Another LOTR Read-Along: The Black Gate Opens (ROTK 5, 10)

Look at that. Done with book five. Ready to start the last book. Wow. Only nine more chapters. Crazy, man.  I'm tempted to just post them all and be done with it, though I doubt I'll have time today for more than 2 or 3 again.  Takes a little while to copy them over and stuff.


Okay, so anyway, this chapter... blech. So depressing. Starts out so sad, with Merry not able to go, watching Pippin follow Aragorn and Gandalf to war, "a small but upright figure among the tall men of Minas Ti...