中つ国 今日は何の日?(第三紀 3019年)

・ガンダルフ、ジラクジギルの高峰にバルログを追いつめる
墜落したのが15日。一週間も戦い続けていたとは！…しんど(;^_^A
"Long time I fell, and he fell with me. His fire was about me. I was burned. Then we plunged into the deep water and all was dark. Cold it was as the tide of death: almost it froze my heart...
We fought far under the living earth, where time is not counted. Ever he clutched me, and ever I hewed him, till at last he fled into dark tunnels. Far, far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things. Even Sauron knows not. They are older than he. Now I have walked there, but I will bring no report to darken the light of day. In that despair my enemy was my only hope, and I pursued him, clutching at his heel. Thus he brought me back at last to the secret ways of Khazad-dûm: too well he knew them all. Ever up now we went, until we came to the Endless Stair.
From the lowest dungeon to the highest peak it climebed, ascending in unbroken spiral in many thousand steps, until it issued at last in Durin's Tower carved in the living rock of Zirak-zigil, the pinnacle of the Silvertine."

←旧訳「旅の仲間（下）」