This is just a short chapter don't get upset…more will be up soon!

Dear Sam,

It's been three days since the Fellowship set out from Rivendell. Not much has happened so I didn't bother writing about it.

"Primula you better stop exercising like that, else you might vanish into thin air," Frodo teased.

I shook my head as the others laughed and continued working on the fifty push-ups Boromir had challenged me to do. I was on forty-three right now and was having a little keeping a supple of air into my head.

"Well, you need to work out if you ever hope on beating me in a FAIR sword fight," I retorted, finishing the challenge.

The men laughed as they remembered the incident this morning. I had just beaten Sam when Frodo, Merry, and Pippin had attacked me playfully. It wasn't truly even a sword fight since they tackled me and used their combined weight to keep me on the ground.

"You're too good a fighter for one of us to ever hope of beating you," Pippin joked. He got down on his hands and knees and bowed before me; I got up from my resting position and pushed him over smiling.

Boromir called Merry and Pippin over for their training, and I watched. They really are getting better at it…

Then Boromir accidentally cut Pippin on the hand, and he and Merry gained up on the Gondorian man tackling him to the ground. I joined the fight and laughed when Aragorn walked over to break up the fight, and Merry and Pippin threw him to the ground.

"What's that?" Sam asked looking away to the South intently getting up form my side to stand behind me.

I glanced up and saw Legolas standing on a separate boulder also gazing to the South. Then I saw, what appeared to be, a cloud of smoke but it was moving against the wind and coming at us much faster then smoke would.

"Crebain from Dunland," Legolas shouted leaping lightly down and grabbing his things.

We all followed him and hid our packs and tried to make it look like if no one had been there. Gandalf had just lowered himself under an outcrop when a flock of crows came flying around the campsite, searching for something.

Finally, after several tense minutes, the birds flew back off Southwards and we were able to crawl out of our hiding places. I had unfortunately dived into a scraggly thorn bush and was now biting my lip and pulling out thorns.

Gandalf says we are to take the path of Caradhas tomorrow morning. I have read many things about that mountain during my stay in Rivendell. And what I read is not encouraging, Caradhas has no love for Elves or Dwarves and we have both of the races in our small Fellowship.

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Sam and I have had very little time to spend together, the marching keeps us busy all the time and when we get put together to spar, sword swinging isn't very romantic. We haven't kissed since Rivendell! Sam and I decided that lying together wouldn't be a good idea because of everyone else so close around us, so we have Frodo lay between us. In the end we try to sit together at rests and talk.

Pippin and Merry have taken it upon themselves to be the pranksters of the group, although they are not good at avoiding being caught.

They copied Pippin's joke from when we were still in the Shire, and died Legolas's hair a vibrant purple using some strong berries they found around the camp. The juice didn't wear out for days and everyone couldn't stop sniggering whenever Legolas was around. The two had no chance when Legolas finally got fed up with the laughing and chased them for a half an hour around the camp, they only lasted that long because the others found it funny to delay Legolas.

I don't know what prompted them to do it, but they decided to braid Gandalf's beard and hair while he slept, in little pigtails. When Gandalf woke up the next, everyone was rolling on the ground in laughter. Gandalf ran to the bucket of water we kept, when he saw our reactions. They might have managed to get away with the prank; Gandalf caught them giving each other high-fives. They told me their rear ends were never the same after Gandalf got through with them.

But being a Took and a Brandybuck, Merry and Pippin didn't let this defeat set them back. I caught them early one morning writing, on the ground with a stick, some future plan. I clicked my tongue at them and pointed warningly at Aragorn who was looking at them every now and then.

In the afternoon, they took an empty bucket from Pippin's pack and ran into the woods. When they returned the bucket was gone but their hands were sticky and covered in tree sap, everyone was glancing at them in mistrust wondering who would be the next one pranked.

The next day I was woken up to Boromir grabbing Pippin around the waist beside me. I laughed when I saw his entire body, including his clothes, was covered in the tree sap they had collected the day before. Aragorn kept them in the camp area while Boromir went to clean off, us laughing as he went. An hour later he returned with a smooth piece of wood he had supposedly found during his walking…

I think they purposely stayed away from Aragorn and Gimli although I did see Aragorn drag them off away from camp earlier today with a serious face, while Merry and Pippin whined and tried talking him into letting them go, Legolas was grinning happily.

Legolas is on watch tonight. I ignored him before he walked to my side and sat down beside me. He remained silent for a while just staring into the woods around us before asking me why I was still awake. I let him read this chapter of my diary and he smiled, blushing terribly when he read my account on his hair which still had a slight purple stain, and walked away.

Good night, I really miss Sam's hand in mine, I think Frodo guessed as much because he's begun holding my hand when I'm grumpy in the day. I am truly blessed to have such an amazing older brother, even with all his suffering he still is worried about me being upset that I can't hold Sam's hand.

Hi…um…well the reason I haven't updated in a while is that…well…hmm. Well you see I wrote this story to about 20 chapters before I started posting it. And all the chapters to about 13 were short and bad like the first few. So now I have to go through the next few and get it done before I post, which really isn't fun.

Anyway hope you all can forgive me!