Part 485 of 4150 from book8
Merry could see himbook66 not far off a small but upright figure among the tall men of Minas Tirith. Some were strengthening the ferries and boatbridgesbook47 that the enemy had made and in part destroyed when they fled some gathered stores and booty and others on the eastern side across the River were throwing up hasty works of defence. It was near the end of the second day of their march from the Crossroads that they first met any offer of battle. . Then they broke the evil bridge and set red flames in the noisome fields and departed.... more