Merri Wood: yes, all the GREEDY people... hobbits... elves... what ever damn species you greedy folk are and you KNOW who you are!
PS: Right. And since we've started like this, we intend to go on like this and write a LOTR fic!
*canned wild cheering*
PS: Thank you, thank you! NOW! On with it!
MW: As much as we would like to, WE OWN NOTHING AND NOBOYD I mean BODY oh bother, now you know.... Now you'll all think I'm strange, ah well, it was going to happen eventually...
PS: Hey! We're all strange here! It's called being unique!
HARRY POTTER AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
THE START OF THE STORY( with no-boyd *lol*)
( I would like to say that Pip and I are taking it in turns to write so I'll be writing about Legolas and Merry and Pippin won't say anything till Pip gets here which sort of makes sense because if Pip isn't here then Pippin can't... !GET ON WITH IT!.. right and now for scene 24 which I think is a spiffing bit of filming in which you can't hear any swallows but I think you can here a starling...)
Sorry.....
Chapter One : SCENE 24.
Legolas threw back his head and smiled at the sound of the birds in his home forest of Mirkwood. He let his clear elven voice rise up above the trees and into the wind above them (read The Hobbit to learn more about the dense stillness of Mirkwood.) He swung his bow at his side as he strolled through the forest on that clear morning. But something wasn't right, not quite perfect. He frowned to himself until curiosity over took him and he began to search.
The banging and crashing that his acute hearing had picked up earlier was drawing nearer and nearer as he moved like a shadow through the undergrowth. (A/N I love elves!)
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The enchanted car was stuck. Mr Weasley's magic may have got Harry and Ron to Hogwarts that other year but now it was loose in the Forbidden Forest. Why was it forbidden? Because it was given to the Elves and made into Mirkwood and the founders of Hogwarts had promised Legolas' father, Thranduil, that they wouldn't allow the students in to disturb them. So, completely (A/N Pip's back) oblivious to the unfolding of the events in The Hobbit and all the other things unique to LOTR, the school year was unfolding and none of the students knew; in FACT, I don't believe that even Hagrid knew of the elves except what his cousin Beorn had told him.
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Well, Legolas found the enchanted car and was quite taken aback (not having seen one before) and was very curious to what it was. After trying to get it to calm down and talk to it, he gave up and decided that it must have come from the part of the forest that not even the elves were allowed to go into. So, like a good little elven Prince, he broke that rule and wondered into the forbidden forest to find what ever was there, lying in secret beyond.
As he walked through The Forbidden Forest, a new sound came up and it lead him on until he came across a unicorn which was watching him from a distance. He smiled. As you know, an elf would never hurt another living creature (except enemies) and so it was with this elf. He followed the unicorn, bow in hand, and almost enchanted walked behind it. He saw the centaur before it saw him but wasn't afraid. He was really beginning to like this new part of the forest, unicorns, centaurs strange metal monsters, what next! Just then he noticed that the centaur had run off. He also saw sunlight through the trees.
Creeping through the trees he saw a red headed girl in a black robe running as fast as she could across the open grass on the other side of the forest. Maybe she knew what the metal thing in the forest was. He ran out and caught her, covering her mouth.
"Hush and I won't have to hurt you." It was an empty threat but it worked.
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Firenze galloped towards the cabin of the groundsman, Hagrid. He had to warn him that someone was after the unicorns again! Hopefully the results would be not as bad than last time a unicorn was hunted in the Forbidden Forest. Very cautiously he crept out of the shelter of the trees and trotted to Hagrid's back door. He knocked sharply. From inside he could hear Fang the boarhound barking loudly and Hagrid's voice telling him to "Stow it, Fang!" The door was pulled open and hagrid's big hairy head came into view. Under his arm, Firenze could see three curious faces looking out, one of which was the Potter boy.
"Yes?" asked Hagrid. Firenze looked back to him.
"There's someone in the forest. He's got a bow and he's following a unicorn. Can you come and find him before it's too late?"
"Someone's huntin' unicorns?" Hagrid looked furious. "Not again! Righ'! Come on you three, we've got a unicorn hunter to catch!" He grabbed his umbrella, a large crossbow and a quiver of arrows and came outside, beckoning to the three kids. Hermione shook her head.
"Lunch is nearly over, we should go back to the castle. We don't want to be late for Transfiguration," she said. Harry and Ron looked at each other.
"You stay here then. We're going!" The two boys leapt up and ran over to Hagrid, who went outside.
"You stay 'ere, Hermione. I need someone to come wi' me as a witness. Alrigh' boys, let's go!" Hagrid set off with the boys and Firenze following. Hermione stood nervously on the edge of the forest and fidgeted from foot to foot. Finally she turned her back on it and looked across the grounds. She saw a small figure with red hair dashing across the grass, and recognised her as Ginny Weasley, Ron's younger sister. She was going to call out when she saw a tall graceful figure come out of the forest and pick her up. Hermione gaped. She took a step forward to go to her aid when something jumped on her from behind and fastened strong gripping fingers around her neck. She heard a hissing voice in her ear.
"What'ssss thisss, my preciousss? Isss it good? Isss it tasssty?" Hermione struggled and gasped for breath. Red spots started dancing in front of her eyes. She was on the verge of passing out when she heard an angry voice shout, and the thing on her back was pulled off. She fell to her hands and knees and gasped for breath. Her vision was slowly clearing up and she could hear voices talking.
"Don't you do that again! Or it'll be the worse for you!" This voice was angry and rough.
"Smeagol, you should not do that. Next time you do that- well you just better not do it again." This voice was soft and sounded more refined than the other. She could hear the thing that had grabbed her grovelling and whimpering.
"Sorry Master, Smeagol is sorry. Nice master, nice massster!" Then Hermione felt small but firm hands on her shoulder.
"Are you all right, miss?" The face she looked up into was honest and concerned. She recognised his voice as the first speaker. "Sorry about him, he's not really that bad," he said, scowling at the pathetic creature.
"Yes, I'm alright," she managed to gasp out. She stood up, expecting the man to be, well, a man. She was immensely surprised to find she was looking down at the little man. "Who are you?"
"Me? I'm Samwise Gamgee, at your service," he said with a little bow, "and this is Mr. Frodo Baggins, my master. And that -thing- is Smeagol, or Gollum, as he's widely known as. We're hobbits. Not Gollum, though."
"I'm so sorry," said the other little guy. "I humbly beg forgiveness on Smeagol's behalf." Hermione was astounded. These people -hobbits-, she suddenly realised, were not human, on account of the large hairy feet and softly pointed ears. Neither hobbit wore shoes and both looked friendly and kind, even if the one called Frodo looked very weary and tired. Hermione suddenly remembered about Ginny and turned around, to find the "hunter" standing quietly in front of her, smiling softly at the two hobbits. Gollum cowered and hid from him behind Frodo, then dashed off into the forest.
"So, Sam, Frodo, we meet again already!"
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A/N: Pip: So you liked that did ya? Don't worry, for all you Merry/Pippin/Aragorn/Gimli fans, they will be there, in the next chappy. So ENJOY and have fun reading more! There should be more about once a week, but no promises. There'll be another chapter by the end of this week anyway.
Merri: Please review as this is the first one and we want to know whether to keep going or just drop it and you can write the rest your selves.... Mmmmm... interesting..... Merry and Pippin are next so I'm going to get them ready... Bye! Enjoy! visit billyboyd.net!
Pip: Ooookaaaaay. Well, we'll get on with this then.