Chapter 6 darkness prevails
We all packed up the little bits we had out and headed into mines "soon master and lady elf you will enjoy the fabled hospitality of the dwarves, roaring fires, malt beer, ripe meat off the bone. This my friend's is the home of my cousin Balin. And they call it a mine! …. a mine" gimli informed us "sounds delightful gimli, I cannot wait" I said patting his shoulder "this is no mine… it's a tomb" boromir interjected. We took a closer look and saw dead bodies of dwarves all over the floor "Oh! No! Nooo!" gimli mourns next to a fallen dwarf "lothron lín îdh nedh sîdh" I say my condolences. Legolas bends down and pics up an arrow from one of the bodies "goblins" and with that one word everyone was on high alert. Aragon, boromir and Gandalf had their swords at the ready, gimli had his axe ready for the attack and me and legolas had our bows strung back, the hobbits just looking frantic.
"We make for the gap of Rohan. We should never have come here" boromir said, you know I hate the bog rat but he may have a point. We all backed out of the door "NOW GET OUT OF HERE! GET OUT!" boromir shouts, so we ran out of the mines but then Frodo gets grabbed by a tentacle of some sort "FRODO" the hobbits yell "STRIDER" Sam hollers at Aragon, we all run into action. "HELP" Frodo exclaims frightened, I ran into the water and climbed onto the ugly beast "GET OFF HIM" Sam shouts chopping off a tentacle which that causes the beast to drop Frodo. The beast then decides to under the water with me on it so I had to take a deep breath. Before I was completely submerged in the water I heard Aragon and legolas shout my name.
A few second later we broke the surface and the beast had more tentacles in which one of them grabbed a hold Frodo again. I try muttering an enchantment to slow down the beast's reactions "horn, nuitha, sautha, gar úan" and it seems to be working. "ARGH" Frodo screams "ARAGON" merry yells just as loud. I see legolas fire an arrow at the tentacle with Frodo in its grasp, it did not let go of Frodo, so boromir and Aragon run into the water attacking the beasts tentacles "LADY SHADOW WHAT ARE YOU DOING" boromir shouts over the commotion "SSSH! IM TRYING TO SLOW IT DOWN" I shout back annoyed.
Suddenly Aragon slashes the tentacle with Frodo and he was free with boromir there to catch him which he does and everyone retreats back into the mines "SHADOW COME ON" Aragon shouts at me "INTO THE MINES" Gandalf calls "LEGOLAS" boromir shouts. Then I was finished with my enchantment and its working "LEGOLAS SHOOT" I yell, so he does and it lands in the beast's eye that caused it to retreat a little but it then decides to charge towards the gates. It hit the door which gave me enough momentum to leap in the air and into a tuck 'n' roll into the mines. At that precise moment the wall and the roof then collapsed and I was safely in the mines in legolas' arms.
We was deep in deep darkness, you couldn't see anything not even your hand in front of your face, well the others couldn't but I could with being a night elf, my eyes gave off a little glow. But we wasn't in the dark for long as Gandalf lit up the crystal that sat on top of his staff, as serious as this situation was my brain and my mouth failed to worked together "let there be light" that left my subconscious folding her arms and tutting saying 'you despicable elfling' at least I got a chuckle from the hobbits, Aragon and legolas whilst I gained a disapproving look off the rest. So we began to walk following Gandalf through the mines. I was at the back keeping watch and to hang my head in shame.
Legolas falls back and walks with me clasping my hand "I thought it was funny my love" he says kindly, I just smiled and nodded. We climbed some steep steps that took us to and opening that had three tunnels leading to different parts of the mines. Gandalf had a look of confusion in his face "I have no memory of this place" ah that explain the confusion. So we all sat down waiting for any sign of Gandalf remember. I sat on a boulder and began to meditate listening to the conversation between my two favourite hobbits "are we lost" pippin asks "no" merry replies uncertain "I think we are" pip states "sssh! Gandalf's thinking" Sam scowls with a little frustration in his voice. A few quiet seconds past until pip talks again "merry" "what" "im hungry" I let a little chuckle out from my lips. My elf ears pick up some disturbance from below, I know who exactly that is I thought to my self.
So I relax in my meditation and im joined by my ancestors "e innas qweria ci al bach dar est" they say "who will betray us" "est ai tiri an I loch" "whats his name I need to know" "est ah al ara agar, est ah ogol ah mîn dar est ci baur an" "enough with the riddles, whats his name" "I' Gondorian" "Boromir" I whisper and open my eyes quick and look over at Boromir, who in which Is looking at me along with the others "shadow what is it" Aragon steps forward and says with concern "nothing! It's nothing" "you said Boromir's name" he pushes "it doesn't matter! I forgot what I was going to ask" everyone shakes it off. Gandalf looks at one of the tunnels "ah it's this way" his delightful words say "he's remembered" merry says happily "no! But the air doesn't smell so fell down here, if in doubt, Meridoc, always follow your nose" Gandalf adds. So we all packed our belongings and followed Gandalf but Aragon held me back "man si ped" "est innas qweria ammen" "ai" "boromir" he gave me a sceptic look then another look that I couldn't read "heb sen mîn amen" I nodded and we both followed on.
meanings
"lothron lín îdh nedh sîdh" may thy rest in peace
"horn, nuitha, sautha, gar úan" - impelled, stunt, drain, hold monster
"e innas qweria ci al bach dar est" - he will betray you, nothing to stop him
"est ai tiri an I loch" - him who looks at the ring
"est ah al ara agar, est ah ogol ah mîn dar est ci baur an" - him with no royal blood, him with evil within, stop him you need to.
"I' Gondorian" - the Gondorian
"man si ped" - wha they say
"est innas qweria ammen" - he will betray us
"ai" - who
"heb sen mîn amen" - keep this between us
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