CHAPTER 8
Authors notes: - Thanks again for all the reviews! Sorry about random updating I have been really busy this week as I have had two jobs, but know that I am back to 1 job I will be writing more and updating more often hopefully. I got my first waitress shift yesterday and got £5.00 in tips in 4 hours with 8 tables beats the kitchen!!! Results on Thursday ahhhhh!!! But at least I have the lotr video to watch with lots of comfort food if things go bad!
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Gandalf shut the book with a bang coughing as dust spread throughout the small room. He folded up the parchments that he had written on in an almost incomprehensible scrawl and rose to his feet. The bones in his knees cracked and he let out a small groan. +I'm getting too old+ he thought with a weary sigh and days like this made him feel worst. He had been sat in the same chair all day and night researching Liran and Taket to improve his own knowledge. What he had found had disturbed him and increased his concern of the young elf's condition.
Thousands of years ago in the earliest days of Sauron's stranglehold on Middle - Earth Liran was a King of a now forgotten Kingdom and its greatest ally had been Rynash, which was located in the very Southern tip of Mirkwood governed by Taket. The two kingdoms got a long so well that the son of Taket and daughter of Liran were married. The ceremony had been grand and the elves of Greenwood had blessed the ceremony. It had been a time of great joy but unfortunately the ever-increasing dark forces began to infiltrate the Kingdoms and the elves of Mirkwood had been defeated in many battles in Southern Greenwood and it became known as Mirkwood. Five years after the union of the Kingdom's by marriage a huge battle had been fought. The elves of Mirkwood and the armies of the two kingdoms had united to battle a huge army of orcs and other evil creatures that threatened their very survival. The battle was brutal and was ultimately lost, even now it was not discussed among the elves as the very mention of it brings up much bitterness as the other elven kingdoms did not come to the aid of the wood elves. The kingdoms were both over run and the survivors had fled into the now few safe havens in Mirkwood. Both Liran and Taket survived but Taket's son had not and in the grief of the their lost kingdoms that followed they blamed each other and the wood elves. The grief turned to anger and the survivors took up arms against each other. Desperate to avoid a slaughter the wood elves intervened. The men by now had convinced themselves that the elves had contributed to their loss by their mystical ways and the fact that their home had survived added to their hatred. After they had killed many elves the elves disappeared into the depths of Mirkwood and their distrust of men grew. Taket blinded by the grief over the death of his beloved son had ordered Liran's daughter to be killed. So late one winter's eve a soldier crept into Liran's camp and murdered the daughter. Then the people of Taket departed and hid themselves away in the depths of Southern Mirkwood. There Taket let his feelings fester for many years and he joined forces with Sauron who promised to allow him to exact his revenge on Middle - Earth and particularly the wood elves who he had convinced himself had betrayed him. Liran, discovering his daughter's death went on a rampage desperate for revenge and Taket's death. Sauron used this to his advantage, as he was able to manipulate Taket to do his wishes. Taket grew to be a very powerful Dark Lord of Sauron and Sauron granted him the ability to take over other people to extend his life but Taket wanted immortality and Sauron gave him a powerful black magic spell, which with the blood of a wood elf prince would grant him immortality. Liran was a powerful wizard and could shape shift and possess other people, so the chase between the two lived on for many years.
Gandalf now thought he knew why Liran had possessed Legolas. Liran knew of Taket's spell and the need for a prince to complete it, by therefore possessing Legolas he had found a way to get to Taket and exact his revenge. Gandalf realised that to save the young prince he would have to remove Liran from his body because if Taket and Liran met the results would not be in Legolas's favour. It had taken him many hours but he had found an ancient spell that could work, it was dangerous as it bordered on black magic and many things could go wrong but it needed to be done because if Taket became immortal he could build up an army and once again lead Middle - Earth into darkness.
Gandalf climbed the old stone steps that led out of the room and thought of the things he needed to complete the spell. He had most of them and knew he could to find the rest in Mirkwood so with as much haste as he could muster which for an old man was great he mounted Shadowfax and galloped off towards Mirkwood.
Authors notes: - Thanks again for all the reviews! Sorry about random updating I have been really busy this week as I have had two jobs, but know that I am back to 1 job I will be writing more and updating more often hopefully. I got my first waitress shift yesterday and got £5.00 in tips in 4 hours with 8 tables beats the kitchen!!! Results on Thursday ahhhhh!!! But at least I have the lotr video to watch with lots of comfort food if things go bad!
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Gandalf shut the book with a bang coughing as dust spread throughout the small room. He folded up the parchments that he had written on in an almost incomprehensible scrawl and rose to his feet. The bones in his knees cracked and he let out a small groan. +I'm getting too old+ he thought with a weary sigh and days like this made him feel worst. He had been sat in the same chair all day and night researching Liran and Taket to improve his own knowledge. What he had found had disturbed him and increased his concern of the young elf's condition.
Thousands of years ago in the earliest days of Sauron's stranglehold on Middle - Earth Liran was a King of a now forgotten Kingdom and its greatest ally had been Rynash, which was located in the very Southern tip of Mirkwood governed by Taket. The two kingdoms got a long so well that the son of Taket and daughter of Liran were married. The ceremony had been grand and the elves of Greenwood had blessed the ceremony. It had been a time of great joy but unfortunately the ever-increasing dark forces began to infiltrate the Kingdoms and the elves of Mirkwood had been defeated in many battles in Southern Greenwood and it became known as Mirkwood. Five years after the union of the Kingdom's by marriage a huge battle had been fought. The elves of Mirkwood and the armies of the two kingdoms had united to battle a huge army of orcs and other evil creatures that threatened their very survival. The battle was brutal and was ultimately lost, even now it was not discussed among the elves as the very mention of it brings up much bitterness as the other elven kingdoms did not come to the aid of the wood elves. The kingdoms were both over run and the survivors had fled into the now few safe havens in Mirkwood. Both Liran and Taket survived but Taket's son had not and in the grief of the their lost kingdoms that followed they blamed each other and the wood elves. The grief turned to anger and the survivors took up arms against each other. Desperate to avoid a slaughter the wood elves intervened. The men by now had convinced themselves that the elves had contributed to their loss by their mystical ways and the fact that their home had survived added to their hatred. After they had killed many elves the elves disappeared into the depths of Mirkwood and their distrust of men grew. Taket blinded by the grief over the death of his beloved son had ordered Liran's daughter to be killed. So late one winter's eve a soldier crept into Liran's camp and murdered the daughter. Then the people of Taket departed and hid themselves away in the depths of Southern Mirkwood. There Taket let his feelings fester for many years and he joined forces with Sauron who promised to allow him to exact his revenge on Middle - Earth and particularly the wood elves who he had convinced himself had betrayed him. Liran, discovering his daughter's death went on a rampage desperate for revenge and Taket's death. Sauron used this to his advantage, as he was able to manipulate Taket to do his wishes. Taket grew to be a very powerful Dark Lord of Sauron and Sauron granted him the ability to take over other people to extend his life but Taket wanted immortality and Sauron gave him a powerful black magic spell, which with the blood of a wood elf prince would grant him immortality. Liran was a powerful wizard and could shape shift and possess other people, so the chase between the two lived on for many years.
Gandalf now thought he knew why Liran had possessed Legolas. Liran knew of Taket's spell and the need for a prince to complete it, by therefore possessing Legolas he had found a way to get to Taket and exact his revenge. Gandalf realised that to save the young prince he would have to remove Liran from his body because if Taket and Liran met the results would not be in Legolas's favour. It had taken him many hours but he had found an ancient spell that could work, it was dangerous as it bordered on black magic and many things could go wrong but it needed to be done because if Taket became immortal he could build up an army and once again lead Middle - Earth into darkness.
Gandalf climbed the old stone steps that led out of the room and thought of the things he needed to complete the spell. He had most of them and knew he could to find the rest in Mirkwood so with as much haste as he could muster which for an old man was great he mounted Shadowfax and galloped off towards Mirkwood.