Shadow Host skrev:
En av de bästa scenerna i boken, kanske den bästa scenen i hela trilogin
Hurra, hurra! Någon som tycker som Jag. Den scenen är mycket mäktig och är Min favorit i den första boken. Fast du utelämnade den bästa delen av den.
"Then the leader, who was now half across the Ford, stood up menacing in his stirrups, and raised his hand. Frodo was stricken dumb. He felt his tongue cleave to his mouth, and his heart labouring. His sword broke and fell out of his shaking hand."
Den allra bästa scenen är dock:
"Grond crawled on. The drums rolled wildly. Over the hills of slain a hideous shape appeared: a horseman, tall, hooded, cloaked in black. Slowly, trampling the fallen, he rode forth, heeding no longer any dart. He halted and held up a long pale sword. And as he did so a great fear fell on all, defender and foe alike; and the hands of men drooped to their sides, and no bow sang. For a moment all was still.
The drums rolled and rattled. With a vast rush Grond was hurled forward by huge hands. It reached the Gate. It swung. A deep boom rumbled through the City like thunder running in the clouds. But the doors of iron and posts of steel withstood the stroke.
Then the Black Captain rose in his stirrups and cried aloud in a dreadful voice, speaking in some forgotten tongue words of power and terror to rend both heart and stone. Thrice he cried. Thrice the great ram boomed. And suddenly upon the last stroke the Gate of Gondor broke. As if stricken by som blasting spell it burst asunder: there was a flash of searing lightning and the doors tumbled in riven fragments to the ground. In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl. A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of depair. In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl, under the archway that no enemy ever yet had passed, and all fled before his face."
//from LotR Book V Chapter IV The Siege of Gondor.