towers

632 the two towers
We come, we come with horn and drum: ta-rūna rūna rūna
rom!
Bregalad picked up the hobbits and strode from his house.
Before long they saw the marching line approaching: the
Ents were swinging along with great strides down the slope
towards them. Treebeard was at their head, and some fifty
followers were behind him, two abreast, keeping step with
their feet and beating time with their hands upon their flanks.
As they drew near the flash and flicker of their eyes could be
seen.
‘Hoom, hom! Here we come with a boom, here we come
at last!’ called Treebeard when he caught sight of Bregalad
and the hobbits. ‘Come, join the Moot! We are off. We are
off to Isengard!’
‘To Isengard!’ the Ents cried in many voices.
‘To Isengard!’
To Isengard! Though Isengard be ringed and barred with
doors of stone;
Though Isengard be strong and hard, as cold as stone and
bare as bone,
We go, we go, we go to war, to hew the stone and break the
door;
For bole and bough are burning now, the furnace roars – we
go to war!
To land of gloom with tramp of doom, with roll of drum, we
come, we come;
To Isengard with doom we come!
With doom we come, with doom we come!
So they sang as they marched southwards.
Bregalad, his eyes shining, swung into the line beside Treebeard.
The old Ent now took the hobbits back, and set them
on his shoulders again, and so they rode proudly at the head