#battle of the black gate

[Battle of the Black Gates, cont.] “For Frodo the Halfling, it is said, at the bidding of Mithrandir took on himself the burden, and alone with his servant he passed through peril and darkness and came at last in Sauron’s despite even to Mount Doom…” ~ The Silmarillion, Of the Rings of Power [frodo and sam]

[Battle of the Black Gates, cont.] “For, as many songs have since sung, it was the Periannath, the Little People, dwellers in hillsides and meadows, that brought them deliverance.” ~ The Silmarillion, Of the Rings of Power [frodo and sam climbing mount doom]

[Battle of the Black Gates, cont.] “Yet in that hour was put to the proof that which Mithrandir had spoken, and help came from the hands of the weak when the Wise faltered.” ~ The Silmarillion, Of the Rings of Power [Gandalf at the Black Gate]

There at the last they looked upon death and defeat, and all their valour was in vain; for Sauron was too strong. ~ The Silmarillion, Of the Rings of Power (Art: LOTR wallpaper by anadoring on DeviantART)

In that last battle were Mithrandir, and the sons of Elrond, and the King of Rohan, and lords of Gondor, and the Heir of Isildur with the Dúnedain of the North. ~ The Silmarillion, Of the Rings of Power

“Merry looked out in wonder upon this strange country, of which he had heard many tales upon their long road. It was a skyless world, in which his eye, through dim gulfs of shadowy air, saw only ever-mounting slopes, great walls of stone behind great walls, and frowning precipices wreathed with mist.” -RoTK 

A Merry appreciation post