Kili's Adventure
The dwarves and Bilbo had just left Beorn's home. They knew Orks were on their tale, but they had to get to the forest- Mirkwood. The heavy air hit them as they approached, the feel of disease and allusion hanging like a sign: BEWARE!
They made their way through the thickets, a constant feeling of despair tugging at their brains.
"Have we lost the path?" asked Fili.
"No," said his brother Kili, "Look up ahead!" There they saw it. It was scary and magnificent. Spiders the size of wagons, being slain by the elves, almost like a ballet. But in their moment of wonder, they forgot one thing. The elves of Mirkwood do not like dwarves.
As quickly as possible, they we surrounded and marched towards the front gate of the elven palace. "Say nothing!" Thorin shouted to his company as Bilbo slipped on his ring and vanished.
The dwarves were taken deep into the midst of the castle and locked in separate small cells. Kili heard a faint mutter from the opposite cell.
"Dwarves of the mountains, is that you?" a female voice asked. Now Kili would know that voice anywhere. Until very recently, he wouldn't have spent a day without it. It was the voice of the woman he loved.
"Tauriel?" he asked. She heard. His too was a voice she would do anything for, cross oceans for. She stepped into the light. Kili immediately recognized her. She was beautiful, not just to him, but by general dwarf standards. Although she was still small, shorter than Kili, she possessed none of the stockiness of dwarves. She was slim, with long dark copper hair and a thin, happy face.
There had been a lot of speculation about Tauriel in their hometown. It was clear to some that she was not fully dwarf, but this was what had intrigued Kili- the mystery.
But he had not seen her for what felt like a lifetime. Although they had spent many happy summers together, she had left on a quest to find her father, of whom she had never known. This had been six months past, and Kili had not heard a word from her.
Reaching his hand across the gap, closing the distance between them, he spoke softly, "I thought you were lost, that I would not see you again. Why, Tauriel, did you go without me?"
Tears in her eyes she replied "It is a quest that I had to undertake on my own, one I had completed months ago, and would have been back to you sooner, if I was not stuck here!"
"But what are you doing here?"
At this moment, Fili, in the next cell along, caught the familiar tones of his friend. "Tauriel? Tauriel?" he called.
"It is me!" she called back. But conversation was cut short, as Legolas the elf, son of the King waked by.
"Shut your mouths dwarves, you are prisoners not at a tea party!" he scowled.
When he had gone by, the dwarves strained to lean their heads out of doors to talk to each other.
"We need to get out of here," Balin said.
"We need a plan," said Thorin.
"You need me!" said Bilbo, pulling off the ring. "I have a plan!"
