Sam wants herbs and vegetables for his stew, naming potatoes ("taters") specifically, to Gollum's great confusion. Gollum complains that cooking will ruin the meat, and the fire will draw attention. To Gollum's horror, Sam makes a fire to stew the rabbits. Sam asks Gollum if he could find them something to eat, and Gollum catches two rabbits for them. In this relative idyll, the hobbits make camp for the day. Tolkien names no less than sixteen kinds of plants that grow there in one paragraph alone. Gollum leads the hobbits south, parallel to the mountains and the road, into Ithilien, an old part of Gondor that the malice of Sauron has yet to ruin. For the few hours of daylight that were left they rested, shifting into the shade as the sun moved, until at last the shadow of the western rim of their dell grew long, and darkness filled all the hollow.
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