Fellowship of the Ring
CHAPTER VI
The Old Forest
Hullo friends! It’s Friday! – Time for our new chapter! And this is our first chapter in the new forum!
In this chapter the hobbits set out from Crickhollow. With black riders sure to be searching for them on the road, they decide to sneak out of the Shire by way of the Old Forest, a mysterious place of legend in the Shire. In our last chapter, Fatty Bolger warned: "But you can't be thinking of doing that. It is quite as dangerous as Black Riders…. You'll get lost. People don't go in there."
… Soon after six o'clock the five hobbits were ready to start. Fatty Bolger was still yawning. They stole quietly out of the house…
In their shed they found the ponies; sturdy little beasts of the kind loved by hobbits, not speedy, but good for a long day's work. They mounted, and soon they were riding off into the mist, which seemed to open reluctantly before them and close forbiddingly behind them. After riding for about an hour, slowly and without talking, they saw the Hedge looming suddenly ahead. It was tall and netted over with silver cobwebs.
…It was dark and damp. At the far end it was closed by a gate, of thick iron bars. Merry got down and unlocked the gate, and when they had all passed through he pushed it shut again. It shut with a clang, and the lock clicked. The sound was ominous.
"There!" said Merry. "You have left the Shire, and are now outside…"
Movie Pictures-General This chapter happened “off screen” in the movie… so no specific pictures …
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Index to thread… If all went according to plan, (which it didn't but I cant tell what is wrong yet) chapters 1-5 are the first 5 (6?) posts of this thread.
OK! – talk amongst yourselves!….
I lent my copy of FotR to a friend < sob >, so it's going to be difficult to do much original commentary.
I surely do enjoy everyone's insights, though.