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After the second meeting of the Holy White Council, the search for the Lord of the Rings by humans and elves suddenly intensified.

However, as Zhao Zhe had expected before, before the Supreme Lord of the Rings completes his destiny, no one can easily find its trace, only a crazy Gollum, carrying it in his arms, repeating that sentence day and night " My Precious".

Saruman thought of another way——

Palantir, also known as the spar of true knowledge, although ordinary people can only use it to communicate with other spar, or to see the scene around the spar, but if they are determined and mentally strong, they can use the spar of true knowledge to see. Go anywhere you want to see.

If he uses Palantir, he may be able to increase his chances of finding the Supreme Lord of the Rings!

However, Palantir, who was brought to Middle-earth, has its own master, either in the hands of the elves or in the hands of the royal family of Gondor and Arnor, and ordinary people are not qualified to connect at all.

But it just so happened that Saruman knew the location of an easy-to-obtain true knowledge spar.

Orthank Tower in Isengard, a 500-foot-tall black stone tower, is located at the southernmost tip of the Misty Mountains.

This tower was originally built by the Dunedain people in the Second Era with incredible craftsmanship. It was originally to warn and defend against the Orcs lurking in the Misty Mountains.

But later, as Zhao Zhe established his foothold in the southern section of the Misty Mountains and opened up territory, the number of orcs and other evil creatures in the mountains decreased day by day.

And when Zhao Zhe returned from the starry sky and lit the holy light at the top of the tower, the evil completely disappeared from this land.

As a result, the fortress of Isengard gradually lost its meaning and fell into disuse.

Coupled with the magical industrialization process of Gondor, a large number of populations have moved to the big cities of Osgilias, Minas Tirith, and Minas Ithil, and Kalena near Isengard. The Pine region gradually became sparsely populated, eventually leaving Isengard and Orthank completely abandoned and almost permanently sealed off.

To this day, few people remember that there was a Palantir hidden in this tower.

And in fact, due to the popularity of magic and the emergence of magic technology, long-distance communication and investigation have long been nothing new, the importance of Palantir has been greatly reduced, and the two royal families have rarely used this ancient Magical creation.

For the royal families of Arnor and Gondor, the Palantir hidden in the secret room is not so much a precious magic item as a symbol of royal inheritance, and its commemorative significance is far more practical than it is. The meaning is much greater.

Therefore, Saruman intends to find the royal family of Gondor to operate one or two, so that he can gain the opportunity to enter the tower of Orthanc, and even if he can obtain the ownership of this tower, it would be better!

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Not to mention Saruman's plans, nor to mention the almost endless confrontation between humans and Sauron.

In this generally stable and undercurrent situation, time passed slowly.

Before you know it, another few centuries have passed.

……

On this day, in the Misty Mountains, a team of fully-armed soldiers was walking on the mountain road.

However, in the team, there is a figure who is not so coordinated——

"Tsk, why am I so unlucky!"

At the end of the line, a diminutive halfling in a suit of ill-fitting armor and big bare feet with long hair was struggling to make his way behind a group of tall knights.

Bilbo Baggins, that's his name.

Apparently, he was a hobbit.

But why did the hobbits, who lived in the Shire, almost indiscriminately, appear in the Misty Mountains in the armor of soldiers?

However, this is related to the military system of the Northern Kingdom, that is, the new Arno.

In today's Gondor, where magic technology and various institutions are more complete, the traditional feudal military obligation - that is, local lords must send their troops to serve the king for a certain period of time every year - this military system has been shielded tax and more professional and Replaced by a more elite formed professional army.

However, in Arno in the north, their military system is still relatively backward, and the lords still have to send a certain number of soldiers to the king every year to complete the tasks and missions assigned by the kingdom.

Even the Hobbits of the Shire, a race that is not good at fighting at all, cannot be exempted from this obligation.

And our Bilbo Baggins, although he has the blood of the Baggins family and the Tucker family, is considered a prominent family among the Hobbits, but he is not a nobleman with a title. When the service order was issued to the Shire, Unlucky, he was chosen by the lottery and had to go to serve in the kingdom's army.

Fortunately, even if this feudal military obligation was to be maintained, the royal family of Arno would not expect the mere Hobbits to provide their army with much combat power.

In fact, most of the hobbits who are foreshadowed to serve in the kingdom are basically arranged in the logistics force, specially responsible for the food work of the army.

- After all, the hobbits are so talented in cooking, brewing, growing tobacco, etc. that they are famous throughout Middle-earth, and it is only fitting that they do this kind of work!

But the same logistics force has different levels of circumstances.

In the army who stayed in the plains and stationed around the city, the service life of the Hobbit people can be said to be very comfortable. Except for the basic combat training in daily life, what they have to do is almost the same as when they were in their hometown—— Cook food, tend the herd, or grow some easy-to-harvest fruit and vegetable crops in your camp.

But there are also some troops who need to travel through mountains and rivers and go deep into the mountains to perform long-term patrol and alert missions. If a hobbit is accidentally assigned to such a team, it will really only be able to seek more blessings.

Obviously, Bilbo Baggins was the most unlucky of all the hapless hobbits. Not only did he win the red lot in the lottery for whether to serve, but he was directly assigned to the one who was going to the Misty Mountains when he was assigned. in the patrol.

Then, it is now that he followed the main force to the outpost set up by the patrol force in the Misty Mountains.

While the Hobbit's big feet suggest that the race is quite gifted at long distances, for Bilbo, like his father, who likes to spend his days leisurely in Bag Ends, it's hard to walk that way. The long road is a complete torture!

Moreover, what was even more unfortunate was that the weather in the mountain deteriorated rapidly as soon as their group entered the mountain.

The dark clouds floated from nowhere, and the strong winds that could knock people down were blowing in the canyons between the peaks. From time to time, more deafening thunder sounded overhead, and the bifurcated lightning occasionally split. Land on the top of a certain mountain and smash large pieces of rock.

This kind of apocalyptic scene almost made Bilbo, who had never traveled far, almost unable to walk smoothly.

In fact, not only him, but even the soldiers who were ready to go into the mountains to change their defenses had never encountered such severe weather.

Seeing that the storm was about to hit, the group had to hurriedly find a place to avoid the wind and rain between the mountain roads.

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