- Merry and Pippin are still being carried by Treebeard. He wasn't kidding about ents being slow.
- To the south, they see smoke and Treebeard laments of a time when Saruman would walk in his woods before he had a "mind of metal."
- Below the smoke, Merry and Pippin see the massive orc horde marching out. They know the war has begun.