But the whole point was that they were clearly being watched. Gandalf (in “The Road to Isengard” chapter) mentions the “crows of Saruman,” but if he thought these crows came from him, he didn’t bring it up either here or there. However, if they were spies, there was no telling where they came from. If the birds had come from there, they would had to have crossed the range, perhaps fleeing from whatever was going on east of the Misty Mountains. Of course, when the Elves lived there, it wasn’t at all safe from the Enemy, so maybe Gandalf didn’t really know what he was talking about.Īnyway, Fangorn was on the other side of the Misty Mountains, southwest of Lorien. Just the day before, Gandalf had said that Hollin was safe from the Enemy because the Elves used to live there. “Hollin is no longer wholesome for us: it is being watched.” They were either fleeing from something or spying. But he didn’t know why they were flying here, but gave two possibilities. They were black crows out of Fangorn and Dunland (maybe). They were “flying at great speed, were wheeling and circling, and traversing all the land as if they were searching for something and they were steadily drawing nearer.”Īragorn knew exactly what they were, and had apparently seen them before. The morning of the sixteenth day out of Rivendell, Sam and Aragorn were on watch and saw a flock of birds. I don’t often say this, but… let’s talk about birds.
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