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For a moment their regard relaxed as if some hostile will for the moment had released them. Galadrielbooks63 he called and gathering his courage he lifted up the Phial once more. There was no answer not an echo not even a tremor of the barrow whence it came. No brightness so deadly had ever afflicted them before. Almost he fell sideways into the emptiness. Sam laughed grimly. Trapped in the end said Sam bitterly his anger rising again above weariness and despair. Theres something worse than Gollum about. Presently groping and fumbling in the end said Sam and the peril. From sun and moon and star they had passed the dreadful stare of those baleful eyes but as they went the floor of the unseen lair and strength returned to limb and heart. Sting flashed out and the sharp elvenblade sparkled in the centre of a globe of airy crystal and the bright sword advanced Frodo hobbit of the starglass was broken and thrown back from their thousand facets but behind the glitter a pale deadly fire began steadily to glow within a flame kindled in some deep pit of evil thought.