A/N: Hi again here's the next chapter for you, hope you like it.
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The council of Elrond
Elizabeth sat up in her bed she couldn't sleep. She couldn't forget the last two hours they had been some of the worst in her entire life.
//"Excuse me, who are you?" Elizabeth asked startled.
"I am Boromir, son of Denethor. Who are you?" The man asked. Elizabeth stared. Now that I can see him he actually looks like Boromir in the movie, she thought. Boromir repeated his question.
"I- I'm Elizabeth", she stuttered. She could feel the blood rush to her head. Why should she blush now, why?
"What are you doing here lady?" Boromir asked.
"I'm a guest here. I was on my way to meet somebody in the dining hall, when I saw the statue", Liz said. "Denethor, isn't he the steward of Gondor?"
"He is, you aren't from Gondor are you?"
"No, but I-I have heard about the country from books and mov, I mean.", Liz replied stopping herself before she said the last word. She couldn't say she had seen the Lord of the Rings movie, and why was she stuttering, she had never done that before.
"Where do you come from?"
"A country far away from here, I don't think you know it", she answered and looked down on the floor.
"Is something wrong?"
"No, but I think I must go now". She hurried off, her eyes looking at the floor in front off her. When she came to the end off the hall, she looked back. Boromir was standing with the blade in his hand, and she could see Aragorn standing in the shadows. She hurried off to the dininghall, still red in her face. She had found the hobbits but she didn't tell them why her face looked like a tomato. After a while Boromir showed up too, and Elizabeth was carefully trying not to look at him, and when she did, she flushed and looked away. After dinner she went to her room, where she had tried to sleep, but of course she couldn't.//
Elizabeth buried her head in her pillow. Why hadn't she just acted normal? He's just a person from the books like the others, so why must I act so strange, I don't have any problems making friends with the hobbits. But of course they aren't my favourite characters, either. She sat up again and looked into her own green/grey eyes in the mirror on the opposite wall. She had been so happy when she found out that she had come to Rivendell, and when she had met the hobbits. Now she could only think of how stupid she must have looked. A stuttering seventeen year old girl, with a face as red as a tomato. Mumbling something about books and movies. All the members of the fellowship are here now, so the council must be tomorrow. Then they will set out on their quest and maybe I will never see any of them again. Boromir will get killed and for the rest of my life I will be reminded that I didn't even try to become friends with him. I almost wish I was home again. She didn't remember when she had fallen asleep but when she opened her eyes, it was morning. The next morning, Elizabeth was walking in the gardens with Merry and Pippin. Frodo was to the council and Sam was nowhere to be seen. He is probably hiding in the bushes near the councilhall now, Elizabeth thought.
"I think it's unfair that we can't come to that council", Pippin said suddenly and stopped. "Don't you think we could sneak in and watch? It could be something about, you know what and Frodo, and he is our friend".
"Your right Pip, we can hide in the bushes, they are big enough", Merry agreed and began to run back towards the councilhall with Pippin. "Aren't you coming, Liz?"
"Okay, wait for me", Elizabeth yelled and ran after them. The tree friends ducked behind some bushes and watched the council. Elizabeth saw Frodo and Bilbo, they were sitting beside Gandalf, Aragorn and the elves from Mirkwood. Next to the elves sat the men and then the dwarves. She also saw Sam hiding in the bushes behind Elronds chair. Frodo walked up and laid the ring in the middle of the circle on a table so everyone could see it. Elizabeth stared at it. So small and yet so powerful and evil that it in the hands of its master, it could destroy everything.
"It is a gift", Boromir mumbled a little louder than he meant to. When he saw that the others had heard him he stood up and said: "A gift to the foes of Mordor, why not use this ring? Long has my father, the steward of Gondor, kept the forces of Mordor away, by the blood of our people, and your lands kept safe. Give Gondor the weapon of the enemy, let us use it against him".
"You can not wield it, none of us can. The ring answers to Sauron alone, it has no other master", Aragorn said. Elizabeth looked at the ring again. So evil, so powerful. She forced herself to look away and saw that everyone was on their feet, fighting over what to do with the ring.
"This is no good", she mumbled.
"What do you think they decide?" Pippin asked, but Elizabeth didn't have a chance to answer. Frodo was standing beside the ring and he spoke only so loud, that the talking men could hear him.
"I will take the ring to Mordor, though I do not know the way". The men stopped their fight and looked at the little hobbit, Gandalf walked over to him.
"Then I will help you to bear this burden", he said. Then Aragorn walked over and kneeled so that he could look into the hobbit's eyes.
"By my life or death I can protect you. You have my sword". Then Legolas walked over to them.
"And you have my bow".
"And my axe", Gimli said. Boromir joined in to and then Sam came running from the bushes. Merry and Pippin moved over behind two big pillars, Elizabeth tried hard not to smile when she saw the little hobbit face the Elven lord.
"Mr. Frodo is not going anywhere without me", he said and crossed his arms over his chest.
"No indeed, it is hardly possible to separate you even when he is summoned to a secret council and yet.you are not", Elrond replied. Sam blushed a little, but then Pippin and Merry ran from their hiding spots.
"Hey, don't forget about us, we are coming to", Merry said as he and Pippin ran up beside the other two hobbits.
"Besides, you need some of intelligent on this mission.. quest.. thing", Pippin said.
"Well, that rules you out, Pip", Merry replied.
"Then be it, you are now the fellowship of the ring", Elrond said.
"Great, where are we going?" Pippin asked. Elizabeth smiled to herself. The fellowship of the ring. Some of the members were her friends now, and she was glad she knew that they came back in one piece, except for one. But no, he wasn't her friend and she wouldn't remind herself of what happened the day before. The council began to talk again and she sneaked of. She had seen the creation of the fellowship and that was all she wanted. She met the hobbits again in front of the dining hall.
"Hi guys, what's up?" she asked. The hobbits looked curiously at her.
"I mean, what's going on. I haven't seen you all day", Liz explained.
"You know where we have been. You saw us, remember" Pippin said.
"So there were more than tree spies in the bushes!" a voice said behind them. Elizabeth turned and saw Gandalf standing behind them leaning to his staff. She flushed a little and shot Pippin an evil look. Gandalf laughed when he saw that.
"I don't blame you if you were with those two, Elizabeth", he said. "You may have noticed by now, that they have the ability to sometimes drag their friends, into something they don't want to do". Elizabeth nodded and turned to the hobbits.
"I have noticed that, but I don't mind. At least now I know what's going on. I really hope you come back from this journey alive, I don't like to think that my only friends will disappear and get killed in the middle of nowhere".
"We will not get killed. At least I don't hope so", Merry said.
"Oh, thank you that helped a lot", Elizabeth replied sarcastically.
"If you are so nervous, why don't you come with us?" Pippin asked suddenly. Liz opened her mouth to reply, but didn't answer. What should she say. That she was afraid that she might change the story? That she didn't want to be a burden to the fellowship?
But that's not what's wrong is it? a little voice in her asked. You are afraid that you might get killed on the journey, aren't you? That was right, but still if she just sat here in Rivendell and waited and something went wrong on the journey, her friends may be killed and she didn't want that to happen either. Pull yourself together Liz, she scolded herself in her thoughts. They are the only real friends you have ever had. You are going with them if they want you on their journey.
"I don't know Pippin, maybe because no one ever have asked me to do something really important before. Or maybe because it's dangerous", she answered the hobbit.
"But if we asked you to go with us, would you then do it?" Merry asked quickly.
"I think I would, but I would only be a burden. I don't know how to use a weapon, so I can't protect myself. And I don't own any travelling clothes", the girl said.
"We don't know how to use our swords either, but we will learn it".
"But I am a girl. The others wouldn't like me to come". Gandalf had followed the argument with big amusement and at Elizabeth's last comment he spoke what the hobbits were thinking.
"How do you know that Elizabeth?"
"I-I just don't think that, they will think a women can be useful on such an important mission, at least not the men, I don`t know about the others", Elizabeth answered sulky.
"I see, but if they gave you a chance. You haven't asked any of them yet, so you don`t know what they will say", the wizard said.
"I know, but I still don`t own any weapons".
"They have weapons here in Rivendell".
"What do you choose Liz?" asked Merry and Pippin.
"I want to know what the other members of the fellowship say and if they accept me I will join you. But only because I will follow my friends. I guess that was why you joined in too, wasn't it?" she asked the hobbits, they nodded. Gandalf took them inside the dining hall, and after the dinner he called the fellowship to a meeting. He told them about Elizabeth and her wish to join her friends in the fellowship. The reaction was almost as Liz had imagined. Boromir and Aragorn didn't want her to join, Gimli looked like he would agree with the humans when they said it was too dangerous.
Legolas looked sceptical at her and said: "Do you know how dangerous this is going to be?" Elizabeth nodded.
"Yes, but I still think I might be able to help you and I want to follow my friends", she answered.
"But does she know how to use a weapon? She would only be a burden if we came into danger and we had to protect her all the time", Boromir said. Elizabeth flushed and she could feel the anger grow inside her. Maybe she had already thought that herself, but that didn't mean she couldn't learn how to use a sword or a bow. She wasn't a little child anymore.
"Excuse me, but why don`t you ask me that question? I am a living human being with intelligence. No, I can't use a weapon, but I can learn how to if I want, and if something dangerous happens, you can just concentrate on the enemy and leave me to protect myself, I don`t care. As I said before I'm doing this because of my friends, they mean so much to me", she nearly yelled in anger. There was a moment of silence then Legolas asked: "How old are you, since you think you can follow us?"
"I'm nearly eighteen", she answered. "So, am I allowed to follow you or not?"
"We think it is okay", Frodo said and the other hobbits nodded. Then he gestured towards the others. "But I don`t know about them".
"I think she can join us if she learns how to use a sword or a bow", Legolas said, Gimli nodded. For the first time he was agreeing with an elf.
"Then I think you can come, but I still think that it is too dangerous", Aragorn said and Elizabeth knew she had won this battle.
She looked at Boromir. "I still think it is stupid to let her join but if you all agree to let her go with us I don't see what I can do to stop it", he said angrily. Elizabeth looked down.
"Then we have a tenth member of the fellowship", Gandalf said.
The council of Elrond
Elizabeth sat up in her bed she couldn't sleep. She couldn't forget the last two hours they had been some of the worst in her entire life.
//"Excuse me, who are you?" Elizabeth asked startled.
"I am Boromir, son of Denethor. Who are you?" The man asked. Elizabeth stared. Now that I can see him he actually looks like Boromir in the movie, she thought. Boromir repeated his question.
"I- I'm Elizabeth", she stuttered. She could feel the blood rush to her head. Why should she blush now, why?
"What are you doing here lady?" Boromir asked.
"I'm a guest here. I was on my way to meet somebody in the dining hall, when I saw the statue", Liz said. "Denethor, isn't he the steward of Gondor?"
"He is, you aren't from Gondor are you?"
"No, but I-I have heard about the country from books and mov, I mean.", Liz replied stopping herself before she said the last word. She couldn't say she had seen the Lord of the Rings movie, and why was she stuttering, she had never done that before.
"Where do you come from?"
"A country far away from here, I don't think you know it", she answered and looked down on the floor.
"Is something wrong?"
"No, but I think I must go now". She hurried off, her eyes looking at the floor in front off her. When she came to the end off the hall, she looked back. Boromir was standing with the blade in his hand, and she could see Aragorn standing in the shadows. She hurried off to the dininghall, still red in her face. She had found the hobbits but she didn't tell them why her face looked like a tomato. After a while Boromir showed up too, and Elizabeth was carefully trying not to look at him, and when she did, she flushed and looked away. After dinner she went to her room, where she had tried to sleep, but of course she couldn't.//
Elizabeth buried her head in her pillow. Why hadn't she just acted normal? He's just a person from the books like the others, so why must I act so strange, I don't have any problems making friends with the hobbits. But of course they aren't my favourite characters, either. She sat up again and looked into her own green/grey eyes in the mirror on the opposite wall. She had been so happy when she found out that she had come to Rivendell, and when she had met the hobbits. Now she could only think of how stupid she must have looked. A stuttering seventeen year old girl, with a face as red as a tomato. Mumbling something about books and movies. All the members of the fellowship are here now, so the council must be tomorrow. Then they will set out on their quest and maybe I will never see any of them again. Boromir will get killed and for the rest of my life I will be reminded that I didn't even try to become friends with him. I almost wish I was home again. She didn't remember when she had fallen asleep but when she opened her eyes, it was morning. The next morning, Elizabeth was walking in the gardens with Merry and Pippin. Frodo was to the council and Sam was nowhere to be seen. He is probably hiding in the bushes near the councilhall now, Elizabeth thought.
"I think it's unfair that we can't come to that council", Pippin said suddenly and stopped. "Don't you think we could sneak in and watch? It could be something about, you know what and Frodo, and he is our friend".
"Your right Pip, we can hide in the bushes, they are big enough", Merry agreed and began to run back towards the councilhall with Pippin. "Aren't you coming, Liz?"
"Okay, wait for me", Elizabeth yelled and ran after them. The tree friends ducked behind some bushes and watched the council. Elizabeth saw Frodo and Bilbo, they were sitting beside Gandalf, Aragorn and the elves from Mirkwood. Next to the elves sat the men and then the dwarves. She also saw Sam hiding in the bushes behind Elronds chair. Frodo walked up and laid the ring in the middle of the circle on a table so everyone could see it. Elizabeth stared at it. So small and yet so powerful and evil that it in the hands of its master, it could destroy everything.
"It is a gift", Boromir mumbled a little louder than he meant to. When he saw that the others had heard him he stood up and said: "A gift to the foes of Mordor, why not use this ring? Long has my father, the steward of Gondor, kept the forces of Mordor away, by the blood of our people, and your lands kept safe. Give Gondor the weapon of the enemy, let us use it against him".
"You can not wield it, none of us can. The ring answers to Sauron alone, it has no other master", Aragorn said. Elizabeth looked at the ring again. So evil, so powerful. She forced herself to look away and saw that everyone was on their feet, fighting over what to do with the ring.
"This is no good", she mumbled.
"What do you think they decide?" Pippin asked, but Elizabeth didn't have a chance to answer. Frodo was standing beside the ring and he spoke only so loud, that the talking men could hear him.
"I will take the ring to Mordor, though I do not know the way". The men stopped their fight and looked at the little hobbit, Gandalf walked over to him.
"Then I will help you to bear this burden", he said. Then Aragorn walked over and kneeled so that he could look into the hobbit's eyes.
"By my life or death I can protect you. You have my sword". Then Legolas walked over to them.
"And you have my bow".
"And my axe", Gimli said. Boromir joined in to and then Sam came running from the bushes. Merry and Pippin moved over behind two big pillars, Elizabeth tried hard not to smile when she saw the little hobbit face the Elven lord.
"Mr. Frodo is not going anywhere without me", he said and crossed his arms over his chest.
"No indeed, it is hardly possible to separate you even when he is summoned to a secret council and yet.you are not", Elrond replied. Sam blushed a little, but then Pippin and Merry ran from their hiding spots.
"Hey, don't forget about us, we are coming to", Merry said as he and Pippin ran up beside the other two hobbits.
"Besides, you need some of intelligent on this mission.. quest.. thing", Pippin said.
"Well, that rules you out, Pip", Merry replied.
"Then be it, you are now the fellowship of the ring", Elrond said.
"Great, where are we going?" Pippin asked. Elizabeth smiled to herself. The fellowship of the ring. Some of the members were her friends now, and she was glad she knew that they came back in one piece, except for one. But no, he wasn't her friend and she wouldn't remind herself of what happened the day before. The council began to talk again and she sneaked of. She had seen the creation of the fellowship and that was all she wanted. She met the hobbits again in front of the dining hall.
"Hi guys, what's up?" she asked. The hobbits looked curiously at her.
"I mean, what's going on. I haven't seen you all day", Liz explained.
"You know where we have been. You saw us, remember" Pippin said.
"So there were more than tree spies in the bushes!" a voice said behind them. Elizabeth turned and saw Gandalf standing behind them leaning to his staff. She flushed a little and shot Pippin an evil look. Gandalf laughed when he saw that.
"I don't blame you if you were with those two, Elizabeth", he said. "You may have noticed by now, that they have the ability to sometimes drag their friends, into something they don't want to do". Elizabeth nodded and turned to the hobbits.
"I have noticed that, but I don't mind. At least now I know what's going on. I really hope you come back from this journey alive, I don't like to think that my only friends will disappear and get killed in the middle of nowhere".
"We will not get killed. At least I don't hope so", Merry said.
"Oh, thank you that helped a lot", Elizabeth replied sarcastically.
"If you are so nervous, why don't you come with us?" Pippin asked suddenly. Liz opened her mouth to reply, but didn't answer. What should she say. That she was afraid that she might change the story? That she didn't want to be a burden to the fellowship?
But that's not what's wrong is it? a little voice in her asked. You are afraid that you might get killed on the journey, aren't you? That was right, but still if she just sat here in Rivendell and waited and something went wrong on the journey, her friends may be killed and she didn't want that to happen either. Pull yourself together Liz, she scolded herself in her thoughts. They are the only real friends you have ever had. You are going with them if they want you on their journey.
"I don't know Pippin, maybe because no one ever have asked me to do something really important before. Or maybe because it's dangerous", she answered the hobbit.
"But if we asked you to go with us, would you then do it?" Merry asked quickly.
"I think I would, but I would only be a burden. I don't know how to use a weapon, so I can't protect myself. And I don't own any travelling clothes", the girl said.
"We don't know how to use our swords either, but we will learn it".
"But I am a girl. The others wouldn't like me to come". Gandalf had followed the argument with big amusement and at Elizabeth's last comment he spoke what the hobbits were thinking.
"How do you know that Elizabeth?"
"I-I just don't think that, they will think a women can be useful on such an important mission, at least not the men, I don`t know about the others", Elizabeth answered sulky.
"I see, but if they gave you a chance. You haven't asked any of them yet, so you don`t know what they will say", the wizard said.
"I know, but I still don`t own any weapons".
"They have weapons here in Rivendell".
"What do you choose Liz?" asked Merry and Pippin.
"I want to know what the other members of the fellowship say and if they accept me I will join you. But only because I will follow my friends. I guess that was why you joined in too, wasn't it?" she asked the hobbits, they nodded. Gandalf took them inside the dining hall, and after the dinner he called the fellowship to a meeting. He told them about Elizabeth and her wish to join her friends in the fellowship. The reaction was almost as Liz had imagined. Boromir and Aragorn didn't want her to join, Gimli looked like he would agree with the humans when they said it was too dangerous.
Legolas looked sceptical at her and said: "Do you know how dangerous this is going to be?" Elizabeth nodded.
"Yes, but I still think I might be able to help you and I want to follow my friends", she answered.
"But does she know how to use a weapon? She would only be a burden if we came into danger and we had to protect her all the time", Boromir said. Elizabeth flushed and she could feel the anger grow inside her. Maybe she had already thought that herself, but that didn't mean she couldn't learn how to use a sword or a bow. She wasn't a little child anymore.
"Excuse me, but why don`t you ask me that question? I am a living human being with intelligence. No, I can't use a weapon, but I can learn how to if I want, and if something dangerous happens, you can just concentrate on the enemy and leave me to protect myself, I don`t care. As I said before I'm doing this because of my friends, they mean so much to me", she nearly yelled in anger. There was a moment of silence then Legolas asked: "How old are you, since you think you can follow us?"
"I'm nearly eighteen", she answered. "So, am I allowed to follow you or not?"
"We think it is okay", Frodo said and the other hobbits nodded. Then he gestured towards the others. "But I don`t know about them".
"I think she can join us if she learns how to use a sword or a bow", Legolas said, Gimli nodded. For the first time he was agreeing with an elf.
"Then I think you can come, but I still think that it is too dangerous", Aragorn said and Elizabeth knew she had won this battle.
She looked at Boromir. "I still think it is stupid to let her join but if you all agree to let her go with us I don't see what I can do to stop it", he said angrily. Elizabeth looked down.
"Then we have a tenth member of the fellowship", Gandalf said.