*~*Weathertop and Glorfindel*~*
Disclaimers: Either in this chapter or in later one's I'll be taking some quotes from the books. I'll put what page and book to find it on. Don't sue and for more of this look at Chapter 1.
They finally reached Weathertop and they stopped to rest. Ella was especially tired because she had pushed herself to walk and would not get back on the horse. All since they left Bree, she had tried to let them let her walk and to persuade them to ride Bill instead of her. If the four hobbits and Aragorn had not seen that she was getting tired and weak by her stumbles and her slow pace, she would have walked the furthest she could before she fainted. When they reached the Weathertop she laid down on the ground and as soon as her eyes closed, she fell asleep curled up in a little ball.
Aragorn looked at her pityingly and put a cloak around her. Ella slept soundly and sighed in her sleep. She snuggled up against the cloak and fell silent again. For a while they all remained silent. Aragorn made a small fire and Frodo sighed. Merry and Sam walked off from the fire. If Ella had been awake she would have remembered that Frodo got stabbed in Weathertop. Suddenly the two hobbits came back (Quote pg 207 book I)
"I don't know what it is" Sam said " But I suddenly felt afraid. I durstn't go outside this dell for any money; I felt that something was creeping up the slope."
"Did you see anything?" Frodo asked, springing to his feet.
"No, sir. I saw nothing, but I didn't stop to look."
"I saw something," Merry said "or I thought I did-away westwards where the moonlight was falling on the flats beyond the shadow of the hilltops, I thought there were two or three black shapes. They seemed to be moving this way." (Quote over)
With Ella still sleeping close to the fire, Aragorn and the four hobbits grabbed some sticks and stayed close to the fire. But yet the Black riders still came and they were all terrified. As they began to see the Black Riders in the shadow, Frodo felt the desire to put on the Ring.
Ella, by chance or by fate, woke at that moment. She sat up and looked around at the group surrounding the fire. Her heart stopped as her eyes fell onto Frodo. "No…Frodo…don't do it!" Her voice was scratchy and weak. It was always like that when she just woke. But Frodo was too busy with his own fight to listen to her.
"Frodo, you will get away safely if you put on the Ring." said the voice in Frodo's head.
"I can't leave Sam, Pippin, Merry or even Strider! They would be killed!" Frodo answered to the little voice in his head.
"Do you think they would save you with them if there was a choice between no one or them? Of coarse not! It would be better not to let them get the Ring. It would be better to have one of this group live than none."
"Who said we can not live without using the Ring?" Frodo's voice was getting weaker and the voice in his head was getting stronger.
After a little while Frodo gave in. He slipped the Ring onto his finger and saw the five dark shapes much clearly than he had before. He gasped and stood petrified.
The leader of the group, invisible to even Frodo, smiled. He felt the power of the Ring flow from the hobbit next to the Man and the chubby hobbit*1. He laughed, a laugh high and evil. It made Merry, Sam and Pippin shiver silently. Frodo was too terrified to have noticed and Aragorn had heard worse, though not much worse.
Suddenly the Black Rider jumped and slashed Frodo with its sword. None but the Black Riders could see Frodo but they all knew that the Black Rider had slashed Frodo. Frodo fell to the ground. He only had enough strength to take off the Ring before darkness enclosed over him.
Aragorn jumped in front of the Black Rider suddenly and threw a stick with fire at then to shooed them all away. The three hobbits, meanwhile, crowded around Frodo. They did not see the Black Rider smiled and duck the stick of fire. It walked up to Aragorn and pushed Aragorn to the ground. The Black Rider raised his knife but suddenly jumped back. He turned his head, hissed and ran off with the other four Black Rider that had run off before.
Aragorn sat up and looked to see what had scared The Black Rider off. At first he saw nothing. Then he spotted Ella, breathing hard and leaning against the wall. Then he remembered seeing something fly past right before the Black Rider jumped back. He looked on the floor and saw a small knife on the floor. He picked up the knife and walked over to Ella.
"Ella?" He said as he kneeled down next to her. But she shook her head.
"Frodo...go to him…we need to get to Rivendell as soon as possible…" With that she fell silent and at first he thought she had died. But she had merely faintly. He picked her up and carried at to a place nearby to where Frodo lay.
Pippin, Merry and Sam looked terrified.
"What happened to him, Strider?" asked Pippin.
"Is he dead?" Merry inquired.
"Why did this happen?" Sam questioned.
Aragorn raised his hand for silence. "The answer to these question I do not know. But I do know that if we do not get these to Rivendell very quickly something terrible will happen. So we must leave tonight. Gather what you can and let us leave this accursed place."
In a little while they were walking away from Weathertop were moving at an extremely slow pace, because of Ella. She was getting weaker and they had tried to take the pack she always carried away from her but she did not let them. Strider then decided to let Ell ride on his back till he got tired. The only reason Ella was not riding Bill as well was for her own reasons. She knew that he was far more important than she and thought that if anyone of them was going to suffer it was to be her. He would need his strength for later. He was the Ring-bearer or would be named it later. She sighed and a mean part of her head said "But he hasn't had his wound as long as you and should let you ride Bill. Why don't you?"
But Ella merely closed her eyes and shook her head. She knew better than to listen to the little voice in her head.
Soon they heard the sound of approaching hooves. The three hobbits turned in fear and surprise.
Ella shook her head "No…not a Black Rider…G-Glorfindel. An elf. Rivendell." I smile spread onto her face as she thought of Rivendell. She wondered if it would be better than she imaged.
Aragorn also smiled "Glorfindel?" When the rider came closer they saw that Ella was indeed correct and it was an elf. But only Aragorn knew who this elf was. They met like old friends and Glorfindel began to tell Aragorn all that had happened to make Elrond send elves out.
Then Aragorn showed put Ella down and told him what had happened on their journey. When Aragorn finished Glorfindel nodded "Frodo and Ellia shall-"
"Ella. And if that is too hard try El." Ella said quietly. Her real name was Elanor but no one paid that any mind. She had always wondered why her birth name was pronounced like Eleanor but spelled Elanor.
Glorfindel nodded in agreement. "Frodo and Ella shall ride on my horse. It- "
"If danger comes it will bear us far and fast. So fast that not even a Black Rider's horse can equal it, am I not correct?"
Frodo shook his head "And leave my friends alone to fight the danger? No, I'll never do that."
Ella shook her head "No" she said, her voice barely more than a whisper "The danger will chase you, Frodo. And what you bear." Then she closed her eyes and seemed to be asleep. But then she opened her eyes and said one last thing "One more thing, I'm not riding that horse. If you try and make me, I'll make you wish you hadn't."
That of coarse was an empty threat. She could do no such thing. She was too weak to bite anyone very hard if that person even let her bite him or her. This had been happening since she first got wounded. The wound now was closed up and just a thin white line now but she still felt cold to her bones.
Aragorn shook his head sadly as Ella closed her eyes again and said no more. "She refuses to ride on the pony." He nods pointedly at Bill "Even though she was wounded in Bree whereas he wounded at Weathertop."
"You said she knows more than most hobbits you have met. Could it be that she knows of something that she is not telling you?"
Aragorn nods "Yes, she knew me as Aragorn before I ever told her. And Yes, I think she does know something more but she will not say anything. I'm guessing she holds many secrets in her small head."
~~About a half a day later~~
They had only a few rests and Ella had allowed herself to be carried by Bill while Glorfindel's horse had Frodo.
Suddenly they heard a voice. Glorfindel looked back and his eyes widened. "Run, fast! Black Riders coming, run!" Sam led Bill down a slope and the other to hobbits ran down far from Sam.
With this change of speed Ella awoke and wondered what she was doing on a pony. Then she remembered suddenly and looked back over her shoulder. There she saw the Black Riders and shivered. Of coarse she shouldn't have been surprised by them. She had read about them and seen them more than once. Then why were they still causing her such fear? Ella turned again and faced Sam. "Sam, run! Bill and I will be safe. Nothing will happen to Bill. Run, it will not help Bill much if you are by his side, you'll just both him and yourself down. Run!" Sam at first did no such thing but then she called out "SAM! You'll get us killed! MOVE YOUR FUCKIN' LEGS DOWN THIS SLOPE WITHOUT MOVING AT BILL'S SIDE!" With that Sam let go of Bill's reins and ran down to follow Pippin and Merry.
Frodo, meanwhile, was on the white horse of Glorfindel was riding in the water. When he reached the shore on other side he said (Quote pp. 226-227 book I) "Go back! Go back to the Land of Mordor, and follow me no more!"
The Black Riders just laughed at him with a harsh and chilling laughter "Come back! Come back! To Mordor we will take you!"
"Go back!" he whispered.
"The Ring! The Ring!" they cried with deadly voices; and immediately their leader urged his horse into the water, followed closely by two others.
"By Elbereth and Lúthien the Fair" with a last effort, lifting up his sword, "you shall have neither the Ring nor me!" (Quote over)
By now the leader was halfway through the river and was smiling evily. But then a sound came from his left and he saw the river rise up and come down over them. They screeched and tried to get out of the way but they were too late. The river swallowed them up. But they were not gone, not yet.
Frodo saw this barely a minute or so after he had said those last words he fell to the ground, and fell into a deep sleep
A/N: So what do you think about this chapter? Tell me!
(*1) I don't know if Sam is actually chubby, but that is how I imagine him. No offense to all those people out there that like Sam and think of him as not chubby.
Disclaimers: Either in this chapter or in later one's I'll be taking some quotes from the books. I'll put what page and book to find it on. Don't sue and for more of this look at Chapter 1.
They finally reached Weathertop and they stopped to rest. Ella was especially tired because she had pushed herself to walk and would not get back on the horse. All since they left Bree, she had tried to let them let her walk and to persuade them to ride Bill instead of her. If the four hobbits and Aragorn had not seen that she was getting tired and weak by her stumbles and her slow pace, she would have walked the furthest she could before she fainted. When they reached the Weathertop she laid down on the ground and as soon as her eyes closed, she fell asleep curled up in a little ball.
Aragorn looked at her pityingly and put a cloak around her. Ella slept soundly and sighed in her sleep. She snuggled up against the cloak and fell silent again. For a while they all remained silent. Aragorn made a small fire and Frodo sighed. Merry and Sam walked off from the fire. If Ella had been awake she would have remembered that Frodo got stabbed in Weathertop. Suddenly the two hobbits came back (Quote pg 207 book I)
"I don't know what it is" Sam said " But I suddenly felt afraid. I durstn't go outside this dell for any money; I felt that something was creeping up the slope."
"Did you see anything?" Frodo asked, springing to his feet.
"No, sir. I saw nothing, but I didn't stop to look."
"I saw something," Merry said "or I thought I did-away westwards where the moonlight was falling on the flats beyond the shadow of the hilltops, I thought there were two or three black shapes. They seemed to be moving this way." (Quote over)
With Ella still sleeping close to the fire, Aragorn and the four hobbits grabbed some sticks and stayed close to the fire. But yet the Black riders still came and they were all terrified. As they began to see the Black Riders in the shadow, Frodo felt the desire to put on the Ring.
Ella, by chance or by fate, woke at that moment. She sat up and looked around at the group surrounding the fire. Her heart stopped as her eyes fell onto Frodo. "No…Frodo…don't do it!" Her voice was scratchy and weak. It was always like that when she just woke. But Frodo was too busy with his own fight to listen to her.
"Frodo, you will get away safely if you put on the Ring." said the voice in Frodo's head.
"I can't leave Sam, Pippin, Merry or even Strider! They would be killed!" Frodo answered to the little voice in his head.
"Do you think they would save you with them if there was a choice between no one or them? Of coarse not! It would be better not to let them get the Ring. It would be better to have one of this group live than none."
"Who said we can not live without using the Ring?" Frodo's voice was getting weaker and the voice in his head was getting stronger.
After a little while Frodo gave in. He slipped the Ring onto his finger and saw the five dark shapes much clearly than he had before. He gasped and stood petrified.
The leader of the group, invisible to even Frodo, smiled. He felt the power of the Ring flow from the hobbit next to the Man and the chubby hobbit*1. He laughed, a laugh high and evil. It made Merry, Sam and Pippin shiver silently. Frodo was too terrified to have noticed and Aragorn had heard worse, though not much worse.
Suddenly the Black Rider jumped and slashed Frodo with its sword. None but the Black Riders could see Frodo but they all knew that the Black Rider had slashed Frodo. Frodo fell to the ground. He only had enough strength to take off the Ring before darkness enclosed over him.
Aragorn jumped in front of the Black Rider suddenly and threw a stick with fire at then to shooed them all away. The three hobbits, meanwhile, crowded around Frodo. They did not see the Black Rider smiled and duck the stick of fire. It walked up to Aragorn and pushed Aragorn to the ground. The Black Rider raised his knife but suddenly jumped back. He turned his head, hissed and ran off with the other four Black Rider that had run off before.
Aragorn sat up and looked to see what had scared The Black Rider off. At first he saw nothing. Then he spotted Ella, breathing hard and leaning against the wall. Then he remembered seeing something fly past right before the Black Rider jumped back. He looked on the floor and saw a small knife on the floor. He picked up the knife and walked over to Ella.
"Ella?" He said as he kneeled down next to her. But she shook her head.
"Frodo...go to him…we need to get to Rivendell as soon as possible…" With that she fell silent and at first he thought she had died. But she had merely faintly. He picked her up and carried at to a place nearby to where Frodo lay.
Pippin, Merry and Sam looked terrified.
"What happened to him, Strider?" asked Pippin.
"Is he dead?" Merry inquired.
"Why did this happen?" Sam questioned.
Aragorn raised his hand for silence. "The answer to these question I do not know. But I do know that if we do not get these to Rivendell very quickly something terrible will happen. So we must leave tonight. Gather what you can and let us leave this accursed place."
In a little while they were walking away from Weathertop were moving at an extremely slow pace, because of Ella. She was getting weaker and they had tried to take the pack she always carried away from her but she did not let them. Strider then decided to let Ell ride on his back till he got tired. The only reason Ella was not riding Bill as well was for her own reasons. She knew that he was far more important than she and thought that if anyone of them was going to suffer it was to be her. He would need his strength for later. He was the Ring-bearer or would be named it later. She sighed and a mean part of her head said "But he hasn't had his wound as long as you and should let you ride Bill. Why don't you?"
But Ella merely closed her eyes and shook her head. She knew better than to listen to the little voice in her head.
Soon they heard the sound of approaching hooves. The three hobbits turned in fear and surprise.
Ella shook her head "No…not a Black Rider…G-Glorfindel. An elf. Rivendell." I smile spread onto her face as she thought of Rivendell. She wondered if it would be better than she imaged.
Aragorn also smiled "Glorfindel?" When the rider came closer they saw that Ella was indeed correct and it was an elf. But only Aragorn knew who this elf was. They met like old friends and Glorfindel began to tell Aragorn all that had happened to make Elrond send elves out.
Then Aragorn showed put Ella down and told him what had happened on their journey. When Aragorn finished Glorfindel nodded "Frodo and Ellia shall-"
"Ella. And if that is too hard try El." Ella said quietly. Her real name was Elanor but no one paid that any mind. She had always wondered why her birth name was pronounced like Eleanor but spelled Elanor.
Glorfindel nodded in agreement. "Frodo and Ella shall ride on my horse. It- "
"If danger comes it will bear us far and fast. So fast that not even a Black Rider's horse can equal it, am I not correct?"
Frodo shook his head "And leave my friends alone to fight the danger? No, I'll never do that."
Ella shook her head "No" she said, her voice barely more than a whisper "The danger will chase you, Frodo. And what you bear." Then she closed her eyes and seemed to be asleep. But then she opened her eyes and said one last thing "One more thing, I'm not riding that horse. If you try and make me, I'll make you wish you hadn't."
That of coarse was an empty threat. She could do no such thing. She was too weak to bite anyone very hard if that person even let her bite him or her. This had been happening since she first got wounded. The wound now was closed up and just a thin white line now but she still felt cold to her bones.
Aragorn shook his head sadly as Ella closed her eyes again and said no more. "She refuses to ride on the pony." He nods pointedly at Bill "Even though she was wounded in Bree whereas he wounded at Weathertop."
"You said she knows more than most hobbits you have met. Could it be that she knows of something that she is not telling you?"
Aragorn nods "Yes, she knew me as Aragorn before I ever told her. And Yes, I think she does know something more but she will not say anything. I'm guessing she holds many secrets in her small head."
~~About a half a day later~~
They had only a few rests and Ella had allowed herself to be carried by Bill while Glorfindel's horse had Frodo.
Suddenly they heard a voice. Glorfindel looked back and his eyes widened. "Run, fast! Black Riders coming, run!" Sam led Bill down a slope and the other to hobbits ran down far from Sam.
With this change of speed Ella awoke and wondered what she was doing on a pony. Then she remembered suddenly and looked back over her shoulder. There she saw the Black Riders and shivered. Of coarse she shouldn't have been surprised by them. She had read about them and seen them more than once. Then why were they still causing her such fear? Ella turned again and faced Sam. "Sam, run! Bill and I will be safe. Nothing will happen to Bill. Run, it will not help Bill much if you are by his side, you'll just both him and yourself down. Run!" Sam at first did no such thing but then she called out "SAM! You'll get us killed! MOVE YOUR FUCKIN' LEGS DOWN THIS SLOPE WITHOUT MOVING AT BILL'S SIDE!" With that Sam let go of Bill's reins and ran down to follow Pippin and Merry.
Frodo, meanwhile, was on the white horse of Glorfindel was riding in the water. When he reached the shore on other side he said (Quote pp. 226-227 book I) "Go back! Go back to the Land of Mordor, and follow me no more!"
The Black Riders just laughed at him with a harsh and chilling laughter "Come back! Come back! To Mordor we will take you!"
"Go back!" he whispered.
"The Ring! The Ring!" they cried with deadly voices; and immediately their leader urged his horse into the water, followed closely by two others.
"By Elbereth and Lúthien the Fair" with a last effort, lifting up his sword, "you shall have neither the Ring nor me!" (Quote over)
By now the leader was halfway through the river and was smiling evily. But then a sound came from his left and he saw the river rise up and come down over them. They screeched and tried to get out of the way but they were too late. The river swallowed them up. But they were not gone, not yet.
Frodo saw this barely a minute or so after he had said those last words he fell to the ground, and fell into a deep sleep
A/N: So what do you think about this chapter? Tell me!
(*1) I don't know if Sam is actually chubby, but that is how I imagine him. No offense to all those people out there that like Sam and think of him as not chubby.