Author's note: All right, before I get to the story, it looks like we have
found ourselves an interesting little question. About a week ago,
KaniieViaske left this question in a review and it has been swimming in my
head for days now.
Here it is, so if elves die when they're kept from their loved ones, why then, is Elrond trying to make Arwen go away with him? He obviously knows that Arwen loves Aragorn, and he can't want his own daughter to die, so why is he still trying to force her to go?
My little hypothesis (ooh, scientific word, my chemistry teacher would be so proud) is that since they're going to the "Undying Lands", and that elves won't die there no matter what. Now I really don't know, so if somebody could let me know, I'll post the answer in a chapter (giving credit where it's due of course) and hopefully we can enlighten some more people.
Yay, we now have an answer. Songelf88 has reviewed with this answer:
"Alright. Let me explain the Arwen thing. Arwen, like Elrond, is not a full elf. Therefore she can feel grief and get sick from it but she can't die from it. Hence why Elrond didn't die when Celebrian sailed to the undying lands. Better?"
Yay! Much better thank you! If anyone has anything to add, feel free to leave it in a review, and I'm sure we all want to thank songelf88 for graciously taking time out of her busy schedule to enlighten us so. (I love that sentence, my friend said it to me once an I thought it sounded really cool, so yeah, that was it, I just added the name in. Credit goes to her)
Another thing is I finally figured out the terms. The limes, the lemons, the citruses, they were all confusing me. Just thought I'd let you all know. All right, I know that most of you are thinking "about time you figured it out you idiot. Every NORMAL person knows that!" well hopefully your thoughts aren't that mean, but yes I finally found a website that explained it. Yay for slow people who finally figure it out eventually! All right, well just thought I'd share that with you.
Wow, this author's note is long, so I'll just get to the story.
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"What is this place?" Alinne asked in disgust. She had just noticed a rat crawl by which made the scenery around her look much less attractive. She was in a rounded room; dark gray walls were crowding around her. The walls were bare and looked like they were a million years old in everything except their strength. While most of the wall looked like it was falling apart, the room still gave this feeling of being trapped.
That's how Alinne felt right now, trapped with nowhere to go. She crossed her arms over her chest and shivered hoping that the goose bumps that were dominating her skin would go away soon.
"Where are we?" she asked again. "Nerodel why are we here?"
She looked around some more, but not a single inch of that room looked inviting enough to look at so she shifted her gaze onto the man standing beside her.
"Nerodel, would you say something?" she yelled getting frustrated at the other's silence.
"You are meeting someone here." He answered slowly. It as like he was drawing the words out from his toes.
"Who in their right mind would come to this place willingly?" she mumbled to herself.
"I like this room." He said just as slowly as the last time he spoke.
Alinne gave him a bewildered look. #How could anyone stand this room, let alone like it? # she asked herself.
"Alinne are you alright?" she suddenly heard. It was coming from the outside of the room. She knew the voice so well and even the dim horrible room lit up at the sound of his voice.
"Legolas," she whispered to herself. She ran to the door, but it wasn't there. "What in the world? I could have sworn it was here!" she whispered to herself again. But as she looked around the room, there was no door. This was the room she would give anything to get out of, and the room that she was now stuck in.
"Alinne, are you in there?" she heard his voice again from the outside.
She wanted to scream out to him and tell him that she was right there, but she couldn't. Suddenly cold overtook her and her lips began to tremble. She had honestly never been so cold before in her life. Her eyes frantically searched for Nerodel, she found him in a corner inspecting a carving on the wall. He didn't seem at all affected by the sudden change of temperature.
Her arms found each other and she absentmindedly crossed them over her chest even tighter. As she looked back to the wall she found that there was a person standing there, and soon another (slightly taller) joined him. She pushed her eyes shut, and then pulled them open again. The two people were indeed there, but he realized that the first person wasn't a 'he' at all. In fact it was-
"Kenisse!" she screamed out before she could stop herself. Both figures turned to her and noticed that the other was Legolas. "Legolas," she said very quietly in complete contrast to her yell just before.
He ran over to her and his arms found her and embraced her. "Alinne," he said hugging her like it was the last time. "are you alright?" he asked, but then noticed her dress. It was a very beautiful dress and anyone wearing one had to be more than just all right.
She saw him look at the dress and hugged him even tighter. "Legolas," she whispered, "is it true?"
"Is what true?" he asked her.
"Sorry to interrupt your little get-together, but we have a little business to attend to." Alinne never got to finish her question because Kenisse had stepped in the middle of them and broke them apart.
Alinne wanted to be in Legolas' arms again and to feel his comforting body against hers, but instead she felt a cold hand grab her elbow and pull her back. She soon found herself in the cold embrace of Nerodel. She was standing with her back against his chest, his arms circled protectively around her. She wanted to break away from him, but his grasp was quite strong.
"Now, you both know that you both are alive and well. Now we can get the meeting started."
"What meeting?" Alinne asked. By the look on Legolas' face, he already knew about it and it did not seem like it would be a pleasant meeting.
"We are meeting our boss."
"Your..your.your boss?" she stuttered unable to even form the words. Her eyes were wide with terror and her knees suddenly felt weak. If not for Nerodel's strong grasp (for the first time she was thankful for it) she would have plummeted to the ground like a stone. "You mean .Him?" she stuttered again and noticed that Legolas flinched at the mention of Him.
"Yes, you will meet Him." Answered Nerodel and Alinne tried to look up at him from his embrace. As far as she saw, his face was utterly emotionless.
"He will decide how to work out this little problem between us." Added Kenisse as her hand moved leisurely from Nerodel and Alinne, to herself and Legolas.
"What problem?!" Alinne almost yelled. To anyone watching from the side it would seem that she was completely oblivious to the fact that she was a prisoner. She was acting as demanding and controlling as if she was the queen.
"Alright Alinne, if you are that clueless, I will explain our plan to you. Would you really like to hear all the gory details?"
"Yes, tell me everything." She said stubbornly, sounding so confident she even surprised herself.
"All right then. Well to start, He wants Mirkwood. You see, it is quite conveniently located on the edge of a new and very important part of Middle Earth."
"What are you talking about, on the edge of Mirkwood there is nothing but-"
"Do not interrupt Alinne. There IS something there whether you wish to believe it or not. He wants that land which will be quite easily reached if He has control of Mirkwood. There is-"
"Kenisse, are you going to share the whole plan with them? This may take quite a while, I believe He wanted to speak to them sometime today!" Nerodel disrupted her rudely.
Suddenly Alinne thought she noticed the room darken as Kenisse said something back and she and Nerodel began to argue. His grip on her waist seemed to only tighten uncomfortably as he got more agitated. She looked up at the ceiling and this time she was sure that the smoke gathering up there was not something she noticed before. It had been as if Kenisse and Nerodel's voices had lost volume, but now they came back louder than before.
"We do not have time for you to explain everything to them now! You can do that anytime!" roared Nerodel.
"No!" a dark and very terrifying voice suddenly filled the room. Alinne's head moved to ever corner of the room but there was no person from whom that voice could be coming. "I want you to tell them all about it, Kenisse." The voice boomed again filling the room with even more eeriness than before. To Alinne it seemed that Nerodel's grip had become even tighter around her. He was holding her almost protectively now. She looked over at Kenisse, who had made her way towards Legolas and was now standing by him with her hand possessively on his back, smiled a satisfied smile and opened her mouth to continue her speech.
Author's Note: I know it was a while since I've updated but you all know why from the Author's note. Thank you so much for being so understanding, and you guys are so sweet offering to help and everything. Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy the next chapter, it should answer ever question you could possibly have. This A/N doesn't even make sense does it? Sorry it's just really late right now and tomorrow's school, and anyway I'm going to go sleep now before my eyes give out completely and I start to drool on the keyboard. Oh and if you already reviewed the author's note, please just review the chapter with an anonymous review. Thank you everybody who reviewed already.
Here it is, so if elves die when they're kept from their loved ones, why then, is Elrond trying to make Arwen go away with him? He obviously knows that Arwen loves Aragorn, and he can't want his own daughter to die, so why is he still trying to force her to go?
My little hypothesis (ooh, scientific word, my chemistry teacher would be so proud) is that since they're going to the "Undying Lands", and that elves won't die there no matter what. Now I really don't know, so if somebody could let me know, I'll post the answer in a chapter (giving credit where it's due of course) and hopefully we can enlighten some more people.
Yay, we now have an answer. Songelf88 has reviewed with this answer:
"Alright. Let me explain the Arwen thing. Arwen, like Elrond, is not a full elf. Therefore she can feel grief and get sick from it but she can't die from it. Hence why Elrond didn't die when Celebrian sailed to the undying lands. Better?"
Yay! Much better thank you! If anyone has anything to add, feel free to leave it in a review, and I'm sure we all want to thank songelf88 for graciously taking time out of her busy schedule to enlighten us so. (I love that sentence, my friend said it to me once an I thought it sounded really cool, so yeah, that was it, I just added the name in. Credit goes to her)
Another thing is I finally figured out the terms. The limes, the lemons, the citruses, they were all confusing me. Just thought I'd let you all know. All right, I know that most of you are thinking "about time you figured it out you idiot. Every NORMAL person knows that!" well hopefully your thoughts aren't that mean, but yes I finally found a website that explained it. Yay for slow people who finally figure it out eventually! All right, well just thought I'd share that with you.
Wow, this author's note is long, so I'll just get to the story.
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"What is this place?" Alinne asked in disgust. She had just noticed a rat crawl by which made the scenery around her look much less attractive. She was in a rounded room; dark gray walls were crowding around her. The walls were bare and looked like they were a million years old in everything except their strength. While most of the wall looked like it was falling apart, the room still gave this feeling of being trapped.
That's how Alinne felt right now, trapped with nowhere to go. She crossed her arms over her chest and shivered hoping that the goose bumps that were dominating her skin would go away soon.
"Where are we?" she asked again. "Nerodel why are we here?"
She looked around some more, but not a single inch of that room looked inviting enough to look at so she shifted her gaze onto the man standing beside her.
"Nerodel, would you say something?" she yelled getting frustrated at the other's silence.
"You are meeting someone here." He answered slowly. It as like he was drawing the words out from his toes.
"Who in their right mind would come to this place willingly?" she mumbled to herself.
"I like this room." He said just as slowly as the last time he spoke.
Alinne gave him a bewildered look. #How could anyone stand this room, let alone like it? # she asked herself.
"Alinne are you alright?" she suddenly heard. It was coming from the outside of the room. She knew the voice so well and even the dim horrible room lit up at the sound of his voice.
"Legolas," she whispered to herself. She ran to the door, but it wasn't there. "What in the world? I could have sworn it was here!" she whispered to herself again. But as she looked around the room, there was no door. This was the room she would give anything to get out of, and the room that she was now stuck in.
"Alinne, are you in there?" she heard his voice again from the outside.
She wanted to scream out to him and tell him that she was right there, but she couldn't. Suddenly cold overtook her and her lips began to tremble. She had honestly never been so cold before in her life. Her eyes frantically searched for Nerodel, she found him in a corner inspecting a carving on the wall. He didn't seem at all affected by the sudden change of temperature.
Her arms found each other and she absentmindedly crossed them over her chest even tighter. As she looked back to the wall she found that there was a person standing there, and soon another (slightly taller) joined him. She pushed her eyes shut, and then pulled them open again. The two people were indeed there, but he realized that the first person wasn't a 'he' at all. In fact it was-
"Kenisse!" she screamed out before she could stop herself. Both figures turned to her and noticed that the other was Legolas. "Legolas," she said very quietly in complete contrast to her yell just before.
He ran over to her and his arms found her and embraced her. "Alinne," he said hugging her like it was the last time. "are you alright?" he asked, but then noticed her dress. It was a very beautiful dress and anyone wearing one had to be more than just all right.
She saw him look at the dress and hugged him even tighter. "Legolas," she whispered, "is it true?"
"Is what true?" he asked her.
"Sorry to interrupt your little get-together, but we have a little business to attend to." Alinne never got to finish her question because Kenisse had stepped in the middle of them and broke them apart.
Alinne wanted to be in Legolas' arms again and to feel his comforting body against hers, but instead she felt a cold hand grab her elbow and pull her back. She soon found herself in the cold embrace of Nerodel. She was standing with her back against his chest, his arms circled protectively around her. She wanted to break away from him, but his grasp was quite strong.
"Now, you both know that you both are alive and well. Now we can get the meeting started."
"What meeting?" Alinne asked. By the look on Legolas' face, he already knew about it and it did not seem like it would be a pleasant meeting.
"We are meeting our boss."
"Your..your.your boss?" she stuttered unable to even form the words. Her eyes were wide with terror and her knees suddenly felt weak. If not for Nerodel's strong grasp (for the first time she was thankful for it) she would have plummeted to the ground like a stone. "You mean .Him?" she stuttered again and noticed that Legolas flinched at the mention of Him.
"Yes, you will meet Him." Answered Nerodel and Alinne tried to look up at him from his embrace. As far as she saw, his face was utterly emotionless.
"He will decide how to work out this little problem between us." Added Kenisse as her hand moved leisurely from Nerodel and Alinne, to herself and Legolas.
"What problem?!" Alinne almost yelled. To anyone watching from the side it would seem that she was completely oblivious to the fact that she was a prisoner. She was acting as demanding and controlling as if she was the queen.
"Alright Alinne, if you are that clueless, I will explain our plan to you. Would you really like to hear all the gory details?"
"Yes, tell me everything." She said stubbornly, sounding so confident she even surprised herself.
"All right then. Well to start, He wants Mirkwood. You see, it is quite conveniently located on the edge of a new and very important part of Middle Earth."
"What are you talking about, on the edge of Mirkwood there is nothing but-"
"Do not interrupt Alinne. There IS something there whether you wish to believe it or not. He wants that land which will be quite easily reached if He has control of Mirkwood. There is-"
"Kenisse, are you going to share the whole plan with them? This may take quite a while, I believe He wanted to speak to them sometime today!" Nerodel disrupted her rudely.
Suddenly Alinne thought she noticed the room darken as Kenisse said something back and she and Nerodel began to argue. His grip on her waist seemed to only tighten uncomfortably as he got more agitated. She looked up at the ceiling and this time she was sure that the smoke gathering up there was not something she noticed before. It had been as if Kenisse and Nerodel's voices had lost volume, but now they came back louder than before.
"We do not have time for you to explain everything to them now! You can do that anytime!" roared Nerodel.
"No!" a dark and very terrifying voice suddenly filled the room. Alinne's head moved to ever corner of the room but there was no person from whom that voice could be coming. "I want you to tell them all about it, Kenisse." The voice boomed again filling the room with even more eeriness than before. To Alinne it seemed that Nerodel's grip had become even tighter around her. He was holding her almost protectively now. She looked over at Kenisse, who had made her way towards Legolas and was now standing by him with her hand possessively on his back, smiled a satisfied smile and opened her mouth to continue her speech.
Author's Note: I know it was a while since I've updated but you all know why from the Author's note. Thank you so much for being so understanding, and you guys are so sweet offering to help and everything. Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy the next chapter, it should answer ever question you could possibly have. This A/N doesn't even make sense does it? Sorry it's just really late right now and tomorrow's school, and anyway I'm going to go sleep now before my eyes give out completely and I start to drool on the keyboard. Oh and if you already reviewed the author's note, please just review the chapter with an anonymous review. Thank you everybody who reviewed already.
