The capturing of Gollum

This is my first fanfic so I'm sorry if it's not very good now, but it'll get better. The two mains are Gandalf and Gollum, but Legolas is also a minor character (how could I miss him out!)

1 Chapter one: The plan forms

It was a warm day in Mirkwood, but the atmosphere was gloomy. King Thranduil had ordered that their prisoner was to be taken down to the River Celduin for his daily drink. Gollum had been there only a week and was beginning to form a plan of escape. Over the next couple of days Gollum got familiar to the area surrounding the mountains and palace of King Thranduil. He had heard news from the elves that there was a band of Orcs heading this way from the eastern side of Mirkwood.

'This would be an excellent time to escape,' Gollum thought, 'and get revenge on these damned elves!'

"Father, father the watchelves have seen the band of Orcs 16 leagues past East Bight. Should I alert the warriors?" Legolas called, his voice echoing in the spacious chamber.

"Yes my son," Said King Thranduil, "find out how many there are, and make sure we outnumber them." Legolas ran out of the hall leaving Thranduil to his thoughts 'we must not let the prisoner escape.'

Gollum was sitting in his prison with a bowl of water in his hand.

"Wibble!" Gollum growled insanely. "Grrr! I can't take thisssssss, I've gotta kill myssssself! Wibb-no." He brought his head back and – WHAM! He took a whack to the head and nearly fell down and out!

Meanwhile the watchelves were on guard watching the Orcs every movement. They were tiring.

"Sir! The Orcs are tiring, they… yes, they're turning back! We're out of the woods!" finished one of the watchelves.

"No we're not. We'd best keep the warriors out anyway, you know, just in case circumstances." Replied the other one. The Orcs were turning back and moving into the forest. The elves had decided the warriors would stay out at night and that scouts would be sent ahead.

The Orcs had not been sighted for three days, the king was getting bored. He was thinking of calling the warriors back in.

"Hey Legolas, what d'you think? These Orcs aren't coming, are they?" Said Legolas' friend, Filose

"No, I doubt it highly." Replied Legolas. Suddenly there was a roar as hundreds of Orc warriors leapt out of the undergrowth. Because of the fact that times had gotten less frightening, Gollum was being let out again. His guard tied him to a tree and ran off to help, he slew about 3 Orcs on his way in. "Ahh! Yessss, he left a knife! What did he have in hiss pocketses? A knife I think, ah hah!" Gollum said to himself. He picked it up and cut his ropes. The fighting was still going on three hours later, when Gollum reached the edge of the forest again. He saw 'smelly' old Legolas watch his best friend get cut down by Orcs. "Hee hee!" He had spotted his guard so he pulled out his knife. "Revenge." Whipp! The knife tore through the air and embedded itself in his temple. He fell to the floor, limp and twitching. Legolas drew his bow and shot about 5 arrows into the Orc who killed Filose. He flew backwards and his sword glinted in the sunlight. Gollum saw it.

"Sssso appropriate." He reached down to pick it up.

So what did you think? Please read and reply, and if you have any ideas on how I could make it better, then any ideas will be welcomed. I would like to thank Sauron Jr. for his wonderful help on getting me started.