To Sam, it looks like Frodo has grown and Smeagol has shrunk in front of him. Frodo says he will let him go if he swears on the Ring to serve him. He screams that the rope is freezing and causing him pain. When Smeagol thinks that the hobbits are sleeping, he jumps up and tries to run away. He panics and speaks as if Sauron is tormenting him. Smeagol is very upset at the prospect of entering the dark land again. Frodo tells the creature that he must lead them into Mordor over the harsh terrain.
He tells Sam that Gollum has not harmed them.
Frodo thinks of an old conversation he had with Gandalf about pitying the wretched creature. Sam ties him up and wants to leave him behind. As he nears the bottom, Sam runs out but Smeagol quickly overcomes him. Sam says "'He's come once too often for me and I'm going to have a word with him, if I can.'" Book 4, Chapter 1, pg. They approach the wall and Frodo bids Sam to be quiet. They look over to the cliff and see a dark shape scaling it face first. They hide under a precipice to sleep, but Frodo cannot rest. They walk in the shadows and come to a fissure in the ground that halts their progress. Frodo thinks that they tied a faulty knot, but Sam thinks it is magic. Sam mutters about Galadriel and the rope comes falling down to him. They both make it down and regret that the rope has to be left behind. The rope glows slightly in the rising darkness, and he decides to climb down before the rest of the light departs. Frodo broods over Sauron and the great darkness spreading over the world. The rope is longer than he expected, and Frodo thinks that he can use it to climb over the cliff. Sam takes out a coil of elvish rope that he got in Lothlorien, and he tows Frodo back up. Rain and hail begin to assault the hobbits. He is face to face with the edge of a cliff that seems impassable. Frodo's words are suddenly cut off as he slips into a dark void. They climb slowly as the sun fades, and Sam wants to stop for the night. There is a deep gulch containing twisted and dead trees, where they find a way down. The day wears on in silence and they pick a slow path around boulders and fissures in the rocks. All they have for food is lembas and they worry constantly about whether or not they are being followed by Smeagol. They can find neither shelter nor a way down the cliff to the rocky valley below. They gaze into the frightening journey ahead, and Sam says it is strange that the only place they do not want to go is the one place they must. Night was gathering over the shapeless lands before them the sickly green of them was fading to a sullen brown." Book 4, Chapter 1, pg. " The Hobbit stood now on the brink of a tall cliff, bare and bleak, its feet wrapped in mist and behind them rose the broken highlands crowned with drifting cloud. It has been three evenings since the hobbits, Frodo and Sam, parted from their companions in their journey towards Mordor with the Ring. The Two Towers Book 4 of The Lord of the Rings, Chapter 1
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