep in the forest, just at the foot of that mountain..."

At Treebeard's words the two hobbits rose to their feet and began to look into the distance, but they soon gave up.

Because, in the distance, there are several mountains, and they don't know which one Treebeard refers to at the foot of the mountain? Moreover, even if it is the most recent, it is estimated that it will take another half a day? Now both of them are complaining a bit. They don't know what Gandalf and the others are going to do. Why don't they want to bring the two of them?

"I promised Gandalf,

I will protect your safety...With my protection, you will definitely be safe..."

"I believe... you guys, maybe you'll like my next poem?"

After soothing the two hobbits on his shoulders and head, Treebeard decided to continue his seemingly endless poetry.

"By the way, Treebeard! We heard from Gandalf earlier that you don't seem to have a good relationship with Your Excellency Witch Anne? So what's going on?"

Melly didn't want to continue listening to this old tree man who was talkative and slow talking about those boring ancient poems, so he hurriedly opened his mouth and changed the subject.

"That's right! Treebeard, I really want to know why! Did the little witch offend you?"

Pippin was also more interested in this topic, and after hearing Meli's question, he also joined in immediately.

According to what Gandalf told them in secret before, if the two hobbits hadn't just appeared in time and attracted the attention of those half-orcs and the tree man and the little witch, and then let everyone have steps to go down. , maybe, that lawless little Annie has already fought with the tree people?

"Well……"

"It's because... that little human girl, she's an evil little witch... and she wants to burn down our forest... my last Fangorn Forest..."

"And, she actually wants to grill those cute little squirrels... Evil witch..."

Treebeard, who was about to continue reciting an original poem of his own, heard the two hobbits asking about it, and angrily groaned an unknown sound in the ancient language of the tree people.

It's Treebeard, it doesn't like the little girl who played with fire very much, very much! In fact, none of them tree shepherds like any creature that plays with or uses fire!

For the flames will burn their trees and destroy their forests!

At the time of the War of the Ancients in the First Era, the evil Vilamorgos and his demons had repeatedly burned the forests under the care of their tree shepherds, destroying ancient trees one after another. Similarly, they also burned many treants to death...

Of course, Treebeard doesn't like humans or dwarves playing with axes and chopping trees either! Would they also destroy their forests, and cut down their precious trees, to build their ugly cities and make room for those farms?

To Treebeard, they Númenoreans were just as bad a bunch, all invaders...

"No! Treebeard, I think you may have misunderstood something?"

"Mistress Anne is actually a very nice person, she is not evil, at most she is... sometimes a little mischievous?"

When he was in Rivendell, Pippin, who had been sneaking around with the little girl, hurriedly defended Anne.

As for grilled squirrels, Pippin and Merry often caught them and ate them when they were in the Shire, and they were delicious! It's just a bit difficult to grasp, and there's not much meat?

Therefore, Pippin didn't think there was anything bad or evil about it. After all, tree people could grow up by eating dirt, but hobbits or humans like them had to eat meat!

"Pipin is right!"

"Miss Annie is actually not evil, she is a wonderful little human girl! She is powerful and a very nice person, insects will not look down on us just because we are weak!"

"Perhaps... the most bad thing she has done is to secretly capture and roast the sika deer that pulls the cart of King Elrond?!"

After hearing Pippin's words, Merry, who was sitting on the familiar shoulder, also nodded in agreement. He also liked that powerful little witch very much! He felt that the other party seemed to be similar in temperament to the two hobbits? Moreover, although sometimes she is a bit weird, but most of the time, she is easy to get along with, as long as you don't deliberately make her angry!

"Hmm... Elrond? Sika deer?"

Treebeard pondered as he walked, he suddenly felt a little confused just now, because it seemed to be a little familiar with the name Elrond? Although it has forgotten a lot of things due to sleeping too many times?

But it feels that it is likely that it has heard or known that Elrond before? However, for a while, it couldn't remember who the other party was, or where it had seen it...

"No! Melly! Are you crazy? You must not tell this matter!"

After hearing that Mellie dared to tell the story about how Mrs. Anne and the two of them stole the sika deer pulled by Lord Rivendell when they were in Rivendell, the people sitting above Pippin exploded immediately, and he wanted to jump down and cover the other's open mouth.

How can such a thing be said casually? !

You know, that sturdy flower deer is King Elrond's most beloved pet... It is said that that thing came from a kingdom called Amanzhou? It seems to be an auspicious beast? !

Pippin still remembered very clearly that at that time, when King Elrond knew that his beast was missing, he was very angry! After scolding those guards, he still angrily ordered those soldiers to run around in the forest, trying to find the lost flower deer for him that would never come back? !

And if he let the other party know that his beloved divine beast Hualu had already been captured alive by some powerful little girl and entered the stomachs of the three of them, then there must be a big incident, right? !

Looking back now, Pippin's mouth is watering!

That kind of magical beast produced in Aman continent really tastes very unusual! The excellent taste and the extraordinary enjoyment of taste buds are by no means comparable to those ordinary beasts here in Middle-earth.

It's a pity that they didn't bring kitchen utensils, and they didn't have enough spices, and in that kind of fearful environment, they could only barbecue hastily...

"Meli! We swore to never let this matter go out!"

After warning Merry again, Pippin suddenly remembered something.

He remembered that there seemed to be the same kind of deer in that golden forest? It's a pity that Lady Anne didn't go on an expedition with them at that time, so the two of them, who thought they were incompetent, didn't dare to attack the divine beast in the Golden Forest...

"ah!?"

Melly also seemed to realize that he had just made a slip of the tongue, so he quickly looked at the old shepherd Treebeard who was listening to the conversation between the two with a curious expression.

"Treesbeard... you wouldn't tell that King Elrond, would you? We're friends, aren't we?"

After looking at Treebeard's thick moss-like beard with pitiful eyes, Meli asked cautiously. If the tree man was familiar with King Elrond, Merry felt, they would have to find a way to hide back in Shire sooner rather than later.

"Elrond...who is King Elrond?!"

After thinking for a while, Treebeard still shook his head annoyedly. He couldn't remember who King Elrond was, but at the same time he was sure: he must have heard of this name before!

"..."

"King Elrond is a human being, tall and tall, with black hair, blue eyes, and a little white skin... Moreover, he is also the owner of a large logging camp. It is said that he especially likes to cut trees? Believe me , Treebeard, you will never like him!"

"That's right! That's it, that King Elrond, there are rumors that he cuts down at least a large piece of forest every year in order to make money!"

After looking at each other happily, Merry and Pippin hurriedly told Treebeard everything about that King Elrond.

"Well……"

"Although...it feels like the two of you are not telling the truth...but...I really don't like that guy...if I see him, I will crush him..."

Logger? Or a human who specializes in cutting down trees to make money? And a large forest is cut down every year? !

How shameful, how cruel! If you cut down a little wood for survival or necessary things, Treebeard Renren will pass! At most, just treat it as invisible?

However, if you wantonly cut down trees for the sake of making money, you will definitely not be forgiven!

So, if these two little hobbits are telling the truth, and the facts are true, then Treebeard thinks that the next time he meets that human named King Elrond, for the sake of those people in Middle-earth A beautiful forest, it will definitely step on it with one foot, and will never give the other party a chance to quibble or escape!

"..."

"..."

Merry and Pippin glanced at each other furtively after hearing Treebeard's murderous words.

Then, they prayed silently, hoping that Treebeard, the tree shepherd, would never meet Elrond the Elf King far away in Rivendell! Otherwise, when the time comes, maybe something big will really happen! After all, that is much more serious than stealing deer or something!

"By the way, Treebeard! I seem to have heard you mention just now that you Ents have lived for so long, at least tens of thousands of years? But why do you only have a few hundred Ents left?"

Pippin, who didn't want to be entangled with the sensitive topic just now, hurriedly asked.

In any case, he needed to quickly divert the old tree man's attention. He didn't want to hear such keywords as King Elrond or the sika deer again.

"In nearly ten thousand years, haven't you ever given birth to a little tree man?!"

Pippin was really curious about this question.

The magical tree shepherds, and the moving ones ruled by them, will kill all the evil trees that enter Fangorn Forest?

At first, he thought: the tree man is the kind of big tree that can move! They were originally ordinary big trees, growing bigger and taller, and then one day, they suddenly opened their eyes and pulled out the roots from the ground to use them as feet? This turned into a tree man?

But if this is the case, shouldn't the number of tree shepherds be so small?

But if the other party is a male tree and a female tree and give birth to a young tree, then where are those young trees? Why have they been wandering around Fangorn Forest for so long, and they both have never seen it?

"Hmm... little tree man..."

After hearing the hobbit Pippin's words, Treebeard mumbled what he said, but suddenly became depressed.

"We... haven't had a tree baby for many years..."

Treebeard sighed heavily again. This is a very serious problem. It has been entangled with the tree people for a long time, so that they are now almost on the verge of extinction?

"Our tree wives...they're all gone..."

Treebeard turned his head away. It seemed that he didn't want to talk to the two hobbits about these things that made him feel sad and sad.

Their tree shepherds, the tree shepherds who still live here in Fangorn Forest, have been single for thousands of years... And, if there are no other accidents, this state will continue, and then they will probably continue Just hang around until the day of complete extinction? !

"Oh! I'm sorry...but can I ask how they died?"

Although Treebeard didn't seem to want to continue the subject, Pippin still wanted to ask.

This kind of breaking news can't be heard anywhere else! In the future, if they finish their adventures and return to the Shire, they can also write these things down like old Bilbo Baggins, and then when they have time, they can also brag about it to their relatives and friends in the Shire. isn't it?

"Dead? No...they didn't die..."

Heard that the hobbits were mistaken and thought their tree wives were dead? Treebeard quickly shook his head negatively, so that Pippin, who was sitting on it, almost lost his balance and fell.

"Tree wives...they're gone...we can't find them now...we lost them ourselves..."

As he was talking, Treebeard, who seemed to have been hooked on something particularly sad, began to speak loudly:

"We once crossed the Anduin River and went to the land where they lived, but... only found a desert..."

"Everything was burned and destroyed by the war... The war caused great damage to their residence..."

"Our tree wives...they're not over there..."

"We searched and searched... called and called... and asked everyone we met..."

"Some said they never saw the tree wives...some said they went west...some said they went north...others said...they went south or east ?”

"But no matter how hard we searched...we couldn't find them...we...really lost them..."

The more he went on, the more sad and angry Treebeard's tone became! If the tree shepherds could cry, I'm afraid it must be howling and crying now, right?

Maybe this is part of the reason why the tree shepherds in Fangorn Forest hate orcs, humans, and almost all intelligent creatures so much?

In their view, it was those flesh and blood creatures who cut down their beloved forest and destroyed the habitat of their tree wives! This hatred is bigger than the vast Fangorn Forest! Their resentment is so high that it is taller than the tallest tree!

This matter has passed for countless years, and it almost forced their tree shepherds to become as chaotic and crazy as those Hurns. Therefore, Treebeard has always Do you turn a blind eye and close your eyes, or even just ignore it and use sleep to pass the lonely time?

"You guys... haven't seen our tree wife in Shire, have you?"

After he finished speaking, Treebeard turned his head and looked at the two little hobbits expectantly. It is said that they have visited half of the middle-earth world. Maybe they have seen their tree wives? !

"You probably haven't seen it...how about you, Merry?"

After seeing Treebeard's pitiful appearance, Pippin could only shake his head regretfully. He was sure that they really didn't see anything that looked like Treebeard in Shire, or could move. Tree?

"Tree wives? What do they look like? Tell me first? Maybe, where have I seen them?"

Merry also thought about it seriously, and then he suddenly turned around and asked Treebeard. Because, he found that he didn't even know what the tree wives looked like, so how could he recall whether he had seen each other?

"Well……"

"What do the tree wives look like...we don't really remember..."

Treebeard was stunned for a moment, then blinked its huge eyes, thought hard again, and finally, suddenly became more depressed...

Because the time is too long, and they have lived in Fangorn Forest for too long, and even the tree wives have almost forgotten what they look like...

"Perhaps... we tree shepherds can only... follow the request of that evil little witch..."

Seeing that the hobbits didn't know where their tree wives were, Treebeard could only sigh in resignation.

Although Treebeard really dislikes that evil little human witch, it still accepts its fate now! For the tree wives of their tree shepherds, for their next generation, and in order not to be a single tree anymore, Treebeard decided to temporarily submit to that little witch and follow her orders...

"Your Excellency Anne? What reason does she have? Why do you follow her request?"

Pippin felt a little puzzled and bewildered. Hadn't they just talked about the tree wives? Why did it suddenly involve Little Witch Anne again? What does this have to do with her?

"That's right! Treebeard, didn't you just say that you hate Lady Witch Anne very much?"

Melly also leaned over curiously and asked.

What on earth could make these mighty Treemen willing to succumb to a little girl they loathe? This matter, he thought, might be much more interesting than tree wives!

Knowing a lot of strange things today, maybe, after returning to Shire, they can really learn from that old Bilbo and write everything they know into a thick book?

"Well……"

"That's right...the little witch is very evil...she made us Ents respond to her army...we don't like war...but...she seems to know where our tree wives are..."

There is nothing that can be used to blackmail a group of tree shepherds who have been single for thousands of years to find tree wives! Therefore, after hearing the words that the little witch secretly said to it at that time, Treebeard could only sigh deeply again.

It really has no choice but to compromise...

"..."

"Treesbeard? Are you really sure? As far as we know, Your Excellency Witch Anne is very naughty sometimes, maybe she is lying to you?!"

After looking at each other awkwardly, Pippin and Merry could only bite the bullet and persuade the old tree man.

They have more contact with the temperament of little witch Anne, and they are relatively clear! So, they don't really want this simple and honest old tree man to be coaxed by some unscrupulous little girl, and then end up with a bamboo basket to fetch water in vain?

In that case, the tree shepherds would be too cruel to them...

"No……"

"That little witch, she is as strong as Vera, she won't deceive me easily..."

Hearing what the two hobbits said, Treebeard finally shook his head slowly after rolling its huge yellow-orange eyeballs for a while.

"She described to me..."

"In that deep forest... there is a sea of ​​strange flowers...the plants there...are extremely vigorous...and...several clusters of special green energy..."

"That... is our tree wife... several tree wives..."

Speaking of this, Treebeard even began to tremble all over.

Obviously, it is very excited now, if it hadn't been for that evil little witch who asked them to serve in her army and fulfill her request before telling them where the tree wives are, perhaps it would have called Companion, use the fastest speed to run day and night to the tree wives, right?

Never underestimate the determination of this group of male trees who have been single for tens of thousands of years!

"But, based on this alone, you can be sure that they are your tree wives? Haven't you all forgotten their looks?"

"That's right!"

Pippin and Merry couldn't laugh or cry for a while, they didn't expect that the tree shepherd could be so sure that those things were their tree wives based on these inexplicable descriptions?

Haven't they even forgotten themselves? Now, why is it so certain? This matter, the two of them sound a little unreliable! It's a flower, and it's energy, so it must be the tree wife?

"No... the tree wives will change into special forms... this... I'm sure... that's them..."

"We've waited too long...too long..."

"Now... finally find them..."

"So... Even if we are made to be with the evil little witch... Even if we are allowed to start a war... Let us destroy the whole world... We will not hesitate..."

For the first time, Merry and Pippin actually saw that cruel expression on Treebeard's face! Of course, there are also those big yellow and orange eyes that are getting brighter and brighter...

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In the Rohan prairie, three horses stopped in the distance of this huge herdsman city, looking at the palace towering on a huge stone mountain and the entire residential area surrounded by the stone mountain below.

There are three horses and five knights here, and the one riding alone on the tall white horse is little Anne! After she and the other four walked out of Fangorn Forest, she forcibly occupied the horse that Gandalf had finally summoned!

Then, the dwarf Gimli naturally shared a gray war horse with the elven prince Legolas, while the white-robed wizard Gandalf squeezed together with Aragorn on the maroon horse. on the back.

"Andoras, the golden palace of Medusi!"

"This is the Kingdom of Rohan, the residence of King Theoden Hussars! We have finally arrived, and I hope there is still time..."

It can be regarded as here. After seeing the palace and the city in the distance, Gandalf was slightly relieved. Now, finally, he can no longer squeeze passionately on the same horse with Aragorn. A kind of torture...

According to the exiled Eomer that Aragorn met before, the current king of Rohan, Theoden, seems to have been controlled by Saruman with evil spells, and he has become indistinguishable from the enemy? !

If this is the case, then they must act quickly!

Gandalf knows that some spells, once they last for too long, are likely to have a very bad effect on the human brain!

Originally, Gandalf was still a little worried. He was afraid that his magic would not be able to counter Saruman's control over Theoden Hussar King? After all, Saruman is much stronger than Maier, who is still limited in strength!

Don't look at the white robe Gandalf is wearing now, but he also knows that it was given to him by Queen Galadriel of the Golden Forest, and it has nothing to do with his own strength! He didn't die in the battle against the Balrog, nor was he resurrected by the Villars and lifted the restrictions on his strength.

However, after glancing at the little girl riding on his Myaras horse, Joyce, Gandalf nodded secretly. Although the little girl was always making trouble, if there was this If the little girl is here, it should be much easier for him to counter Saruman's spell!

"Huh? Is this finally here?"

Annie, who had been dozing on the horse's back, opened her eyes in a daze when she felt the horse stop.

"Then let's go in quickly? It's exhausting! This horse, it's not fun at all, it runs too slowly and is very bumpy!"

At this time, little Annie patted the white horse under her body very dissatisfied, and wanted it to quickly carry her to the distant city gate.

All the way, she was not at all comfortable sleeping on the back of this horse!

"..."

Riding a horse alone, how dare you say that you are tired when you don't let others ride with her? Gandalf and Aragorn no longer knew what prophecy to use to describe this miserable little girl!

"Annie... Jieying said, it doesn't like you very much..."

Turning his head to look at the white horse that was shaking the mane on its neck and snorting non-stop, Gandalf held back, but still couldn't help speaking out his partner's thoughts.

"Oh? Then it should feel lucky!"

Stretching out her hand to grab the opponent's white mane, she turned his head to look at the eyes of the huge horse, and then Annie nodded, and quickly shook her head again.

"Uh, fortunately...? What kind of statement is this?"

Gandalf didn't quite understand what this little kid was thinking, so he felt lucky that Jieying didn't like her? What kind of logic is this? Totally nonsensical!

"Because horse meat is bad! Is it bitter and astringent?"

"So, I won't eat it just because it doesn't like me! How about it? Shouldn't it feel a little lucky?!"

If this beautiful horse was any other animal and hated himself, it would have been roasted and eaten by Annie!

"What are you looking at? Look again, be careful and I'll eat you!"

Seeing that the big horse dared to turn its head and stare at her, daring to be angry but not to speak, Annie stared back mercilessly!

"..."

"That's right, not only Jieying is grateful, but I am also very fortunate!"

Gandalf's lips trembled, and it took him a long time to say such a sentence.

Fortunately, his mount is a horse, isn't it? Otherwise, its fate might have been the same as that of Rivendell and some kind of magical creature in the Golden Forest!

That brat, really thought she didn't know what she did? It's just that he didn't dare to say it casually!

Thinking about it this way, it seems that Ms. Galadriel also knows that this little girl ate her magical animal, right? Otherwise, she wouldn't have that rushing expression at that time?

"Let's go, let's follow..."

Therefore, Gandalf could only look at the white horse in front of him whimpering and running towards the city gate with resentful eyes together with the others, and the little devil in the blond hair and red skirt on its back!

"I really don't understand why my father, Gloria, likes this little girl so much? But I don't like her at all!"

"It's weird all day long, scheming, insidious and cunning, she doesn't look like a normal little girl!"

Gimli, the dwarf in Legolas' arms, only dared to mutter a few words in dissatisfaction when he saw the little girl galloping out on horseback.

"I don't like her too much..."

Legolas nodded, agreeing with the dwarf in his arms. He also didn't like this little girl who liked to give people nicknames!

Before looking at her, what did you call yourself? A boy with pointed ears who likes to play with bows and arrows? What are you talking about! ?

The Silvan elves in their Mirk Forest have pointed ears and are good at bows and arrows. He doesn't deny this! But, what's up with the nickname of this little boy? You know it must not be a good word just by listening to it, right? !

"Okay, stop complaining, at least she's not too bad, and she's still on our side, isn't she? Let's hurry up..."

Seeing in the distance that there seemed to be Rohan cavalry guarding the gate planning to surround the little girl galloping, Gandalf hurriedly asked Aragorn, who was in charge of riding the horse, to follow quickly.

He really didn't want this little girl to make a fuss in the royal court of Rohan after she made a fuss in Fangorn Forest once? !

Gandalf had personally seen the terrifying power of this little girl when she went berserk on the Sierrax Gir Peak, and, that doesn't seem to be her true strength? So, he definitely doesn't want to see a certain little girl threaten to burn the whole of Andoras again?