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The Corsairs of Umbar "Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to the heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!" Eomer laughed as he spoke. For once more the lust of battle was upon him; and he was still unscathed, and he was young, and he was king: the lord of a fell people. And, lo! even as he laughed at despair he looked out again on the black ships, and he lifted up his sword to defy them. And the wonder took him, and a great joy, and he cast his sword up in the sunlight and sang as he caught it. Behold! Upon the foremost ship a great standard broke, and the wind displayed The White Tree, and that was for Gondor, but the Seven Stars were about it, and a high crown above it, the signs of Elendil....Thus came Aragorn son of Arathorn, Elessar, Isildur's heir, out of the Paths of the Dead, borne upon a wind from the sea to the kingdom of Gondor. |
