Review Response: Elves are Awesome, you've no idea how much harder it's going to be. hehehehehe
Disclaimer: Can't remember if i put this in the first chapter or not so, I do not own any of the places, races, or names from the actual Lord of the Rings series. I only own Feywen, her Elemental Guardians, and her children (except for their names), as well as my extremely evil plot.
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"Gilraen," she looked up at her name. Her brother, Elrond, was standing in the doorway to her bedroom, his arms crossed. She marked her place in the book and closed it.
"What is it?"
"I'm worried about Naneth. We should go and look for her."
"She didn't want us to. Remember? And Ada told us not to follow her."
"We don't even know where she has gone. What if she was captured by those wolves who attacked last week?"
"Naneth is too strong to be captured. Look what she did to the wolves."
"She is only one." Gilraen began to feel uneasy as Elrond made his argument to go after their mother. He was right. She was just one and the last time she had to fight a pack of something alone, she had almost been taken to Isengard and the fallen wizard Saruman. It was also when her mother, their grandmother, had died. "She is in danger of being taken back to Mordor. The last time she was there, she died while fighting for the good of Middle Earth. Morgoth forced her to marry him. If Ada and Naneth had not fought, we may very have been his children instead of Ada's."
"What are you afraid of, Elrond?"
"That she'll be forced into another marriage to some other dark being."
"There is no other dark being for her to be married to. Not to mention that she would never willingly give up something again, not the ones she loves."
"There is the chance if she is captured when she is alone."
"The guardians are with her."
"They won't be enough either. They weren't last time."
"Last time, she left them with Ada to keep the shields from failing."
"Is that a risk you are willing to take?" Gilraen looked at the book in her hands. It was the account of the War of the Ring they had been told, but she still found it interesting reading. In it was the events that had started their mother on her path. If she had not followed the Hobbit on his quest to destroy the Ring, Morgoth would not have needed to force her into a marriage because he wouldn't have known about her. She would have been safe. But if she had not gone, Sauron would have won and all would have been laid to waste because the Hobbit would have failed. Frodo knew it and knew that it was her presence that had saved him. Her mother had done the right thing even though her brother and friends and love did not want her to. She put the book down and grabbed her sword.
"Let's go. Elrohir said that she wanted to get answers. She will have gone to Gandalf. If we hurry, we can catch up to her."
"Why not Gondor? Surely the answers she wants are there."
"Gandalf is on the way to Gondor. With Saruman dead and Gandalf living in Isengard, the Gap of Rohan is safe to travel through. Naneth will have gone through there. From there, she could turn home or continue to Gondor."
"Alright, we'll go through the Gap of Rohan."
She sighed in relief as she rode into the courtyard of the Homely House. To her, it was home and she was loath to leave it again. Gandalf's advice was sound and since she was the Lady of Rivendell, she had the power to summon the rage of the Ford of Bruinen to protect herself and those with her. Not to mention she also had her Element Guardians. She smiled as she dismounted her horse and waited for her children to run to her and greet her like they always did. She had sent Vilya ahead with word of her coming when she had entered the valley. Worry gnawed at her when none of her family ran out of the halls to greet her.
"Feywen!"The Elf queen turned sharply at her name and saw Elrohir running towards her from her glade. It was where she and Glorfindel had built their house before the war with Morgoth. "You must come quickly! There is something wrong with Glorfindel. I can't get through to him."
"What's happened?" Feywen threw the reins to waiting stable hand and followed Elrohir to her old house.
"I am not sure. But he locked himself in the house shortly after you left. About a week later I think. I haven't been able to get through to him."
"And Gilraen and Elrond?" Elrohir's brow furrowed.
"They're not with you? I thought surely they would have caught up with you or you would have met them on your way back."
"Elrohir, no one rode in with me. And I left instructions not to follow. Why did you let them follow?"
"I didn't know until they had already left. And then Glorfindel," Feywen growled him into silence and opened the door to her house and found Glorfindel staring at his weapons on the table. She walked up to him and placed a gentle hand on her shoulder. "Melamin," she whispered. He looked at her and her heart broke. There was loss in his eyes that she had never thought to see again. The last time she had seen it, she was dying in his arms in the halls of Mordor.
"You're back. The children,"
"I didn't meet them on the road."
"Gilraen left this." He handed her a note in their daughter's neat scrawl.
Ada, Elrond and I are going after Naneth. She is counting on the Wolves following her towards Isengard. I remember the tale you told us and what happened. We are unwilling to let that same scenario happen again. The only reason she wasn't taken to Saruman then was because you went back for her. This time, there is no one to go back for her. Please don't be mad. We'll be with Naneth and return when she does. Gilraen
Feywen looked up from the letter. "You told them about the Orc pack." He nodded. "Where's your armor? Your light armor."
"Our rooms."
"Then go and put it on."
"Why?"
"We are going after our children. That's why." Feywen grabbed his hand and pulled him to his feet, grabbing his weapons at the same time. "We are in this together. We always have been. I left you here this time because I needed you to be safe from the Wolves. The fact that I didn't meet Gilraen and Elrond on the road means that they were taken by the Wolves. We'll go over Redhorn Pass and work our way to Mordor from there. The Wolves have dared take my family from me while I am away. They will pay for it with their lives."
"Before we go," he said, stopping her from turning to the door, "you have to tell me why you went to Gandalf." Feywen looked at him before sitting and motioning for him to do the same.
"The answers I needed weren't easy for me to hear. They won't be easy for you either." She took a breath and made sure that no other Elves were around and continued speaking in Common Tongue. "When the Wolves attacked, I had a feeling they were here to see how well I was guarded. They want me back in Mordor because I have the power to remake the jewels I destroyed. According to Gandalf, they won't be the same as before, but I have the power nonetheless. I also asked him if I had the power to do what they wanted me to do. He didn't answer me outright. But I saw the truth of it in his eyes." She didn't say it, but he knew.
"I'll go after them. You can't be allowed anywhere near Mordor again." He stood and grabbed his weapons.
"You are not leaving me here to worry over the lives of my family. I am going with you. The Wolves will listen to me when I demand our children back."
"Gandalf told you not to go back to Morodr. But you went back and got the sword. What if it was something deeper that drove you back to Mordor when you got the sword? What if this taint is what is drawing you back there? That is where you killed Morgoth. That is where you got the taint. It is there that the taint can infect you. I can't lose you again, Feywen. Especially to Morgoth. He took you from me once. I am not willing to let him take you from me again."
"And I am not going to let him take you from me either. When I tried to escape from his castle, just after Lithwen arrived, I was beaten and he got into my mind. He made me think you were there with me and he killed you before my eyes! He killed you and there was nothing I could do! We promised each other that we were in this together. If we go into Mordor, this time, we go in together." Glorfindel smiled.
"Amin mela lle." He whispered, pulling her into a hug and kissing her. "Okay, we go together. And if we're to catch them before they reach Mordor, we have to go now. They have a two month head start on us."
"That two months will get them to Mordor by the time we travel a month. But we do have to hurry."
"What else are you worried about?" She bit her lip. "Feywen?"
"Elrond is the oldest, yet he doesn't have command over the elements like he should. He is a son of Celebrant's house. I'm worried that part of this taint is in our children. If you are right and this taint is connected to Mordor, then the longer they are there, the greater chance that we will lose one or both of them."
"Then we've no time to lose." She smiled.
"Elrohir!" She called and he appeared at the door.
"Yes, Feywen?"
"Ready our horses and supplies. We are going after our children." He nodded and left followed closely by the couple. "Those Wolves messed with the wrong family and they will pay for it." Feywen vowed and felt the same anger and commitment from Kemen, Alu, Vilya, and Naur. "Again, I am at war. But I am not alone." She squeezed her husband's hand and he squeezed hers in return.
"Together." He promised and she nodded.
*insert evil laugh for future plans*
Translations: melamin=my love; amin mela lle= i love you
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