Streams of Silver
“Bruenor declared solemnly. The companions stood on a high ledge, looking down hundreds of feet to the broken floor of a deep and rocky gorge.
“How are we to get down there?” Regis gasped, for every side appeared absolutely sheer, as though the canyon had been purposely cut from the stone.
There was a way down, of course, and Bruenor, walking still with the memories of his youth, knew it well. He led his friends around to the eastern rim of the gorge and looked back to the west, to the peaks of ...the three nearest mountains. “Ye stand upon Fourthpeak,” he explained, “named for its place beside th’ other three.
“Three peaks to seem as one,” the dwarf recited, an ancient line from a longer song that all the young dwarves of Mithral Hall were taught before they were even old enough to venture out of the mines.
“Three peaks to seem as one,Behind ye the morning sun.”
Bruenor shifted about to find the exact line of the three western mountains, then moved slowly to the very edge of the gorge and looked over.MoreLess
“How are we to get down there?” Regis gasped, for every side appeared absolutely sheer, as though the canyon had been purposely cut from the stone.
There was a way down, of course, and Bruenor, walking still with the memories of his youth, knew it well. He led his friends around to the eastern rim of the gorge and looked back to the west, to the peaks of ...the three nearest mountains. “Ye stand upon Fourthpeak,” he explained, “named for its place beside th’ other three.
“Three peaks to seem as one,” the dwarf recited, an ancient line from a longer song that all the young dwarves of Mithral Hall were taught before they were even old enough to venture out of the mines.
“Three peaks to seem as one,Behind ye the morning sun.”
Bruenor shifted about to find the exact line of the three western mountains, then moved slowly to the very edge of the gorge and looked over.MoreLess
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