FotR: Lothlórien
Immediately afterwards
Haldir came climbing swiftly up through the branches. `There was something in this tree that I have never seen before,' he said. `It was not an
orc. It fled as soon as I touched the tree-stem. It seemed to be wary, and to have some skill in
trees, or I might have thought that it was one of you
hobbits.
'I did not shoot, for I dared not arouse any cries: we cannot risk battle. A strong company of
Orcs has passed. They crossed the Nimrodel-curse their foul feet in its clean water!-and went on down
the old road beside the river. They seemed to pick up some scent, and they searched the ground for a while near the place where you halted. The three of us could not challenge a hundred, so we went ahead and spoke with feigned voices, leading them on into the wood.