A/N - Hello!
This is basically my story in Russian, its beginning was translated by me for the reader of "Hopeless Life", for RachelStonebreaker! And everyone else who doesn't speak Russian (why does it seems to me that there're quite a lot of such people out there, huh? ~_^)
The story takes place after the Fellowship leaves Rivendell.
Entry: first.
Author: Frodo from Shire
All right, I admit that this idea is stupid. But I thought that we are going to spend some time together (this may take few years…) and I decided… it seemed to me… well, I thought over it and came to a conclusion that we could keep a common diary. It sounds so silly now, but it seemed to be a nice idea just few minutes ago. Now I doubt that I should spend such a good book for this nonsense.
The point is that everyday someone writes a small entry about events of this day in the book. And the one, who will write the next entry has right to read previous entries. My entry turned out to be rather obscure, but - please forgive me - I am not able to think clearer after recurrent exhausting march. I don't want to complain, I am not complaining. So there is no use to blame me. So, with your permission, I finish my entry as nothing interesting had happened today. I will give this book to Legolas tomorrow, although he will probably laugh at my idea. But he is an Elf, and you will never guess if he is going to be serious or to laugh at you. He can be very thoughtful and sad, or he can behave like a complete child - then he will taunt me to death! To say the truth, I am writing this because I want Legolas to read this. Maybe, he will stop his jeering at Pippin. The boy is losing heart already, he had endured much.
Entry: second.
Author: Legolas, son of king Thranduil
Frodo was endeavouring in vain. It seems to me that I've been already trying not to hurt Peregrin's feelings… but he is complaining all the time. He says that his feet are tired, and that we are too slow and hardly dragging our feet and that at such a slow pace we will never reach anything… and I simply can't help laughing. It was also rather interesting to read such marvelous things about myself, like "or he can behave like a complete child" (entry first, written yesterday) However, I'll have to take ruthless revenge on our Ring-bearer. Inasmuch as the next person to keep this book is Sam, he will be interested to know that yesterday, during Aragorn's watch, Frodo went away without asking permission and told no one about it (I'm curious why he had not mentioned it in his entry…) I wanted to stop him then, but Aragorn convinced me that our Ring-bearer needed some loneliness and that we should pretend to notice nothing. Now, behaving "like a complete child", I'll betray his secret, and I hope Sam will give him a nice talking-to for walking alone at night.
We're going southwards. We have not met any real enemies yet. It's rather cold, so I'm even afraid that some of our party (let's leave these *some* without a name) may be chilled and fall ill.
TBC
A/N - If anyone wants more - I will translate more :)
Thank you for attention!
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