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'When did you last see Gandalf?' asked Frodo. 'Do you know where he is, or what he is doing?'Strider looked grave. 'I do not know,' he said. 'I came west with him in the spring. I have often kept watch on the borders of the Shire in the last few years, when he was busy elsewhere. He seldom left it unguarded. We last met on the first of May: at Sam Ford down the Brandywine. He told me that with you had gone well, and that you would be starting for Rivendell in the last week of September. As I knew he was at your side, I went away on a journey of my own. And that has proved ill; for plainly some news reached him, and I was not at hand to help.'I am told me that you had left your but there was no news of your leaving Buckland. I have been watching the East Road anxiously.''Do you think the Black Riders have anything to do with it - with Gandalf's absence, I mean?' asked Frodo.'I do not know of anything else that could have hindered him, except the Enemy himself,' said troubled, for the first time since I have known him. We should have had messages, even if he could not come himself. When I returned, many days ago, I heard the ill news. The tidings had gone far and wide that Gandalf was missing and the horsemen had been seen. It was the Elven-folk of Gildor that told me this; and later they