Hi everyone! This is my first LoTR fic, so don't expect that much, Ok? Took me a while to think up an idea for this one, but I think I've got the whole thing pretty much planned out.
Allright that's actually I lie, this might include a bit of improvising, but I've been a member of ff.net for over a year (under a different name though), so I think that I've pretty much got the gist of how to write these things, I'm not perfect, but I try.
Of course, I do need help with these things, so any suggestions about what should happen would be appreciated by me a lot. Also, if you want any character (created by you, or even you) in this fic, don't hesitate to ask. I'd be more than glad to put anybody in (I've done it before). Anyway, here's my first effort. R&R please, thanks.
Greater Evasion
Part one, The not-so-secret meeting
It was the morning of October 25th, known for the event that was known as the council of Elrond. Where many warriors and leaders met to discuss the best plan of destroying the ring that was carried by Frodo Baggins. It was meant to be a secret meeting, but of course. Nothing was ever secret. The meeting was stealthily watched by three hobbits, known to their friends as Sam, Merry and Pippin. But there were also others concealed.
They were strangers to the elven world, but they were drawn there after hearing about secret treasures that lay deep in it. They weren't exactly thieves, or at least they didn't think of themselves as thieves. But just a group really. A group made up of two hobbits (Bongo and Drondee templewob), a human (Anomen Redwood), a dwarf (Ulli Runecarver) and a half-elf (Adolphus fell).
Adolphus, though partly elf, thought little of his elven side and proffered to live amongst men. What little elves he met disapproved of him, and he disliked them.
Anomen was a renegade, driven out of his homeland of shadowkeep by a gang who he owed large amounts of money to. He had a large scar down his right cheek where one of his enemies attempted (completely drunk), unreasonably attempted murder as a sort of incentive for Anomen to pay him back.
Ulli was a renegade as well, sent into exile by his clan after he killed his King's son in a drunken brawl. Ulli was in fact the King's nephew as well, so was a family embarrassment as well as a murderer. Ulli could almost live with that.
A strange tale went with Bongo and Drondee though. They claimed to be following a group of four hobbits – Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin. They said that they thought that they went of into nowhere, and that it looked like a good place to go, but they followed.
As a whole, they seemed an unlikely group, but yet, they were. Formed just a few days ago. When Bongo, Drondee, Adolphus and Anomen all stumbled upon Ulli's fire at different times of the night. Ulli mentioned that he was going to look for legendary treasure in the elf cities, and through greed, gratitude, and pure lust for adventure, the adventurers just found themselves asking to go along with him. So the group was formed, on their way to the city, they tried to think up a name for their own group. The names BAADU (the first letters of their first names), the blades, the invincibals, the ghosts, the wraiths, the 'Ulli's group' all went by as a load of rubbish.
One day, however, something strange happened. The group were walking through a dense wood. When they heard galloping and unnatural screeching coming from not too far off. Suddenly, about five men on horseback rode into view, all armed.
Not wishing a fight, the group made an attempt to run for cover, but the horses were unnaturally quick, and soon one of the riders was not a few metres away from them. Anomen was about to break into a run, when he noticed something. They weren't really men. They… might have been once, but not any more. They seemed to be just hooded cloaks. As if an invisible man was wearing one. Seeing that it had no apparent eyes, the thing completely stopped. It appeared to be listening for something. Anomen signalled for the group to freeze. Ulli didn't seem to want to co-operate, but stopped moving as well.
The thing moved its head around to where the group was.
"Don't… move…" Anomen whispered.
After a while the thing screeched, and joined the other ghostly riders in thundering towards a light on the top of a mountain. As they got closer, the light swiftly disappeared, most likely stamped out frantically by somebody not wishing to be seen or sensed by those things. The group watched for a while. They heard the creatures shrieking, then they saw some flaming humanoid bodies flailing around the mountain before either falling down it or collapsing. Either the ghost-creatures or the campers. Either way it wasn't nice to watch.
The next morning, however, they congratulated each other on their miraculous escape. They called it their skill at evasion – which let to them calling themselves the evaders, in tribute to the day they were almost killed, but not.
But back to the matter at hand.
Bongo and Drondee were the ones secretly present at the meeting. The listened with fascinated horror at what the Wizard with the beard had to say, and were even more amazed when the great Dwarven Axe seemed to explode after making contact with the ring. After the meeting they quietly slipped out and sprinted back to the Evader camp a mile away from the city.
Ulli saw them return.
"Ah! Hobbits! Looks like you're in a hurry. What? Being chased by some of pretty-boy back there's relatives?" He pointed back over his shoulder to Adolphus. Anomen's laughter came from inside the group's tent. Adolphus scowled.
"I'm not an elf! You know I'm not! Don't say it. Don't treat me like one. Because I'm not. I'm not an elf."
Ulli laughed, "So what've you nicked hobbits?"
"Nothing." Drondee panted, Ulli's grin faded.
"Elves don't chase you out for nothing!" He boomed, "Surely even a bit of gold!"
"We weren't chased out!" Said Bongo angrily. The hobbits poured out their experiences at the meeting.
When they finished the others seemed nothing short of amazed.
"What? So they made a group to destroy this little item?" Ulli said. "Who was in it?"
"Well," Drondee began, I think… "Four hobbits."
Adolphus laughed, Ulli and Anomen tried to stiffen grins as they heard that the fate of the world was being trusted to four hobbits.
"Three humans," He continued. "One a powerful Wizard.
"Now we're getting somewhere!" Anomen laughed, Adolphus smiled as well. Ulli looked dissatisfied.
"A Dwarf!"
Ulli looked more satisfied now, he grinned broadly, rubbing his hands together.
"And an elf."
Adolphus frowned. The other two kept looking at the hobbits, as if they expected more.
"Yeah, and?" Ulli said.
"Well, that's it." Drondee said.
"What?" Said Ulli in disbelief. "Nine people? Hardly a rampaging horde!"
"That's because it isn't." Bongo said, "It's one of those stealth thingy missions. One where nine adventurers succeed when nine hundred don't, one of those things that requires cunning, speed, evasion, sneaking…"
He stopped, the other members of the evaders were looking at him in a strange way.
"Say that again." Adolphus said.
"Er… Ok. It was one of those missions that require sneaking, cunning, evas… ah. You're serious?"
"I'd think so." Ulli said, "As you said, it requires evasion."
"Yeah." Bongo said, "But metaphorically speaking, I didn't mean us."
"We've got evasion though haven't we?" Drondee said. "We're good at that."
And after that it was settled. The evaders would also travel into the heart of Mordor – like a sort of alternate fellowship. They had no ring to destroy, but if it fell into the wrong hands they could always stop it. They were good at evasion, after all.
But as the group headed into the sunset a few miles South West of the Fellowship of the Ring, they didn't realise something. They weren't that good at evasion really, its just that the ringwraith they met didn't want to kill them, they were after the other group, the group on the mountain. The Group with the ring.
End of part one
Argh! Did I just write that? Sorry, I know it was a load of rubbish, but it should get better so bear with me. I've done massive fics before. One got over 50 reviews. The first one (after chapter one) read 'BOOOOOOOOOOOORING', the latest one (just after reading my tenth chapter) reads 'Literally Genre Busting! This is real quality!'. It shows that I develop my characters. So this might get better. Let's hope. Thanks for reading anyway J