Qual foi a sombra que passou sobre a comunhão no caminho de Hollin para o desfiladeiro?

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Qual foi a sombra que passou sobre a comunhão no caminho de Hollin para o desfiladeiro?

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Em A Sociedade do Anel , Livro Dois, III O Anel Vai para o Sul, há uma passagem sinistra quando Aragorn guia a comunhão de Hollin (Eregion) até a montanha Caradhras:

It was the cold chill hour before the first stir of dawn, and the moon was low. Frodo looked up at the sky. Suddenly he saw or felt a shadow pass over the high stars, as if for a moment they faded and then flashed out again. He shivered. ‘Did you see anything pass over?’ he whispered to Gandalf, who was just ahead. ‘No, but I felt it, whatever it was,’ he answered. ‘It may be nothing, only a wisp of thin cloud.’ ‘It was moving fast then,’ muttered Aragorn, ‘and not with the wind.’

O que foi essa sombra?

Aparentemente, essa sombra não foi causada pelo crebain (regimentos de corvos negros de Dunland e Fangorn Forest), que apareceram no dia anterior e que foram claramente reconhecidos por Aragorn.

Poderia ter sido uma fera ou mesmo um Nazgûl andando em uma fera. No entanto, mais tarde em As Duas Torres , Livro Três, III Os Uruk-hai, aprendemos com Grishnákh que as feras caídas não deviam cruzar o Anduin ainda:

‘Nazgûl, Nazgûl,’ said Grishnákh, shivering and licking his lips, as if the word had a foul taste that he savoured painfully. ‘You speak of what is deep beyond the reach of your muddy dreams, Uglúk,’ he said. ‘Nazgûl! Ah! All that they make out! One day you'll wish that you had not said that. Ape!’ he snarled fiercely. ‘You ought to know that they’re the apple of the Great Eye. But the winged Nazgûl: not yet, not yet. He won’t let them show themselves across the Great River yet, not too soon. They’re for the War – and other purposes.’

Isto vai bem com uma descrição em Contos Inacabados , Parte Três: A Terceira Era, IV A Caçada ao Anel, (i) Da Jornada dos Cavaleiros Negros de acordo com a conta de que Gandalf deu a Frodo:

(…) But Sauron did not underesteem the powers and vigilance of the Wise, and the Nazgûl were commanded to act as secretly as they could. (…)
The Lord of Morgul therefore led his companions over Anduin, unclad and unmounted, and invisible to eyes, and yet a terror to all living things that they passed. (…)

E, de fato, o primeiro encontro da irmandade com um Nazgûl alado que é descrito em detalhes em A Sociedade do Anel , Livro Dois, IX O Grande Rio, ocorre na margem leste do o Anduin.

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Nunca é explicado.

Em The Treason of Isengard , Christopher Tolkien sugere que era provavelmente um Nazgûl, embora ele admita a contradição:

The dark shape 'like a cloud yet not a cloud' that momentarily cut off the moon's light is surely reminiscent of the shadow that passed over the stars as the Company journeyed on from Hollin in 'The Ring Goes South' (VI.421 - 2), and which Gandalf unconvincingly suggested might be no more than a wisp of cloud. Then too Frodo shivered, as here he 'felt a sudden chill'. As I noted (VI.434), the former incident was retained in [the final draft of Fellowship] but never explained: the Winged Nazgûl had not yet crossed the Anduin. But it seems likely to me that the shadow that passed across the stars near Hollin was in fact the first precocious appearance of a Winged Nazgûl.

^{History of Middle-earth VII The Treason of Isengard Chapter XVII: "The Great River"}

Claro, isso é obviamente incompatível com a declaração de Grishnákh. Infelizmente não há outra explicação imediatamente óbvia; Nenhum dos rascunhos ou cartas de Tolkien entra em mais detalhes sobre isso.

O primeiro rascunho do capítulo é notavelmente semelhante ao final:

Frodo kept looking up at the sky, partly because of its beauty, partly because of Elrond's words. Suddenly he saw or felt a shadow pass over the stars - as if they faded and flashed out again. He shivered.

'Did you see anything?' he said to Gandalf, who was just in front.

'No, but I felt it, whatever it was,' said the wizard. 'It may be nothing, just a wisp of thin cloud.' It did not sound as if he thought much of his own explanation.

^{History of Middle-earth VI The Return of the Shadow Part 4: "The Story Continued" Chapter XXIV: "The Ring Goes South"}

E isso não é alterado drasticamente nas revisões posteriores. Nós não sabemos o que Tolkien pretendia que isso fosse; se foi um erro que ele errou ou esqueceu de corrigir, ou se foi um mistério intencional. Nós simplesmente não sabemos.

A explicação mais plausível no universo é jamesqf , a partir de um comentário sobre a questão:

More likely that it's general orders for the Nazgul to stay east of the river, but one got sent on a special secret mission, especially as Sauron likely doesn't want the troops to know about the Ring &c.