After the dinner, Gandalf returned to translating elven script.

Of course, King Ayron would not refuse, and he took Gandalf and Xu Feng and the others to the Moon Altar.

The Moon Altar is a circular platform built on the highest point of the mountain, closest to the valley waterfall and most exposed to the moonlight, where the Rivendell elves perform their solemn ceremonies.

Naturally, Thorin was invited to the Moon Altar, but Thorin still had a long face, full of displeasure.

He was still dissatisfied with the "neglect" he had just received.

And in fact, King Ayron really didn't snub their lonely mountain dwarves, those silver moon vegetables and dark blue mushrooms are the top ingredients of the elf clan, and even the elven people are usually reluctant to eat them.

Gandalf said in a deep voice, "Thorin, take out the map of the Lonely Mountain Palace, and show it to King Elon. ”

Thorin frowned and said, "We are lonely mountain dwarves and don't need the help of the elves. ”

Gandalf frowned and said, "Thorin! This elven king standing in front of you once participated in the holy wars of the first and second eras! He made an immortal contribution to the peace of the whole of Middle-earth! He is even more knowledgeable than I am! If you want to know where the secret door of the Lonely Mountain Palace is, you can only ask him to translate! ”

Thorin raised his head haughtily and pursed the corners of his lips, wanting to refuse.

Gandalf said angrily, "I'm going mad at your stubbornness! Sooner or later, you will be killed by your stubborn and arrogant character! Sooner or later! ”

Xu Feng hurriedly stood up and played the round, "Okay, okay, Thorin, give me the map." ”

This is a step down the ladder for Thorin.

Thorin certainly understands this.

He didn't want to hand over the map of the Lonely Mountain Palace to King Elon himself, but he could hand over the map to Xu Feng without any scruples.

So, he took out the map from his arms and handed it to Xu Feng.

Xu Feng did not hesitate and directly transferred to the hands of King Ailong.

King Elon took the old parchment map and muttered, "This is the handwriting of some elven architect in Rievendell. ”

Thorin said in a cold voice, "Hmph, you mean that our Lonely Mountain King's Palace was built by the elves of your Rivinedell?" ”

King Elon said lightly: "Yes, of course, the parchment drawings are the best proof." ”

Thorin opened his mouth to refute, but for a moment he couldn't come up with any good reasons to refute it.

Indeed, although the dwarves are also very good architecturally, the Lonely Mountain Palace is different from any dwarven palace that Thorin has come into contact with, and the style of the Lonely Mountain Palace is ...... It is indeed in the style of a strong elven building.

Moreover, this map about the underground chamber of the Lonely Mountain Palace is also written in Elven language, if there is no elven architect, how can there be a map in elven language?

Another point is that the entrance to the Lonely Mountain Palace is closed by magic, ordinary people can't find the entrance at all, and magic is not what the dwarves are good at, and almost all of the people who can control and use magic are elves.

King Elon said lightly: "Prince Thorin, whether you admit it or not, we are all related, the ancestors of the Lone Mountain Dwarf have helped us, and we have also repaid the Lone Mountain Dwarf." ”

Thorin pursed his lips and was silent.

Gandalf sighed inwardly.

King Elon had actually spoken very softly just now, obviously lowering his stature and wanting to have a good relationship with Thorin, but Thorin ignored it.

This guy.

It's exactly like his grandfather Thor, who died in battle, and he's a big bastard.

However, if you want to take back the Lonely Mountain, a military battleground, you can only rely on Thorin.

Gandalf shook his head, ignored Thorin, turned to King Elrond and asked, "Eldron, do you know what is written on it?" Why can't even I understand it? ”

It stands to reason that Gandalf is a secondary god of Maiya, and when he came to Middle-earth, the elves had just been created by the main god, so he should naturally know all the words, after all, the elven civilization also has his share of credit.

However, he couldn't read the elven text on it.

King Elon smiled faintly, "Gandalf, of course you can't understand it, because these words are not pure elven words, but moon words. ”

"Moon's Text?" Gandalf gasped, "yes! I should have thought of it a long time ago! No wonder I can't read it! It turned out to be the text of the moon! ”

Bilbo asked curiously, "Moon's Text?" What is the Moon Script? ”

Princess Yawen on the side explained with a light smile: "Oh, the Moon Script is a unique method of writing records of our elves, to put it bluntly, it is a kind of code text, this kind of code text is very special, when writing this text, the position and brightness of the moonlight is the password when cracking this text." In other words, if you want to know what these moon words mean, you have to wait until the moment when the moonlight is the same as the previous moonlight. ”

Bilbo was surprised and said, "This map is a bit historical, who knows what the moonlight was like at that time?" ”

King Ailong said lightly: "This drawing not only has the architect's signature on it, but also the time stamp when this drawing was made, do you think this time is just written by hand?" ”

Gandalf asked worriedly, "Eldron, when was this map made?" ”

He was worried that the time was different and he couldn't crack it, in which case, they would have to wait.

If you wait a day or two, it's fine, but if you wait a month or two, the dwarves will have to make Rivendell a chicken.

King Elon said calmly: "This map was made two hundred and sixty years ago, on the night of the summer solstice, when the first moon had just risen—Prince Thorin, you seem to be destined to complete the mission of recovering the Lonely Mountain, because tonight, it is the summer solstice, and the moon is exactly the first moon. ”

When Thorin heard this, his heart was immediately overjoyed.

The previous dissatisfaction with the elves has also weakened a lot.

"What's written on that?" Thorin asked impatiently.

King Ayron said lightly, "Don't worry. ”

He again laid the old parchment on the altar.

The dark clouds in the sky gradually receded, and a crescent moon appeared in the sky, and the bright moonlight sprinkled on the parchment, and then a faint blue text appeared on the parchment:

"As the thrush strikes, standing beside the greystone, the setting sun of the Turin sun will shine on the keyhole."

Thrushes? Greystone? Sunset?

Thorin was confused.

But anyway, there's a clue.

Bilbo asked in a whisper, "What does the day of Turin mean?" ”

Whitebeard Balin explained in a low voice, "It was the New Year's Day of our Lone Mountain Dwarf, and it was the time when it flew at the end of the summer solstice month - it was less than a month since now. ”