Ch 1 A Journey Home---------------------------------------------------------
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"I can't believe you are going to go through with this." Legolas shook his head as he and Gimli walked towards the river.
"Master elf! I do believe that you have grown quite attached to these lands!" Gimli teased.
"And so it is!" Legolas said, putting his hands on his hips. "I have no desire to go back to Middle Earth."
"And why is that?" Gimli asked.
Legolas sighed. "Because times change and something tells me in my heart that the lands we shall return to shall not be the same ones from which we departed those long years ago. I am fearful of what might have happened."
Gimli only laughed." Then you would not accompany a dieing dwarf to his home again?" He asked.
"I would not let you go alone into an unknown land." The elf answered simply.
"You speak as if we had never been to Middle Earth! Calm yourself, Legolas, and think of the Sea! To be on its waves yet again! Not much change could have come to Middle Earth in a couple hundred years."
But Legolas had lived through many centuries and several millennia. And he knew that things could change in less than a decade. In less than a few years even. And he knew that Middle Earth would have drastically changed.
He dismissed his friend's folly misjudgment and boarded the small ship he and Gimli, along with a few others, would take back to Middle Earth from Eressea, The Lonely Isle. They would leave Paradise for Middle Earth. But Gimli was old and wished to see Middle Earth again and Legolas had not the heart to stop him.
"I can't believe you are going to go through with this." Legolas shook his head as he and Gimli walked towards the river.
"Master elf! I do believe that you have grown quite attached to these lands!" Gimli teased.
"And so it is!" Legolas said, putting his hands on his hips. "I have no desire to go back to Middle Earth."
"And why is that?" Gimli asked.
Legolas sighed. "Because times change and something tells me in my heart that the lands we shall return to shall not be the same ones from which we departed those long years ago. I am fearful of what might have happened."
Gimli only laughed." Then you would not accompany a dieing dwarf to his home again?" He asked.
"I would not let you go alone into an unknown land." The elf answered simply.
"You speak as if we had never been to Middle Earth! Calm yourself, Legolas, and think of the Sea! To be on its waves yet again! Not much change could have come to Middle Earth in a couple hundred years."
But Legolas had lived through many centuries and several millennia. And he knew that things could change in less than a decade. In less than a few years even. And he knew that Middle Earth would have drastically changed.
He dismissed his friend's folly misjudgment and boarded the small ship he and Gimli, along with a few others, would take back to Middle Earth from Eressea, The Lonely Isle. They would leave Paradise for Middle Earth. But Gimli was old and wished to see Middle Earth again and Legolas had not the heart to stop him.