Chapter 40: The Fellowship of the Ring
King Ailon sent away the so-called Expeditionary Army of the Protective Ring with the attitude of sending the plague god.
In the plot of the movie, the number of people in the Expeditionary Force of the Rings is less than ten, including the troublemakers Meili and Piri.
Lin Bin and others are destined to interfere in the plot. They alone have six people, plus Gandalf, Aragon, Legolas, Gimli, Polomo, Frodo and Sam Wess, as well as Grote and Bunian from Arno, as well as twelve escorts, the team's number is directly twenty-seven.
The twenty-seven people's guardian ring expeditionary force had repeatedly compressed personnel, otherwise the number would have exceeded 300 at the beginning, including 200 escorts and knights that Polomo wanted to take.
The thing about escorting the Supreme Lord Ring is naturally extremely important to humans. Currently, only humans are fighting with orcs in large numbers, and the elves are not affected.
It is a certain fact that the elves left Middle-earth. Even if Sauron was eliminated, it would not be known how many years later.
Only the dwarves? Only the family of Gimley came, and the rest of the dwarves who received the news did not come at all.
Dwarves are a very homeless race. They will never leave without leaving their place of residence.
There are several reasons for this.
The first reason is that the dwarves were once the richest of all races. They didn’t have to run around for life, so they naturally didn’t have to walk around.
The second reason is that the Gone Mountain was occupied by a giant dragon, and the dwarves who were forced to flee everywhere were fed up with the warmth and warmth of the world and various bullying, waiting to recover their vitality. The dwarves naturally didn't feel happy to see anyone, and always felt that all races could not get along with them.
Next, the dwarves like to do the most is to keep mining and gain wealth, so they don’t have the time to communicate.
Another person who received the notice was Rohan.
As one of the human kingdoms, Rohan has always been in a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic society, and is famous for its cavalry and warfare.
Currently, King Rohan, Hiyoudon, is controlled by Saruman, so it would be nice if he didn't come out to make trouble.
"Will they gather troops?" Frodo was riding a horse with Gandalf, and he had already asked all the way: "The elves seem to care about this matter at all. The dwarfs only survived Jimley. Humans... Can I believe Polomo?"
Frodo was willing to join the Ring Protection Expedition because he gathered troops to attack Aisinger and rescued Merri and Piri as a prerequisite.
Gandalf frowned, not wanting to deceive Frodo, and really didn't know what to say.
Even if the elves are willing to gather their troops, the elves can pull out an army of three thousand people, which is considered to be the best.
Dwarf? Since the dwarf regained Gushan, he has fallen into civil strife for many years. The dwarf team that once gathered to go to Gushan has even become enemies with each other. Even if several dwarf families gathered their troops, the greatest probability is to continue fighting each other to avoid fighting Aisinger.
The kingdom of mankind is willing to attack Aisinger.
After all, if they don’t fight, Aisinger will definitely start a war against them.
So the question is, Gondor is powerless, and it would be nice if Rohan doesn't make trouble at the moment.
So, if Frodo thinks that someone would gather troops to attack Aisinger, he can dream when he falls asleep at night.
"Don't worry." Lin Bin also rode on the side of Gandalf and Frodo. He smiled and said, "There will be troops to attack Aisinger. It's just that Sam needs help."
They naturally went east after they left Rivendell, and there was the final destination of the Ring Expeditionary Force - Mordor.
Gandalf looked at Lin Bin with a suspicious look, patted Frodo's shoulder, and said, "Saruman will not kill Merry and Piri, we can always rescue them."
Lin Bin and others have discussed that a team will not just stay together.
Attacking Aisinger is obviously a task to obtain reward points and side plots. As long as you go to the deep forest to find the tree people, will you have an army to attack Aisinger?
The main force attacking Aisinger will be the Treeman race, and the teams that are divided should not be too strong. To be on the safe side, there is a Hobbit, and Merry and Piri don't lead them. Isn't there a Sam Wess?
As for Frodo who lacks Sam Wes? There is also one that Eve can do.
Eve has been taking care of the Hobbit since the beginning. Although she kept scolding the Hobbit, she was deliberately enhancing her friendship with Frodo.
Sam Wes is brave, but he is still a hobbit.
No matter how weak Eve is, she is still a C-level enhancer and is definitely stronger than Sam Wes.
The difference is that Frodo will not trust Eve like she trusts Sam Wes, but without choice, no problems will become obstacles.
They kept heading east, and they didn't know whether they were deliberately avoiding it or what was going on along the way. There was no way to a place with people.
Just ride a horse at normal speed. After about eight days, Gandalf pointed to the mountain in front.
"From here, horses can no longer ride." Gandalf frowned and looked at the escorts and knights, and said, "These people can no longer follow them when they arrive here."
Since Polomo was almost bewitched by the Supreme Ring last time, he has seemed very silent and low-key. He heard this and said to the escorts and knights: "You all heard it."
Gandalf looked at Lin Bin and said, "Brendon...is not suitable to continue following."
Lin Bin just nodded, without any extra words.
Even Brandon, who was named, did not do anything. He rode his horse toward the escorts and knights.
In fact, even if Gandalf didn't mention it, Brandon did not intend to follow the Expeditionary Force at the beginning. His mission was to go to Gondor, and of course the purpose was to open Gondor's technology tree.
Gandalf looked around the crowd again, nodded, and said, "Abandon the horse and walk!"
After the team was reduced, there were only fourteen people left.
The place they entered was called the Mist Mountains, which was a mountain full of strange rocks. Not to mention that there was no easy road, but often we had to avoid the steep and inconspicuous hillside.
Fortunately, everyone has excellent physical fitness, even the oldest Gandalf also looks very agile, and only two hobbits will occasionally scream bitterly.
In many cases, Gandalf would ask people in the team to go around for a visit, and acted a little overly cautious.
"Saruman is a white-robed mage. He loses his mana and has to wait for the gods to notice that he is betrayed." Gandalf said in a very obscure way, not saying that he needs to wait for Saruman to make a big move: "Saruman has a group of crows to serve as eyes..."
Gandalf was talking...
Yan Shifei came back and said that there was a large group of crows that looked very strange.
Gandalf immediately shouted: "Hide quickly!!!"
Chapter completed!