Frodo sighed and was asleep almost
before the words were spoken. Sam struggled with his own weariness, and
he took Frodo's hand; and there he sat silent till deep night fell. Then
at last, to keep himself awake, he crawled from the hiding-place and looked
out. The land seemed full of creaking and cracking and sly noises, but
there was no sound of voice or of foot. Far above the Ephel Duath in the
West the night-sky was still dim and pale. There, peeping among the cloud-wrack
above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle
for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the
forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold,
the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and
passing thing: there was a light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
His song in the Tower had been defiance rather than hope; for then he was
thinking of himself. Now, for a moment, his own fate, and even his master's,
ceased to trouble him. He crawled back into the brambles and laid himself
by Frodo's side, and putting away all fear he cast himself into a deep
untroubled sleep.
-Frodo and Sam camp in the Morgai Valley