*0 ( 14 ) many a combat and an escape had he in those days , and he slew therein more than once both wolf and the orc that rode thereon with nought but an ashen club that he bore ; and other perils and adventures ... ( 15 ) but melko looking wroth upon him asked : how hast thou , 0 thrall , dared to fare thus out of the land where thy folk dwells at my behest , and to wander in the great woods unbidden , leaving the labours to which thou hast been set ? ''